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Kengo Kuma Designs Shipping Container-Based Starbucks
[Design]
2018/10/07 09:07
The Hualien Bay Mall Starbucks consists of 29 shipping containers with a total floorspace of 320 sq m (3,444 sq ft), spread over two floors(Credit: Starbucks)High-profile Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has turned his considerable talent to shipping container-based architecture for the first time to produce this new Starbucks. The project is located in Taiwan and will function as a drive-thru in...
The World's Most Valuable Retail Brands 2018
[Business]
2018/10/07 09:06
Warren Buffett once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”[click to enlarge]The top 50 most valuable retail brands doing things better than everyone else are realizing substantial business value according to a new report from Brand Finance. Our latest map explores the geography of these globally domin...
New Coffee Varieties Deliver Additional Health Benefits
[Product]
2018/10/07 09:05
Modern youth are multitaskers and they want the food and beverages they consume to be, too; health-conscious young consumers seek out products that provide additional benefits to their physical and mental health. The following healthy coffee varieties are optimizing that morning cup of java to deliver more than a caffeine boost with supplementary nutrients.Broccoli Coffee The latest trendy latt...
(Video) 'Comau MATE' is a Purely Mechanical Exoskeleton That Augments Human Strength
[Product]
2018/10/07 09:04
The honest reality is that the exoskeletons that are designed for mainstream use have a completely different purpose from those popularized by pop-culture. There’s a long way to go before we have flashy supersuits that make us fly, because the truth is that exoskeletons are capable of doing much more to help the common man, whether it’s a simple augmentation that helps workers sit wherever th...
(Infographic) Visualizing the Rise of the Electric Vehicle
[Business]
2018/10/07 09:03
It’s easy to dismiss exponential growth at its earliest stages. That’s because at the beginning of such a phenomenon, the quantities involved can seem insignificant. One becomes two, two becomes four, and so on.But if the environment is right, and the growth continues on, it can all of a sudden take over. This growth can lead to a paradigm shift and a new status quo, as well as massive opport...
(PDF) BCG - The Economic Case for Combating Climate Change
[Business]
2018/10/04 09:31
Consensus thinking holds that the world will have a hard time reaching the headline goal of the Paris Agreement—keeping the increase in global average temperature to less than 2°C above preindustrial levels. Moreover, in the absence of coordinated global action, countries that unilaterally pursue a “2°C path” will face significant first-mover disadvantages.While the first point is very lik...
(PDF) MIT's Machine-Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition
[Tech]
2018/10/04 09:31
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in real-time the relevant regions of the image being described.Unlike current speech-recognition technologies, the model doesn’t require manual transcriptions and annotations of the examples it...
The Cities Around the World Most at Risk of Property Bubbles
[Investing]
2018/10/04 09:31
Hong Kong leads the globe, followed by Munich and Toronto. Asian city is also least affordable, while London comes next.Hong Kong is the city most at risk of a property bubble, according to a ranking from UBS Group AG.Munich, Toronto, Vancouver, Amsterdam and London are the next most vulnerable in the bank’s Global Real Estate Bubble Index of 20 major centers for 2018.Prices rising at an avera...
HP Made a Laptop Out of Leather - The Spectre Folio
[Product]
2018/10/04 09:31
The Spectre Folio is unlike any notebook we've seen before.What's more luxurious than a MacBook-esque metal laptop case? How about one that's made out of leather. That's what HP is betting on with the Spectre Folio, its latest slim convertible. I'm not just talking about a simple leather sleeve, or a bit of cow-hide pasted atop a traditional laptop case. The Spectre Folio is something entirely...
