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(Infographic) 12 Influential Smart Home Inventions, and Why They Matter
[Product]
2019/07/25 09:03
Being influential doesn’t always translate to direct commercial success.This pattern is the most visible in the music industry, in which many trendsetting bands often fail to achieve mainstream popularity. Artists like the Dead Kennedys, Kraftwerk, and Captain Beefheart all pioneered genres, but this translated to limited amounts of fame and fortune.Such a paradigm can also be seen in technolo...
Animal Selfies Come to the Rescue in WWF Japan Campaign
[Business]
2019/07/24 09:10
WWF JAPAN wanted to propose a new solution that would allow people to think about and make donations toward environmental issues easier. The idea developed by ADK Creative One Japan/CHERRY centered on selfies, which are popular via SNS all over the world.Japanese people have significantly low concern toward environmental issues (donations per household are 1/108 of western countries),The concep...
(PDF) DeepMind’s AI Learns to Generate Realistic Videos by Watching YouTube Clips
[Tech]
2019/07/24 09:09
Perhaps you’ve heard of FaceApp, the mobile app that taps AI to transform selfies, or This Person Does Not Exist, which surfaces computer-generated photos of fictional people. But what about an algorithm whose videos are wholly novel? One of the newest papers from Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind (“Efficient Video Generation on Complex Datasets”) details recent advances in the budd...
The Big 5 Technology Firms Have Spent Billions Buying Rivals in Recent Years
[Investing]
2019/07/24 09:08
Growing antitrust scrutiny stems in part from the sheer size of the tech firms. The big five—Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft—are cumulatively valued at $4.2trn, representing one-seventh of America’s total stockmarket value.Over the past 12 months they have amassed $180bn in pre-tax profits, equivalent to roughly a tenth of all profits generated by American publicly-traded com...
(Video) Protean's All-in-One Drive, Suspension and Steering Modules Spin 360 Degrees
[Tech]
2019/07/24 09:07
Autonomous pods could be coming at you – sideways – courtesy of the Protean360+ corner module.Autonomous mobility pods of the future could gain themselves exceptional tight-space maneuvering capabilities if Protean's 360-degree integrated wheel systems come to fruition. Each one packs steering, suspension, motors and pneumatic ride-height adjustment into a single unit.We first encountered Pro...
(PDF) BCG - Organizing for Digital Operations at Scale
[Business]
2019/07/24 09:06
This is the third in a series of multimedia offerings that highlight insights derived from a recent BCG survey of digital maturity in manufacturing operations. Here, we examine the organizational and technical enablers of a digital operations program. The first article, “The How-To Guide to Digital Operations,” discussed what sets apart the leaders, presented a framework for digitizing operat...
Polar Ignite Smartwatch Tracks Heart Rate, Fitness Trackers and GPS Sport Wtches
[Product]
2019/07/24 09:05
Smartwatch maker Polar has launched the latest edition in its GPS smartwatch lineup—the Polar Ignite.While it doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary when it comes to smartwatches, the Ignite touts a fresh sleep analysis feature that I’ve not seen integrated into rival devices on such a level, and that’s overnight recovery insights.Personal trainer and co-founder of No1Fitness in Lond...
Youngsters are Avoiding Facebook - But Not the Firm’s Other Platforms
[Consumer]
2019/07/24 09:04
Facebook owes its resilience to savvy acquisitions and tolerant regulators.In 2003 mark zuckerberg built Facemash.com, a website ranking the attractiveness of his Harvard classmates. The college made him delete it. But the 19-year-old soon launched another site, on which users could create profiles and communicate. TheFacebook.com spread rapidly to other campuses. By 2006, when The Economist fi...
Google's Sister Company Launches Smart Diapers That Track Baby Pee Pampers
[Product]
2019/07/24 09:03
Google’s sister company verily has partnered with US consumer goods giant procter & gamble (P&G) to sell ‘smart diapers‘ that monitor baby’s sleeping patterns and track their pee.The new product, called lumi, will be sold by pampers and comprises an all-in-one connected system that includes two activity sensors for diapers, a logitech camera that works as a wi-fi monitor and an app...
