TREND REPORTS
World’s First AI Room Air Conditioner from Mitsubishi Measures The Temperature Change of a Person
[Product]
2017/08/24 10:26
Mitsubishi Electric today announced the launch of world’s first room air conditioner equipped with artificial intelligence (AI). The Kirigamine FZ • Z Series features an infrared sensor Move Ii mirA.I. (Mirai). This sensor senses the temperature in the room and accordingly adjusts the sensible temperature for each of the people in the room taking in account the outside temperature and solar r...
China's VIPKid Is Said to Raise Funds at $1.5 Billion Valuation
[Investing]
2017/08/24 10:26
VIPKid, an online education company that matches Chinese students with North American teachers, was valued at more than $1.5 billion in a round of funding from investors including Sequoia Capital China and Tencent Holdings Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter.The Beijing-based company said Wednesday it had raised $200 million to expand into new markets and broaden its academic off...
The State of Mobile Programmatic in 5 Charts
[Business]
2017/08/24 10:26
Mobile continues to eat desktop, but advertising spend on the platform hasn’t kept up with the amount of time spent on it. That’s changing. Mobile advertising will account for 63 percent of online spend and 26 percent of total media spend by 2019 — more than all traditional media, except TV, combined, according to Zenith’s latest ad forecast. That counts all display ads delivered to smartph...
Revolutionary Glass Building Blocks Generate Their Own Solar Energy
[Tech]
2017/08/24 10:25
There’s a new building block in town, and it generates its own clean energy. Researchers from Exeter University developed new glass blocks that are embedded with small solar cells. Not only do the blocks generate energy, but they also provide thermal insulation and allow natural light to enter buildings.Called Solar Squared, the blocks are embedded during the manufacturing process with an arra...
How the Internet of Things Changes Everything
[Business]
2017/08/24 09:05
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been called the next Industrial Revolution, and it will have a profound effect on how marketers will need to understand, market and track consumers in the years ahead.In fact, BI Intelligence, in a 2015 report, estimated that more than 34 billion devices will be connected to the internet globally by 2020, up from 10 billion in 2015. This includes a mix of standa...
(Video) The Dyson of Drones - Bladeless Drone
[Design]
2017/08/24 09:03
The Bladeless Drone is a Winner of the 2017 Red Dot Design Concept Award.The Bladeless Drone is aptly named for its brilliant design that ditches dangerous blades for air ducts. The resulting unit is not only safer but so quiet that neighbors and strangers alike will thank you for not bugging them with an annoying hummmmmmmm!It features four bladeless “propellers.” The main propeller (easily...
Charting The US Retail Revolution
[Business]
2017/08/23 11:00
Radical disruption in the US retail sector is also posing challenges for investors. Online commerce is creating jobs but not enough to counteract the loss of jobs in traditional retail, which employs more people per million dollars in sales Retailing is undergoing a revolution. The rise of online commerce is shaking some of the retail industry’s biggest names, forcing many to retool their busi...
Uniqlo Is Rethinking Japanese Work Culture–Through Office Design
[Design]
2017/08/23 11:00
Allied Works Architecture and Fast Retailing think Western work spaces could be big in Japan. Can design help change the nation’s hierarchical work culture?Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the new headquarters of Fast Retailing–Uniqlo’s parent company–features open-plan office spaces, lounges done up with plants to resemble outdoor gardens, a library filled with books and magazines fr...
(PDF) AI Learns Sexism Just by Studying Photographs
[Tech]
2017/08/23 11:00
“Spoon” is to “woman” as “tennis racket” is to “man.” At least, that’s according to AI algorithms trained on two of the more common collections of thousands of images that are usually used by researchers to help machines understand the real world.Wired reports that a team of researchers from the University of Washington studied gender predictions made by computer vision algorithms. Wha...
