How Hedge Funds Are Spying On The World To Increase Their Profitability
The latest technological innovation for data-hungry hedge funds is a fleet of five dozen shoebox-sized satellites.
A company called Planet Labs Inc. has launched a small constellation of … Read the rest
Are China’s Customer Service Robots Mere Gimmicks?
China is in the middle of a pronounced bout of robot fever. Robots—or jiqiren, “machine-people,” in Chinese—are cropping up at banks, where models with high-pitched feminine voices engage customers in basic dialogue and … Read the rest
Promising Trials of Blood Test To Detect Alzheimer’s
Ideally, everyone over 50 should have access to a routine blood test to check for early indications of Alzheimer’s Disease.
That possibility has now come one step closer with the successful trial … Read the rest
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DARPA is designing fleets of small drones which will drop out of bombers, to then be yanked out of the sky by cargo planes.
Sci-Fi as it may sound—as is the … Read the rest
We’ve been waiting for two years for a “watch” from Apple or Samsung that can provide accurate blood pressure readings. Samsung even demonstrated its prototype Simband mid-2014 displaying a BP measurement.
The future … Read the rest
International Business Machines Inc. is becoming the biggest backer of the Blockchain technology that underpins the bitcoin digital currency.
In the coming year, IBM will begin testing its own variation on the transactional … Read the rest