TREND REPORTS
The World’s Most Innovative Countries 2019 - 1st. South Korea
[Investing]
2019/02/18 10:17
China beats U.K. in Bloomberg index; U.S. back in the top 10. Israel rises to fifth and overtakes Sweden, Singapore, Japan.South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index, though improvements by Germany in research and education brought Europe’s largest economy to near-parity in the annual ranking.The U.S. moved up to eighth place, a year after cracks in education...
(PDF) Researchers Improve Robots’ Speech Recognition by Modeling Human Auditory
[Tech]
2019/02/18 10:17
We rarely think too much about noises as we’re listening to them, but there’s an enormous amount of complexity involved in isolating audio from places like crowded city squares and busy department stores. In the lower levels of our auditory pathways, we segregate individual sources from backgrounds, localize them in space, and detect their motion patterns — all before we work out their conte...
‘Stuff’ Really Is Getting More Expensive
[Investing]
2019/02/18 10:16
Aside from energy, the price of goods is creeping higher for the first time in over five years.Overall consumer prices were flat in January from a month earlier, the Labor Department said on Wednesday, held down by a decline in gasoline prices. Core prices, which exclude food and energy items to better capture inflation’s trend, rose 0.2%, putting them 2.2% above their year-earlier level.The g...
(Video) Xnor.ai Unveils First Battery-free, Solar AI Technology
[Product]
2019/02/18 10:16
The prototype device built by startup Xnor can run indefinitely just on sunlight. A big trend in AI is the transition from cloud to edge computing. Instead of AI devices doing their computation remotely via an internet connection, they’re increasingly handling things locally, with algorithms working directly on-device. Benefits of this approach can include faster results, greater security, and...
Sony's New Wearable Turns your Rolex Watch Into a Smartwatch - Wena Wrist Pro
[Product]
2019/02/18 10:16
Sony hasn't done much in the smartwatch space since its last Android Wear watch it unveiled in 2014, but the company is back with a new way to bring smart features to your wrist.In a similar vein to a hybrid smartwatch, the new Sony Wena straps allow you to connect your existing watch to a band that allows for contactless payments, basic fitness tracking and notifications from your phone.The st...
(PDF) BCG - The New Freelancers : Tapping Talent in the Gig Economy
[Business]
2019/02/17 09:10
Will job security erode with the advance of a digital “gig economy”? Will freelance workers, bereft of traditional benefits and social safety nets, face a diminishing share of income and wealth?The gig economy is often perceived as a fast-growing threat to employment stability and labor rights, promoting low-grade, low-paid jobs that offer workers little of the appeal or dignity of traditiona...
The Future of AI Art Goes Up for Auction at Sotheby’s for $50,000
[Design]
2019/02/17 09:09
Mario Klingemann’s “Memories of Passersby I” generates portraits using neural networks. But that’s not what makes it art.Munich-based artist Mario Klingemann has been making art using algorithms for 25 years, posting his experiments online and showing the final results in galleries. He’s a leading artist working with AI today–but next month, Klingemann’s groundbreaking work will breach t...
Mckinsey - How to Capture What the Customer Wants
[Business]
2019/02/17 09:08
Companies often fail across digital channels because they are insufficiently aware of the real needs and preferences of their customers across omnichannel journeys.Customers now have an unprecedented number of ways to engage with companies, from traditional channels to an ever-growing array of digital modes. Many organizations have responded by investing in digital channels, frequently in an ef...
(Video) Highly Dexterous Prosthetic Arm Gives Users Sensations - DeTOP
[Tech]
2019/02/17 09:07
A woman in Sweden became the first person in the world to receive an osseo-neuromuscular hand prosthesis that is impressively accurate and that can even transmit sensations back to its user. The device is integrated with the patient’s remaining natural arm unlike anything else out there. It is the culmination of the DeTOP (Dexterous Transradial Osseointegrated Prosthesis with neural control an...
