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(PDF) BCG - Global Wealth 2020 : The Future of Wealth Management
[Investing]
2020/06/22 09:10
The wealth management industry is over 200 years old. Yet for most of that history, providers have operated according to the same general playbook. It took the massive digital and regulatory disruption of the past 20 years to begin shaking up industry business models, and evidence suggests that most providers have moved slowly, with many still adhering to traditional ways of private banking. (S...
Apple’s Secretive AR and VR Headset Plans Altered by Internal Differences
[Business]
2020/06/22 09:09
Mike Rockwell’s team of 1,000 engineers aims to create the company’s biggest hits since the iPhone.In late 2018, Apple Inc. was a few years into its plan to build a powerful headset with both virtual- and augmented-reality capabilities when things shifted dramatically. Jony Ive, then the company’s design chief, objected to some fundamental aspects of the product and urged Apple to change cou...
(Paper) MIT CSAIL - Using AI to Recreate How Artists Painted Their Masterpieces
[Tech]
2020/06/22 09:08
AI technology shows how artists created their famous paintings.Have you ever looked at a painting by Monet or Picasso and wondered, “how’d they do that?”With a little help from artificial intelligence, that’s now possible: a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) just developed a machine learning system that can take an image of a finished painting...
When Will Consumers Feel Safe Again ?
[Consumer]
2020/06/22 09:07
As the weekend approaches, people remain limited in their choices on what to do in their spare time. While businesses are gradually reopening across the United States, many Americans are still hesitant to return to normalcy as the coronavirus threat still lingers.After months of lockdowns, officials in all 50 states have given businesses the green light to reopen under certain restrictions. Eve...
CPG Brands Test DTC Strategies : Grocer-(e)-Commerce
[Business]
2020/06/22 09:06
Recently, some brands are shifting to direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategies, which are turning out to be a boon for brands and consumers alike, especially as both entities navigate new challenges precipitated by the global Covid-19 pandemic. The following brands are now taking brick-and-mortar vendors out of the equation, creating DTC e-commerce destinations to get their products onto the doorste...
The Pandemic Has Pushed Car Buying Online. It’s Expected to Stick.
[Consumer]
2020/06/22 09:05
Auto industry efforts to spur digital vehicle sales are finally gaining traction, leading dealers to trim positions in showrooms.Startups like Carvana that focus on internet-only auto sales are drawing interest from Wall Street. Its vehicles are housed in giant vending machines, like this one Westminster, Calif.When the coronavirus pandemic hit Michigan in early March, managers at LaFontaine Ch...
Arrival Previews Pandemic-Friendly Electric City Buses of the Future
[Design]
2020/06/22 09:04
Arrival believes it will provide a smarter, cleaner bus for future public transportation.Previously, the electric bus was something of a hero in the making, a more sustainable paradigm for public transit that could help move the densely distributed city masses without a puff of smog-inducing tailpipe emissions. Then, COVID-19 happened, and all forms of mass transit are the enemy. Since London-h...
This Colorful Tape Kit Helps You Social Distance on the Beach
[Design]
2020/06/22 09:03
Adding to the creative ideas and solutions that respond to the post-pandemic reality, the jajaxd collective has introduced the ‘beachbelt’ kit, which helps people keep the necessary distance on the beach. Since the beach becomes a very popular destination for areas with hot summer weather, the studio wanted to ease the general uncertainty, allowing people to enjoy the sand and sea, and coexis...
(Paper) AI Model Creates 3D Avatars from a Person’s Picture - AvatarMe
[Tech]
2020/06/21 09:10
What if all it took to create a realistic digital avatar of a person was a single image? In a paper accepted to the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, researchers at Imperial College London and FaceSoft.io, a startup leveraging AI and machine learning for facial analysis, describe AvatarMe.A technique that’s able to reconstruct photorealistic 3D busts from “in-...
