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HTC’s Vision for AR is Our Most Sensible One Yet - HTC’s AR Lamp
[Design]
2018/04/18 10:15
Augmenting reality can be tricky. So far we’ve worked with screens, trying to layer objects over the world as we perceive it, and that’s incredibly challenging because A. transparent screens haven’t really become mainstream (or cheap) yet, and B. real-time motion tracking is a computer’s worst nightmare and one of its biggest hurdles. While our vision of AR has been limited to display-scree...
(Infographic) How to Win in Southeast Asia's Booming E-Commerce Market
[Business]
2018/04/18 10:15
How to Win in Southeast Asia's Booming E-Commerce Market.Infographic : http://www.bain.com/infographics/sea-ecommerce/Infographic-Sea-Ecommerce-FINAL.png[bain]
(PDF) BCG - Leveraging GDPR to Become a Trusted Data Steward
[Business]
2018/04/17 10:51
Data-driven transformations—in which companies apply sophisticated data analytics to all aspects of their operations, from R&D to manufacturing to supply chain to marketing to sales—are a potentially game-changing phenomenon, promising massive gains for successful companies. But concerns about data misuse have led to various efforts to regulate the handling of shared data.In the EU, one m...
(Patent) There's a Ford Self-Driving Round Games/Meeting Room in Your Future
[Tech]
2018/04/17 10:44
A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.Whenever we have shown self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles as imagined 50 or 60 years ago, people are always playing board games or cards, because they didn't have iPads or phones to play with then. But as we know, millennials are driving a board game revival. That's why it is...
Initial Coin Offerings : 1Q 2018 in Review and Future of Crowdfunding.
[Investing]
2018/04/17 10:44
Initial Coin Offerings: 1Q 2018 in Review. There's a bear narrative in the air about ICOs and crypto currencies. It starts out by suggesting that last year was a bubble around Bitcoin, that many unscrupulous parties tried to jump on the bandwagon and take naive investors' money. This spilled out in the fintech, crypto and public markets. See, for example, Long Island "Blockchain" being de-liste...
(M&A) Programming Ed Tech Startup, General Assembly, Sells to Adecco for $413 Million
[Investing]
2018/04/17 10:44
The European human resources services company Adecco Group said that is acquiring the New York-based, programming, design, and management training startup General Assembly for $413 million.With the acquisition, Adecco adds to its ability to provide job training and re-skilling services for businesses. It’s proof that General Assembly’s own business has come a long way since its early days as...
This Chart Shows Every Major Technological Innovation in the Last 150 Years
[Investing]
2018/04/17 10:43
Former Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds an original iPhone, one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern times. - Since 1760, productivity has increased almost 30 fold.- That is largely down to technological innovations like electricity, telephones, and the internet.- Barclays chronicled the world's rising productivity in its latest Equity Gilt Study.Humanity is always moving...
(Video) Sweden's New Electric Highway Works Like a Scaled-Up Slot Car Track - eRoadArlanda
[Tech]
2018/04/17 10:43
The Swedish project eRoadArlanda powers electric vehicles through a slot car-like track embedded in the road.In a move that will probably delight anyone who raced slot cars as a kid (or an adult), the Swedish Transport Administration has just opened a 2-km (1.2-mi) stretch of electrified road that works the same way. The project, dubbed eRoadArlanda, involves embedding electric rails into the r...
The Victorinox Swiss Army SwissCard Fits Discreetly in Your Wallet
[Product]
2018/04/17 10:43
Traditional utility tools are often somewhat bulky and can be awkward to fit anywhere outside of a backpack, so the Victorinox Swiss Army SwissCard has been designed as a solution to this problem.About the size of a credit card and capable of being stored in your wallet, the tool kit includes a ballpoint pen, screwdriver, nail file, scissors, tweezers, a toothpick and a small blade to ensure yo...
