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Caltech Wins Gates Foundation Toilet Challenge With Solar Powered Device
0By: Kevin Green | November 20th, 2012 | Gadgets, Health, Living, News
Most people did not know that November 19 is World Toilet Day but the day represents a struggle to provide proper toilet facilities to over two and a half billion people around the world. Incredibly, unsanitary toilets account for more deaths globally than HIV/AIDS , measles and malaria combined. The
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Microsoft Building the World’s First Clean Energy Data Centre
By: Jeff Stewart | November 20th, 2012 | Health, Living, News
Apart from working on different technologies Microsoft Corporation has never shirked from its responsibilities towards society, a personal mantra of Bill Gates' that remains part of his company. The multinational corporation has given away millions of dollars and hours to charity work as well as for the betterment of tour wor...
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(VIDEO) Donate Unwanted Apps to Charity with “Donation Box” App
By: Jeff Stewart | November 20th, 2012 | Apple, Living, News, Smartphones
To promote products and various causes, multinationals, companies and individuals make use of online advertisement and marketing strategies as modern digital production allows them to present their cause or product in the best possible way. A group of students studying advertising at the Miami Ad School tried...
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CourseSmart Tool Allows Instructors To Monitor Students Progress Through Smart Textbooks
By: Kevin Green | November 20th, 2012 | Business, Living, News
Technology has been making the lives of students easier thanks to the digitization of content and better and more efficient learning tools and techniques. Now technology firms are also paying attention to teachers and their needs. CourseSmart is a digital course material publisher and platform and has developed an application that lets tea...
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Home Developer Using Pinterest To Crowdsource Designs For Dream Homes
By: Kevin Green | November 20th, 2012 | Business, Living, Social Media
Taylor Morrison’s Ladera housing development in Bee Cave, Texas, looks like any other neighbourhood across the country from the outside. However, all buyers need to do is step inside to realize that the homes are something completely different. .The houses form part of a social community that Taylor Morrison calls interactive homes. In what is a first for builders, the revolutionary design of t...
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Scanadu Working On Health Diagnostic Tool For Smartphones
By: Kevin Green | November 19th, 2012 | Gadgets, Health, Living, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Walter De Brouwer is a serial entrepreneur who created his startup Scanadu to give people the ability to use their smartphone as a diagnostic device for medical purposes. De Brouwer actually began work on the idea over a decade ago when he was looking to develop a device that would be similar to the Star Trek
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Facebook Launches Social Jobs App for Job Seekers in Association with its Partners
By: Ali Raza | November 17th, 2012 | Business, Living, News, Social Media
Facebook and its partners have finally launched the much speculated app for those who are interested in making a career change on Wednesday called the Social Jobs App. The social networking website managed to pull this huge task off with the help of it associates, which incl...
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University of Toronto Research Uses Deep Neural Networks to Help Speak Chinese Without Ever Learning it
By: Ali Raza | November 16th, 2012 | Living, News, O Canada
A tremendous amount of progress has been made in speech related technology over the past few years, leading to tremendous breakthroughs in the field. One such feat is the result of collaborative effort between the University of Toronto and Microsoft. The two parties recently releases a research report confirming that they were successful in enabling people to “speak” Chinese (Mandarin) in thei...
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DogVacay Gets $6 Million is Series A Funding For Its Dog Sitting Service
By: Kevin Green | November 15th, 2012 | Business, Living, News, O Canada
California based startup DogVacay has married dog boarding services to the sharing economy trend and announced on November 13 that their firm had gotten $6 million in Series A funds from Benchmark Capital. Previously, DogVacay received $1 million for an initial seed round from S...
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Google’s New Office in Downtown Toronto is an Absolute Marvel
By: Jeff Stewart | November 15th, 2012 | Android, Business, Google, Health, Living, News, O Canada
Google is not only known for introducing various new services and products for their customers, they also seem to amaze the employees of other organization as well as their own thanks to their distinctive setup within their offices. The latest example of their imagination and attention to detail is Google’s recently opened space ...
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