Workers are frequently told robots are coming for their jobs, while fast food employees are already starting to see automation creep into their places of employment. Along with kiosks popping up at McDonald’s, diners in Japan have been treated to a sushi-making robot, while in California a robot flips burgers. So with machines on the […]
Read mores A few years ago, Raghupathy Sivakumar, a computer science professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, realized he had a problem. An undergraduate student had just won a prestigious business plan competition Sivakumar had helped organize, but the student had no idea how to advance his idea from concept to product, a major roadblock for […]
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Mon Dieu! Newly elected French President Macron suffers 10 point drop in popularity rating
French President Emmanuel Macron‘s popularity rating has slumped by 10 percentage points this month, according to an Ifop poll on Sunday—the biggest decline for a new president since 1995. The poll, published in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, said 54 percent of people in France were satisfied with Macron in July, compared with 64 percent […]
Read moreJust one day into his job as White House, communications director Anthony Scaramucci announced on Twitter that he’d be deleting past tweets. Not only is this a highly counterintuitive move for the person charged with communicating between the Trump administration and the press — not to mention a weird understanding of the term “full transparency” […]
Read moreWe’re far removed from the days when you’d see people at every city street corner being guided around by their smartphones to catch pokémon. But some people have loyally stuck with the hit mobile game months after its popularity waned. Pokémon Go Fest was supposed to be a reward and real-world celebration for those players. […]
Read moreWhatsApp, the standalone messaging app that Facebook bought for $19 billion back in early 2014, doesn’t make any money. That’s about to change — apparently soon — as WhatsApp is hiring for a number of key monetization roles, including a product manager position to “lead product development on our monetization efforts.” WhatsApp, which has more […]
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If you get a lot of packages delivered and want to keep an eye on them, buy the Ring Doorbell 2. If you’re frequently upstairs and don’t hear your current doorbell or prefer to know who’s at the door before answering it, buy the Ring Doorbell 2. If you want to just check in on […]
Read moreThe National Weather Service estimates damage from U.S. natural disasters cost upwards of $18 billion last year. Now more than ever, companies big and small are looking to weather forecasts for business help. Yet forecasting itself has become a $3 billion business, with information becoming increasingly accurate and local. Forecasters sell their information to businesses, […]
Read moreSHANGHAI — Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with more than two billion users. LinkedIn was sold to Microsoft for $26 billion last year. And Apple is Apple, the most valuable company in the world. In most local markets, it would be a surprise if any one of these companies were floundering. But in […]
Read moreThe newest and most expensive aircraft carrier ever built entered the U.S. Navy fleet Saturday, but almost three years behind schedule and billions of dollars over its estimated budget. With Saturday’s commissioning, the carrier will go back into testing and training, and isn’t expected to be fully operational until 2020 at the earliest. The ship’s […]
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