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Food delivery technology is evolving quickly
Bambi Majumdar Food & BeverageA new development at the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Virginia, heralds an interesting turn for the food delivery industry. Students, staff, and faculty on campus can now order food and drinks with the help of robots. A strategic partnership between robotics firm Starship Technologies and food service giant Sodexo has created the Starship Deliveries app, which promises to change the future of food delivery, especially on college campuses. But George Mason is not the only campus to make news in this regard.
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Eliminating the digital divide and increasing access to technology
Brian Stack EducationInequities regarding technology access in our schools can cause students from different socioeconomic backgrounds to fail to develop information capital, which leads to a shift in power. This concept has come to be known as a digital divide, and it is a problem that schools take a close look at. Today, school districts are seeking effective ways to increase access to digital tools and resources to disadvantaged populations in an effort to close the achievement gap that the digital divide has the potential to create.
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What devices are utilized when integrating IoT and smart manufacturing?
Joseph Zulick ManufacturingA question that has come up quite a bit in the "Factory 4.0" world is: What do we need to get on the internet of things (IoT) train? When you break them down to their simplest components, you only need a small amount of things to yield benefits from implementing IoT. The first part is real-world connections. These are inputs and outputs.
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Infographic: What does your car know about you?
Zachary Kee-Clemmer Transportation Technology & AutomotiveWhile autonomous cars are not yet flooding the marketplace, your car is still doing a number of things without you realizing it. In the guise of providing you with improved services like GPS and voice texting, your car is also collecting data on you that can be used by whomever car manufacturers feel should be privy to the information. The infographic in this article takes a comprehensive look into all the information your car knows about you and how you might better protect yourself from that data working against you.
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Help your employees use their smartphones more productively
Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementA smartphone can be an incredibly helpful tool in helping your employees get their work done better and faster in many ways. Or...not so much. As a manager, you want to encourage your workers to engage with their technology in ways that benefit their productivity and avoid becoming distracted by their devices in ways that can affect your bottom line. So how do you do this? Use these science-tested tips to encourage great results.
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3 steps to monetizing your data through customer intelligence
Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang MarketingHow intelligent is your company about your customer? Do you know enough about them in order to create a personalized customer experience? Understanding your customer through deep intelligence enables you to drive the right actions and experiences that can make the difference in your ability to compete in the marketplace and win with the customer. In today’s world, competing on price alone cannot win at checkout. To achieve a better yield on your marketing spend, we recommend creating customer intelligence analytical solutions that provide your company with a variety of ways to monetize your customer. Here is a three-step approach to building a customer intelligence analytical solution.
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What Facebook has in store for your business in 2019
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingIf you’re like most business owners, you've been on your toes this January — just waiting to see what big change Facebook had in store for you! After all, it's been just over a year since Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, announced that content from Publishers and Pages would be shown less. What does he have in store for you in 2019? Well, Zuckerberg confirmed (at least some) of what the company will focus on this year on its 2018 Q4 earnings call. Read on to see what you should have on your radar.
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The mad dash to quell drivers’ fears about autonomous vehicle safety
Ryan Clark Transportation Technology & AutomotiveApparently, in an attempt to ward off the Skynet-led techno-apocalypse, people in the American Southwest are attacking self-driving cars. While this sounds insane, in light of recent incidents where autonomous vehicles have led to the injury and even death of citizens, it makes sense in a sort of morbid way. This type of consumer anxiety is not what a budding industry should want, especially if it wants to grow. Recently, carmakers have made efforts to address consumer fears about self-driving cars.
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US additive manufacturing reaches a slowdown era
Michelle R. Matisons ManufacturingFor those utopians starry-eyed about emerging 3-D printing/additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, former President Barack Obama’s enthusiasm was rather encouraging. As a new era has dawned in the White House, what is helping and hindering the growth of 3-D printing today? President Trump’s official position on AM is erratic. One minute he excitedly relates its capabilities for U.S. military might, and the next minute he says it aids illegal gun manufacturing. The White House released an updated Strategy for American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing report in October 2018. This report does not indicate that there’s any official policy change on additive manufacturing. But this is not the same as funding.
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New study evaluates presentation of chronic fatigue syndrome in the ED
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareChronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is poorly understood, but proposed mechanisms include biological, genetic, infectious, and psychological. This disease is characterized by profound fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, sleep abnormalities, autonomic manifestations, pain, and other symptoms that are made worse by exertion of any sort. For years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended two controversial treatments for CFS — a program of steadily increasing activity and a specific form of cognitive behavior therapy. However, few medical professionals are aware that the CDC has dropped the exercise and psychotherapy recommendations. How do patients with CFS get the healthcare and treatment they deserve to deal with their symptoms?
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