TREND REPORTS
California Chosen to Host Daimler/Bosch Self-Driving Pilot Project
[Business]
2018/07/17 11:45
The companies are planning to have a fleet of autonomous cars driving the city streets of California in the second half of 2019.Bosch and Daimler plan to use a city in central California as a test bed for in-town automated driving systems. The companies have been working together on self-driving vehicles for some time and have signed an agreement with Nvidia, of Silicon Valley, which will provi...
New Alibaba “FashionAI” Concept Store Teases Future of Fashion Retail
[Business]
2018/07/17 11:45
Alibaba Group debuted its first “FashionAI” concept store on Wednesday, demonstrating a stress-free way to shop with the help of artificial intelligence.The pilot store, open for a limited time only from Thursday through Saturday at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, showcases Guess apparel through innovations such as “smart mirrors,” which display product information on a nearby screen when...
(Infographic) The 6 Forces Transforming the Future of Healthcare
[Business]
2018/07/17 11:45
Disruptive technologies are advancing healthcare at an extraordinary pace.By 2020, there will be 50 billion devices connected to the internet, and many of these devices will be tracking the health data of individuals. This will empower consumers in an exciting way, but it will also fundamentally shift how healthcare companies work and interact with their customers.Today’s infographic comes to...
Thousands of Engineers Put Apple Self-Driving Car in High Gear
[Business]
2018/07/17 11:45
Apple stays quiet about it, but the company is clearly developing a self-driving car. And this week the world was given a glimpse inside this project, showing that it’s much larger than many had previously thought.The FBI arrested a former employee on Apple’s autonomous car design team for allegedly downloading proprietary information and attempting take it to a rival car company in China. Th...
(Video) Super Realistic Robots at Tokyo Game Show Leave Social Media Divided
[Tech]
2018/07/17 11:45
Fierce debate about whether or not an android is actually a robot or a human has broken out among the viewers as a super realistic android made its first appearance at Tokyo’s Game Show.Footage of the incredibly life-like android at last year’s Japanese games convention has amassed millions of intrigued viewers who are divided between those who thought that the android was a real robot and th...
SiliconX : Scientists Hail New Alloy as Missing Ingredient for Next-gen Batteries
[Tech]
2018/07/17 11:44
Its creators say SiliconX could be the answer to higher capacity lithium-ion batteries.For years, scientists have seen silicon as a hugely promising material in the world of lithium-ion batteries. The primary reason for this is that using it as the anode could mean batteries with 10 times the capacity of current versions – at least in theory. But in reality, it easily breaks apart as the batte...
Casper Mattress Nap Store Sleep Benefits Health New York City - Dreamy
[Business]
2018/07/17 11:44
Marketing gurus and mattress start-up casper, have introduced a completely new element to a new yorkers’ non-stop lifestyle: the opportunity to actually get that extra bit of sleep needed every morning.Here’s the thing: I can’t nap. I have never been able to successfully take a quick and blissful snooze in the middle of the day. In preschool, my schoolmates would slumber peacefully around me...
(PDF) UN - Technology and Innovation Report 2018
[Business]
2018/07/16 12:03
We live at a time of technological change that is unprecedented in its pace, scope and depth of impact. Harnessing that progress is the surest path for the international community to deliver on the 2030 agenda for people, peace and prosperity.Frontier technologies hold the promise to revive productivity and make plentiful resources available to end poverty for good, enable more sustainable patt...
(Patent) Facebook Payments Patent Reveals E-Commerce Ambitions
[Tech]
2018/07/16 12:03
Facebook has filed a patent application for a messaging service using artificial intelligence that will allow users to place orders to merchants and complete payments within its Messenger chat app.For example, to search and pay for products, consumers would visit a merchant's page on Facebook where they would engage a messaging bot, and place their order within the chat, all without leaving Fac...
