TREND REPORTS
(Video) The Twitter (X) Smartphone Sports an X-shaped Camera And Rear Display
[Design]
2024/01/17 09:09
While the world’s been living on a prayer of a Tesla phone some day, designer Antonio De Rosa had a much better idea – why not build a phone centered around a much more smartphone-centric company? The Object-X is every microblogger’s dream device, with its own dedicated display unit just for Twitter (ahem, X). You can see notifications, browse the app, send tweets, and even access your Tesla...
Apple Passed Samsung as World’s Top Phone Maker in 2023
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:08
The iPhone sold more than Samsung’s devices globally in 2023. Apple iPhone sales held up well over the course of last year.Apple Inc.’s iPhone dethroned Samsung Electronics Co. devices to become the best-selling smartphone series over the course of 2023, the first time South Korea’s largest company has lost the top spot since 2010.The iPhone accounted for a fifth of the global market with cl...
(Video) Verve Motion Raises $20M for Soft Exoskeletons
[Investing]
2024/01/17 09:08
Verve Motion, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of exoskeletons for a variety of industrial uses, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The new funding will help Verve scale its SafeLift soft exoskeleton.Verve Motion is a spinout of the Biodesign Lab at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It has now raised more than $40 million since it was founded in 2...
Xyte Stirs Up $30M to Enable Any Hardware Maker to Build Subscription Products
[Investing]
2024/01/17 09:06
The hardware industry is under pressure these days: slower spending cycles from consumers and businesses, market saturation — not to mention innovation largely coming in the form of software at the moment — are all contributing to an overall decline in sales. Now, a startup has raised some funding to expand its alternative to hardware sales: hardware-as-a-service.Xyte (pronounced “Excite”),...
(Infographic) Prediction Consensus : What the Experts See Coming in 2024
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:05
As we look ahead to 2024, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology to track in this new year.In this now fifth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2024 Global Forecast Series), we’ve summarized 25 of the most common predictions and forecasts by experts into a single visual of what’s expected...
C-Beauty Exports to South Korea Surge : Is K-Beauty Over ?
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:04
Chinese beauty brands report robust sales in South Korea. Will China, deeply influenced by K-beauty, pick up the trendsetting mantle?On December 25, the South Korean Trade Association released a surprising number: In the first eight months of 2023, Chinese cosmetics exports to South Korea surged 190 percent.Could it be that a country so deeply influenced by the K-wave and K-beauty for over the...
Retailers Lean on Data, AI for Content Personalization
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:03
Key stat: 71% of US retail decision-makers have invested in data/AI-enabled content for personalization, according to an August 2023 report from Coresight Research and Obsess.Beyond the chart:Over three-quarters (77%) of companies that have invested in data/AI-enabled content for personalization have reported significant or moderate increases in online sales, per the same report.The top three p...
(매일경제) 글로벌 마켓 센싱 & 트렌드 리서치 서비스 TRENDIRD, Annual Trend Report 2024 발표
[Trendbird]
2024/01/16 15:44
글로벌 트렌드 센싱 & 리서치 서비스 트렌드버드 (Trendbird), 2024 트렌드 전망 보고서 발표 : 생성 AI를 필두로 2024년을 이끌어 갈 기술 트렌드 전망(매일경제 기사 원문 링크 : https://www.mk.co.kr/news/business/10921966)글로벌 트렌드 리서치 업체, 트렌드버드(Trendbird)는 ‘2024 트렌드 전망 보고서(TRENDBIRD–Annual Trend Report 2024)’를 발간했다고 밝혔다. 이 보고서에서는 2023년 한 해 글로벌 비즈니...
(Paper) These AI-Powered Apps, TBscreen Can Hear The Cause of a Cough
[Tech]
2024/01/16 09:09
Smartphone apps can differentiate between tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions. It’s part of an AI-driven trend: using sound to diagnose illnesses.This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.This week I came across a paper that uses AI in a way...
