TREND REPORTS
Autonomous Driving Startups Raise Record Funding As The Push For Commercialization Begins
[Investing]
2021/10/22 09:04
With autonomous vehicle (AV) tech at an inflection point, funding to AV companies is skyrocketing. In this brief, we examine the sector's market drivers as well as emerging themes and their implications.Though autonomous driving technology has been slow to deliver on its promise, investors haven’t pumped the brakes.Autonomous driving tech companies have raised over $12B this year, with market...
This Startup is On a Mission to Make e-Scooters as Cool as Muscle Cars - Taur
[Product]
2021/10/22 09:03
Can e-scooters ever be sexy? Taur, a winner in Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards, is betting on it. This startup is on a mission to make e-scooters as cool as muscle cars.Big wheels. A powerful body. A lot of attitude. I’m not describing a 1960s Mustang, but an electric scooter designed by the British startup Taur. The winner of Fast Company‘s 2021 Innovation by Design Award in...
(PDF) TikTok Report - Community Commerce as An Emerging Opportunities
[Business]
2021/10/21 09:10
At a billion users and rising, TikTok’s influence is growing by the day, and with the holiday season fast approaching, many marketers are now looking at how they can utilize the reach of the platform to maximize their results in the period.And while TikTok doesn’t offer as many ad options as other platforms, it definitely does influence user action, and purchase behavior. Which is the focus o...
(Video) Decentraland Announces The Metaverse Festival
[Business]
2021/10/21 09:09
Virtual reality (VR) platform Decentraland is hosting a four-day long Metaverse Festival, bringing everything music lovers expect from a fest into the virtual world, including big-name headliners, merch stands, and… portable toilets.“It is a celebration of music and culture in the virtual social world, but also a recognition that the metaverse has arrived as a viable, irresistible, and profit...
(Patent) Bosche Patents “Artificial Intelligence for a Vehicle Service Ecosystem
[Tech]
2021/10/21 09:08
Founded in 1886, Bosch operates multiple business sectors such as consumer goods, industrial technology and automotive mobility solutions. The German company teamed up with Microsoft to develop software-defined vehicles with cloud support services for traffic infrastructure, repair shops and cloud-based software modules designed to bring over-the-air updates to entire vehicle fleets.U.S. patent...
Roblox is Going to be Competing with Facebook in the Future
[Business]
2021/10/21 09:07
This week Facebook announced that it's looking to change its name to better reflect its future ambition to build the "metaverse" — a virtual space where people could play games, interact, socialize and work.Pulling an Alphabet (which Google changed its name to in 2015) is an interesting move, and it underlines how serious Zuckerberg is about Facebook's future in virtual spaces (although everyo...
(M&A) DeepMind Acquires and Open-Sources Robotics Simulator MuJoCo
[Tech]
2021/10/21 09:06
DeepMind, the AI lab owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, today announced that it has acquired and released the MuJoCo simulator, making it freely available to researchers as a precompiled library. In a blog post, the lab says that it’ll work to prepare the codebase for a release in 2022 and “continue to improve” MuJoCo as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license.A recent art...
Moscow Metro Introduces ‘World’s First’ Pay-by-Face System
[Tech]
2021/10/21 09:05
The Moscow Metro rolled out what authorities have touted as the world’s first fare payment system based on facial recognition technology.The cashless, cardless and phone-less system, called “Face Pay,” has been fitted at special turnstiles across the Russian capital’s more than 240 metro stations.“To enter the metro, passengers won’t need a card or a smartphone — just look at the camera...
More US Children Consume YouTube Videos Than Any Other Type of Media
[Consumer]
2021/10/21 09:04
YouTube videos are the most popular medium among US children online, with 85% of those surveyed watching that content recently. In second place is video-on-demand, viewed by 71%, while gaming content caught the attention of 60% of respondents. Social media cracked the top four but is far less popular, with 46% consuming content on TikTok and other social platforms.[emarketer]
