M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.
http://www.wired.com/partners/bnymellon/futureofmoney/ - 0 views
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Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom
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has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones
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Chocolate Printer, Mood Shoes Among Lenovo's Connected Devices - Bloomberg Business - 0 views
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Teams Up With Disney To Sell Avengers 2 Merchandises In China - 0 views
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) has entered into a partnership with Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) to distribute the merchandise of Marvel Studio’s blockbuster movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Alibaba has become the first official distributor of Marvel Studio’s merchandise in China. The move is also significant since this is the first time for the company that it has used its platform to bring merchandises related to a movie to its customers
Tesla's New Battery Could Solve One of Solar Power's Biggest Problems - 0 views
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What’s happening in Hawaii is actually indicative of what’s going to be an issue everywhere as many cities start to see an increase in large-scale solar implementation: There’s going to be too much energy generated, and nowhere to put it.
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The absolute best idea is for homeowners to start installing batteries that can store the power for later use instead of giving the power back to the utilities, something called peak load shaving.
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Right now, Tesla’s batteries are about about $300 per kWh, which is comparable to the market rate the industry expected for 2020.
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Google: Mobilegeddon | The Economist - 0 views
Disney Research » Printing Teddy Bears: A Technique for 3D Printing of Soft I... - 1 views
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Printing Teddy Bears: A Technique for 3D Printing of Soft Interactive Objects
ВЕДОМОСТИ - «Умные часы - это отличная возможность для нашей индустрии» - 0 views
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по мнению гендиректора Swatch Group,
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умные часы – это быстро устаревающая бытовая техника и она не станет конкурентом механическим часам, которые служат десятилетиями и передаются из поколения в поколение.
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В Swatch Group есть компания под названием EM Microelectronic, которая является поставщиком компонентов для многих производителей умных браслетов – Garmin, например, – а также для производителей смартфонов, название которых я не могу разглашать.
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FuturePundit: Regulations For Offspring Genetic Engineering - 0 views
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The prospect of genetically much altered future generations is no longer in the distant science fiction future but rather in the "some of the people reading this will live to see it on large scale" future.
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Some more competitive governments might mandate genetic editing to put a floor on intelligence. Want a first class high tech economy? Allow no kid below 120 IQ. The first government to do that will have the highest per capita income economy in the world 50 years later if not much sooner.
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My expectation is that differences in regulatory response to germ line genetic engineering technologies will cause the populations of the world's various countries to diverge in a variety of ways that will be immediately visibl
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in the highly delicate mater of genetic engineering that might become a reality sooner that one might expect, how would the individual governments react? And is this an internal affair that is to be handled inside the country that might get the first access to the high-end bio engineering technology.
Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA? | Popular Science - 0 views
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In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson’s patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the genomes of 5,000 people with lupus.
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A trove of data could give scientists the tools they need to develop gene-specific drug therapies for certain diseases. “We are hoping to ultimately develop Parkinson’s medicines, for example, that actually modify the disease as opposed to just treating symptoms,”
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“this has the possibility of not only helping us find new cures, but it also helps us create a genuine health care system as opposed to just a disease care system.”
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Biosensing Films And Smartphones Let Doctors Diagnose Disease From Anywhere - 0 views
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Researchers from Florida Atlantic University have created a sensitive film that can detect viruses and bacteria, such as HIV and Staph, at home.
BBC - Future - Is e-waste an untapped treasure? - 0 views
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Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem
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Yet many are realising that the gadgets we chuck away can be ripped apart and transformed into something new – brand new technology, or even art.
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In 2012, we discarded 48.9 million tonnes of electrical and electronic products. If current trends continue, by 2017, the annual amount of e-waste produced globally will reach 65.4 million tonnes – that’s roughly 20% of the weight of all the people living on Earth.
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in 2012 china alone produced 11.1 mlm tones of e-waste, what can be considered trash in one part of the world, can indeed become a treasure in the other part of the world
YouTube Kids App Blasted as 'Deceptive' by Consumer Groups | Variety - 0 views
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Google’s YouTube Kids app, which offers a walled garden of content aimed at the 5-and-under set, is the target of a coalition of consumer groups urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the service as a potential violation of rules about advertising to children
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“Many of the video segments endorsing toys, candy and other products that appear to be ‘user-generated’ have undisclosed relationships with product manufacturers in v
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iolation of the FTC’s guidelines concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising,
Futures of text - 0 views
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a good piece on how the text communication might transform in the near future and why texting might remain a more comfortable way to interact with the device then voice
Dawn of the iCar? Apple said to be secretly working on design for an electric people-ca... - 0 views
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Hundreds of people at Apple are said to be secretly working on a design for an electric people-carrier which has been given the code name “Titan”. So far, the technology firm has declined to comment on the project
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The Titan project was reportedly signed off almost a year ago by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook, who has assigned vice president of product design, Steve Zadesky, to lead the group
Using ToyTalk Technology, New Hello Barbie Will Have Real Conversations With Kids | Fas... - 1 views
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I've posted earlier about this ToyTalk company, they are founded by the guy who worked at Pixar for 20 years. The company develops the speech recognition technology, signed their first deal with a big toy company - Mattel. They are going to develop Barbie doll that will be able to sustain meaningful conversations with kids
Российские мультсериалы начнут показывать в кинотеатрах - 1 views
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Этой весной российские кинотеатры начнут показывать мультсериалы. Об этом с киносетями договорились детский канал «Мульт» и компания «Центральное телевидение»
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Это будут короткие сеансы по 45 минут из нескольких серий мультфильмов. Сборники будут обновляться два раза в месяц,
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Первыми будут показаны «Маша и Медведь», «Фиксики», «Белка и Стрелка», «Паровозов», «Летающие звери»
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