How ‘last-mile’ services and shared mobility can streamline the delivery business Complementing business models: last-mile delivery and shared mobility Many aspects of the two business models are very similar fundamentally. For instance, both of them rely heavily on the end customer experience. The term ‘contactless’ has become a default expectation and both businesses have embraced this to gain competitive edge. ETA (expected time of arrival) and convenience have been greatly influenced by technology in creating the targeted customer experience....

How ‘less-than-one-shot learning’ could open up new venues for machine learning research The k-NN classifier The LO-shot learning technique proposed by the researchers applies to the “k-nearest neighbors” machine learning algorithm. K-NN can be used for both classification (determining the category of an input) or regression (predicting the outcome of an input) tasks. But for the sake of this discussion, we’ll still to classification. As the name implies, k-NN classifies input data by comparing it to itsknearest neighbors (kis an adjustable parameter)....

How ‘pee bacteria’ could change electricity production as we know it How they work MFCs use a system of anodes and cathodes – electrodes that pass a current either in or out. Common MFC systems consist of an anode chamber and a cathode chamber separated by a membrane. The bacteria grow on the anode and convert the substrates into carbon dioxide, protons, and electrons. The electrons that are produced are then transferred via an external circuit to the cathode chamber, while the protons pass through the membrane....

South African mobile social networking platformMotribelaunched about a year ago but already it has more than 1.5 million users. Founded by Nic Haralambous and Vincent Maher, the platform is like Ning for mobile and aims to empower brands to set up mobile web communities. In regions such as Africa, South East Asia and South America where the mobile web is a big part of how people interact with the Internet, sites like Motribe are bound to thrive....

The online dating world is heating up, but a lot of the big love-finding websites likeeHarmonyand Match are smelling pretty stale.HowAboutWehas the right attitude and is making online dating fun again. Located in Brooklyn, New York, HowAboutWe is “all about wonderful people (like you) going on awesome dates. Playful dates. Cultured dates. Magical dates. Surprising dates. You say, “How about we…” and fill in the dots with the dates you want to go on....