from CNBC by Erin Black WATCH THE VIDEO Clothing start-up Ministry of Supply has designed a smart jacket that uses artificial intelligence to automatically adjust to your body's optimal temperature. The jacket, which reaches temperatures of up to 135 degrees Fahrenheit, can also be voice-controlled through devices like the Amazon Echo or ...
from The News & Observer by Thomas Goldsmith Cities and towns across the United States have stepped up efforts to combat opioid abuse, from equipping police officers with overdose-reversal kits to setting up syringe exchange programs. Cary is taking a new approach: Test the wastewater to identify which drugs people ...
from Forbes by Frederick Daso Email is a necessary task for any role in Corporate America. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, roughly 28% of our time is spent “answering, writing, or responding to email.” A talent team filled with MIT and Harvard affiliates have built a nifty, Gmail-integrated tool that can ...
from Fortune by Larissa Zimberoff Despite radical advances in technology, many companies still plan routes for their delivery trucks the same way they did a decade ago. Managers create itineraries the day before, and then hand printouts to drivers to follow or add them to the hand-held devices that their ...
from TechCrunch by Devin Coldewey It takes an immense amount of processing power to create and operate the “AI” features we all use so often, from playlist generation to voice recognition. Lightmatter is a startup that is looking to change the way all that computation is done — and not in a ...
from Forbes by Frederick Daso If you’re a C-suite executive or institutional investor, chances are you’ve face a problem that you personally couldn’t solve on your own. Your immediate circle of co-workers and colleagues in your industry aren't able to find an answer either. Going through your Rolodex, you're unable to ...
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei Over the past years, Rough Draft Ventures – General Catalyst’s student-focused program backing founders at the university level – has backed many student companies our readers are familiar with, including Freebird, User Interviews and LogRocket. According to the program, in 2017 RDV backed 11 new Boston-based companies across industries such as ...
from Boston Magazine by Madeline Bilis Lifelong Cambridge resident Susan Richards has never lived with a stranger. She’s shared her home with her children for just over 20 years, and even in her twenties, she always lived with friends. But recently, the 54-year-old received a new roommate: a postdoctoral scholar ...
from MIT Sloan News by Kara Baskin Desktop workers have plenty of technology at their fingertips — Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Google documents — to quickly capture, transfer, and distribute knowledge. Field workers don’t always have this advantage. Lab technicians, construction workers, and manufacturers often lack a way to train colleagues ...
from Medium by Elvis Chidera In 2012, I was just a village boy from Nigeria who had nothing but a dream and a Nokia feature (J2ME) phone. Today, I’m a 19 year old Android developer who has worked on over 50 apps and currently works for an MIT startup. My ...
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