If you visit Softbank’s flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot that gestures dramatically, cracks odd jokes, and occasionally breaks out dancing to music emanating from its own body. If you laugh at these antics, and the robot can see your face, it will quite likely giggle along with you.
Un informe de 294 páginas escrito por un comité de abogados y contables externos revela la ineficacia de los sistemas de control internos de la compañía y plantea dudas sobre el gobierno corporativo de las empresas niponas.
Durante años, Toshiba, una de las marcas de electrónica de consumo más conocidas de Japón, había sido un ejemplo de los esfuerzos del país para controlar el comportamiento de las empresas. El grupo con 140 años de historia aparecía como caso de estudio en los libros sobre gobierno corporativo.
Abengoa trató ayer de calmar a los inversores con una convocatoria exprés a los analistas. El objetivo, sacudirse las dudas sobre sus cuentas del primer semestre, sobre sus deudas y sobre su liquidez real. Banco Sabadell asegura que el segundo semestre deberá ser muy positivo para cumplir con las estimaciones del mercado y destaca que “en el turno de preguntas y respuestas se pudo confirmar que el mercado continúa preocupado con los vencimientos de deuda de 2016 y la disponibilidad real de liquidez”.
E-commerce heavyweight Amazon today disclosed in its quarterly earnings statement that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest public cloud currently available, generated $1.82 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2015. That means revenue grew by 81 percent year over year — a surprisingly high growth rate.
For the year that ended on June 30, the cloud brought in $5.97 billion.
Air-conditioning uses a staggering 5 percent of all the electricity produced in the U.S. That’s a vast amount of resources that, literally, go up in hot air every year. So even small advances that help people keep cool can have an important effect.
Today, Jonathan Tong and pals at MIT reveal their approach to the problem—design fabrics that allow heat to radiate away from the body more effectively.
Not only are most clothes opaque to visible light, they are also opaque to infrared. This traps infrared radiation, causing the body to heat up. That’s handy when it’s cold but not so good when it’s hot.
So Tong and co have come up with a solution. Design a material that is opaque to visible light but transparent in the infrared.
Los oráculos también fallan. Warren Buffett, uno de los mejores inversores de la historia, ha visto cómo se le esfumaban 1.024 millones de dólares (939 millones de euros) en tan solo dos días. El motivo es la fuerte caída en Bolsa de IBM tras presentar unos malos resultados trimestrales.
Berkshire Hathaway, la sociedad de inversión de Buffett, es el principal accionista de la compañía tecnológica. Tiene 79,56 millones de títulos, equivalentes al 8,08% del del capital. Este paquete accionarial estaba valorado en 13.782 millones de dólares antes de que la empresa publicara sus cuentas mientras que al cierre de la sesión del martes 22 de julio su tasación había descendido a los 12.758 millones.
More than half a million people lose their lives to malaria each year and in 2013 alone, West Africa suffered nearly 198 million cases of the disease, according to the World Health Organization. One of the main problems with malaria is its long delays in diagnosis through conventional blood tests.
With regular blood sampling methods using laboratory microscopes, doctors mostly rely on the accuracy of the human eye to detect infectious diseases such as malaria and hepatitis B. But these are fallible.
Now, a medical breakthrough means doctors will be able to use computing powers to instantly detect and reduce the prevalence of blood-borne diseases.
Consumers expect the latest and greatest in electronics and safety when they go to buy a car. Whether it's an instrument cluster with a graphics rich, fully reconfigurable display or a lane departure warning system, a tremendous amount of processing power and electronic communication is required to operate today's vehicles.
The crew that turned Netezza into a $1.7 billion big data success story is back with Cazena, a Waltham, MA-based startup its founders say can bring big data to the cloud.
Cazena announced Wednesday that it has raised a $20 million Series B round led by Formation 8, with prior investors Andreessen Horowitz and North Bridge Venture Partners also joining in. That brings the total raised by Cazena to $28 million.
