TREND REPORTS
Sony Offered Daniel Craig $5M to Use Their Smartphone, But He Resisted
[Business]
2015/04/27 11:09
Sony offered James Bond star Daniel Craig a $5 million fee to put the forthcoming Sony Xperia Z4 smartphone in the forthcoming film Spectre, but Craig and Spectre director Sam Mendes resisted because "James Bond only uses the 'best.'"This is all according to internal Sony emails revealed via last winter's hack, dated to October of 2014.It appears from the first email that long-time producer Bar...
How NYT Magazine Made a 150-Foot Pedestrian for Its Walking Issue
[Business]
2015/04/27 11:08
It’s like Christmas morning for pedestrian advocates! This week’s New York Times Magazine is all about walking, from the very act of perambulation to all the ways that the city—any city really—is best appreciated on foot. And the cover is a street-scale work of art.This is not Photoshop! The art was shot practically, from a helicopter over one of the city’s many new pedestrian plazas, part...
What’s Beyond Moore’s Law ?
[Business]
2015/04/27 11:07
Earlier this year, the world (or maybe rather a few tech-savvy geeks like me) celebrated the 50th birthday of Moore’s Law.In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that transistor density (and thus the performance) of microprocessors would double each 2 years. Take for example today’s iPhone 6, which is 3.5 times faster than the iPhone 1 while its price is 30% less than the first gener...
Baseball's Player-tracking Statcast System Debuts
[Tech]
2015/04/27 11:06
If you’ve always thought the problem with baseball was that it didn’t have enough statistics, then here’s some good news: Major League Baseball has installed arrays of HD-video cameras and 3-D Doppler radar devices in every park in the league to track not only the ball, but also the movements of every player on the field. In Tuesday night’s relatively meaningless early-season game between t...
Silicon Rally - The Changing US Technology Sector
[Investing]
2015/04/27 11:05
International Business Machines (IBM) must rank as a case study in corporate survival. Founded in 1911 as a manufacturer of punch-card machines, more than a century later it remains one of the largest technology companies in the world. Where once it made mechanical behemoths for reading and manipulating paper cards, today it focuses on providing computing services and software to clients across...
New 'Liquidmorphium' Turing Phone Claims to be Ultra-Secure and Stronger Than Steel
[Product]
2015/04/27 11:04
The premium Turing Phone promises world-class security through a chip on the phone.What do liquidmorphium and late British cryptographer Alan Turing have in common? They're both key selling points for the Turing Phone, a new Android 5.0 Lollipop handset aimed at keeping your data extremely secure.What's this liquidmorphium stuff?Apparently, it's "an amorphous alloy of zirconium, copper, aluminu...
Glycount : Future Vision of Humane Diabetes Management Through Wearable Gadget
[Design]
2015/04/27 11:03
There are more than 67 million diabetic patients in India alone, these “diabetics” have mindset ranges from diabetes-as-life-sentence to the ones who are in denial despite their medical reports. Keeping this in mind, Indrajeet Bakhale, an Indian industrial designer, wants to design wearable device that allows you to constantly check your blood sugar level, the result is Glycount, a humane dia...
(PDF) BCG - Operational Excellence in Retail Banking 2015
[Business]
2015/04/26 11:10
Creating Digital Banks with a Human Touch. Retail banks continue to adjust to a postcrisis environment of patchy growth, changing regulatory demands, and margin pressures. At the same time, banks are confronting a digital and data revolution that is disrupting their industry. Digital innovation is shifting the behavior and expectations of customers, who are increasingly eager for the convenient...
Butterfly Wings are the Key to Glare-Free Phone Displays
[Tech]
2015/04/26 11:09
Nature: Low-reflection wings make butterflies nearly invisible.Irregular nanostructures on the transparent wing of the glasswing butterfly prevent the reflection of light -- publication in Nature Communications -- researchers plan applicationsThe effect is known from the smart phone: Sun is reflected by the display and hardly anything can be seen. In contrast to this, the glasswing butterfly ha...
