TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) The World's Highest Paid Athletes in Top Sports 2018
[Consumer]
2018/07/04 10:49
Our new visualization captures the different sources of income for the 25 most highly-compensated athletes over the last year.The media pays a lot of attention to the gargantuan multi-year contracts that star athletes sign with different teams, but did you know that they usually make more money from sponsors than from the teams they play for? We adapted a ranking from Forbes into a visualizatio...
Walmar to Introduce New Home Shopping Features: 3D Virtual Shopping Tour
[Business]
2018/07/04 10:49
The retailer now allows customers to take a tour of their new living room from the comfort of home, providing added visual aid to the online shopping experience and augmenting the pre-purchase stage of the buying process.When shopping for interior design goods, consumers increasingly want better ways to preview their potential future living spaces. Walmart just announced the launch of its new h...
Tesla's Vehicle Production Is Ramping Up
[Business]
2018/07/04 10:49
Having been behind schedule in the production ramp-up for the Model 3 pretty much since day one, Tesla’s vehicle output has shown signs of significant improvement in the first six months of 2018. As the company announced on Monday, the electric car maker produced a total of 53,339 vehicles in the past quarter alone, beating its annual production total for 2015 and more than doubling its output...
This Danish Ultrafast Charging Station Could Transform Stop Off Points
[Design]
2018/07/04 10:48
Clever's recharging points are designed to connect you to nature (as well as electricity).The race is on along Europe's 'electric superhighway' from Norway to Italy to build super-fast charging stations. This September, the first of some 180 minimalist charging stations along the route is expected to open in Fredericia, Denmark, built by Danish e-mobility provider Clever in partnership with Eur...
Penalty Shoot-Outs are Basically Still Crap-Shoots
[Consumer]
2018/07/04 10:48
To maximise your odds, win the coin toss and kick high.IN 1978 the World Cup scrapped its policy of choosing the winner of knockout-stage matches tied after 120 minutes with a coin flip, and introduced penalty shoot-outs to replace them. The idea was to have a result determined quickly, using a method that at least partly depended on skill. However, the evidence that shoot-outs actually favour...
A Different Kind of Dyson
[Design]
2018/07/04 10:48
The funny thing is, when I first saw this, I thought, “Hey! This coffee maker looks like something Dyson would make.” Sure enough, that’s exactly what it is. Only, it’s from the clever minds at Metafora Design Team and it’s their interpretation (not Dyson’s) of what a home brewing system might look like if Dyson created one.They’ve hit the nail on the head with that tubular form, familia...
(PDF) BCG - Decoding Global Talent 2018
[Consumer]
2018/07/03 14:51
Ask leaders at big companies what worries them, and one of the first things they’ll mention is the challenge of managing a workforce at a time of rapid change. Jobs being transformed by automation and artificial intelligence is one big concern—even if the full effects are still a few years off. Even now, with automation just starting, many positions require new digital capabilities or deep te...
(PDF) Adobe Research : Spotting Image Manipulation with AI
[Tech]
2018/07/03 14:51
Adobe is working on an AI system that can quickly identify whether an image has been digitally altered.Recent announcements from Adobe have suggested that future updates to digital tools such as Photoshop will give users an unprecedented ability to manipulate images. In a rare case of corporate awareness of social responsibility, the company has just revealed it is working on an artificial inte...
(Infographic) How Long Do Investors Plan to Hold Onto Bitcoin ?
[Consumer]
2018/07/03 14:51
Did investors buy bitcoin because it was trendy, or are they committed to cryptocurrency for the long haul?As in any new and rapidly-growing market, this kind of investor intent and the overall feeling of market sentiment matters a lot. That’s because there are no historical averages or ratios to apply as baselines for value, and if things head south there is always the possibility of a mass e...
