TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) What The Most Profitable Companies Make Per Second
[Investing]
2017/12/20 09:20
Imagine that for every second that passes, your bank account inches up $1. You’d be making $60 per minute, or the equivalent of $86,400 in a day. Over the course of a year, you’d roll in a solid $3.2 million of profit.[click to enlarge]While this would be prolific for almost any person or company in the world – the truth is that for many of America’s top companies, this amount of profit wou...
Smartphones (and Apple) Dominate Photography
[Consumer]
2017/12/20 09:20
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasingly capable cameras has not only led to a boom in digital photography but also to a rather steep decline in digital camera sales since 2010. According to new data published by photo-sharing platform Flickr, smartphone cameras accounted for 50 percent of all pictures uploaded to the site in 2017. What’s even more impressive though is that Apple’s...
Facebook’s AI Will Tell You When Any Picture of Your Face Gets Uploaded
[Tech]
2017/12/20 09:20
The social network is extending the tentacles of its already powerful facial recognition algorithms. The Washington Post reports that Facebook is rolling out three new facial recognition features today. They will:— Describe who is in a picture to visually impaired people.— Alert you if anyone uses your likeness in a profile photo.— Notify you whenever the site’s AI sees an image of you uplo...
Smart Speakers : Amazon and Google Share 92% of the Global Market in Q3 2017
[Product]
2017/12/20 09:19
Wider country availability and new models will drive combined Google Home and Amazon Echo sales to 12 million units globally in final quarter.The rate of adoption of smart speakers continues to defy expectations and there are clear signs that the market is starting to move from the early adopter phase to hitting the mass market. Furthermore the Chinese market for smart speakers will receive a k...
Digital Pill Tracks How Patients Use Opioids
[Tech]
2017/12/20 09:19
Ingestible sensors could help doctors keep people from becoming addicted to prescription painkillers.[This special gel capsule, which fits over a regular pill, has a sensor to notify doctors when a patient has swallowed a dose of medicine]New pill capsules that send a message to a smartphone as they move through the GI tract have emerged as a way to track whether patients are taking their medic...
Snoozeliner Sleep Bus Set to Transform The Late Night Commute
[Design]
2017/12/20 09:19
The moody face of commuters in london could be replaced with a smile next year as the late night commute is set to be transformed thanks to the ‘snoozeliner’ – an ultra-luxurious night bus, fitted with beds, memory foam mattresses and sleep-inducing scents.The concept has been dreamt up by high-tech sleep brand simba who proposes the sleep bus as a much-needed solution to the rest-deprived m...
(PDF) Deloitte - Global Predictions 2018
[Consumer]
2017/12/19 10:10
See what the future holds for technology, media and telecommunications.The technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications ecosystem remains as fascinating as ever in 2018. Will augmented reality become mainstream? How will machine learning affect the enterprise? What's the future of the smartphone? Deloitte Global invites you to read the latest Predictions report, designed to provi...
A Record-Setting Year : 2017 VC Activity in 3 Charts
[Investing]
2017/12/19 10:09
2015 previously held the mark for most venture capital invested globally in a single year. But now it's 2017, and massive VC financings are the new normal. These enormous funding rounds have contributed to the record-breaking year, of course, but there have also been other factors. Take SoftBank, the Japanese telecom giant that's made headline after headline in 2017 with its $98 billion Vision...
Continental, Avis Turn Phones Into Rental Car Keys
[Tech]
2017/12/19 10:08
Renters can now lock/unlock and start the engine from a mobile app.Nobody really enjoys the rental car process, but Continental and Avis have teamed up to inject it with a bit of 21st-century tech that could make the whole thing a bit smoother.Continental and Avis Budget Group announced today that they're testing an entirely keyless rental-car system. Using a smart device, renters will be able...
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