TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) What’s Next For Pop Culture In 2019
[Business]
2019/04/02 11:23
Over the last few months, our intelligence unit has been working hard to identify the biggest trends to watch in auto & mobility, retail, AI, wellness, and more. Now we’re serving up the stuff you really care about: pop culture.FWD: FROM YOUR PARENTSHIGH POPULARITY & LOW MEMEABILITYJOMO — Cancel your plans, curl up with your streaming subscription, go to bed an hour early — and embra...
(Paper) MIT's Robotic System Can Pick Up Items It has Never Encountered Before
[Tech]
2019/04/02 11:23
Called Keypoint Affordance Manipulation (KPAM), the researchers say the new control software can afford robots fair greater flexibility.One thing robots are pretty good at doing is, well, one thing over and over again. Confront them with objects of different shapes and sizes, and with different actions to perform and that's another story entirely. Looking to expand these possibilities, scientis...
Payments Technology Intersects with Mixed Reality for a $200B Market
[Business]
2019/04/02 11:22
Google, Facebook and Apple have dedicated massive budgets to building virtual and augmented reality hardware and software. Yet, there is very little understanding in Financial Services how such platform shifts will impact the products of industry participants. In a new analysis, we solve this $200 billion question by analyzing an emerging new market opportunity for “Mixed Commerce”, which we...
Pharmaceutical Jewelry ? Researchers Develop Earrings That Double as Contraceptives
[Tech]
2019/04/02 11:22
There are many forms of contraception: Some make you remember to take a pill at the same time every day, others require an invasive procedure, such as putting in an IUD. But what if family planning were as easy as wearing jewelry?A new study published in the Journal of Controlled Release proposes adding contraceptive patches to necklaces, earrings, wristwatches, and rings in the places where th...
The People and Process Behind Artificial Intelligence
[Consumer]
2019/04/02 11:22
Artificial intelligence gets a bad rap as a job killer and human-worker replacer. In some areas this is true, but in others, particularly surrounding how data are cleaned and processed, AI is spearheading new jobs. Data labeling and annotation is a burgeoning industry born from AI. Unstructured datasets from sources like cameras and social media data or structured sources, like databases, are l...
Olfactory Fashion : Unique Fragrance Options Arise
[Product]
2019/04/02 11:21
Scent has been a major player lately, with brands incorporating it into everything from billboards to scratch ‘n’ sniff packaging to cocktails. Innovations in perfume are giving wearers new options for fragrance, from visualizing it to wearing it to creating it themselves.Amkiri Modern youth are open-minded to body ornamentation—76% of Trendsetters either have or are interested in getting a...
(Patent) Microsoft Patent Describes a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display
[Tech]
2019/04/01 10:33
Microsoft has filed a patent for a new type of mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) called a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display. The display uses movable screens to simulate a 360 degree field of view.These screens can rotate back and forth, spin around a user's head, or spin in front of the user's eyes. The device isn't guaranteed to ever see the light of day, but hopefully so...
Top 10 Leaders in Self-Driving Cars - Waymo, GM Cruise and Ford
[Business]
2019/04/01 10:31
While a number of companies are entering the autonomous vehicle space, these 10 are making the most progress in advancing the technology.When it comes to self-driving car manufacturers, people are quick to name companies like Tesla, Apple, and Waymo as the leaders in the space. But this perception doesn't match up to the reality of who is making the greatest strides developing and deploying aut...
(M&A) McDonald's Made a $300M Deal to Sell You Things Like Amazon Does
[Investing]
2019/04/01 10:31
McDonald’s Corp. MCD 0.27% is buying Israeli digital startup Dynamic Yield Ltd., in a bid to improve in-store ordering and online marketing at the burger giant.As part of the deal announced Monday, McDonald’s will pay more than $300 million for closely held Dynamic Yield, people familiar with the matter said. The deal is the fast-food giant’s first acquisition in years and its biggest in two...
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