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Monthly Archives: January 2017
How we shop hurts endangered species
The hidden danger to wildlife posed by imported consumer goods — an espresso coffee in Beijing, a tofu salad in Chicago — can now be pinpointed and measured, researchers said Wednesday.
Gap is testing an app that will let customers try on clothes without stepping foot in a dressing room
Gap’s DressingRoom app uses avatars to help people understand how products will fit. People can then buy what fits online.
Dubai Future Accelerators launches 2nd cycle
Dubai Future Accelerators has launched the 2nd cycle with 11 new global challenges in vital sectors for innovative enterprises.
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Facebook sleuths bring home India’s stolen idols
By day, Arvind Venkatraman works as a software engineer in India’s tech hub Chennai. But in his spare time, he is an international art detective whose efforts have helped bring back some of his country’s most valuable antiquities.
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Chrysler’s new tech-rich concept car aims young
Fiat-Chrysler on Tuesday unveiled a concept car designed for Millennials: an electric-powered minivan with modular components that can be adapted for autonomous driving.
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Lenovo launches ‘home assistant’ with Amazon Alexa
Chinese tech giant Lenovo announced Tuesday it was launching a smart home assistant powered by Amazon’s Alexa, becoming the latest firm to enter the market for voice-activated devices.
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US-trained dolphins to help locate Mexico’s vaquita porpoise
U.S. Navy-trained dolphins and their handlers will participate in a last-ditch effort to catch, enclose and protect the last few dozen of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita porpoises to save them from extinction.
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Electric car startup unveils ‘new species’ of vehicle
Faraday Future, the secretive electric car startup with ambitions to overtake Tesla, unveiled its first production vehicle Tuesday, proclaiming it to be a “new species” for personal transportation.
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Concussions on the brain: Pushing for more research on women
Katherine Snedaker says she has had 20 concussions, the first three decades ago from a car accident when she was 16. But it wasn’t until her son suffered a series of concussions in the sixth grade, around 2008, that she felt compelled to learn all she could about head injuries to help him recover.
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