Five Ways to Make the Most of Midyear Reviews
Welcome to the season that many leaders face with more than a little trepidation: midyear reviews.
Students Imagine Better Products, Services, and Infrastructure for an Aging Society
(MIT: Cambridge, MA)--A pop-up hearing aid exposition called HearWeAre... a travel agency that matches older and younger travelers for group adventures... an app that guides outgoing hospital patients through every step of the discharge process.
Creaform Adds Two High-Performance Scanners
(Creaform: Lévis, QC) -- Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK and a worldwide leader in
Shanghai, the World’s Biggest Port, Is Returning to Normal
Shanghai is slowly emerging from a grueling Covid lockdown that has all but immobilized the city since March.
Helping Dairy Farmers Raise Healthy Cows
Dairy farmers around the world have an information problem. To get the most accurate measurements of cow health and milk quality, many have to ship milk samples to labs or wait for a technician to come to the farm to collect milk samples from each cow.
Now Labby, a startup founded by two MIT alumni, is helping farmers get a clearer picture of their cows’ health with a device that can test milk from individual cows in fewer than 10 seconds.
Qualio Focuses on Building a New, Collaborative Life Sciences Ecosystem
(Qualio: San Francisco) -- Qualio
NIST Prize Challenge Seeks Innovative Incident-Command Dashboards for Public Safety
(NIST: Boulder, CO) -- In an emergency, first responders need to track assets, personnel, and other vital information in an unfolding situation. A new NIST prize challenge encourages developers to improve these incident command dashboards.
Elon Musk’s Return-to-Office Edict Undermines Tesla’s Future
Elon Musk recently demanded that all Tesla staff return to the office full-time, according to an email sent to executive staff and leaked on social media.
Make Electric Vehicles Affordable for the Rest of Us
As an environmentalist who totes kids around town, I would love to buy an electric car. But here in South Carolina, the cheapest electric vehicles (EVs) are at least three times as expensive as my used VW Jetta. What about those big government subsidies, you ask? The truth is that EV subsidies overwhelmingly benefit the rich, not moderate-income people like me.
Meeting the Ghost in the Machine
There is Alexa sitting on the kitchen counter waiting for your next query. But before she tells you how to make a perfect avocado salad, would you like to know something about the person who invented her?