Looking to the future, he sees two major areas of technology becoming key drivers of workplace transformation. First, natural language interfaces will see greater use of virtual assistant devices.Second, is augmented reality (AR). Read more in raconteur The changing company…
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According to analysts, a greater number of small, large, and medium-sized enterprises started exploring the 3D printing technology for manufacturing various parts of their products and unraveling new business cases. Read more in Datafloq 3D Printing – The Next Industrial…
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Quickdraw: Flying robot scans shelves faster than clerks, ground robots By Greg Nichols
24 January 2019Views: 747Pensa, a company that makes an autonomous mobile perception system to track inventory in stores, has $5 million in additional funding after a newly-announced round. With a total funding of more than $7 million, Pensa is now a contender in…
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One major risk in the coming year is the sharp drop-off in world trade growth, which fell from over 5% at the beginning of 2018 to nearly zero at the end. With anticipated escalation in trade conflicts, a contraction in…
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energy & eco
Washington, D.C., will run on 100% renewable electricity by 2032 By Adele Peters
22 January 2019Views: 847The law calls for 100% renewable electricity by 2032. It’s the most ambitious renewable portfolio standard in the country. The law also calls for D.C. to increase its use of solar power, with a total of 10% of electricity coming…
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These days, though, many CEOs worry that confidence is waning. PwC’s 21st Global CEO Survey found that most CEOs (65 percent globally) are concerned about declining trust in business, even though only 18 percent think it’s a problem for their…
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tech for life
6 of the most amazing things that were 3D-printed in 2018 by Erin Winick
18 January 2019Views: 1,214Manufacturing companies are using the tech for things like weight reduction and cost savings. More interestingly, architects carried out a number of experiments that pushed the artistic limits of what 3D printing can do. Here are some of the standout achievements…
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Everyone hates open offices. Here’s why they still exist By Katharine Schwab
17 January 2019Views: 1,121Employees hate open offices. They’re distracting. They’re loud. There’s often little privacy.According to commercial real estate association CoreNet Global, the average space allotted to individual employees globally fell from 225 square feet in 2010 to 176 square feet in 2013,…
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Most of us are conditioned in both our personal and professional lives to make changes based on outside factors. Whenever change comes from the outside, we are forced to react to it. Rather than being proactive, we find ourselves constantly putting…
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Scientists Fix a Crucial Photosynthesis ‘Glitch’, Boosting Crop Growth by 40% By Mike Mcrae
12 January 2019Views: 1,078Photosynthesis is the chemical reaction that lets plants turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food, and this new hack could result in enough calories to help feed another 200 million people on our planet, from the same volume of crops.…