Google offered a peek at what its search product will look like in the years ahead at its Search On livestream event, and it’s apparently more visual and intuitive than before.The most transformative technology discussed was the Multitask Unified Model (MUM), which the company first publicized in May and which it alleges is 1,000 times more powerful than BERT, a MUM predecessor introduced in 2...

Dior’s latest collection during Paris Fashion Week reached over 54 million views in China. But not all the feedback was positive. What Happened: The livestream of Dior’s latest collection recorded over 54 million views in China — a new record for the luxury house. Still, behind the high figures, the Paris Fashion Week event was not without controversy. Overall, the collection was less than w...

The inflatable stretcher designed by Yu-Hsin Wu caters to impromptu emergency situations with the goal of lessening the effects of panic-induced injuries caused by medical personnel and/or the patient.Life-threatening rescue situations can bring on panic in anyone, even first responders. When EMT personnel, nurses, and doctors are faced with life or death, the panic that comes with it can exace...

Like other e-commerce but with less fanfare, C2C trade has expanded during the COVID-19 crisis alongside demand for recycled goods. A new business model could support still stronger growth.Countless headlines have marked the meteoric rise of e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the disease took hold, digital adoption in Europe jumped nearly 14 percent—a rise that would have taken two to...

AI software developed by DeepMind and the Met Office in the UK can predict whether it will rain within 90 minutes more accurately than current forecasting modelsii.Our lives are dependent on the weather. At any moment in the UK, according to one study, one third of the country has talked about the weather in the past hour, reflecting the importance of weather in daily life. Amongst weather phen...

Dexter Studios Co., a Seoul-based visual effects production firm, surged on Friday to become the latest Korean stock to rally because of its links with Netflix Inc.Shares of Dexter soared as much as 27% to the highest level since 2016. First-half earnings jumped 35% in part due to its tie-up with the U.S. streaming service, Chosun Ilbo quoted a company’s official saying. Dexter continues to be...

Application Leaders Should Closely Watch Visual Configuration, Digital Wallets, Customer IAM and Virtual Customer Assistants.[Figure 1. Hype Cycle for Digital Commerce, 2021 - Source: Gartner (October 2021)]Over the next two years, visual configuration, digital wallets, customer identity and access management (CIAM) and virtual customer assistants (VCAs) will have high impact on digital commerc...

Gentle monster blends retail, exhibition & experimental spaces in haus shanghaithis is gentle monster’s largest store to dateFollowing haus dossan in seoul (read more on designboom here), gentle monster has opened its second flagship store — haus shanghai. here visitors are welcomed by the brand’s signature the probe – a six-legged walking robot which has been created by their own robot...

Researchers screen for demographic trends in trading data. The results could help create models to predict panic selling.Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are diving into the demographics of people that panic sell stocks during a market crash.Investors who are male, over the age of 45, married or consider themselves as having “excellent investment experience” are more l...