As the sector evolves, we rounded up the most active investors (not including accelerators) into one infographic and ranked them by investments into unique ed tech companies. Despite the slack in ed tech startup activity early in 2016, many VCs and CVCs have substantial ed tech portfolios, including a few investors that have funded 20+ unique ed tech startups since 2012.
Last week, Intel reported that it would lay off 12,000 employees in the biggest restructuring in a decade. And today, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich wrote a blog post that explains the company’s vision for transforming every segment of its business.
The 3-D printing of metal parts promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries. Aircraft carriers, for example, might no longer need to carry spare parts for the myriad aircraft, engines, and weapons systems they carry. Instead, each part could be printed as needed.
The big worry of course is that the mechanical properties of 3-D printed parts might not match those of parts made in other ways, particularly when they are used as critical components, in high-performance jet engines for example.
To that end, materials scientists have spent much time and effort characterizing the mechanical properties of these parts. And consequently, they are now used as customized medical implants, jet engine bearings and for rapid prototyping in the car industry.
Bodies are fragile and prone to the eventual failure known as death. But the DNA that encodes all the instructions for creating and operating those perishable bodies? That stuff sticks around. Thanks to 7000-year-old DNA from a tooth found in a Spanish cave, for example, we know that the “caveman” who died there had blue eyes and was probably lactose intolerant.
La compañía de tecnología sanitaria Abbott ha llegado a un acuerdo para adquirir St. Jude Medical, una empresa de dispositivos médicos, por 25.000 millones de dólares (22.035 millones), informa Reuters.
Los accionistas de St. Jude recibirán 85 dólares por acción, de los que 46,75 dólares serán en efectivo y el resto en títulos. La oferta representa un 37% de prima respecto al cierre de cotización de la adquirida en la sesión del miércoles. El acuerdo supondría 0,21 euros de ingresos por acción, según la empresa.
En un parque logístico que rodea el puerto de Shanghai, los únicos bienes guardados en un depósito de tres pisos el mes pasado eran blue jeans de alta gama, camisetas y chaquetas importadas del Reino Unido y Hong Kong. La mayor parte de la mercancía llevaba allí casi dos años.
La actividad en el depósito de 10.000 metros cuadrados decayó a fines de 2015 tras el retiro de varios importadores chinos de vino, señala Yang Ying, la administradora, lo que dejó mucho espacio vacío. El golpe final se produjo después de que en diciembre pasado un comerciante rechazó un despacho en el muelle. “El cliente les dijo a los trabajadores que devolvieran el vino a Francia. Nadie lo quiere”, cuenta Yang.
ONDOAN lidera el proyecto LegioPoC, que tiene como objetivo el desarrollo de un dispositivo Point of Care (LegioPoC), basado en tecnologías de biología molecular, para la detección preventiva in situ de Legionella spp. El dispositivo LegioPoC propone un sistema molecular alternativo e innovador, basado en una amplificación isoterma.
La adaptación de esta tecnología al formato Lab On a Chip será el principal reto tecnológico del proyecto, que se inició en 2015 y concluirá en 2017, y que está siendo financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España. Junto a ONDOAN participan en el mismo el centro tecnológico GAIKER-IK4 y los laboratorios Biotalde.
The notoriously conservative car business – autos, after all, are still largely powered by the internal combustion engine, developed nearly 150 years ago – is in for big changes, according to Gal Fridman, chief marketing officer and co-founder of Aquarius Engines.
“Our enhanced engine design uses energy much more efficiently, and eliminates the valves and rods that cause energy loss,” he said. “If a car equipped with a modern standard internal combustion engine can go about 600 kilometers on a tank of gas, ours can more than double that.”
Although Luke Skywalker makes only a cameo appearance in the latest Star Wars® film, his reappearance is also awakening interest in a prosthetic limb nicknamed for the fictional hero with a cybernetic hand. (Fans will recall that the bionic appendage replaced Luke’s right hand, which he lost in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back*.)
Imagine that, heaven forbid, a blood vessel bursts inside your brain, spilling blood and causing pressure to build inside delicate tissues. You’ve just suffered the deadliest kind of stroke, what’s known as an intracerebral hemorrhage. You might think that surgeons would want to try to repair the damage as soon as you get to the hospital, but cutting into an already bleeding brain could cause even more damage. Instead, you’ll probably get sent to intensive care, where clinicians manage your blood pressure, keep you sedated, and hope for the best.
