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What makes Vivint different? Smart home service lands $100M
Vivint Smart Home (Vivint, Inc.) announced a $100 million equity investment co-led by lauded tech investor Peter Thiel and investment firm Solamere Capital LLC. As an increasingly familiar name in the smart home space, this strategic investment will help Vivint manage growth and innovate product lines. Vivint offers a custom platform for home automation and monitoring, ...
Jarvis watch: From Facebook bots to AI butlers
Since its inception, the social web has been out to automate our interactions. Having built a digital repository of human behavior, institutions like Facebook can keep us willfully engaged by doing our social dirty work on our behalf (tagging photos, remembering birthdays). Where Facebook once learned our favorite movies, brands and people through an account ...
The face of self-driving cars: How UI design builds trust for autonomy
Self-driving cars are going mainstream, thanks to manufacturing innovations from the likes of Tesla and futuristic business opportunities from the likes of Uber. But with the plethora of connected car devices now available and more in the works, and the promise of driverless cars (a survey by Gemalto NV revealed that 63 percent of respondents expect driverless ...
When not to connect: 4moms on the art of digital business
At the bleeding edge of technology, scientific miracles solve real problems. Digitization is heralded as the savior in this scenario, the mega trend transforming businesses, products and services across the board. Characterizing the current state of the Big Data market, digitization is leveraging human input for software development to optimize business. It’s a hot topic ...
Forget iPhone SE Night Shift – these glasses save eyes without the yellow tint
Every day I get a headache. And so every evening I have to talk myself off the computer, a regular ritual to turn away from the proverbial cliff of migraines and misery. My iPhone is more onerous still, with never-ending Instagram scrolls and backgammon matches dancing dangerously close to my eyes. Admittedly I’m of the ...
Automating couture: Robots taking fashion jobs isn’t all bad | #SXSW
Automating couture could be among the defining movements for today’s generation, creating on-demand fashion as readily as a Netflix episode. A departure from the mid-century revolution of mass production, mass customization revels in cheap technology scaled for the home. Given the global market for textiles and garments is estimated to be worth some $300 trillion, it’s ...
We’re still in the caveman era of Big Data, say filmmakers behind new documentary
Will my fossilized bones be studied? Will my penned journal survive millenniums? How will today’s tech be remembered? These are the questions that popped into my head after watching The Human Face of Big Data, a book-turned documentary that ponders the analytics age and its impact on humanity. The film debuts on PBS Wednesday, February ...
Aria Systems raises $50m, will monetize IoT
Where GoPro’s connected cameras may be shortsighted, Aria Systems wants businesses to succeed in monetizing the device data behind the Internet of Things (IoT). A fresh $50 million in funding boosts Aria Systems, Inc.‘s cloud-based platform to this end, raising a round from existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, InterWest Partners and Venrock. ...
Arrayent raises another $15m, looks to own the IoT service cloud
Bridging the enterprise and consumer worlds of the Internet of Things (IoT), Arrayent Inc. looks to a global takeover with $15 million in fresh funding. Its Series C round, Arrayent attracts the participation of ORIX Ventures, joining previous investors DCM Ventures, Intel Capital, Opus Capital and Comerica Bank. With the funds, Arrayent intends to expand ...
Self-installing car seat at CES: 4moms’ latest baby gadget
On a mission to make confident parents of the millennial generation, 4moms (Thorley Industries LLC) has gadgetized its latest baby product — the car seat, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Indeed, car seats save lives. But there’s a good chance that you have incorrectly installed your car seat, compromising its safety. According to Benjamin Hoffman, ...