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Visualizing the Race for EV Dominance : Eating Tesla’s Dust
[Business]
2021/11/10 09:05
Tesla has reigned supreme among electric car companies, ever since it first released the Roadster back in 2008.The California-based company headed by Elon Musk ended 2020 with 23% of the EV market and recently became the first automaker to hit a $1 trillion market capitalization. However, competitors like Volkswagen hope to accelerate their own EV efforts to unseat Musk’s company as the domina...
Symbl.ai, provider of conversational intelligence APIs and tools, gets $17M
[Investing]
2021/11/10 09:04
Symbl.ai, the Seattle-based company that provides APIs to developers to build apps capable of understanding natural human conversations, has raised a $17 million series A funding.Symbl.ai says its APIs unlock machine learning algorithms from a variety of industry partners and sources. The company helps developers ingest conversation data from text, voice, email, chat, video, and social, and pro...
The World’s First Atari Hotel
[Design]
2021/11/10 09:03
Designed by the global architecture firm Gensler, the building is a neon-accented take on the A-shaped Atari logo—and it’s coming to Las Vegas in 2022.As technologies become obsolete, the brands behind them have to adapt or die. Take Kodak, the long-dominant camera film company that has pivoted to pharmaceuticals. Sometimes brands evolve what they offer based on their strengths, and sometimes...
(PDF) Deloitte - 2021 Holiday Travel Survey
[Consumer]
2021/11/09 09:10
Four in 10 Americans plan to travel over the holidays. Still, COVID-19 informs decisions across the journey and continues to prevent and curtail some travel.As the United States approaches its second holiday season in the pandemic and its first since COVID-19 vaccines have been available, Americans are doing their best to get back to normal. Four in 10 (42%) plan to travel between Thanksgiving...
(Video) New Meta/Facebook Ad - The Tiger & The Buffalo
[Business]
2021/11/09 09:09
The company released its first brand ad under its new name, and it is as mystifying as its pivot to the metaverse.As you may have heard last week, Facebook changed its name to Meta. Now it’s launched the first brand campaign under this new banner. A group of four students gather around Henri Rousseau’s 1908 painting Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo. As they stare into its tropical colors,...
Luxury Brands are Creating Limited Edition NFTs for Alibaba's Singles' Day
[Business]
2021/11/09 09:08
Luxury brands like Burberry and Coach are cashing in on Singles' Day shopping in China by creating limited edition NFTs for the event.[Art installation "Machine Hallucinations - Space: Metaverse" by media artist Refik Anadol. Tyrone Siu/Reuters]Luxury brands are creating limited edition NFTs for Alibaba's Singles' Day sale event.Brands participating include British label Burberry, US handbag ma...
4 New Features Ascend into the 2021 Top 10
[Consumer]
2021/11/09 09:07
LED front exterior accent lighting skyrocketed to the number eight most demanded feature for 2021AutoPacific’s latest Future Attribute Demand Study (FADS) has indicated a sharp growing interest in certain vehicle features while others have fallen on the wayside. This year, 88,998 new vehicle acquires were surveyed via AutoPacific’s 2021 New Vehicle Satisfaction Survey (NVSS) to determine what...
Bosch's New AI Sensor Snitches on Carshare Drivers Who Smoke or Don't Report Accidents
[Tech]
2021/11/09 09:06
The company's new Ridecare service ensures vehicles don't end up smelling like a roadhouse.Carsharing services give residents of big cities the benefits of occasional car use without the downsides of paying for parking and maintenance. But no one wants to climb into a vehicle that smells like a pack of Marlboros, so Bosch has created a new AI-powered sensor that allows carshare fleet operators...
(Video) Music Wearable Mictic Raises $2.5M to Get You Shredding, Scratching and Strumming
[Product]
2021/11/09 09:05
Mictic is a wearable wristband which translates gestures and movements into musical tones and sound effects in real-time.Switzerland-based Mictic has created a pair of wearables that turns thin air into your concert hall. Imagine a theremin without the theremin, hooked up to a clever loop station, and you’ve got the right idea. Just from the demos and descriptions, it’s the kind of startup yo...
