December 2015 – Linda Ricci

December 22, 2015

Kayak for 3D Printing “3DPrintler” Turns Down 7-Figure Investment Offer

What an great idea! With the plethora of 3D printing services popping up, instead of having to upload a model to each, choose the materials and do a price comparison – this is brilliant. Of course 3D printing isn’t generic though, if you’re not printing on the same machine / resolution and quality. Still, what a fabulous idea.

Getting away from it all

Every flight attendant’s dream! Rows of people completely immersed in being somewhere else 🙂

Russian startup wins US face recognition competition

A Russian startup, N-Tech.Lab, just won a face recognition competition hosted by the Unversity of Washington. “Their algorithm, which is based on a neural network, achieved a 73.3% rate of accuracy compared to 70.496% for Google’s FaceNet v8.