Plenty of fitness tracking gadgets and related apps can tell you how many steps you’ve taken today or roughly how many calories you’ve burned. Getting deeper insights, such as how your body is recovering from yesterday’s workout, is much trickier.
For making apps smarter and more sympathetic. Inside an app, nobody can hear you scream--except the Israeli firm Nice Systems, whose customer-service solutions are used by 25,000 companies. Last year, it rolled out Mobile Reach, software that works in the background of banking, retail, and other apps, and jumps in to help a user the minute she's frustrated. "Enterprises no longer simply pay lip service to customer service," says Nice's director of solutions marketing, Tamar Sharir. Its research finds that smartphone users fail to complete about 60% of transactions, and only 64% of them then call the company for help.
For Thomas Caudell, it started with a desire to make it easier to build airplanes. It was 1990, and Caudell, then a scientist at Boeing, was trying to figure out how to help workers assembling long bundles of wires for the new 777 jetliner.
The standard procedure was to thread and bundle the wires along pegs on a board that was about 20 to 30 feet long, then take the wires over to the plane for installation. But to do the wiring correctly, workers had to continuously glance between an instructional sheet and the assembly, which complicated an already tricky job.
Later this year, doctors in the U.S. will be able to use a gene test to guide thyroid cancer surgery. The test helps determine when patients harbor a particularly dangerous form of the disease, which can require surgeons to do a second operation on top of the initial diagnostic procedure. Knowing that a patient has this particular form of thyroid cancer could enable surgeons to instead do a single, more extensive surgery.
The company behind the test, Veracyte, already sells a unique genetic assay that helps doctors decide whether to perform surgery on thyroid cancer patients at all. Thyroids that are not cancerous are often removed, which means unnecessary surgery and lifelong hormone replacement therapy for some patients.
If electric cars become popular quickly, the demand for charging them is likely to exceed supply. Now mathematicians have worked out how electricity companies can distribute their power fairly to car owners. But the price–accurate information about driving habits–may be too much to ask.
A factory that takes in raw materials and produces finished battery packs could lower costs for the most expensive part of an EV.
Tesla Motors released its 2013 shareholder letter this afternoon, declaring record vehicle sales in the fourth quarter and annual revenue of over $2 billion. Looking forward, Tesla says its growing network of superchargers and service centers will help spur more sales this year in the United States. It also expects big sales in Europe and China. It thinks sales will hit 35,000, about 55 percent higher than this year (with sales of 22,477 cars).
After a lost decade, Europe is trying to reverse a decline in manufacturing which has brought industrial output to a standstill. The issue will reach the EU's top decision-making body in March when European leaders meet for their quarterly summit in Brussels.
Over the past few years, the European Commission has been the most vocal EU institution campaigning for the continent's industrial revival, positioning itself as a driver of competitiveness and job creation.
Within the EU Executive, the commissioner in charge of entreprises, Antonio Tajani, has emerged as the winner of an internal debate opposing supporters of industry to environmentalists, whose policies were blamed for hampering the economy.
Gracias a este sistema se ha conseguido minimizar el tiempo total del proceso de encaje y alineamiento de la pieza en bruto en máquina. De esta manera damos respuesta a una problemática común con el que se enfrentan sectores como el aeronáutico, ferrocarril, eólico, calderería y máquina herramienta entre otros, a la hora de mecanizar piezas de gran volumen, ya que requieren largos procesos de alineamiento de pieza en bruto. La alineación en máquina de estas piezas de máximas exigencias de fiabilidad (coste), requiere tiempos incluso mayores a los del propio proceso de mecanizado.
El objetivo del proyecto BiosourceComp que lidera Leartiker es desarrollar y producir composites poliméricos partiendo de fuentes biodegradables (vidrio, madera, algodón, etc.) para aplicaciones del sector de automoción reemplazando a composites actuales derivados del petróleo y otras fuentes sintéticas.
