Asian markets edge down as tech shares mirror US declines
Down Under, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.58 percent, with losses in materials, technology and banking stocks dragging the index lower. Australian financial stocks declined 0.87 percent after the...
View ArticleTech VCs: Why it looks like Silicon Valley has become boring, and why that’s...
Silicon Valley has changed a lot since 1991 and the dot-com boom. But investors aren’t sweating it. Reddit/Seagate Business Insider polled tech investors about whether Silicon Valley, the birthplace of...
View ArticleAmazon Plans to Send Alexa to the Office
LAS VEGAS—Amazon.com Inc. wants workers to ask its virtual assistant Alexa to book conference rooms and launch meetings, as the company races against rivals to make the office the next major inroad for...
View ArticleAfghan Girls’ Robotics Team Wins First Place In European Competition
The Afghan Girls’ robotics team has won first place in one of Europe’s largest robotics competitions, the New York Times reports. But this past week, the young women got some good news. Three of the 12...
View ArticleGame veteran starts Traega Entertainment in Nashville
Traega Entertainment is coming out today as a new independent game studio started by veteran game developers. Dax Hock, who formerly worked at games such as Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and Anarchy...
View ArticleUber’s CEO acknowledged his workers’ use of secretive messaging apps — and...
On Tuesday, a former Uber employee testified in a trial that the company had a unit dedicated to spying on competitors. This team hid their activities in part by using chat apps that encrypt and...
View ArticleOptum Launches $250M Innovation Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Digital Health...
The $250M innovation fund will operate independently under the … their symptoms and get advice on where to go and what to do next. – Mindstrong Health, whose technology uses machine learning and...
View ArticleHomeland Security claims DJI drones are spying for China
It released a memo detailing what it believes to be DJI’s main targets. A memo from the Los Angeles office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau (ICE) has been making the rounds and it...
View ArticleGoogle Assistant will soon help you find local home services
Ask for plumbers, electricians and more specialists. Like rival assistants Alexa and Siri, Google Assistant keeps adding new features, including identifying songs and controlling Chromecast. But now it...
View ArticleChain reaction: Byline Bank deal could kick off next merger wave in Chicago
The area’s small, midsize and family-owned companies — and there are a bunch of them around here — are the primary lending targets of a newly … the First Evanston purchase — to rattle the marketplace...
View ArticleVerizon plans to offer wireless home internet access starting next year — and...
Verizon will start offering wireless home broadband service in three to five cities in late 2018. The company will deliver the service using 5G networking technology, the next-generation wireless...
View ArticleVine’s former CEO says he’s working on a ‘follow-up’ to the shuttered app
A “follow-up” to Vine is being developed by the app’s ex-CEO, Dom Hofmann. Hofmann said he’s personally funding the project. Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 and killed the video app roughly one year ago....
View ArticleDigitalizing Healthcare: AI As An Essential Clinical Decision Support Tool
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting – yet complex – areas of innovation in healthcare today. As the demand for medical imaging increases, the volume of healthcare data is growing...
View ArticleWho Should Never Use Dental Amalgam Explained by the Sacramento Dentistry Group
SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 29, 2017 (Newswire.com) – Dental amalgam is being used less and less by dentists, chiefly due to health concerns over one of its primary components, elemental mercury....
View Article3 products for veterinary dentistry
Hey you! It’s almost pet dental health month. Is your team gearing up to increase your recommendations and dental procedures performed? Mary Berg, BS, RVT, RLATG, VTS (Dentistry), of Beyond the Crown...
View ArticleDublin spending $24 million to transform a ferry building into a startup campus
Dublin is about to become the latest European city to join the startup campus craze. Today, the city announced a proposal to create The Harbour Innovation Campus. The proposed campus was described as a...
View ArticleThis is the smartest robotics company in the world (and soon to be one of the...
Q&A: Scottish CDO on perfect partnerships and how robots will make us more creative Sarcos Robotics, a Salt Lake City-based robotics company, has three new products at market or debuting soon....
View ArticleGM could launch its own autonomous ride-hailing service as early as 2019
A General Motors executive said Friday that the company is rushing to launch autonomous vehicles for a ride-hailing service that could compete with Uber and Lyft, the latest example of how aggressively...
View ArticleDentistry Will Need to Guard Against Hackers in 2018
Hackers target the healthcare industry, including dentistry, more than any other field because that’s where the money is. According to the SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast, these digital pirates can...
View ArticleAs global disasters strain financial resources, tech companies reassess their...
This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. View of damage caused by...
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