TREND REPORTS
(CES 2024) The SmartAir Minions Wi-Fi Routers
[Product]
2024/01/19 09:03
Flying cars and AI assistants are a dime a dozen – but have you ever seen a router so adorable it would be the highlight of your interior decor?The SmartAir Minions Routers were so oddly located in a corner of the Westgate area of the CES 2024 exhibition that it was easy to miss. As chance would have it, I headed to the Westgate area to look for another company, only to suddenly notice these m...
(Patent) Nvidia Catches Feelings : Nvidia Wants to Apply Its AI Expertise to Chips
[Tech]
2024/01/18 09:10
The company is seeking to patent a system that can infer emotion from “speech in audio data” using deep learning. Nvidia’s tech would use AI to figure out the probability that a person’s speech lines up with a set of “emotion classes.” Nvidia said that other attempts to create AI that can read emotion often do not generalize well to speakers not used in training. Other systems also “dete...
(PDF) Accenture - Work, Workforce, Workers : Reinvented in the Age of Generative AI
[Consumer]
2024/01/18 09:09
Generative AI is likely the most significant change to work since the agricultural and industrial revolutions.Reinventors are breaking out of silos and building trust among their people by actively involving them in redesigning their work and roles.We’re bringing data to the reality we see every day—companies that take a people-centric approach could create $10.3 trillion in economic value.Wo...
(Paper) 3D-GPT : Procedural 3D Modeling With Large Language Models
[Tech]
2024/01/18 09:08
The significance of 3D asset modeling is undeniable in the metaverse era. Traditional methods for 3D modeling of realistic synthetic scenes involve the painstaking tasks of complex design, refinement, and client communication.To reduce workload, we introduce 3D-GPT, a framework utilizing large language models (LLMs) for instruction-driven 3D modeling. In this context, 3D-GPT empowers LLMs as ad...
Louis Vuitton Unveils 5 Dragon Sculptures Across China for Chinese New Year
[Design]
2024/01/18 09:07
As Lunar New Year approaches, Louis Vuitton’s gilded dragon installations serve as a lesson in using localized initiatives to win over Chinese shoppers.As Lunar New Year approaches, luxury brands are going all out to boost revenue during China’s most important festival of the year. Louis Vuitton is the latest to join the jamboree; this week, the label unveiled five colossal dragon installatio...
(Video) Google ‘Circle to Search,’ A New Way to Search from Anywhere on Using Gestures
[Tech]
2024/01/18 09:06
Alongside Samsung’s launch event today, Google announced a new way to search on Android phones dubbed “Circle to Search.” The feature will allow users to search from anywhere on their phone by using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling or tapping. The addition, Google explains, is designed to make it more natural to engage with Google Search at any time a question arises — like...
(Infographic) Why Spatial Computing is a Game Changer
[Business]
2024/01/18 09:05
Move over, keyboards and phones – the future of work and play is with the advent of spatial computing. Learn how the sights and sounds of your senses are about to become enhanced in the infographic below, courtesy of Lumus.Infographic : https://bit.ly/47GXm8j[lumus]
Bringing Cheap Clean Water to Remote Rural Regions - Remote Waters
[Product]
2024/01/18 09:04
How does a modular, solar-powered desalination system serve off-grid areas?Today, around two billion people around the world lack reliable access to clean drinking water. And while there are a large number of programmes aimed at expanding access to water in urban areas, improving rural water supply can be more expensive and difficult to deliver, and so often takes a back seat. Now, however, Chi...
MCM, Loewe, and Mulberry Welcome the Year of the Dragon
[Business]
2024/01/18 09:03
For this week’s Lunar New Year collab spotlights, MCM taps Bape, Loewe partners with China’s jade carvers, and Mulberry joins forces with Mira Mikati.As we usher in the Year of the Dragon, global luxury brands are crafting collaborations that authentically embrace Chinese culture and demonstrate their nuanced understanding of the Chinese market.In this week’s global collaboration spotlights,...
(PDF) Accenture - Technology Vision 2024 : Human by Design
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:10
Technology is becoming human by design, and enterprises that prepare now will win in the future.How people access and interact with information is radically changing as human-like, AI-powered chatbots synthesize vast amounts of information and provide answers and advice.AI is starting to reason like us, and will soon comprise entire ecosystems of AI agents who will work with one another and act...
(Video) The Twitter (X) Smartphone Sports an X-shaped Camera And Rear Display
[Design]
2024/01/17 09:09
While the world’s been living on a prayer of a Tesla phone some day, designer Antonio De Rosa had a much better idea – why not build a phone centered around a much more smartphone-centric company? The Object-X is every microblogger’s dream device, with its own dedicated display unit just for Twitter (ahem, X). You can see notifications, browse the app, send tweets, and even access your Tesla...
Apple Passed Samsung as World’s Top Phone Maker in 2023
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:08
The iPhone sold more than Samsung’s devices globally in 2023. Apple iPhone sales held up well over the course of last year.Apple Inc.’s iPhone dethroned Samsung Electronics Co. devices to become the best-selling smartphone series over the course of 2023, the first time South Korea’s largest company has lost the top spot since 2010.The iPhone accounted for a fifth of the global market with cl...
