Fighting climate change will deliver economic growth and employment, a report launched today (16 September) found, upping pressure on EU leaders to agree an effective carbon reduction package at their October summit.
The EU Council meeting’s recommendations will inform the EU’s position at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, which aims to secure a legally binding, universal agreement on climate from all the nations of the world.
L'Université de Colombie-Britannique (UBC), en collaboration avec BetaLogics Venture, un département de Janssen Research & Development, LLC, a publié une étude mettant en évidence un protocole pour convertir des cellules souches en cellules productrices d'insuline. La nouvelle procédure pourrait être une étape importante dans la lutte contre le diabète de type 1.
One of the ripest markets for Google Glass and Glass-based apps may be healthcare. While patient care has become increasingly data-driven, doctors need a way to receive the data while remaining hands-on with patients.
Can wearables in the OR improve clinical outcomes? Although it makes sense, there’s little empirical evidence for or against wearables. But a new study may help answer that question.
En efecto, ya son 41 personas en representación de 28 cooperativas confirman su presencia en la Sesión de Presentación sobre la utilidad de METAPOSTA en el contexto de la Factura electrónica y en la protección de la propiedad intelectual resultante del I+D.
La lista precisa de Cooperativas inscritas es la siguiente:
Imagine a fitness tracker like a Fitbit, Up, or Misfit Shine on every person on the planet. Imagine all that data flowing up into an anonymized cloud-based platform. Imagine connecting that with health data from medical sensors. With location and altitude data from smartphones. With health information such as diseases we catch, conditions we develop, and accidents we encounter.
Imagine what you could learn about health and how to prevent disease.
Funny what can happen with a small project you hack together just to win a laptop.
For Portugal-born startup Talkdesk, it turned into a full-fledged business, and today it’s announcing that it has raised $3.15 million in a new round of funding.
Some M&A activity afoot in the world of hardware design: GrabCAD, an online community that has been described as the ‘Github for mechanical engineers’, is getting acquired by 3D printing giant Stratasys, a source tells us. The companies plan to announce the deal a little later today [Update: confirmed]. We have heard that the deal is in the region of nine figures, and around $100 million.
Energy Excelerator, an accelerator program for cleantech startups based in Hawaii, has picked its 2015 class of 17 companies, which will receive a total of $5 million in funding.
The world is awash in cool new tech startups and poised for “A Cambrian Moment”, according to a recent special report from the Economist. For those that haven’t read it, it’s a very interesting set of articles about the trends shaping venture formation in digital media and software: the ease of starting new companies, the proliferation of accelerators, better and more transparent markets for funding like that created by AngelList, the platformization of everything, etc…
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