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NFT Star Beeple’s First Real-Life Piece Fetches $28.9 Million
[Investing]
2021/11/11 09:06
‘“HUMAN ONE,” the follow-up to NFT artist Beeple’s record-breaking $69.3 million nonfungible token, sold for $28.9 million including hammer fees, shattering auction estimates for the artist’s first physical work.KEY FACTSThe buyer, an online bidder in Switzerland, placed the winning bid of $25 million at Christie’s on Tuesday evening, ending with “HUMAN ONE” fetching $10 million more th...
Inflation in U.S. Builds With Biggest Gain in Prices Since 1990
[Investing]
2021/11/11 09:05
CPI jumped 6.2% in October from a year ago in broad advance. Core measure of consumer prices increased by most since 1991.U.S. consumer prices rose last month at the fastest annual pace since 1990, cementing high inflation as a hallmark of the pandemic recovery and eroding spending power even as wages surge.The consumer price index increased 6.2% from October 2020, according to Labor Department...
Balmuda's First 5G Smartphone
[Product]
2021/11/11 09:04
Balmuda is gearing up to unveil its first 5G smartphone in collaboration with Kyocera and SoftBank.Balmuda has a reputation for offering top-notch and stylish appliances. The Japanese design company shocked the world by announcing its plans to make a smartphone.Details about the upcoming smartphone are still few and far between. However, The Verge suggests it will be a 5G-enabled phone.Aside fr...
(Infographic) Unlocking Digital and Analytics at Scale for Consumer Goods
[Business]
2021/11/11 09:03
The why, what, and how of consumer digital and analytics transformations.CPG leaders around the world have been awakened to the potential of digital and analytics to transform the traditional interactions and processes in their businesses. However, despite the energy and engagement of top teams, often these efforts are not scaling up impact as quickly as necessary to keep pace.Frequently, this...
(Patent) Apple Has Invented an Advanced HMD Virtual Meetings App for the Coming Metaverse
[Tech]
2021/11/10 09:10
A week before Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company's new name was Meta (short for Meta Platforms Inc.) to reflect the future Metaverse, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a future Metaverse application related to business meetings.Apple's patent covers techniques for displaying a virtual object in an Enhanced Reality (E...
(Infographic) Metaverse Market and Ecosystem Map
[Business]
2021/11/10 09:09
In my article on the value-chain of the metaverse, I described the seven layers of the ecosystem. In this article I’m going to focus-in on three of the most important metaverse companies — Unity, Epic Games and Roblox — and describe the commonalities and differences.[click to enlarge]Let’s start with where companies (and some open source projects) sit within the market (version 6 .0 — upda...
The Next Generation of AI-Enabled Cars Will Really Understand You
[Tech]
2021/11/10 09:08
In-cabin sensing technologies watch for driver distraction and can also customize the occupant's experience.[Sensors inside the cabin of the car detect points on the body, infer movement, and thus assess possible driver impairment. AFFECTIVA]IT'S AN OLD-FASHIONED IDEA that drivers manage their cars, steering them straight and keeping them out of trouble. In the emerging era of smart vehicles, i...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Charting a Winning Course for CPG Value Creation
[Business]
2021/11/10 09:07
In the next normal, consumer-goods companies can achieve profitable growth and outsize returns by renewing their focus on core execution capabilities.The COVID-19 pandemic drastically upended the consumer and retail landscape, forcing consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies into a largely reactive mode. In response to unprecedented shifts in consumer behavior and market dynamics, many CPG compa...
(Video) MIT's Roboat III - Autonomous Boats Seem More Solvable Than Autonomous Cars
[Tech]
2021/11/10 09:06
MIT's Roboats will find useful applications in Amsterdam canals. A silver robotic boat hangs from a yellow crane over an Amsterdam canal. MIT BOATS ROBOTICSIt's become painfully obvious over the past few years just how difficult fully autonomous cars are. This isn't a dig at any of the companies developing autonomous cars (unless they're the sort of company who keeps on making ludicrous promis...
