Gadget of the week: Volo
Rocket Internet acquires restaurant delivery service Volo By Steve O’Hear From Techcrunch Well, what do we have here? Just a couple of days after participating in European restaurant delivery service Take Eat Easy’s €6 million Series A funding round, ‘startup…
In the future, employees won’t exist
By Tad Milbourn From Techcrunch Tad Milbourn is CEO and co-founder of Tiempo. Contract work is becoming the new normal. Consider Uber: The ride-sharing startup has 160,000 contractors, but just 2,000 employees. That’s an astonishing ratio of 80 to 1….
Sony fails to shake data-breach suit
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled Monday that employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. whose personal information was exposed in last year’s data breach have standing to sue even if they can’t prove…
‘Smart’ insulin patch beats injections in diabetic mice
By Salynn Boyles From MedPage Today Patch mimicking beta-cell function could offer ‘closed-loop’ insulin delivery Note that this diabetic mouse study demonstrated that a novel glucose-sensing, insulin-releasing patch controlled blood sugar levels well. Obviously, many more studies will be needed…
Prosecutor wins appeal over his tweets against activist
By Amanda Bronstad, From The National Law Journal A Los Angeles prosecutor has won an appeal in a case brought over cutting remarks he wrote on his blog and on Twitter about a conservative political activist. The ruling in the…
Casting furniture from sugar, etc
Casting furniture from sugar, salt, coffee grounds, ice-cream sprinkles and more By Carly Ayres From Core77 With his new line, sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo revels in unusual materials. When seeking out materials to build furniture, the first items that come to…
‘Catlateral Damage’
All of your feline fantasies come true in ‘Catlateral Damage’ By Jessica Conditt From engadget Life would be so much easier as a cat. Few humans recognize the potential for feline bliss better than Chris Chung, the creator of Catlateral…
Gadget of the week
Snakes, cheetahs, and monsters: Some of the craziest robot tech in the world By Lyndsey Gilpin From TechRepublic The main event at DARPA’s Robotics Challenge was the humanoid competition, but there was plenty of other innovative and strange robotics technology…
Greetings from PIEDATA- CANTO CODE
Greetings ieyenews readers! I bring you great news! My name is William and I am the Chief Ambassador of PIEDATA, a youth-based Caribbean organization with a focus in I.C.T. and Business. After long anticipation, we are extremely excited to announce…
Caribbean vows increased action to tackle chronic diseases
From Guyana Times Representatives of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Governments ended a high-level meeting in Barbados this week by declaring that non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes—are the greatest health and development threat facing the Caribbean….
