TREND REPORTS
(Paper) Motional Releases Expanded Self-Driving Data Set with Over 1.4 Billion Annotated Lidar points
[Tech]
2020/09/03 09:09
Roughly a year ago, Scale and NuTonomy released a driverless data set called NuScenes that they claimed at the time surpassed corpora like KITTI, Baidu’s ApolloScape, and the Udacity Self-Driving Car library in size, scale, and accuracy. Since then, new and more diverse corpora like the Waymo Open Dataset, the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset, and Lyft’s autonomous vehicle data set have emerge...
Visualizing The Entire History of Tesla Stock Price
[Investing]
2020/09/03 09:08
Tesla has repeatedly defied its naysayers throughout its history. Lots of people are still betting against the company, and its infamous CEO Elon Musk has had to prove his worth over and over again en route to captaining the most valuable carmaker in the world. But how did Tesla get here?Tesla’s share price originally jumped in May 2013 when the company first turned a profit. Now that Tesla ha...
(Video) Researchers Turn Paper Into Electronic Controllers With No Battery
[Tech]
2020/09/03 09:07
No additional power needed, just... print and play ?A research team from Purdue University has developed a way to transform regular paper sheets into a machine input interface. To demonstrate their invention, the team came up with an interactive food packaging solution to verify the safety of food and a music player interface.The study is published in the Nano Energy journal.Ramses Martinez tol...
The Tech-Enabled Office In A Post-Covid World
[Business]
2020/09/03 09:06
Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on company operations and office spaces. From autonomous cleaning devices to tighter cybersecurity measures, here are the technologies influencing how the office could look during the reopening process and beyond.The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of our lives, including tasks as fundamental as going to work.While many office workers are...
(Video) Sarcos Robotics Lands $40M Series C To Commercialize Exoskeletons
[Investing]
2020/09/03 09:05
Sarcos Robotics secured $40 million in an oversubscribed Series C financing round Tuesday.The Salt Lake City-based company produces robots that augment humans to enhance productivity and safety.Rotor Capital led the round, which included most of the company’s existing investors, such as Schlumberger, the company said in a written release. With the new funding, the company has raised a total of...
Surreal Chinese Bookstore Warps Space with Glass, Color and Light
[Design]
2020/09/03 09:04
Chinese architecture studio X+Living has recently completed the design of the latest Zhongshuge Bookstore opened in China, this time in Ningbo. For all of its stores for Zhongshuge, X+Living has drawn its inspiration from the culture, history and geography of each specific location. The goal is to create a local, indoor oasis that is a reflection of what is outside.In its design concept for the...
(Infographic) Move Over VR : XR Sports Are The Future
[Business]
2020/09/03 09:03
The popularity of virtual reality experiences is on the rise and Sportstacular has found that it’s keeping folks in shape, even under the COVID-19 quarantine.Have you tried XR Sports?Infographic : https://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/XR-Sports-Are-The-Future.jpg[infographicjournal]
(PDF) Deloitte - Electric Vehicles : Setting a Course for 2030
[Business]
2020/09/02 09:10
The sales of battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars tipped over the two-million-vehicle mark for the first time in 2019. In this Deloitte report, we take a new approach to market segmentation and exemplify how to seize opportunities and manage risks.BEFORE the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the automotive industry – along with every other industry – electric vehicles were moving steadi...
(Video) Elon Musk Shows Off Neuralink's Brain Implant in Pigs
[Tech]
2020/09/02 09:09
On Friday, Neuralink founder Elon Musk offered a look at the team’s progress with the help of a pig named Dorothy.Neuroscience startup Neuralink is on a mission to develop next-generation brain implants that hook machines up to the human mind, and on Friday founder Elon Musk offered a look at the team’s progress. The company’s latest computer chip was demonstrated in the brain of a pig, wher...
