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(PDF) Deloitte - Toward a Mobility Operating System
[Business]
2019/08/08 09:10
The new mobility ecosystem is rapidly expanding, with new technologies, infrastructure, providers, and modes of transport. How to integrate them all and keep everything on track? With a mobility operating system.FOR some 200,000 years, humans were, chiefly, a rural species. Driven by the demands of hunting, gathering, and eventually pastoralism and agriculture, population densities remained l...
(Paper) This Chip was Demoed at Jeff Bezos’s Secretive Tech Conference - Eyeriss
[Tech]
2019/08/08 09:09
The chip on show at Amazon’s MARS event—alongside karate-chopping robots and Martian bases—is many times more efficient than conventional silicon chips.Recently, on a dazzling morning in Palm Springs, California, Vivienne Sze took to a small stage to deliver perhaps the most nerve-racking presentation of her career.She knew the subject matter inside-out. She was to tell the audience about th...
Social Media’s Most Valuable Athletes : Ronaldo, McGregor And LeBron Score Big
[Business]
2019/08/08 09:08
Christiano Ronaldo’s Instagram is your typical social media account in many ways. There are family photos, vacation shots with friends, trips to the gym and selfies in the sun. But Instagram isn’t just fun and games for the global soccer icon. He has more followers—177 million—than any other person on the planet, and companies pay Ronaldo $44 million a year to pitch their wares, in part bec...
(Art)ificial Intelligence : The Confluence of A.I. and Art Takes Off
[Tech]
2019/08/08 09:07
Creativity has long been regarded as a “human-only” capacity, but the recent confluence of artificial intelligence and art is already evolving the future of creative expression as we know it. The following examples illustrate how A.I. art is going from a curiosity to a more mainstream—and even well-funded—creative pursuit.“Portrait of edmond de belamy” Last fall, famed auction house Chris...
Optimus Ride’s Brooklyn Self-Driving Shuttles Begin Picking Up Passengers This Week
[Business]
2019/08/08 09:06
Self-driving startup Optimus Ride will become the first to operate a commercial self-driving service in the state of New York — in Brooklyn. But don’t expect these things to be contending with pedestrians, bike riders, taxis and cars on New York’s busiest roads; instead, they’ll be offering shuttle services within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre private commercial development.The Optimus...
(PDF) Mckinsey : Prime Day and The Broad Reach of Amazon’s Ecosystem
[Business]
2019/08/08 09:05
Amazon’s Prime Day successes go way beyond sales. Retailers can learn from Amazon’s focus on leveraging and building out its ecosystem.Most shopping holidays on the retail calendar—Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and now Amazon’s Prime Day—function as major sales bonanzas for online retailers, often boosting average daily sales by double digits.But for Amazon, this past Prime Day did more than...
Augmented Audio Headphones Let You Beam your Tunes to Other Listeners
[Product]
2019/08/08 09:04
BG Audio's Augmented Audio experience allows users to invite others to the listening party.Though portable Bluetooth speakers allow music lovers to share audio with those around them, headphones are mostly a private listening experience. With the launch of Augmented Audio on Kickstarter, Australia's BG Audio gives users the choice to keep things private or simultaneously share with others, eith...
Natuzzi Launches Augmented Store for VR Furniture Shopping
[Business]
2019/08/08 09:03
The Italian furniture brand Natuzzi has embarked on what it calls "a new era of advanced, white-glove customer service" by launching a virtual-reality shopping experience.The brand's Augmented Store is part of its New York City Madison Avenue showroom. It enables customers to enter a digitally rendered version of their own home in virtual reality and decorate it with Natuzzi pieces.Customers we...
(Paper) Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions - Arque
[Tech]
2019/08/07 09:10
A Wearable Robotic Tail Turns Anyone Into a Furry With Improved Balance.There are lots of companies who make wearable tails for humans, but they’re usually for cosplay or other entertainment pursuits. Researchers at Keio University in Japan have created a wearable animated tail that promises to genuinely augment the wearer’s capabilities—not just appearance—by improving their balance and ag...
