As the hot, humid weather descended on Houston’s Harris County this spring, the county’s mosquito surveillance team geared up for the busiest season in its fight to get ahead of dangerous mosquito-borne illnesses such as Zika. (more…)
A decade ago, André Hueston Mack stood on a pinnacle in the wine world as head sommelier of Per Se, the renowned haute cuisine restaurant in New York. He had spent years climbing the wine steward cellar in restaurants around the country and was managing an 1,800-selection wine list in one of the most expensive, opulent restaurants in America. (more…)
When Alex Eaton started his company in Mexico to help small farmers, his timing couldn’t have been worse. It was 2010, the global economy was fragile, Mexico’s drug war was peaking and swine flu was pandemic. (more…)
An app could soon give blind people a new tool to explore the world
Anirudh Koul’s grandfather was slowly losing his ability to see. By 2014, he was having a hard time recognizing Koul’s face in their weekly Skype calls bridging the vast distance between the Silicon Valley, where Koul is a data scientist at Microsoft, and the elderly man’s home in New Delhi. (more…)
Email marketing is a great way of connecting with your potential customers and too without spending a fortune. As a small business owner, it is but natural that you keep this strategy in mind and connect with potential people to realize the true worth. If thinking of starting a business newsletter, you can realize the true benefits of email marketing.
Below are listed some email marketing tips. Follow these and benefit. (more…)
There are some 10 billion hardware devices connected to the Internet today. By 2020, this Internet of Things will power over 50 billion connected cars, dog collars, toothbrushes and pretty much anything else you can imagine. (more…)
ANN ARBOR — When an organization experiences stressful or unexpected news, does it use its social networks to reach out or to hunker down?
To answer that question, a University of Michigan researcher and colleagues analyzed more than 22 million instant messages exchanged in 2010 and 2011 among decision-makers at a large hedge fund and their network of hundreds of outside contacts. (more…)
New York digital artist Gabriel Pulecio makes sculptures with everyday materials – light bulbs, mirrors, acrylic – but his concepts are big and provocative, from “trapping infinity” to toying with the fourth dimension to using light as an elemental object. (more…)
