As a research chemist at an IBM laboratory, Jeannette M. Garcia spends her days mixing and heating chemicals in pursuit of stronger and more easily recyclable plastics. Recently she followed a simple formula that required mixing three components in a beaker. Somehow she missed a step, leaving out a chemical. She returned to find her beaker filled with a hard white plastic that had even frozen the stirrer.
Dr. Garcia tried grinding the mystery material, to no avail. Then she took a hammer to the beaker to free it.
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Tras casi doce meses de negociaciones, pacta con 22 bancos alargar el vencimiento de la deuda y logra nuevas líneas de crédito para mantener inversiones, según adelanta hoy EXPANSIÓN. El grupo venderá activos por 300 millones antes de 2016.
Between computers, smartphones, tablets, wearables, and the Internet of things, the number of networked devices around the world is growing rapidly, and all those devices need energy, even if they’re not doing anything. That could be a problem.
Reading someone’s facial expressions; looking at the night sky, or browsing the internet – these are mundane tasks that hardly require our attention. But not everyone can call them routine; for the 285 million people worldwide who are visually impaired, these simple tasks are nearly impossible.
Known as the Startup Nation, Israeli startups have now taken their expertise in innovation and technology to create revolutionary tools for the blind and visually impaired.
Here are ten Israeli companies whose vision is brightening the lives of those who cannot see.
Healthcare is falling behind other industries in prioritizing and attending to security concerns, according to a new report from security company ForeScout based on a survey conducted by IDG Connect. It’s particularly true in the area of mobile device security, the report found.
IDG surveyed 1,596 IT decision makers across the healthcare, education, financial, retail, and manufacturing markets. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed, or about 350 individuals, came from the healthcare sector. Those surveyed came from the UK, the US, and the DACH region of Europe which includes Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Aiming to do for Machine Learning what MySQL did for database servers, U.S. and UK-based PredictionIO has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from a raft of investors including Azure Capital, QuestVP, CrunchFund (of which TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington is a Partner), Stanford University’s StartX Fund, France-based Kima Ventures, IronFire, Sood Ventures and XG Ventures. The additional capital will be used to further develop its open source Machine Learning server, which significantly lowers the barriers for developers to build more intelligent products, such as recommendation or prediction engines, without having to reinvent the wheel.
The zombie apocalypse isn’t the only factor driving up the demand for dead bodies. More medical students + people living longer = fewer cadavers for scientific research and medical education.
But Monash University in Australia has a solution: 3D-print the body parts.
Durante 5 semanas estas empresas convivirán en Basque Culinary Center, el Silicon Valley de la gastronomía, donde recibirán el impulso necesario para llevar sus proyectos a nuevos niveles de desarrollo.
Tras analizar un centenar de candidaturas procedentes de los cinco continentes, un total de 15 startups de 14 países han sido seleccionadas para participar a partir del 1 de septiembre en la primera edición de DIG EAT ALL Food & Tech Living Lab en Basque Culinary Center.
El primer programa de aceleración de empresas de alimentación y tecnología –food and tech- está impulsado por Basque Culinary Center, Mapamundi y Mugaritz. Cuenta además con la colaboración de la sociedad de promoción Fomento de San Sebastián.
Tado, a European competitor to Google-owned Nest and local smart thermostat companies, such as the UK’s Heatmiser or Hive from British Gas, has topped up its funding today, disclosing a new €10 million (13.6m) round. The new investment comes from existing backers Target Partners, and Shortcut Ventures, along with a number of other unnamed investors, and will be used by the German startup to bring its smart heating and AC products to more European markets.
