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Your Roomba’s digital map of your house could be for sale

By Eric David Jul 24, 2017

Robotic vacuums like the Roomba have made it easy for even the laziest people to keep their floors clean. Now, Roomba maker iRobot Corp. has found another use for the little robots: building maps…

Apps

Blockchain brings new level of transparency for food consumers

By Aaron Melgar Jul 24, 2017

Applying new technologies in historically low-tech industries, such as agriculture, presents a new set of challenges around perceived costs, incentive structures and risk. However, when a new application, such as blockchain, opens up, the…

Cloud

Alphabet beats earnings forecast despite EU fine, but investors aren’t impressed

By Robert Hof Jul 24, 2017

Alphabet Inc. handily beat quarterly earnings forecasts today despite taking an expected multibillion-dollar hit from an antitrust fine, but investors appear more worried about future challenges for the Internet giant. The parent company of…

Apps

Cloud-based LED control helps change plant biology

By Aaron Melgar Jul 24, 2017

As more agriculture Internet of Things nodes are brought onto the cloud, new machine-learning-based techniques are driving real economic impact for farmers, according to Shami Patel (pictured), chief executive officer at LumiGrow Inc. “LumiGrow is a…

Apps

The end of an era: Microsoft removes Paint after 32 years (but it’s not dead yet)

By Kyt Dotson Jul 24, 2017

New Windows users will soon find themselves without an iconic, free paint program that launched 32 years ago. Microsoft Paint is being removed from Windows 10 as part of a looming update from Microsoft…

Big Data

Robot can build your salad 1,000 different ways

By Mark Albertson Jul 24, 2017

Who says vending machines don’t offer enough choice? Chowbotics Inc. has built a robot that offers salads in 1,000 different varieties around-the-clock. The Silicon Valley-based startup is hoping that the salad-making machine will ignite interest…

Apps

AgTech evolution helps farms make sense of new age data

By Aaron Melgar Jul 24, 2017

Applying new technology to the farming industry is a highly complex process because of the multi-faceted nature of the challenges facing farms. The key is making sense of the data once the new technology is…

Infra

Asian ride-hailing service Grab gets $2B to take on Uber

By Eric David Jul 24, 2017

Singapore-based ridesharing service Grab is looking to go head-to-head with Uber Technologies Inc. in Southeast Asia, and today the company got a major boost for that effort with $2 billion in financing from Didi Chuxing and SoftBank…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft is adding an artificial intelligence chip to HoloLens

By Maria Deutscher Jul 24, 2017

Microsoft Corp.’s HoloLens is set to become a lot smarter. Marc Pollefeys, the Director of Science at the company’s mixed reality group, on Sunday revealed that the next iteration of the headset will pack a co-processor…

Big Data

Consumers like food tech, but growers are on data overload, say investors

By Mark Albertson Jul 24, 2017

Investors enjoy having plenty of options, and the food tech landscape certainly offers choices at the moment with approximately 3,000 companies vying for funding and customers, according to two prominent food tech investors. The explosion…

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Your Roomba’s digital map of your house could be for sale

Blockchain brings new level of transparency for food consumers

Cloud-based LED control helps change plant biology

The end of an era: Microsoft removes Paint after 32 years (but it’s not dead yet)

Robot can build your salad 1,000 different ways

AgTech evolution helps farms make sense of new age data

Asian ride-hailing service Grab gets $2B to take on Uber

Microsoft is adding an artificial intelligence chip to HoloLens

Consumers like food tech, but growers are on data overload, say investors

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