TREND REPORTS
The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2019, According to Bill Gates
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:50
For the past 18 years, MIT Technology Review has published an annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies that it believes will have the biggest long-term impact on society. This year, Bill Gates helped curate the selections.It's fitting: investors and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are known for making sweeping futuristic predictions in their own annual letter. In 2015, they predicted...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Private Markets Come of Age
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:50
McKinsey’s annual review reveals an expanding and developing industry.Private markets stayed strong in 2018. True, fundraising was down 11 percent. But $778 billion of new capital flowed in. Investors have a new motivation to allocate to private markets: exposure. More investors believe that private markets have become effectively required for diversified participation in global growth. Global...
Alphabet's Wind Energy Kites to Fly Offshore
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:50
Airborne wind energy company Makani has graduated from X's experimental labs and is teaming up with offshore energy giant Shell.Renewable energy technologies seem to fill every nook and cranny of the earth. Turbines generate power on the seafloor and off coastlines. Solar panels carpet desolate deserts and abandoned wastelands. Volcanic aquifers, mountain streams, and urban sewage systems all h...
Are Foldable Phones a Fad ?
[Consumer]
2019/03/05 10:50
After years dominated by incremental upgrades rather than eye-catching innovations, the smartphone industry finally had something new to show off at last week’s Mobile World Congress. Foldable phones, i.e. phones with actual foldable displays as opposed to the flip phones popular in the early 2000s, are the next big thing in the smartphone market, at least that’s what the industry wants us to...
Motif Ingredients Launches With $90M To Make Meatless Protein
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:49
Biotech unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks said today it’s launching a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients which will work on developing proteins that can serve as meat and dairy replacements. Boston-based Motif is starting out the gate with $90 million in Series A funding.In its statement about the new company, Ginkgo said Motif Ingredients will “leverage biotechnology to create novel solutions for fo...
What Investing $100 EARLY in Stocks and Bitcoin Would Be Worth Today
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:49
There’s a lot of power in being first. And when it comes to Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, it pays to be among one of the earliest investors.But we wanted to understand how much it would pay, so we ran an experiment. Imagine you could go back in time and invest $100 into a handful of great companies when they initially went public. What would your investments be worth today?Let’s start wi...
The Water in This Hospital is all Pulled out of Thin Air - Zero Mass Water
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:49
In Jamaica, one hospital is giving up bottled water by using a system from Zero Mass Water, which uses the moisture in the air as a water supply.In Jamaica, bottled water is often seen as a necessity, even though the country struggles so much with plastic pollution that the government recently implemented a countrywide ban on plastic bags, straws, and Styrofoam. At the children’s ward of a loc...
'Google Visual Assistant' - The Next Development for Personal Assistants ?
[Design]
2019/03/05 10:49
Smart Speakers are gradually making themselves more known within our lives, with an array of smart-devices now available to choose from. However, the Google Visual Assistant concept brings a new layer of communication to the table… Visual Artificial Intelligence.Designed to use the capabilities of Google’s artificial intelligence and speech and sound recognition, this captivating projector op...
(Patent) Apple Patent Hints at AR Headset That'll Work with your iPhone
[Tech]
2019/03/04 11:13
The wide-ranging patent application for augmented reality tech hints at a possible headset from the iPhone maker.Apple's interest in augmented reality (AR) is revving up.That's the message behind a 292 page patent application the tech giant filed in August last year, detailing "an augmented reality environment," including using the technology on an iPhone, and potentially a headset as well.Perh...
