El centro tecnológico Leartiker realizó a mediados de diciembre el descargo del proyecto Europeo “Biosource-Comp”, centrado en el desarrollo de biocomposites poliméricos de origen renovable y biodegradables, para la fabricación de piezas estructurales del sector de la automoción.
Get ready for an influx of venture funding in healthcare software. Especially to startups whose founders have prior experience at well-known companies.
A case in point is Boston-area startup Par8o (“par-eight-oh”), which said today it has raised a $10.5 million Series A funding round. The company’s investors include Atlas Venture (the tech side of the firm), Founder Collective, CHV Capital, and Allscripts.
Dans la lignée des robots humanoïdes en vogue au Japon, la société Tomy a annoncé la création d'un nouveau jouet-robot parlant "Robi Jr", à destination des enfants.
or more than a century General Electric made most of its revenue by selling industrial hardware and repair services. But in recent years GE was at increasing risk of losing many of its top customers to nontraditional competitors—IBM and SAP on the one hand, and big-data start-ups on the other. Those competitors aimed to shift the customer value proposition away from acquiring reliable industrial equipment to deriving new efficiencies and other benefits through advanced analytics and algorithms based on the data generated by that equipment. The trend threatened to turn GE into a commodity equipment provider.
From augmented reality to fitness bands, 2014 saw investors aggressively backing wearable tech companies. In fact, the 10 largest wearable tech deals of the year took nearly $1B in funding.
From smart thermometers to connected kitchen devices to vehicle WiFi hotspots, the Internet of Things ecosystem is expanding rapidly with a host of new applications and technologies. Using CB Insights interactive rankings feature, we compiled a list of the most active venture capital and corporate investors in the IoT space in 2014.
Intel Capital tops the list based on unique company deals in 2014, followed by Sequoia Capital and True Ventures, which has made the IoT vertical a key focus area of its portfolio.
A plastic storage crate filled with backyard dirt might have yielded the most powerful antibiotic discovered in decades.
Employing a novel microfluidic device to grow soil bacteria, researchers in Boston and Bonn, Germany, say they have identified a new type of antibiotic that kills the bacteria that cause pneumonia, staph, and blood infections.
The antibiotic, named teixobactin, has yet to be tested in people. But it cured mice of these infections, and it is so different from current antibiotics that the scientists, who reported their findings today in the journal Nature, said they hoped germs might never become resistant to it.
Several new types of battery, each capable of cost-effectively storing the energy output from a wind or solar farm, are finally being hooked up to power grids. The so-called grid batteries could lower the cost of renewable energy by eliminating the intermittency problem that arises when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.
On Wednesday, Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-based startup that makes one such battery, announced that the technology will allow a small electricity grid in Hawaii to run around the clock on solar power.
Un partenariat public-privé entre l'Université de Duisbourg-Essen (Rhénanie du Nord - Westphalie) et les entreprises de recyclage Sutco Recyclingstechnik GmbH et Entsorgungs-Gesellschaft Westmünsterland (EGW) a permis de développer un nouveau procédé de production de biogaz à partir des déchets organiques collectés chez les particuliers. En effet, depuis le 1er janvier et l'entrée en vigueur de la nouvelle loi sur l'économie circulaire, ces déchets sont triés et collectés à travers toute l'Allemagne, faisant passer la quantité actuellement disponible d'environ 9 Mio. de tonnes (2012) à 12 Mio. (de nombreuses villes avaient déjà mis en place ce tri systématique).
Intel’s got a massive display area here at CES 2015 but we wanted to know what the company was doing in the car — and what we found did not disappoint.
Rather than focus on infotainment like most of the other big technology leaders (Apple, Google, etc.), Intel’s concept shows how the auto can use today’s sensors to track the eyes of the driver — even when the top is down and the driver is wearing sunglasses. Intel partnered with developer Seeing Machines on a new driver-warning system to utilize those eye movement-tracking sensors to prevent accidents while on the road.
