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(PDF) BCG - Automotive Digital Transformation : Building the Digital Car Company of the Future
[Business]
2017/04/16 10:10
Digitalization and a host of societal and technological trends are transforming the automotive industry. Advances in autonomous driving, the Internet of Things, and big data analytics are redefining how drivers interact with vehicles and creating opportunities for innovative products, services, and business models. Urbanization, ubiquitous connectivity, and the embrace of mobile devices and soc...
(Infographic) The Disciplines of User Experience Design
[Design]
2017/04/16 10:09
The Disciplines of User Experience Design is a mega Venn diagram that attempts to tackle the relationships of UX within design.We toss around the term “user experience” (UX) a lot, mostly as a shorthand for something like “where industrial design meets interface design.” But to be perfectly honest, that tendency does this branch of design very little justice.The Disciplines of User Experien...
Apple Reportedly Has a “Super Secret” Project to Change the Way We Treat Diabetes
[Business]
2017/04/16 10:08
Apple is reportedly working on a “super secret” medical project: building sensors to monitor blood sugar levels without piercing the skin.According to CNBC, the iPhone maker has been working on this for at least five years, quietly hiring dozens of biomedical engineers and sequestering them in a nondescript Palo Alto office.It may be intended to connect to the Apple Watch, which Apple CEO Tim...
(Infographic) China's Massive Investment in US 2000-2016
[Investing]
2017/04/16 10:07
Part of being a global superpower is having some money to throw around. Want to fund a giant 80 million person megacity in the Pearl River Delta for $322 billion? Piece of cake. Re-build the Silk Road for up to $1 trillion? Not an issue.But China doesn’t only show off its deep pockets domestically. The country has also been extremely active on the global market, buying up everything from natur...
(PDF) Emotional Chatting Machine Assesses Your Emotion and Copies It
[Tech]
2017/04/16 10:06
Chatbots have never been able to empathize. That looks set to change, thanks to a Chinese team that has built a chatbot capable of conveying specific emotions. Chatbots have a long and venerable history dating back to the 1960s and the famous Eliza bot that fooled some people into thinking they were chatting with a real human. Since then, computer programs capable of conducting conversations ha...
(Video) New Augmented Reality Game Encourages Theft - Snatch
[Business]
2017/04/16 10:05
Snatch, the latest offering in AR communal gaming, mixes real life with geolocation prizes to create a treasure hunt with a difference - stealing.Using AR mechanics not unlike Pokemon GO!, Snatch is the latest iOS and Android game that encourages users to go on a real-life treasure hunt seeking digital collectables. The main difference here is that once parcels have been collected, users have t...
What Our 7 Billion World Population Does ?
[Consumer]
2017/04/16 10:04
There is a finite number of people in the world – about 7 billion. No business or government can have more customers than the world population. So what do world’s people do every day?And there is a finite number of hours in a day – 24. No one can extend them. Our lives are also finite – about 78 years, if you average all lives in the world today. Knowing what the people of the world do with...
Smile or Scream in virtual reality with an Expression-Translating Mask - MindMaze
[Product]
2017/04/16 10:03
MindMaze's Mask insert is designed to stream real-time facial expressions to your VR avatar.The best VR experiences let users use their real-life bodies to maneuver in the virtual world. MindMaze wants to extend that immersion to include the user's facial expressions: Its latest product, Mask, is a headset insert that tracks the wearer's expressions and transmits them to their VR avatar.That me...
Amazon Will Make Up 50% of All U.S. E-Commerce by 2021
[Investing]
2017/04/13 10:00
Brick-and-mortar retailers should expect no relief from Amazon.com's relentless march to e-commerce dominance.The online retailer, which accounts for about 34% of U.S. online sales, should see that market share grow to about 50% by 2021, helped how the popularity of its Prime membership program and its marketplaces, Wall Street firm Needham said in a research note on Monday. The firm upgraded i...
