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(PDF) PwC - European Private Business Survey 2019
[Investing]
2019/08/07 09:09
Digitalization holds the key to growth for Europe’s private businesses - but how can companies make it happen? Most private business leaders in Europe see digitalisation as important for their future. Leaders already understand some of the ways it can provide technical fixes, for example for supply chain issues, and some are using some key technologies, like robotics and IoT solutions. What’s...
Trueface Raises $3.7M to Recognise That Gun, As It’s Being Pulled, In Real Time
[Investing]
2019/08/07 09:08
Trueface is a U.S.-based computer vision company that turns camera data into so-called “actionable data” using machine learning and AI by employing partners who can perform facial recognition, threat detection, age and ethnicity detection, license plate recognition, emotion analysis and object detection. That means, for instance, recognising a gun, as it’s pulled in a dime store. Yes folks,...
(Paper) AI-Based Knitting Design Software : MIT's Knitting Skeletons
[Tech]
2019/08/07 09:07
MIT researchers are working on AI-based knitting design software that will let anyone, even novices, make their own clothes.The growing popularity of 3D printing machines and companies like Thingiverse and Shapeways have given previously unimaginable powers to makers, enabling them to create everything from cosplay accessories to replacement parts. But even though 3D printing has launched a new...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Growing opportunities in the Internet of Things
[Business]
2019/08/07 09:06
Maturing underlying technologies will make Internet of Things technologies easier to implement and help companies and investors seize new opportunities.After years of hype, anticipation, and steady uptake, the Internet of Things (IoT) seems poised to cross over into mainstream business use. The number of businesses that use the IoT technologies has increased from 13 percent in 2014 to about 25...
Remote-Controlled Salmon Farms to Operate Off Norway in 2020
[Tech]
2019/08/07 09:05
Remote-controlled Salmon Farms to Operate Off Norway in 2020. Giant, instrumented pens will monitor the health of millions of fish and feed them automatically.Tucked within Norway’s fjord-riddled coast, nearly 3,500 fish pens corral upwards of 400 million salmon and trout. Not only does the country raise and ship more salmonoid overseas than any other in the world (1.1 million tons in 2018), f...
This Trash Can Dries Out Your Organic Waste Volume by 60%
[Design]
2019/08/07 09:04
It’s fair to say that emptying a bin isn’t the most pleasant of tasks; the unpleasant smell, disgusting liquid residue and luring risk of the bag splitting make it a domestic task that we certainly don’t look forward to. So, what can be done to restrict the bin from releasing such an overpowering odor into our homes and reduce the regularity of the task? Well, reducing the moisture trapped i...
(Infographic) What is a Commodity Super Cycle ?
[Investing]
2019/08/07 09:03
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the world has seen its population and the need for natural resources boom.As more people and wealth translate into the demand for global goods, the prices of commodities—such as energy, agriculture, livestock, and metals—have often followed in sync.This cycle, which tends to coincide with extended periods of industrialization and modernization...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Chainging Market Dynamics : Capturing Value in Machinery and Industrial Automation
[Business]
2019/08/06 11:01
Shifting growth patterns and digitization are reshaping the sector. A strategic response can help machinery and industrial automation companies to keep pace.The global machinery and industrial automation sector has been in a well-balanced equilibrium for decades—with only small shifts in revenue and market share, in the low single-digit percentage range. Now things are suddenly becoming exciti...
Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorn, Scale AI Is Run by a 22-Year-Old
[Investing]
2019/08/06 11:01
Scale AI, which counts Waymo and Uber among its customers, is teaching machines to see.Behind every self-driving car or cashier-less Amazon Go convenience store sit thousands of humans whose job it is to train computers to see. These people look at pictures and identify what’s in the footage, labeling something as a truck or a bag of Doritos. Their observations are fed back into artificial int...
