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Amazon’s New Smart Shopping Cart Lets You Skip the Checkout Lines
[Business]
2020/07/15 09:06
Amazon wants to give the good ol’ shopping cart a 21st-century upgrade. On Tuesday, July 14, the e-commerce giant introduced Dash Cart, a smarter pushcart that lets you skip the traditional cashier line.Furnished with a mix of sensors, a weighing scale, and cameras, the Amazon Dash Cart can tell what you’re placing inside of it. Once you’re done picking out what you want, you can simply walk...
(Infographic) Despite Public Scrutiny, Consumers Still Engage With Celebrity Content
[Consumer]
2020/07/15 09:05
Brands that had partnerships with stars saw spikes in traffic. Brands that used celebrities in Instagram posts saw 1.5 times more traffic in 2020 compared to 2019, according to CrowdTangle.Though influencers and celebrities have come under scrutiny for some of their actions during Covid-19, research from UTA Marketing, a division of United Talent Agency, found that consumers still enjoy seeing...
Streat Self-Driving Food Delivering Platform – Customizable Mobile Kitchen
[Design]
2020/07/15 09:04
Over the last five years, Korean Restaurants industry has performed very well with many core industries in larger food services sector. Unfortunately Korea’s restaurants industry also has more closures than start ups. Opening a restaurant can be a high risk investment, let’s see…an average restaurant start-up can cost up to $65,000, or foodtruck start-up can cost up to $12,000. Is there a wa...
Flying-Taxi Startup Lilium Reveals design for Urban Vertiports
[Design]
2020/07/15 09:03
German aerial-taxi company Lilium has unveiled its design guidelines for modular vertiports that could be placed on top of office blocks, car parks or shopping centres.Lilium, which has developed a five-seater jet-powered electric air taxi, created the design guidelines as part of its plan to launch an all-electric air taxi service in multiple cities around the world by 2025.The modular and pre...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How to Drive Winning Battery-Electric-Vehicle Design
[Business]
2020/07/14 09:10
Lessons from benchmarking ten Chinese models. Our analysis of the Chinese battery-electric-vehicle market revealed important clues for OEMs that want to thrive in this sector.Many automotive OEMs and suppliers in Europe, Japan, and the United States are starting large-scale launches of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in their core markets. But in China, a rapidly growing BEV market and ecosyst...
(Patent) Apple’s New Patent on Spatial Audio Proves It Is Serious About “Apple Glasses” and AR/VR
[Tech]
2020/07/14 09:09
Apple Seeks a Patent for Spatial Audio Downmixing and Another on a User Interface for Camera Effects.U.S. patent application, 20200221248, describes a visualized spatial sound object representing a snapshot/thumbnail of spatial sound, which is previewed by manipulating the object’s orientation. A weighted downmix of channels is rendered for output as a spatial preview sound. For example, a sin...
The Cost of AI Training is Improving at 50x the Speed of Moore’s Law
[Business]
2020/07/14 09:08
The cost to train an artificial intelligence (AI) system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law. For many use cases, the cost to run an AI inference system has collapsed to almost nil. After just five years of development, deep learning – the modern incarnation of AI – seems to have reached a tipping point in both cost and performance, paving the way for widespread adoption over the nex...
The Smallest Large Display Is Projected Straight Onto Your Retina
[Tech]
2020/07/14 09:07
For most of human history, the way to get custom shapes and colors onto one’s retinas was to draw it on a cave wall, or a piece of parchment, or on paper. Later on, we invented electronic displays and used them for everything from televisions to computers, even toying with displays that gave the illusion of a 3D shape existing in front of us. Yet what if one could just skip this surface and dr...
The Battery Billionaire Who’s Key to Tesla’s Future in China - CATL
[Business]
2020/07/14 09:06
CATL chairman Zeng Yuqun’s partnership with Elon Musk could boost the Chinese company’s global market share at a time of falling battery sales.Tesla Inc. needs to succeed in China if it wants to dominate the world of electric cars—especially in a post-virus world. To do that, Elon Musk is turning to a battery engineer who once helped Apple Inc. extend the life of its MacBook laptops.Zeng Yuq...
