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Israel's New Technology Will Enable Computers to Run 100x Faster
[Tech]
2018/04/08 09:05
A team of Israeli researchers developed a ‘game-changing’ technology that puts computers and all optical devices closer to the terahertz microchip.Researchers have created technology that will enable our computers, text messages and phone calls to run 100 times faster through terahertz microchips.Until now, the major challenges that stood in the way of creating the terahertz microchip were ov...
Inflated Damien Hirst Head Pops Up on Perth Beach, Snorkeling for Another $12 Million Shark
[Design]
2018/04/08 09:04
Design house ‘cool shit’ has been referred to as ‘the internet in real life’ — deservingly so, thanks to inflatable kanyes, laser cats, and fresh prince o’ bel air references. You can practically hear the theme song now, ironic snares popping, beats kicking, as your sandy feet stumble upon another internet IRL — this giant, inflatable damien hirst head by the sea in perth, australia. thi...
(Infographic) The Jump from Millionaire to Billionaire, and How Long That Takes
[Investing]
2018/04/08 09:03
Today’s infographic comes to us from Betway, and it provides a study of the 100 wealthiest billionaires that topped the 2018 edition of the Forbes Rich List. Based on the top 100 billionaires studied from the Rich List, the average age for hitting millionaire status is 37. Meanwhile, the billion dollar mark is hit on average at the age of 51.This puts the average time period to go from million...
(PDF) Bain - Coping with the Amazon Factor in Due Diligence
[Business]
2018/04/05 09:40
Amazon already controls roughly 40% of the US e-commerce market and is on track to own 50% by 2021. That implies that the Seattle-based retail disrupter will capture around 70% of all e-commerce growth over the next five years.But that's hardly the end of it. Extending into business-to-business (B2B) commerce and distribution, cloud services, media and hardware, the Amazon ecosystem now covers...
Retailers Race Against Amazon to Automate Stores - Hema
[Business]
2018/04/05 09:40
To see what it’s like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer’s experimental convenience shop in downtown Seattle. Soon, though, more technology-driven businesses like Amazon Go may be coming to them.[A shopper at Hema, a Chinese grocery chain operated by Alibaba, the internet giant, scanning a p...
(Infographic) AR/VR Startups Raise Record $3.6 Billion in Last 12 Months as Market Transition Accelerates
[Investing]
2018/04/05 09:40
AR/VR startups raised a record over $3.6 billion from VCs and corporates in the last 12 months to the end of Q1 2018. Over three-quarters of a billion dollars was invested in the first 3 months of this year alone. [click to enlarge]A fundamental transition in the fundraising market towards AR from VR, as well as the very early-stage dynamics of mobile AR, are driving an acceleration of fundrais...
(Video) Festo's Latest Robo-Animals – A Rolling Spider and a Semi-Autonomous Bat
[Tech]
2018/04/05 09:39
Festo, the German electrical automation company that previously brought us a robotic dragonfly, kangaroo and penguin, is back with a couple of new creations – a spider that can roll like a wheel, and a bat that flies by autopilot.Reminiscent of the Star Wars battle droids, the BionicWheelBot robotic spider was actually inspired by the flic-flac spider (cebrennus rechenbergi). In its native Sah...
(Infographic) The Great Retail Bifurcation
[Business]
2018/04/05 09:39
Why the retail “apocalypse” is really a renaissance.[click to enlarge]The US economy appears strong, and the retail industry has shown consistent growth across channels, yet news headlines often point to a failing industry. What is everyone missing?Infographic : https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/4464_The-great-retail-bifurcation_infographic/figures/4464_infographic....
What Blockchain Might Mean for the Digital Ad Supply Chain
[Business]
2018/04/05 09:38
It seems like the whole world is abuzz about blockchain, with evangelists in every vertical convinced that the technology has applications poised to revolutionize their industry. For digital ads, blockchain’s promise lies in its potential to make ad supply chains transparent—and therefore ripe for optimization.Digital ad supply chain optimization is one way to bring down the “tech tax” on t...
