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(PDF) Deloitte - Innovation Study 2021: Beyond the Buzzword
[Business]
2021/10/19 09:07
Hype surrounding innovation often obscures the focused, multifaceted efforts that make breakthroughs possible. We look beyond press releases and buzzwords to understand what drives the successful corporate innovation programs that are recreating the enterprise.Innovation has an image problem. The “i-word” is invoked so often, and by so many, that it has come to mean at once everything, and as...
(Video) 8i Shows Off Its Real-Time Holograms
[Tech]
2021/10/19 09:06
8i showed off its technology for quickly rendering volumetric video for real-time hologram images. The Venice, California-based company makes tools that capture, transform, and stream holograms using volumetric or 3D video.8i’s latest technology represents a fundamental advancement in volumetric video that enables the future of communication in 3D, where real people — not avatars — are broad...
“Squid Game” is Only The Latest Netflix Hit to Break The Language Barrier
[Consumer]
2021/10/19 09:05
Non-English content is booming on the streaming service.“Squid game”, a South Korean dystopian drama on Netflix, was originally conceived as a film more than a decade ago. But when Hwang Dong-hyuk, its creator, first pitched the idea about heavily indebted contestants competing for money in deadly versions of children’s games, studios balked. “It was too bizarre and people thought it wouldn...
Target and the LEGO Group Expand Partnership with Limited-Edition Lifestyle Collection
[Product]
2021/10/19 09:04
The new collaboration features 300 brightly colored clothing and accessories items.As we head into the holidays, many of us are looking forward to sitting by the fire with our families and building elaborate Lego sets together. And this year, we can dress like Lego figures while we do it.Target and Lego just announced that they’re collaborating on a collection of nearly 300 clothing and other...
(Infographic) Holiday Shopping Is Early, Mobile and Tangible
[Business]
2021/10/19 09:03
According to Channel Factory, 64% of consumers say Covid-19 won’t impact their holiday shopping plans. Channel Factory's forecast sees gift-givers shelving experiences for the classics like electronics and clothes. It might be football season, but America’s real pastime between now and the holiday season is shopping—and consumers aren’t letting Covid get in the way this time. In a survey of...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Can The Semiconductor Industry Keep Outperforming ?
[Business]
2021/10/18 09:10
The industry has made vast profitability gains in recent years. Can it seize the moment to accelerate value creation even further?The massive global disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic gave the already rapid adoption of digital technologies an extraordinary boost, as electronic devices proved vital to connecting people and businesses during lockdowns. As demand from both consumer and bu...
(Video) Stage11 Raises $5.7M to Reimagine Music for The Metaverse
[Investing]
2021/10/18 09:09
Stage11 has raised $5.77 million in seed funding to reimagine music for the metaverse by combining music, games, mixed reality, and digital collectibles.The Paris-founded startup has created partnerships with music artists including Martin Garrix, David Guetta, Snoop Dogg, Ne-Yo, Akon, Salif Gueye, and the fashion house Institut Français de la Mode. And it will help those artists monetize thei...
(Paper) MIT CSAIL - Deep Learning Helps Predict Traffic Crashes Before They Happen
[Tech]
2021/10/18 09:08
A deep model was trained on historical crash data, road maps, satellite imagery, and GPS to enable high-resolution crash maps that could lead to safer roads.Today’s world is one big maze, connected by layers of concrete and asphalt that afford us the luxury of navigation by vehicle. For many of our road-related advancements — GPS lets us fire fewer neurons thanks to map apps, cameras alert us...
Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021
[Business]
2021/10/18 09:07
The dynamics of the top global handset OEMs keep changing from a shipment point of view, as we saw with Xiaomi becoming the second-highest selling smartphone brand globally in Q2 2021. However, the picture from a revenue and operating profit point of view has stayed much more stable over the past several quarters.Apple has been the biggest profit and revenue generator in the handset business. I...
