Chaque vendredi, dans sa revue de presse, Maddyness vous propose une sélection d’articles qui ont retenu l’attention de la rédaction. Cette semaine, la blockchain permet l'échange d'énergie peer to peer à New York, les 5 signes qui montrent que vous êtes un entrepreneur-né et les ventes de smartwatch ne sont pas si en berne qu'on voudrait le laisser entendre.
A New York, la blockchain partage l’énergie verte
TransActive Grid utilise la technologie blockchain pour permettre l’échange d’énergie « peer-to-peer ». Au printemps 2015, quelqu'un a frappé à la porte de Bob Sauchelli, qui réside à Président Street, dans Park Slope, à Brooklyn, à New York, afin de lui demander s'il souhaitait acheter de l'énergie solaire à son voisin. A soixante-huit ans, Bob Sauchelli est retraité, mais il a passé les vingt dernières années de sa carrière à travailler en tant que responsable du programme Energy Star Buildings de l'Agence de protection de l'environnement des Etats-Unis. Il avait même écrit un livre sur l'efficacité énergétique des bâtiments et la manière dont elle pourrait atténuer le changement climatique. Lire la suite sur Les Echos
Why a dumb bot might be more helpful than a smart bot (for now)
A low-profile robot glides silently over a magnetic strip on a cement floor, operating unnoticed in an assembly plant. When someone walks in front of it, the robot stops and waits. If you press a button on one end of the plant, you can summon the bot, then connect a few metal carts to make a robot-powered train and instruct the bot to deliver the parts. This process happens over 180 times per day, seven days a week. Before the bot took over, a human operator pulled the metal carts by hand, over and over again. This is not a wonder of engineering per se, but it is amazingly practical and helpful. Lire la suite sur VentureBeat
5 Signs From Childhood That You Were Destined to Be an Entrepreneur
Some entrepreneurs are made, while others are born. If you have innate skills driving you down the entrepreneurial path, there were probably signs even when you were a kid. Were you the teacher’s pet who always turned in assignments ahead of time complete with extra credit? Were you always picked first in gym class, or were you the bookish type who was reading at levels beyond your age? Lire la suite sur Entrepreneur
Report: Smartwatch sales aren’t falling — shipments increased 60% year-on-year
Are smartwatch sales tanking? Analysts are divided. A recent IDC report suggesting that smartwatch shipments plummeted by 50 percent over the past year has been rebuffed by rival analyst firm Canalys this week. On the back of IDC’s claim that total shipments — the volume of devices sent to retailers to be sold on to consumers — dropped from 5.6 million in Q3 2015 to just 2.7 million in Q3 2016, Canalys argued that they actually rose 60 percent over the same period to reach 6.1 million shipments. Lire la suite sur TechCrunch
This Is What Uber Thinks the Future of On-Demand Rides Will Look Like
Imagine self-driving cars cruising around the suburbs, picking people up, and shuttling them into cities. And imagine paying a set, affordable price each month to get nearly door-to-door service. That's the future envisioned by Uber head of North America Rachel Holt. At the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City on Wednesday, Holt talked about what the on-demand economy might look like in the not-too-distant future--and it's both Jetsons-esque and extremely practical. Lire la suite sur Inc.
