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Shipfix Raises $4.5M Seed for Its Dry Cargo Shipping Platform
[Investing]
2020/01/02 09:05
Shipfix, a relatively new startup aiming to drag the dry cargo shipping industry into the digital age, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding.Leading the round is Idinvest Partners, with participation from Kima Ventures, The Family, Bpifrance and strategic business angels. The company was founded in December 2018 by Serge Alleyne (CEO) and Antoine Grisay (COO), and launched just two months ago...
(PDF) BCG - Transform Customer Journeys at Scale—and Transform Your Business
[Consumer]
2020/01/02 09:04
Digital natives were the first to grasp an important truth—that their future growth and success depend as much on redefining the customer experience as on offering better products and services. In the digital era, the ability to pivot nimbly to accommodate changing customer tastes is critical to maintaining market share, as leaders such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Airbnb have so pot...
(Video) The Flying Roomba is Here to Scare Your Pets
[Product]
2020/01/02 09:03
The newly mobile robot is less efficient than it's land-locked predecessor.Your favorite home robot is at it again. Instead of screaming every time it hits a wall, this Roomba obstacles the coolest way: flying. Frustrated with the effort it takes for the mini vacuum to handle stairs, tech Youtuber PeterSripol has hacked his Roomba and invented a way to avoid them all together—thanks to some he...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Future of Mobility is at Our Doorstep
[Business]
2020/01/01 13:23
What mattered in the automotive and mobility markets in 2019, and what will dominate the space in 2020? We look closer at the autonomous, connected, electrified, and shared trends that matter.The past year was a pivotal one, with many important achievements across the disruptive dimensions of mobility: autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and shared mobility (ACES). In 2019, elect...
(Patent) Apple Patents Virtual Positioning of Audio at AR on MacBooks
[Tech]
2020/01/01 13:23
Apple has filed patents for the tech in both headphones and MacBook speakers. New Apple patent imagines virtual speakers that can simulate sound from anywhere in the room. Apple has just been granted a patent — concerning virtual positioning of audio — that could eventually lay the groundwork for new, more immersive audio applications. It builds on a previous patent Apple filed last month tha...
(Video) Volkswagen Unveils Robot That Autonomously Charges Electric Cars
[Design]
2020/01/01 13:23
VW's prototype charging robot can find your EV in the parking garage. You wouldn't have to hunt for a dedicated parking space.Tesla isn't the only car maker with grand visions of EV charging robots. Volkswagen has created a prototype charging robot that would navigate to your car in the parking garage, saving you the trouble of hunting for a coveted (and likely rare) EV charging spot. The auton...
Tech Giants Hunt for AI Startups—and the Brains Behind Them
[Investing]
2020/01/01 13:21
Intel recently bought an artificial-intelligence startup, and Apple and others have also struck deals this year. Artificial intelligence is important to an array of technologies, including self-driving cars. Technology giants are opening their checkbooks to keep pace in the hot field of artificial intelligence, where some of the best ideas and most sought-after talent reside in small startups a...
(Paper) Researchers Detail AI That De-Hazes and Colorizes Underwater Photos
[Tech]
2020/01/01 13:21
Ever notice that underwater images tend to be be blurry and somewhat distorted? That’s because phenomena like light attenuation and back-scattering adversely affect visibility. To remedy this, researchers at Harbin Engineering University in China devised a machine learning algorithm that generates realistic water images, along with a second algorithm that trains on those images to both restore...
How A Short Video-App TikTok Transformed Social Networking in 2019
[Business]
2020/01/01 13:20
Social networks are no longer what they used to be. Case in point: The rise of short video-app TikTok in 2019 is a sure sign that what defines a social network will be very different in 2020.Since the 2000s, social networks were known as places where internet users could create profiles and interact publicly with a network of contacts. While those are still core characteristics, the meteoric ri...
