New York-based startup Stayawhile announced today that it’s scored $1.5 million in seed funding to provide travelers with what founder Janine Yorio refers to as “medium-term housing.” It’s a midway point between your standard hotel/Airbnb stay and a year-plus apartment lease, aimed at vacations and business travelers who’d like to spread out their stay in a new city… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Sooner or later, our children will be raised by robots, so it’s natural that Disney, purveyor of both robots and child-related goods, would want to get ahead of that trend. A trio of studies from its Research division aim at understanding and improving how kids converse with and otherwise interact with robots and other reasonably smart machines. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
La empresa china Ant Financial está integrando la tecnologÃa en prácticamente todos sus servicios. Y sus resultados empiezan a superar el rendimiento humano en tareas como la atención al cliente e incluso los partes de daños de los seguros
Source: MIT
Multi funciona con motores lineales de levitación magnética que le permiten desplazarse en ambos ejes. El prototipo podrÃa dar lugar a nuevos diseños de edificios y superar el problema de los ascensores en rascacielos, aunque es bastante caro
Source: MIT
Imponer reglas al salvaje internet es como poner puertas al campo. Si nadie puede garantizar que se cumpla, ¿para que ponerle lÃmites que sólo conducirán a batallas legales?
Source: MIT
Created by a former child prodigy-turned-MIT professor, this smart algorithm not only manages to fold any 3D shape out of a piece of paper — but does so with the minimal amount of seams.
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Source: Digital trends
Play all your favorite classic games, from Super Mario World to Mega Man X.
Source: Wired
Amazon will officially release the Show in a few days, but in the meantime, the company is introducing a long-awaited intercom feature for existing Echo devices. The addition uses Drop-In, a teleconferencing feature introduced on the Show that lets close friends and family members call into one another’s device with little warning. I really didn’t like the feature when I tested… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Having a gene for a rare disease might not give you symptoms. But it could beef up your medical bills.
Source: Wired
Autotalks has been developing technologies that allow vehicles to talk to anything — V2X, to the nerds in the know. It’s one of the technologies that will enable fully autonomous vehicles to roam our roads. But where does that leave motorcycles, which will still have riders who rely on interactions with human drivers? That’s where B2V, or bike to vehicle, technology comes in. Read More
Source: TechCrunch