Organizations are using the internet of things and a constellation of smart devices to drive business change. It’s a technological shift that will ultimately have worldwide implications.
In association with LumenNew technologies can optimize the way people work. When implemented thoughtfully, such innovations can improve overall business processes.
Continue reading… “The promise of the fourth industrial revolution”By Nhx T.
China is reportedly amping up its plans to send more satellites into space to compete with American company SpaceX.
China is planning to send 10,000 satellites into space as soon as possible.
It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept – first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s – was mainly an inspiration for writers.
A century later, however, scientists are making huge strides in turning the concept into reality. The European Space Agency has realised the potential of these efforts and is now looking to fund such projects, predicting that the first industrial resource we will get from space is “beamed power”.
Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, so there’s a lot at stake. From rising global temperatures to shifting weather patterns, the impacts of climate change are already being feltaround the globe. Overcoming this challenge will require radical changes to how we generate and consume energy.
Renewable energy technologies have developed drastically in recent years, with improved efficiency and lower cost. But one major barrier to their uptake is the fact that they don’t provide a constant supply of energy. Wind and solar farms only produce energy when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining – but we need electricity around the clock, every day. Ultimately, we need a way to store energy on a large scale before we can make the switch to renewable sources.
Continue reading… “SOLAR POWER STATIONS IN SPACE COULD BE THE ANSWER TO OUR ENERGY NEEDS”
The 3D virtual shopping experience comes courtesy of gourmet grocer McEwan Fine Foods Don Mills through a partnership with Inabuggy – an online grocery delivery service that launched in 2015.
Through the virtual 3D walkthrough of McEwan Fine Foods, customers can browse curated aisles of the store just like they were shopping in person. They can select items they want to purchase from store shelves and display cases and add them to their cart for purchase.
The shopping tour gives customers the ability to shop quickly or browse aisles for produce, meats, fish, prepared meals, and gourmet grocery items.
“We have a wide variety of unique products and quality produce and this feature will allow our guests to discover our offerings from the comfort of their homes, making it even easier to eat well,” Mark McEwan, chef and owner of The McEwan Group, said.
Continue reading… “GROCERY STORE TAKES CONTACTLESS SHOPPING TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH ‘3D VIRTUAL’ EXPERIENCE”
Canvas, a company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites, emerged from stealth today. Canvas was founded in 2017 and uses a modified JLG lift, robotic arm, and sensors to automate drywall installation.
Once that task is perfected, Canvas plans to expand into areas like painting and spray-on insulation. The company focuses on commercial construction sites larger than 10,000 square feet, and Canvas’ founders say its machines operate faster and at a higher level of quality than humans working without a robot.
Continue reading… “Canvas emerges from stealth with AI for drywall installation”
The once-daily medicine, called baricitinib, was first identified as a potential treatment for the virus by BenevolentAI, a startup based in London.
The company used its AI software to comb through scientific literature for drugs that might block the infection process. The most promising treatment it discovered was baricitinib, which it predicted could stop the infection from entering lung cells.
The new study has now shown the drug’s safety and efficacy in the largest group of patients published thus far.
Continue reading… “AI discovered an old arthritis drug that can help elderly people survive COVID-19”
Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time. The development has been hailed as a landmark moment across the meat industry.
The “chicken bites”, produced by the US company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency and the approval could open the door to a future when all meat is produced without the killing of livestock, the company said.Advertisement
Dozens of firms are developing cultivated chicken, beef and pork, with a view to slashing the impact of industrial livestock production on the climate and nature crises, as well as providing cleaner, drug-free and cruelty-free meat. Currently, about 130 million chickens are slaughtered every day for meat, and 4 million pigs. By weight, 60% of the mammals on earth are livestock, 36% are humans and only 4% are wild.Revealed: UK supermarket and fast food chicken linked to deforestation in Brazil
Continue reading… “No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time”
The revolutionary Zmirror all-in-one smart mirror eliminates the need for all other vanity desk products. Its superiority is defined in the high-quality Harman Kardon speakers often found in luxury cars like BMWs and Range Rovers, but it doesn’t stop there.
As a CES 2020 Innovation Awards Winner, Zmirror takes smart speakers to the next level. That’s thanks to its seven-inch LCD touchscreen on the nine-inch diameter tempered glass mirror. If you don’t feel like touching the mirror or your hands are full, easily use Amazon Alexa voice control. That means this all-in-one smart mirror can even tell you the weather, search YouTube, read Kindle books, and more.
Continue reading… “Zmirror all-in-one smart mirror acts as a personal assistant”by David Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twisting motion when squeezed. These subunits could potentially be assembled by tiny robots into a nearly limitless variety of objects with built-in functionality, including vehicles, large industrial parts, or specialized robots that can be repeatedly reassembled in different forms.
he researchers created four different types of these subunits, called voxels (a 3-D variation on the pixels of a 2-D image). Each voxel type exhibits special properties not found in typical natural materials, and in combination they can be used to make devices that respond to environmental stimuli in predictable ways. Examples might include airplane wings or turbine blades that respond to changes in air pressure or wind speed by changing their overall shape.
Continue reading… “Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties”
Robert Stevens – December 2,2020
The way we sleep, eat and retreat from the world around us is poised for significant transformation, David Eun, Samsung’s Chief Innovation Officer, told this week at Web Summit.
Eun presented a sketch of Samsung’s vision for the house of the future. The aim is to foster experiences on a foundation of technology and innovation, he said, “the likes of which we have never seen before.”
With the advent of 5G, the percentage of connected devices in the home will continue to grow, “and in the near future, the question won’t be how many devices are connected. The question will actually be, how many devices are not connected.”
Continue reading… “Web Summit 2019: This is what the house of 2025 could look like”
Rebar is laid before poring a cement slab for an apartment in San Francisco CA.
In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Debates ensued over whether the construction industry’s seven million employees should be considered “essential,” while regulations continued to shift on the operation of job sites. Meanwhile, project demand steadily shrank.
Amidst the chaos, construction firms faced an existential question: How will they survive? This question is as relevant today as it was in April. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption.
Construction is a massive, $1.3 trillion industry in the United States — a complex ecosystem of lenders, owners, developers, architects, general contractors, subcontractors and more. While each construction project has a combination of these key roles, the construction process itself is highly variable depending on the asset type. Roughly 41% of domestic construction value is in residential property, 25% in commercial property and 34% in industrial projects. Because each asset type, and even subassets within these classes, tends to involve a different set of stakeholders and processes, most construction firms specialize in one or a few asset groups.