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(Infographic) Why Big Data Keeps Getting Bigger
[Consumer]
2019/08/19 11:43
Why Big Data Keeps Getting Bigger. The sun never sets on the creation of new data.Yes, the rate of generation may slow down at night as people send fewer emails and watch fewer videos. But for every person hitting the hay, there is another person on the opposite side of the world that is turning their smartphone on for the day.As a result, the scale of data being generated—even when we look at...
Red Dot Design Award 2019 - LARQ Water Bottle Self-Cleans Using UV Light
[Design]
2019/08/19 11:42
The minimalist LARQ bottle cleans itself using UV light, for people troubled by the hygiene of tricky-to-wash reusable water bottles.The LARQ bottle contains an LED in its lid that transmits UV-C light in the 280-nanometre range — the same as is used to sterilise surfaces in hospitals.According to LARQ, at this wavelength, the light eradicates almost all harmful and odour-causing bacteria and...
Speeding Past Instacart, Walmart Grocery is Top U.S. Online Grocery Service
[Business]
2019/08/19 11:42
Speeding past Instacart, Walmart Grocery is top U.S. online grocery service.When Americans think of grocery pickup and delivery services, they often think of gig-economy upstarts like Instacart or Shipt. These companies are popular and growing, but neither is No. 1 when it comes to online supermarket shopping. In fact, it’s a long-established retailer wearing that crown: Walmart Grocery.Walmar...
Sequoia Leads $40M Investment in Mobile Messaging Startup Attentive
[Investing]
2019/08/19 11:42
Attentive, a startup helping retailers personalize their mobile messages, is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.The startup was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, who sold their previous startup TapCommerce to Twitter. When they announced Attentive’s $13 million Series A last year, Long told me the startup is all about helping retailers find better ways to commu...
Chinese Smartphone Brands Take 62% of Southeast Asia’s 30.7 Million Shipments
[Business]
2019/08/19 11:42
The Southeast Asian smartphone market grew modestly in Q2 2019, by 2% year on year, with 30.7 million units shipped during the quarter, reversing several quarters of decline. Southeast Asia did better than other parts of Asia, and Greater China, which recorded a year-on-year decline. Samsung shipped 7.7 million units, returning to growth of 5%, after three-quarters of decline. Close behind was...
Who Needs a Display When This Keyboard Projects Your Screen Directly on Your Retina ?
[Design]
2019/08/19 11:41
We love seeing concepts that challenge our perception of the future of technology by forcing us to rethink how we will one day interact with devices. Aura certainly achieves this, and it does so by transforming the humble laptop into an ultra-portable, productivity station!So, you may be asking yourself how it functions without a screen, well that’s all down to the rather clever Eye-tracking I...
(PDF) Deloitte's - 2019 Global Automotive Supplier Study
[Business]
2019/08/18 09:10
Caution ahead: Transformation and disruption for automotive suppliers.Disruptive trends are changing the global automotive supplier landscape. To thrive and remain in business, suppliers need to shift gears and decide on which part of their business they want to expand, defend, and pivot.FOR automakers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and suppliers alike, the last decade has been fra...
Atolla's Skin Health System Driven by Machine Learning is Designed for You and Only You
[Product]
2019/08/18 09:09
It turns out creating an ultra-customized, sustainably-minded skincare product is just as complicated as it sounds.After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2018, Atolla—a customized skincare company born and bred at MIT—has launched its first product. The Atolla Skin Health System is a monthly subscription model that costs $45 a month. The Atolla subscription includes a skin analysis kit, a...
(Paper) Amazing AI Automatically Turns You Into an Anime Character - U-GAT-IT
[Tech]
2019/08/18 09:08
South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face.Many anime and cartoon fans use anime profile pictures to represent themselves in a virtual world of social media, games and online forums. Now, such avatars can be personalized. Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classi...
