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(PDF) Mckinsey - Snapshots of the Global Mobility Revolution
[Business]
2019/04/14 09:07
How will regional variations in China, Europe, Brazil, India, and the United States reshape cars, carmakers, and the automotive “user experience”?Mobility’s first great inflection point appeared initially in the United States, around 1910, and spread out from there. The second inflection point will follow a different path—taking hold in more global markets, faster—though in various forms a...
3D Metal Printing Tries to Break Into the Manufacturing Mainstream
[Tech]
2019/04/14 09:06
A new way to 3D print uses two lights to control the solidification of resin, enabling complex shapes to be pulled from a vat at 100 times the print speed of conventional 3D printers.It’s been five or so years since 3D printing was at peak hype. Since then, the technology has edged its way into a new class of materials and started to break into more applications. Today, 3D printers are being s...
Passenger Car Sales in China Keep Slumping
[Investing]
2019/04/14 09:05
Despite more room for growth, the Chinese passenger car market has been slumping. Sales from manufacturers to dealers have been down for three months in a row and eight months year-on-year, according to the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Sales to consumers have even been down 10 months in a row year-on-year, according to the Chinese Passenger Car Association.The trade war with...
Hydrogel Contact Lens Could Save Wearers' Vision
[Tech]
2019/04/14 09:04
The therapeutic contact would be applied just like a normal lens, one of which is pictured here.Caused by autoimmune diseases, chemical burns, or sometimes even as a side effect of eye surgery, corneal melting is an incurable disease that's a major cause of blindness. It could someday be treated using a contact lens, however, which is currently in the works.The disease does indeed involve a "me...
(Infographic) The AI Revolution - AI Statistics About Smarter Machines
[Business]
2019/04/14 09:03
Business leaders no longer think about Science fiction didn’t do a great job in preparing us for our first real encounters with AI.- By 2025, the global AI market is expected to be almost $60 billion; in 2016 it was $1.4 billion- Global GDP will grow by $15.7 trillion by 2030 thanks to AI- AI can increase business producitivity by 40%- AI startups grew 14 times over the last two decades- Inves...
(Patent) LG Patents a Transparent Foldable Phone
[Tech]
2019/04/11 12:10
LG has been granted US patent 10,254,863, as noted by Let’s Go Digital, which sets out one potential vision for foldable phones — and it involves a mostly transparent display. Filed in 2015, this patent is just a hint at how long tech companies have been mulling foldables, as well as how weird and outlandish their concepts have been. The idea with this one is that you’d have one half of the...
(PDF) BCG - Chasing Value as AI Transforms Health Care
[Business]
2019/04/11 12:09
Business leaders no longer think about artificial intelligence in terms of future impact—they’re seeing the impact today. AI is appearing in all corners of business, transforming the way companies operate. Health care is no exception.Health care players are using AI to address significant inefficiencies and open up powerful new opportunities. These include everything from the delivery of remo...
A Space Startup That 3D-Prints Its Rockets Just Got Its First Customer
[Tech]
2019/04/11 11:25
LA-based Relativity Space announced a deal with Telesat today to launch a portion of its new internet satellite constellation.The news: Canadian communications company Telesat has committed to sending some of its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites up on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket. The deal is the first large launch contract for the startup, which plans to manufacture its satellites with 3D pri...
(PDF) The Future of Voice in Entertainment
[Consumer]
2019/04/11 11:25
Google-Backed Study Finds People Willing To Trade Sensitive Data For Personalized Media.At a time when consumers, advocacy groups and regulators seem to be more vigilant than ever about consumer data privacy, a new study by Google and the National Research Group (NRG) finds a significant number of consumers are willing to share some of their most personal data with voice assistant technology in...
