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(PDF) Mckinsey - Rethinking Car Software and Electronics Architecture
[Business]
2018/02/19 10:10
As the car continues its transition from a hardware-driven machine to a software-driven electronics device, the auto industry’s competitive rules are being rewritten.The engine was the technology and engineering core of the 20th-century automobile. Today, software, large computing power, and advanced sensors increasingly step into that role; they enable most modern innovations, from efficiency...
(Patent) Ford Patents Car Doors That Open When You Tell Them To
[Tech]
2018/02/19 10:09
Auto manufacturers have been busy cramming as much high-tech functionality into their vehicles as possible lately. They’re particularly keen on voice assistants.Ford’s been using them for quite a while. Cars and trucks that feature SYNC are ready to take all kinds of commands from drivers. SYNC will adjust climate controls, switch up your soundtrack and crack it or dial it down, make phone ca...
The New York Times Digital Paywall Business is Growing as Fast as Facebook and Google
[Business]
2018/02/19 10:08
Times’ online subscription sales jumped 46 percent in 2017 to $340 million. Digital ad sales rose 14 percent to $238 million.People like paying for news — especially when it’s the New York Times.The publisher’s online subscription business, embarked upon somewhat sheepishly in 2011, has now cultivated over 2.2 million paying readers. An additional 400,000 or so pay for the Times’ standalon...
Wireless Stethoscope Made for Monitoring Asthma at Home
[Product]
2018/02/19 10:07
StethoMe is presently a functioning production prototype.If your child has a respiratory illness such as asthma, then visits to the doctor may be fairly frequent. A team of scientists from Poland's Adam Mickiewicz University are attempting to make them a little less so, though, with a use-at-home wireless stethoscope known as StethoMe.Guided by an app, users are shown where to place the device...
China’s Tech Industry is Catching Up with Silicon Valley
[Business]
2018/02/19 10:06
In e-commerce and mobile payments, it has already overtaken America.THE technology industry is the crowning glory of America’s economy. It supports 7m well-paid jobs at home, and allows America to set standards globally. Silicon Valley generates almost $200bn of profits from abroad each year, several times the benefit that America gets from having the world’s reserve currency. But after losin...
(Video) Fleets of Mini-Drones Form Airborne Lego Creations in Flight
[Tech]
2018/02/19 10:05
There doesn't appear to be plans to bring the system developed by Lego and Queen's University researchers into stores, it is more a way of exploring the interplay between drones and the plastic bricks.We've seen efforts to combine drones and Lego before with the Flybrix kits, which set the plastic creations in flight, let owners crash them and rebuild again. But a new system developed by scient...
The Push Lens Case
[Design]
2018/02/19 10:04
This year marks twenty years of me wearing spectacles. They started as chunky, colorful Acetate frames and made their way to sleek Metallic frames, with one brief period in between where I tried contact lenses. This story is about that time. I remember dressing up to go to prom, deciding I’d show up without those geeky spectacles. I was facing the mirror, contact lens on my finger, ready to pu...
(Infographic) The Future of Automotive Innovation
[Tech]
2018/02/19 10:03
The Future of Automotive Innovation.Infographic : http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/automotive-innovation-infographic.jpg[visualcapitalist]
(PDF) Mckinsey : Thinking Inside The Subscription Box : New Research on e-Commerce Consumers
[Consumer]
2018/02/18 10:10
We surveyed thousands of US shoppers to understand subscription e-commerce trends. The findings have implications for start-ups, as well as retailers and consumer brand manufacturers entering the market.Subscription e-commerce, led by start-ups such as Dollar Shave Club, Blue Apron meal kits, and Stitch Fix personal styling, is a fast-growing new way of buying online. Our research shows that 15...
