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The Death of Soda : 11 Slides on Why the Industry Has Gone Flat
[Business]
2018/07/10 10:47
When you think of the iconic American brands of the 20th century, names like Coca-Cola and Pepsi have to rank pretty highly on any list.Both fizzy beverages became household names nearly 100 years ago and even butted heads in one of the most infamous and long-lasting marketing battles of all-time. In the process, both brands have sold billions of bottles of product, creating powerful foundation...
(PDF) Virtual Reality Interactive Molecular Dynamics System to Help Researchers Design New Drugs
[Tech]
2018/07/10 10:47
Drug discovery is a long and expensive process, and any technologies that can speed up how drugs are created has great potential to improve medicine overall.Scientists at Bristol University in the UK, Interactive Scientific, a spinoff of the university, and Oracle Corporation, have worked together to develop a virtual reality simulator that can be used to assemble new molecules and test how the...
Smart Speaker Adoption Expected to Grow 6 Times by 2022, with Apple Trailing
[Product]
2018/07/10 10:47
Canalys expects the smart speaker installed base will approach the 100-million barrier by the end of this year, making it almost 2.5 times bigger than at the end of 2017. The installed base will keep growing, more than doubling in size to reach 225 million units by 2020. Amazon Echo devices will account for over 50% of the installed base in 2018, while Google’s Home series will account for 30%...
Top 10 Biggest ICOs in 2018
[Investing]
2018/07/10 10:46
The ICO market is continuing to sizzle this summer with new coins entering the market almost everyday. With so much activity, it can be difficult to keep things in perspective. What constitutes a large initial coin offering, and what’s small peanuts? Our new visualization makes things very simple.We got the data for our visualization over at coindesk. We placed the total value of each initial...
Personal Shopper - AI Tech Helps Consumers Shop
[Business]
2018/07/10 10:46
Just over one in 10 young consumers around the world have used a personal shopper, with Trendsetting Zs in the U.S. nearly twice as likely to have done so, but new A.I. services are changing the scene. These artificial intelligence-backed virtual assistants provide insight, support, and personalization during the shopping experience.Fashionai Despite the popularity of online shopping, young con...
An Alternative to a Television ? Lumo
[Design]
2018/07/10 10:46
Projectors are usually used as a temporary ‘screen’ for sharing memories with family or immersing yourself in a film, but the Lumo projector does things a little differently.Aimed at single-person households where space may be limited and moving abodes frequently is common, Lumo is designed to replace the television altogether; research showed that the occupants of this type of household rely...
(Infographic) Why Sports Brands Need to Start Paying Attention to Female Fans
[Consumer]
2018/07/10 10:45
The majority of Olympics engagement comes from women.Female sports fans have long known that even if the community still acts like a boys’ club, women are some of the most passionate sports junkies out there. And the numbers prove it: Sports brands need to start paying attention to women if they don’t want to lose crucial engagement.New data from social intelligence software company Shareable...
(PDF) BCG - An Algorithm for a Successful 21st-Century CEO
[Business]
2018/07/09 11:13
When setting their direction, 21st-century CEOs make use of resources unimaginable to their pre-millennium counterparts: digital technologies, AI, vast data sets, democratized information flows, smart new algorithms, and more. They use algorithms as a tool for business analysis and apply algorithmic thinking when making strategic decisions. But is there perhaps some higher-level algorithm that...
Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services
[Business]
2018/07/09 11:13
From payments to lending to insurance to checking accounts, Amazon is attacking financial services from every angle without applying to be a conventional bank. In this report, we break down everything we know about Amazon’s foray into financial services, and where it's rumored to be looking next.[click to enlarge]Last February, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Alex Rampell said that of all...
