TREND REPORTS
Innovating with Digital In Mind
[Business]
2020/02/16 09:05
There are countless ways in which the internet and e-commerce have transformed the way brands do business. Yet despite the relative commonness of online shopping today, many brands still have questions about how to best adapt their innovation strategies for the digital age. It should go without saying, but launching a product in a physical environment is not the same as doing so online. Yet as...
Satellite Startup Astranis Lands $90M
[Investing]
2020/02/16 09:04
Satellite startup Astranis raised $90 million in a new round of funding led by Venrock, the company announced Wednesday.The company, which was founded in 2015, wants to bring low-cost internet access to remote parts of the world through satellites. Astranis is building a satellite that is 20 times smaller than other satellites and includes “flexible, ultra-wideband software-defined radio techn...
Airbus Reveals Blended Wing Airplane 'MAVERIC' That Could Cut Carbon Emissions by 20%
[Design]
2020/02/16 09:03
airbus has unveiled a futuristic airplane design which it claims could cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent. code-named MAVERIC, it blends the wing and the body to produce less aerodynamic drag while making for more spacious cabin interiors.MAVERIC, which was unveiled at singapore air show 2020, stands for model aircraft for validation and experimentation of robust innovative controls. airbus ha...
(PDF) FutureEarth - Our Future on Earth, 2020 Report
[Business]
2020/02/13 09:10
222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations.Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis of latest peer-reviewed, state-of-the-planet research and its interconnected complexities. The greatest threat to humanity hides in the potential cascading of im...
(Patent) Amazon Patents a Launch System for Snapping Payloads Into the Air
[Tech]
2020/02/13 09:09
A diagram shows Amazon’s whip-based launch system in operation on a ship. Never let it be said that Amazon Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi thinks small: His latest patent lays out a plan for a launch system that could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip, guided by a phalanx of drones attached to the lash.The patent application — co-written with veteran Amazon invent...
Meditation App Headspace Closes On $93M Series C, Eyes Continued Global Expansion
[Investing]
2020/02/13 09:08
Headspace, a mindfulness and meditation startup, announced this morning it raised $93 million in a Series C round, which includes $53 million in equity and $40 million in debt.Blisce/ led the equity financing, which included participation from new investors Waverley Capital and Times Bridge (the global investments and partnerships arm of The Times Group of India). Existing backers The Chernin G...
Software Engineering Salaries Jump, Demand for AR/VR Expertise Skyrockets
[Consumer]
2020/02/13 09:07
Meanwhile, Blockchain’s star is fading, Hired report shows.It’s a good time to be an engineer specializing in augmented reality or virtual reality. That’s the conclusion of the latest report by job site Hired, which just released its annual state of software engineers report. To compile its data, Hired reviewed 400,000 interview requests from 10,000 companies made to 98,000 job seekers throu...
(Paper) Microsoft’s AI Automatically Comments on Video Clips
[Tech]
2020/02/13 09:06
Generating live video captions with AI could bolster engagement on social media, or serve as a benchmark for the task of translating video to text. Preliminary work to this end has employed encoder-decoder models to generate comments, but they haven’t modeled the interaction between videos and comments explicitly, so they’ve tended to generate irrelevant comments.That’s why a team of Microso...
Netflix Dominates Viewing on TVs Over All Other Streaming Services
[Business]
2020/02/13 09:05
But YouTube watching on TVs beats out Amazon and Hulu combined in the US, a new Nielsen study says.Netflix is big and it's getting bigger. And we're not just watching it on our phones and tablets: That dominance translates to the biggest screen in US homes too, according to a new study Tuesday from TV-measurement giant Nielsen. Netflix gobbles up 31% of streaming to TVs, beating every other ser...
