Technology is changing the most fundamental truth about commercial real estate (CRE)—that value is based solely on location, location, location. While it still matters, of course, that a space be close to customers, employees, and/or suppliers, information-based applications have the potential to add new ways for the CRE
Business interest in the Internet of Things continues to grow, with two trends driving an expansion of IoT applications and possibilities: the emergence of new wireless communications networks and the arrival of "edge computing" IT infrastructure.
Amazon today released its earnings statement for the first quarter of the year, and things are looking up, as usual, for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud division. AWS fetched $2.56 billion in revenue for the quarter.
Operating income for the business unit came in at $604 million — more than half of the operating income for all of Amazon this quarter! — as a result of $1.85 billion in operating expenses. The AWS operating income is down sequentially from $687 million.
A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will automate away more jobs — or drive more economic efficiency — than the driverless truck.
Shipping a full truckload from L.A. to New York costs around $4,500 today, with labor representing 75 percent of that cost. But those labor savings aren’t the only gains to be had from the adoption of driverless trucks.
In March of 2011, ARTIS and our affiliates led the first institutional round of financing at Stemcentrx with a $18M investment in a total round of $25M. Stemcentrx represented everything we look for within our portfolio companies: a talented, passionate team addressing a hard problem we care deeply about with a differentiated approach showing promising early results. This morning, AbbVie announced its acquisition of Stemcentrx for as much as $10.2 billion.
SALVADOR, Brasil—Ana Gabriela do Prado Paschoal se sentó en un escritorio en un pequeño consultorio médico y dio inicio a un ritual tan conocido como desgarrador. La cabeza de su bebé es más chica de lo normal, le dijo a una madre ansiosa que había contraído el virus del zika mientras estaba embarazada.
Su hija de tres meses, Maria Luiza, también tenía lesiones en su cerebro. Sus músculos eran más rígidos de lo normal, una señal de daño cerebral. Maria Luiza demoraría más de lo habitual para caminar y hablar, le dijo a la madre, una trabajadora agrícola de 24 años. Era probable que el bebé sufriera complicaciones más graves, pero la doctora consideró que ya había dado suficiente información por un día.
Israeli researchers have developed a tiny “liver-on-chip” that could help scientists fight liver disease, cancer, and a host of other conditions.
The chip is made up of human tissues, with sensors for oxygen, glucose, and lactate. Measurements can be tracked in real time, and readouts appear immediately on a computer. The technology, developed at Israel’s Hebrew University, will enable the study of cellular processes, and will further the understanding of what happens when cells are damaged due to disease.
Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This figure is up just 0.2 percent from the 334.3 million units in Q1 2015, marking the smallest year-over-year growth on record. We saw hints of this in yesterday’s Apple earnings report, when the company reported an iPhone sales drop for the first time.
If you were in the audience for Oussama Khatib’s IROS keynote in Hamburg last year, you may remember him talking about this crazy thing:
We, of course, cornered Oussama immediately afterwards, because humanoid robotic submarine what?! It turned out that OceanOne, as it was called, was involved in a top secret (or something) project in collaboration with the French, which has (now that it’s over and wasn’t a disaster) been un-topsecretified so we can finally, finally tell you about it.
