TREND REPORTS
A New Wave of Premium Instant Coffee is Like Having a Café in Your Pocket - Swift Cup Coffee
[Product]
2018/12/18 09:56
“Instant coffee has such a bad rep,” says Nate Kaiser, an entrepreneur in Pennsylvania. “It’s usually the worst-case scenario, or something your grandparents have. It’s never, never been thought of as a specialty product, and for good reason.”Curious about why it lacked the depth of flavor and nuance of the freshly ground beans he had come to love while working at third-wave coffee roaste...
The Stock Market's 'Death Cross' is Particularly Bad News This Time Around, BoA Says
[Investing]
2018/12/18 09:56
The dreaded technical "death cross" has formed in the S&P 500. A death cross occurs when the 50-day moving average falls below the 200-day moving average.The S&P 500 experienced a death cross earlier this month, and a new report from Bank of America's technical analysts explains why this time could be especially painful for investors."The effects of an S&P 500 Death Cross became amp...
Gender-Neutral Cosmetics Brands Cater to All
[Product]
2018/12/18 09:56
Societal shifts around gender norms and identity are opening up the market for a new era of cosmetics: ones that are deeply and inherently inclusive to any and all who wish to use makeup, regardless of gender. As we simultaneously see the rise of gender-neutral skincare lines, genderless beauty and grooming is becoming the rule, rather than the exception, for young consumers.Fluide Fluide, a mi...
Land Rover Utaric Autonomous Delivery Van With Companion Drone
[Design]
2018/12/18 09:56
Land Rover Utaric is a concept of an autonomous delivery van.It’s a project done during a study at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wrocław. It’s undeniable that autonomous transportation system is a real vision, all automotive manufacturers take this seriously as the future generation of vehicles. Today, the technology of autonomous systems is not just a fantasy, work on implementing such...
(Infographic) Measuring the Level of Competition for Valuable Minerals
[Business]
2018/12/18 09:55
Everybody loves a little competition. It levels the playing field and ensures prices and products are kept affordable and available. But how do you measure and track the competitiveness of specific sectors?The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is a commonly accepted measurement of market concentration, and in today’s case, we use it to show which mineral sectors have healthy competition between...
(PDF) AI Index - 2018 Annual Report
[Business]
2018/12/17 10:09
The AI Index is a starting point for informed conversations about progress in artificial intelligence. The report aggregates a diverse set of metrics, and makes the underlying data easily accessible to the general public. The AI Index Report is broken into 4 large sections:Volume of ActivityThe Volume of Activity metrics capture the "how much" aspects of the field, like attendance at AI confere...
The Top 30 Technologies of The Next Decade (2018–2028)
[Tech]
2018/12/17 10:09
The Emerging 30 Technologies – What Will Impact Us The Most Over the Next Decade.[click to enlarge]After exhaustively going through an inventory of 100+ technologies, we’ve landed on the top 30 ranked technologies we believe are going to have the most impact over the next decade (2018-2028).Unlike some studies, we took a different tact by: ranking their impact, using a number of data and qual...
(PDF) World's First Acne Genetics Study Gives Hope for New Treatment
[Tech]
2018/12/17 10:09
A new study suggests genes that influence acne also play a role in hair follicle formation.In one of the largest studies ever completed investigating the genetic origins of acne, researchers have homed in on several genetic regions that could be associated with the condition. Fascinatingly, it was revealed that many of these genetic regions are also associated with hair follicle function, highl...
(PDF) BCG - Solving the Cooperation Paradox in Urban Mobility
[Business]
2018/12/17 10:09
If you build it, the saying goes, they will come. But they have to be able to get there. In cities around the world, getting there is a challenge, fraught by growing traffic congestion and deteriorating public transit systems. All of this piles on travel time and impedes access to urban locations. But it’s more than a source of frustration—the mobility problems that cities face threaten their...
