London design studio Special Projects has developed an app that condenses important information such as contacts and maps onto a daily printout to help people live without their devices.The Paper Phone app lets users select appointments, tickets, to-do lists and other daily essentials from their smartphone and formats them onto a single sheet of A4.This can then be printed out and folded into a...

Having largely ignored Covid-19 as it spread across China, global financial markets reacted strongly last week when the virus spread to Europe and the Middle East, stoking fears of a global pandemic. Since then, Covid-19 risks have been priced so aggressively across various asset classes that some fear a recession in the global economy may be a foregone conclusion.In our conversations, business...

The demonstration showed the degree to which warehouse automation can go.Boston Dynamics and OTTO Motors have teamed up for a demonstration of the warehouse of the future. In a newly released video, a Boston Dynamics Handle robot rushes about a storage area at speed as it picks boxes and builds pallets atop an OTTO Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) platform.Looking like a robotic version of some hu...

Only 5% of companies are doing all it takes to get to payback from digital. To thrive, not just survive, you’ll need to navigate the maze of economic uncertainty and the breakneck pace of digital.We’ve studied thousands of digitally-transforming companies for decades through our Digital IQ research. This year, from our survey of 2,380 executives around the globe, we discovered a group of comp...

The 360-display used high-definition 3D Holoprojection technology. The athletic shoe giant tapped into growing customer interest in holograms and out-of-home advertising to build momentum for its latest trainers.PUMA recently projected a 360-degree hologram over cars in Chicago to promote its latest line of trainers. The life-like hologram was the first of its kind, according to the company.A h...

The AI 100 is CB Insights' annual ranking of the 100 most promising AI startups in the world. This year’s winning companies include startups working on synthetic voice, quantum machine learning, protein modeling, and more.The CB Insights 4th annual AI 100 finalists include AI startups from 13 countries, pushing the boundaries of AI research and commercial adoption across 15 industries and a br...

Sonantic, a U.K. startup that has developed “human-quality” artificial voice technology for the games and entertainment industry, has raised €2.3 million in funding.Leading the round is EQT Ventures, with participation from existing backers, including Entrepreneur First (EF), AME Cloud Ventures and Bart Swanson of Horizons Ventures. I also understand one of the company’s earlier investors i...

General Motors reveals its all-new modular platform and battery system. General Motors is about to get very serious about electric vehicles. It's hosting an EV event this week to preview some of the new electric vehicles it has planned and the technologies making them possible. The all-new modular electric platform and Ultium batteries will spawn a variety of vehicles in the coming years, inclu...

Mobile games were among the first to bring augmented reality to the mainstream, and artificial intelligence has been an element in games since the beginning.Pinklion.AI explains the rise of mobile gaming, including the rise of consumer spending. What’s your mobile game of choice?Infographic : https://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pinklion.jpg[Pinklion.AI]