Real-time bidding (RTB) is shaping up to represent the future of the mobile ad marketplace.
eMarketer increased their forecast for real-time bidding last month. The source of the rise to more than 70% annual growth: an unexpected increase in mobile spending.
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Researchers create “a new hair follicle.”
A team of researchers from Columbia has developed a way to induce new human hair growth for the first time ever. It’s not just the fact that they can just grow hair that’s so exciting, though. It’s that they can grow your hair.
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Mobile gaming is expected to generate $1.4 billion in South Korea.
This year, in South Korea mobile gaming is expected to generate $1.4 billion. Mobile games like Anipang have become a cultural phenomenon within the country. It’s as common to see older women in their sixties playing games in the subway as it is to see younger children playing games at the bus stop. The mobile gaming craze in Korea is largely a result of the following factors.
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In 2007, officials from Berkeley, California shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard. That action, which forced the artists there to seek a new way to power their flamethrowers, is the origin story of a company that now produces what it says is the world’s only carbon-negative power source.
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A team at MuleSoft created a video a few weeks ago describing what it’s like to be a developer at the company. James Donelan, VP of engineering at MuleSoft, noted in the video how developers are like artists. There are many reasons why there are similarities between developers and artists. These perceptions are based on observations in the workplace and personal experience, too.
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Aeromobil
Stefan Klein, a designer from the Slovak Republic, has announced the first flight of his Aeromobil Version 2.5, a flying car prototype he has been developing over the last 20 years. This vehicle is a strikingly beautiful design with folding wings and a propeller in the tail. But will its flight capabilities match its looks? (Photos and video)
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BitLock
BitLock, a keyless bike lock, is a U-lock that can be opened electronically by an iPhone or Android app. With that electronic aspect comes other features, such as a GPS tracker and a fitness tracker that can record miles biked, calories burned, and CO2 emissions avoided. Whoever has admin-like status can grant or revoke access to the lock. Making things even simpler, it all connects via Bluetooth, so you don’t even need to have your phone out to open it: proximity works just as well.
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D-Wave quantum computer.
Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab last May, with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and technical expertise from NASA. It was an ambitious open research project aimed at exploring both the capabilities of quantum computer architecture and the mysteries of space exploration — but in the months since, they’ve stayed quiet about exactly what kind of work they’ve been doing there.
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Silicon Valley salaries for programmers have hit record-levels in 2013.
Talented tech folks in Silicon Valley have always been paid huge salaries, but according to division manager for Jobspring Silicon Valley, recruiter Scott Purcell says 2013 is shaping up to be a record-breaker.
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Li-Fi doesn’t work in the dark or outdoors, but it only has to be a supplement to existing wireless networks to be valuable.
The more popular wireless networks become the slower they are. Fudan University researchers in Shanghai have just become the latest to demonstrate a technology that transmits data as light instead of radio waves, which gets around the congestion issue and could be ten times faster than traditional Wi-Fi.
Continue reading… “‘Li-Fi’ – A plan to turn every lightbulb into an ultra-fast alternative to Wi-Fi”
Business is booming.
Gyms aren’t a recent phenomenon. If we thought gyms were tethered to the trend of self-conscious fashionistas and the scourge of obesity, well, you’d be wrong. Gymnasiums, or ‘gymnasia’, go back thousands of years to Ancient Greece where you’d find dedicated exercise auditoriums typically consisting of spacious training grounds for athletic contests.
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Jane McGonigal, game designer and game researcher.
A game designer and game researcher, Jane McGonigal, says technology will intensify the personalization of the student experience in the coming years.
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