Archive for the ‘innovation’ category: Page 137
Oct 16, 2017
Why is it so hard to ditch Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
In his new book, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, Galloway, an entrepreneur and professor at NYU Stern, provides a perceptive analysis of the four-horse race to become the first trillion-dollar company. In a casually incisive style, he uncovers how each of these companies have deployed iconic leadership, technology, storytelling, fearless innovation, lightning execution â and blatant plagiarism- to devastating effect.
From 2013 to 2017, the combined market capitalisation of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google increased in size by the GDP of Russia â $1.4 trillion. And the power of The Four keeps on growing.
Oct 4, 2017
Googleâs AirPods competitor can translate 40 languages right in your ear
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: innovation, mobile phones
Oct 4, 2017
Extremely rare Periodic element behaving like itâs from an âalternative universeâ
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: innovation, quantum physics
While innovations in information technology have transformed how people live, work, and connect, the IT industryâs growth pattern has contributed to a widening gap between rich and poor. Addressing it will require new taxation schemes and modernization of antitrust legislation.
Sep 30, 2017
Bill Gates: This Will Be the Biggest Technological Breakthrough of Our Lifetime
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
Sep 30, 2017
Skin patch speeds healing while reducing scarring
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
Scientists have struggled to develop a single substance that can both speed up wound healing and reduce the formation of scars. Scar reduction medications tend to interfere with the natural process of healing, but now a team of researchers has created a novel skin patch that can reduce scarring and increase the pace of wound healing.
The team from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore discovered a key protein called Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) plays several roles over different phases of healing. ANGPTL4 not only reduces inflammation and induces new cell growth, but in later stages of healing it produces molecules that interfere with a key protein that induces scar tissue.
Excessive collagen production is a key factor in the scarring we are familiar with when a wound heals. The key to the new innovation was developing a way to modulate collagen production without turning it off completely, as it is fundamentally necessary for wound repair.
Sep 24, 2017
How Estonia is leading the way to our digital future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, innovation
Estonia is a leader in technology and innovation, but now the rest of the world must catch up.
Sep 12, 2017
Could This Be The Biggest Biotech Breakthrough Of The Year?
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
A little known biotech company has developed an effective and affordable cardiovascular disease detection device that could save millions of lives and billions of dollars in medical expenses.
Sep 7, 2017
Unexpected Futurist: Ben Franklin envisions 2776 â and Cryonics
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: aging, cryonics, education, entertainment, futurism, health, human trajectories, innovation, media & arts, science, time travel
In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episodeâs unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so itâs not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he wrote a letter to a friend in which he lamented that he was born during the dawn of science.