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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. He is an advocate for using open source software and hardware available for any entrepreneur, no matter what their background is.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

We’ll also provide a series of practical tips and examples that can help address the changes, embrace new opportunities, and navigate these challenging times. As not all organizations are willing to take the risk to shift gears and change direction, that’s where you can outperform competitors. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Reasons for not reading or only skimming the leaflet from start to finish could be due to the amount of information or the leaflet design.

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Augmented Reality: The time has come

etventure

AR, in general, requires a combination of hardware and software tools to connect the different levels. Personally, I remember the first time I used an AR application in 2009 when I euphorically installed the App AR-Maps on my iPhone 3G. What has changed since then? The real world is usually represented by a camera.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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