TREND REPORTS
(Patent) Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking
[Tech]
2017/06/22 11:11
Amazon’s long been a go-to for people to online price compare while shopping at brick-and-mortars. Now, a new patent granted to the company could prevent people from doing just that inside Amazon’s own stores.The patent, titled “Physical Store Online Shopping Control,” details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms that happen on its in-store...
Rise of Robots : Inside the World's Fastest Growing Hedge Funds
[Investing]
2017/06/22 11:10
Believe the hype. Quants have never been more popular. After doubling over the past decade, assets run by so-called systematic funds have hit a record $500 billion this year, according to estimates from Barclays Plc. In some ways, their meteoric rise is due to the same technological advances that are disrupting most industries. Faster computers and better data has enabled asset managers to auto...
(Video) Lenovo's Mind Bending Self-Bending Laptop
[Design]
2017/06/22 11:10
At Lenovo’s Transform event in NY, we got a glimpse of probably the most outlandish concept design from the tech giant, almost giving us a sense of deja-vu as we’ve seen design students propose concepts like this all the time (and get dismissed rather aggressively by naysayers).But never has it seemed so exciting because Lenovo claims they intend on launching this one-of-a-kind laptop at the...
3 Surprising Facts About the Gaming Industry
[Business]
2017/06/22 11:09
Interactive gaming has evolved rapidly since the early days of arcade cabinets and Atari systems. What was once a one or two-player experience is now shared widely around the globe.In 1995 there were 100 million gamers worldwide; today that number has climbed to 2.6 billion. Revenue for the global gaming industry is estimated at $100 billion, with China eclipsing the United States and Japan as...
Begin Your Next Job Interview With Just A Text Message - Canvas.io
[Business]
2017/06/22 11:09
Canvas is a startup that wants recruiters to approach prospective employees through texts and emojis rather than voicemails.Canvas is a startup that seeks to change the job recruiting process, screening candidates through text conversations before proceeding to real life interviews. The startup capitalizes on millennials’ evident preference for communication over text rather than phone calls a...
Artificial Intelligence Helps Improve MRI Imaging of Strokes
[Tech]
2017/06/22 11:09
New technique makes brain scans better - Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large-scale studies of stroke outcome.High resolution MRI scans of the brain can take around thirty minutes to perform, but in the case of a stroke this can be much too long to wait. Typically, if MRI is used, a stroke patient is rushed through so that fewer imaging slices are taken, resulting in a much lower...
Futuristic Drone Taxi to Solve Traffic Jam in Big Cities
[Design]
2017/06/22 10:00
Futuristic Drone Taxi, it’s a concept transportation to solve traffic jam in big cities. HoverSurf has a vision that sometime in the future, we might see flying taxis in our sky, that would be a common way to commute. Internally, this drone is equipped with FCS in-flight computers, MARK-S drone platforms, and hybrid FPE generators. The FTS flight management system software comes with two syste...
(PDF) Deloitte - Asset Management M&A : Industry Outlook 2017 and Beyond
[Investing]
2017/06/21 10:10
Deteriorating economics, distributor consolidation, the need for new capabilities, and a shifting value chain are combining to set off an accelerated and different round of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the investment management industry. Strategy consultants at Casey Quirk, a practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP, expect brisk M&A activity to continue in 2017 and beyond. What...
When Robots Will Start Beating Humans at Every Task
[Tech]
2017/06/21 10:09
According to a new study from Oxford and Yale University researchers, those are the years artificial intelligence is slated to take over each of those tasks. And so it will go for millions of other jobs over the next 50 years, researchers find.The study relied on survey responses of 352 AI researchers who gave their opinions on when in the future machines would replace humans for various tasks....
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