Next week, Berlin and myriad cities around the world will engage in a mass climate strike: students and employees will abandon their posts in classrooms and offices to march in demand for action on an issue of increasing urgent — climate change. To say that climate change is an urgent issue is really an understatement.…
The ‘404 Not Found’ error, the silent announcer of broken links, is a frequent encounter found along the online road. Today, though, we will be visiting Its lesser known cousin, error 402 — ‘Payment Required’. At the inception of the commercial world wide web, its creators had envisioned a system supported by some form of…
Monday. 1 pm. Lunch rush. We’ve all been there. As you squeeze and push from one end of the street to the other, you’ll likely encounter a dozen bike-riders wielding large, square-ish backpacks on their shoulders, zigzagging past the hungry crowds. Packed inside those bags, of course, are fresh, delicious meals about to be delivered…
Artificial intelligence (AI) was founded as a discipline out of a 1950s university workshop amongst a group of professors and researchers. In the subsequent decades, the field swung from big waves of optimism, to great dips of disillusioned ambition. Over the mid to late 90s, and the 21st century, massive increases in computing power and…
The way people move across the globe has constantly reshaped society and the way humans interact with each other. From the invention of the wheel, to the first train taking off back in the 18th Century, mankind has always looked for innovative ways to improve mobility and shorten what the preceding generation considered to be…
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in scale and sophistication, the use cases for AI are popping up in all sorts of unexpected places. The newest team to join the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator, CleanAI, is combining computer vision and AI to address a universal problem: cleanliness. We sat down with Alistair Cadman, co-founder and…
In the Staples Center, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers and one of the world’s premier concert venues, a sold-out crowd buzzes. Hundreds of millions of people from around the world tune in to watch online or on a TV broadcast. Participants are vying for millions, seeking purses larger than the Tour De France,…
In 2000, Netflix founder Reed Hastings went to the then-CEO of Blockbuster John Antioco and offered 49% of his company for $50 million. Antioco saw Netflix as a very niche company, so he turned the offer down believing physical stores were enough to satisfy customers. The net value of Netflix today is nearly $144bn, while…
A few weeks ago, we wrote a blog post highlighting the emergence of sleep tech, touching on companies that utilize technology to monitor and optimize your sleeping habits. Despite critics who doubt its efficacy, the growth and success of startups like Oura Ring, Calm, and Snail Sleep highlight the expanding market for alternative health and…
Have a casual chat about robotics and AI, and the conversation will almost inevitably lead to a debate about whether these emerging technologies are poised to replace human workers sector by sector, vertical by vertical, and ultimately usher in waves of mass unemployment and economic turmoil. Now, the basic premise of machines replacing human labor…