As the weather warms, many of us would prefer to look like we passed our winter days lounging by the pool instead of hunched before a computer screen or lab bench. But soaking up the rays to acquire a so-called “base tan” does not fool the sun or a tanning bed. Simply put, the benefits of being sun-kissed are not even skin-deep.

LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - The life sciences industry is increasingly taking over from the tech sector in driving global innovation, according to a Thomson Reuters analysis of global patents.

With more patents applied for or granted in 2014 than in any other year in history, humankind has never been more inventive, whether in designing driverless cars, discovering new drugs for cancer or building bionic limbs.

The car tire-sized opah is striking enough thanks to its rotund, silver body. But now, researchers have discovered something surprising about this deep-sea dweller: It's got warm blood.

That makes the opah (Lampris guttatus) the first warm-blooded fish ever discovered. Most fish are exotherms, meaning they require heat from the environment to stay toasty. The opah, as an endotherm, keeps its own temperature elevated even as it dives to chilly depths of 1,300 feet (396 meters) in temperate and tropical oceans around the world.

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B.C.’s tech sector is no doubt punching above its weight when it comes to the amount of venture capital it’s attracting, according to Valerie Mann.

“What still is a little bit starving is the very early stage (series A funding),” the chairwoman of Lawson Lundell LLP’s technology group told Business in Vancouver.

Mann will be among those attending the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) conference in Vancouver May 19-21, where experts are examining the health of private capital in Canada.

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Mexico is known for many things: tequila, tacos and mariachi music. But technology, innovation and startups? Actually, yes.

The country has become an increasingly powerful player on the Latin American innovation map. It ranked 66th on the 2014 Global Innovation Index, behind Chile (46), Panama (52), Costa Rica (57) and Brazil (61), but ahead of Colombia (68), Uruguay (72) and Peru (73). Gartner estimates that the Mexican IT market is worth US$64 billion and anticipates it will grow nearly 3% through 2018.

Mexico’s tech talent pool has already caught the attention of some big names in innovation.

There have been several books, articles, and academic papers recently on the subject of The American Dream.

Most, we believe, have filtered the topic through one of two lenses of perspective which have prevailed in the politically chaotic landscape of the past couple of decades, sanctioned by an extraordinarily concentrated and narrow "Mainstream Media."

The first is the "One-World" Agenda - anything but Utopian - of the Limousine Liberals, which depends on an unelected Elite of Financial Engineers, economically "anointing" some groups of Americans, while carelessly harming many other groups - for philosophical reasons of their own choosing.

Rohan Shah is 22, and he's a software engineer at Google. 

He was offered the job just before his senior year of college at the University of Illinois. But his career with Google started six months prior, in January 2013, when he was 20.

Elon Musk didn't like his kids' school, so he started his own, the inventor and entrepreneur said in an interview on Beijing Television.

The school is called Ad Astra — which means "To the stars" — and is small and relatively secretive. It doesn't have its own website or a social media presence.

People spend an average of six and a half hours per week in their cars, and as dashboards become digital platforms it's creating a massive new market for carmakers, digital-media companies, and even marketers. Revenues from connected services are expected to top $152 billion by 2020.

Carmakers are offering a selection of features in their connected cars, with a special focus on entertainment apps and safety-management features.

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While apps have turned smartphones into digital Swiss Army knives that can do everything from tracking your heartbeat to hailing you a cab, the phone part of the smartphone hasn’t gotten much better over the years.

We’re accustomed to mobile phone calls that sound muffled and choppy, making it hard to hear exactly what others are saying and how they’re saying it. It’s one of the reasons why we increasingly use other methods, like texting, e-mail, and instant messaging, to get points across to a group or keep a record of a discussion.

Some people say that as long as you have blond hair, blue eyes and white skin, you can get a job, succeed and even become a celebrity in Japan. So imagine what would happen if there were two such people, married to each other!

You may not be aware of this, but my husband and I are movie stars. We’re also rock stars, TV celebrities, entrepreneurs and all-round poster children for Japan’s countryside.

Over the past years, Finland has enjoyed many a great success story in entrepreneurship. Many recognise the leading mobile gaming companies such as SuperCell (author of the hugely successful Clash of Clans game) and Rovio (heard of the Angry Birds?). These successes should not blind us to disconcerting trends, however.

Two years ago, the $2 million seed round was unheard of — a funding unicorn of sorts. Today, you hear about a new one every day.

As seed rounds swell, the number of Series A and B rounds remain the same, leading to the now-familiar Series A crunch.

Michigan’s big three research universities again compare favorably overall to their national peers in terms of innovation, although more progress needs to occur in getting those ideas from the lab to the marketplace.

The University Research Corridor — consisting of Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University — ranks seventh among eight research clusters in the number of startup companies cultivated from 2009 to 2013, seventh in technology transfer, sixth in patents granted, and fifth in intellectual property licenses, according to an annual analysis.

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Do we have a ticking time bomb on hand? The debate over whether Silicon Valley is sitting on another tech bubble rages on. It is being fueled by many celebrated “unicorns” that have attracted billions of investor dollars at sky-high valuations without demonstrating the returns.

Learning to code has lots of benefits. Aside from the obvious (like being able to build websites and web applications), coding skills can make you stand out when it comes to looking for career opportunities. EVEN for positions that don't involve writing code on the day-to-day. Or at all!

As Skillcrush says: Digital skills are job skills. And that's the truth!

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I recognize that entrepreneurs tend to substitute vision and passion for formal processes, but no discipline or process in building something new is a sure way to spend money, rather than see any return and build a self-sustaining business.

It is widely known that the UAE’s ICT industry has undergone rapid growth and change over the past decade.

Fuelled by the creation of new products and services and the evolution of digital, as well as the widespread growth of smart devices and tablets, the industry has undergone significant change.

It is therefore more important now than ever that the creation of new ideas is encouraged, talent is nurtured, and people are equipped with the right tools and environment to enable them to innovate and embrace today’s fast-paced change.

The US House of Representatives has passed legislation that would simplify and strengthen the research and development tax credit and permanently enshrine it in the US tax code.

The American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2015 (H.R. 880) was approved by the House by a vote of 274-145 on May 20. The bill's sponsor, Kevin Brady (R - Texas), said of the legislation: "America's future depends on innovation occurring here in the US. Without the right permanent research and development incentive, we will continue to fall behind our global competitors and watch good paying research jobs go overseas. A permanently strong economy requires a permanent research and development tax credit."

SAN FRANCISCO — On April 19, 1965, just over 50 years ago, Gordon Moore, then the head of research for Fairchild Semiconductor and later one of the co-founders of Intel, was asked by Electronics Magazine to submit an article predicting what was going to happen to integrated circuits, the heart of computing, in the next 10 years. Studying the trend he’d seen in the previous few years, Moore predicted that every year we’d double the number of transistors that could fit on a single chip of silicon so you’d get twice as much computing power for only slightly more money. When that came true, in 1975, he modified his prediction to a doubling roughly every two years. “Moore’s Law” has essentially held up ever since — and, despite the skeptics, keeps chugging along, making it probably the most remarkable example ever of sustained exponential growth of a technology.