Sentences with phrase «spun out of technology»

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Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

Realizing that disputes expanded far beyond eBay and PayPal, we spun some technology out of PayPal in 2011 to start Modria and we have since built a technology that handles any kind of dispute online.

NuTonomy, a driverless car startup that spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three years ago, has its sights set on operating a fully autonomous taxi service in Singapore.

In December, just a week after spinning out of Google's moonshot factory X, Waymo announced it is in formal talks to integrate Honda vehicles with autonomous technology.

However, Astro Teller, X's leader, insists that cybersecurity has been on the backburner for several years at X. Creating research projects to tackle the planet's biggest problems that can be spun into independent companies has always been the goal, not just creating out - of - this world technology for the sake of grabbing headlines.

Waymo, the company spun out of Google's self - driving car technology, on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and Otto, a company Uber acquired last year, of stealing intellectual property.

Paragraf, a UK graphene technology development company, a recent spin out from the University of Cambridge, closed a # 2.9 m seed funding round.

The Chen brothers, for example, developed their chip while working at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences here, and the academy backed them with seed funding when they spun out Cambricon in 2016.

Currently, the majority of biomaterials jobs are in academia, but the private sector is showing signs of activity, with academic labs spinning out companies, pharmaceutical companies allying themselves to biomaterials companies, and traditional medical implant companies looking to replace their 50 - year - old technology, Müller adds.

Other companies developing inductive charging systems include WiTricity, a spin - out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Nissan last year announced that it was looking into wireless charging for its electric vehicles.

The latest development of the system was carried out in close collaboration with researchers working under Tomaso Zambelli, Privatdozent at ETH Zurich's Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Martin Pilhofer, Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, and the ETH spin - off Cytosurge, which markets the FluidFM tTechnology and Electrical Engineering, Martin Pilhofer, Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, and the ETH spin - off Cytosurge, which markets the FluidFM technologytechnology.

Harnessing nuclear spins can increase the efficiency «of electronic materials out of which so much technology is made,» Boehme adds.

The university's technology transfer office, UST Inc., has helped churn out nine of the 33 spin - off companies from U of S research pursuits in the last 10 years, some of which have been biotech related.

Their Boise, Idaho - based research institute, funded via technology spin - offs coming out of their work, aimed at solving foundational problems in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

The first quinquennium of technology translation at Sanger has seen significant expansion and maturation of the Sanger Institute's portfolio of spin out companies, establishment of the 50 FTE Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation and execution of licensing deals with major strategic benefits for the exploitation of key Institute assets.

Spin out of Harvard U, which utilizes technology for manufacturing beta - cell therapeutic product for diabetes, developed in Doug Melton's lab.

With that, the site and the 40 - day marathon of dating have allowed Walsh and Goodman to pull of a neat trick: they've harnessed the exact technology that has led many to fret up the future of modern relationships and spun together something that many worry is out of date: an old - fashioned romance.

Measured rotating weights bolted to engines counter offending harmonics, largely replaced by clever active engine mountings / bushings Balanced crank: Usually done for race prepped engines to reduce the strain on the rotating components and their bearings when spinning at up to 19,000 rpm where a couple of grams turn into kilogrammes at such high rpms Balancer tube: A connection between intake manifoilds of the two banks of a V - type engine to even out pressure of cancel harmonics Bi-Turbo: Term coined to describe an endine with two turbochargers Brake Force Distribution: also called electronic brake force distribution where the ABS first attempts to divert pressure to the wheels that are not locked - up before intervening with its pulsating anti-lock strategy Brake Disc: Or Disc Brake, an aeronautic technology adapted for automotive use to replace the drum brake.

He was particularly bullish on Barnes & Noble's e-book business saying that «It is our belief that a spin - off or equity carve out of the e-reader business would create the only e-reader pure - play and would have substantial value to technology investors, who currently have few other avenues to invest in this theme.»

During this time he co-founded a number of digital start - ups and a technology spin - out from British Telecom's research and development labs, which was acquired by a large Silicon Valley tech corporation.

When we first setup the company in January 2003 as a spin out from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, it was called Virtual Clones and our mission was to «create virtual characters based on the shape and appearance of real life people» using our proprietary passive stereo photogrammetry and re-meshing technologies.

Were it to be based on Unreal Engine 4, however, it would have to come out on the next round of consoles, because those are the machines for which Epic is targeting its next generation of money - spinning engine technology.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

-- Regardless of whether any specific approach works out, all that original research will pay for itself in spin - off technology, even if it turns out, by hindsight, that CO2 remediation wasn't necessary.

Custos, based in Stellenbosch, is a spin - out from the University of Stellenbosch and is a part of the LaunchLab business accelerator, using Bitcoin blockchain, they're creating tracking technology to rapidly discover individuals infringing on copyright content.