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(Video) Affectiva Launches Emotion Tracking AI for Drivers in Autonomous Vehicles
[Business]
2018/03/27 09:09
Affectiva announced the launch of its Automotive AI service that lets creators of autonomous vehicles and other transportation systems track users’ emotional response. The Automotive offering is Affectiva’s third service for tracking the emotional response of product users and is part of a long-term strategy to build emotional profiles drawn from smart speakers, autonomous vehicles, and other...
Different Strokes for Different Folks : Secret Sauce to Acquiring Digital Capabilities
[Investing]
2018/03/27 09:08
Companies' digital maturity (DIPI) does not correspond with growth in revenue or EBITA over recent years.What separates "Digital High Performers" from the rest? One driver is their M&A strategy. Accenture Strategy research shows that when it comes to investing in digital technologies, most companies choose to acquire (49 percent), whereas 32 percent choose limited partner investment, 10 per...
Oat-Based Beverages Give Dairy a Run for Its Milk Money
[Product]
2018/03/27 09:07
The plant-based beverage industry is a $9.8 billion market projected to swell to $16 billion this year, and moore entrants are competing not just with dairy but also with mainstream vegan options like coconut, almond, and soy.Frothy oat milk is one such alternative seeing a surge, gaining favor with baristas for its foam-ability and with consumers for its smoothness and sustainability.Starbucks...
Trendforce Says Amazon Smart Speaker Market Share to Fall to 51% in 2018
[Business]
2018/03/27 09:06
TrendForce estimates that Amazon and Google commanded 87.2% of global smart speaker market share in 2017 followed by Alibaba and Xiaomi at 4% and 3% respectively. How does this compare to other analyst estimates for 2017 smart speaker market share? It assigns more volume to China and less volume overall.TrendForce wouldn’t share their total numbers, but we can anchor on the one data point that...
(Video) Agility Robotics Raises $8 Million for Commercial Bipedal Robots
[Investing]
2018/03/27 09:05
Agility Robotics is announcing US $8 million in Series A funding “to accelerate product, technology, and business development.” Leading the round is Playground Global, founded by Android co-creator and ex-Google Robotics head Andy Rubin, and also joining in is Sony Innovation Fund.We don’t write about funding rounds all that often, but this could be the first robotics company to get such a s...
Moya Power Seeks to Harvest Wind Power from Speeding Trains in London
[Tech]
2018/03/27 09:04
A new company is using piezoelectric fabric to generate electricity from the wind in train tunnels.The United Nations estimates that, by 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. As a result of this growing population, the demand for energy will increase dramatically. We have already seen several innovative approaches to this problem, such as using empty mine shafts to he...
Airis x Design Eye-Q Urban Air Mobility Concept
[Design]
2018/03/27 09:03
Airis founder John Narraway and Design Eye-Q founder Ray Mattison collaborated on previous aviation design projects, and when reading about and discussing the emerging urban air mobility industry.They both felt the time was right to show the world what was possible when taking a customer experience led approach to aviation engineering and development. Through an iterative process, Airis focused...
(PDF) Mckinsey - What a Teardown of The Latest Electric Vehicles Reveals About the Future of Mass-Market EVs
[Business]
2018/03/26 09:10
McKinsey and A2Mac1 analyzed design choices that can help pave the way to profitable mass-market EVs.Will 2017 be remembered as the year when electric vehicles (EVs) made the move to become mass producible? A thought-provoking question for the industry, and reason for McKinsey, in partnership with A2Mac1, a provider of automotive benchmarking services, to deepen our work in the field. Last year...
A Nobel-Winning Economist is Part of a Team Launching a Low-Volatility Cryptocurrency - Saga
[Investing]
2018/03/26 09:08
Last year, when the price of bitcoin rose 1,000%, you might have regretted not buying in. Now that it has fallen almost 40% so this year, perhaps you don’t have as many regrets. The murky trading and wrenching volatility of cryptocurrencies threaten their place as a fundamental plank of the future financial system, as proponents are pushing. Now, a group of famed economists and financial innov...
