TREND REPORTS
How Much Does Hosting The Olympics Cost ?
[Investing]
2024/08/01 09:08
The busy summer of sport will kick into another gear today, as the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics gets underway — starting with a parade of more than 90 boats carrying ~10,500 athletes down the city’s iconic Seine river.The French capital last hosted the quadrennial sporting event exactly 100 years ago, when it introduced the first Olympic Village to the world… though the small comm...
Japan Supermarket Uses AI to Gauge Staff Smiles, Speech Tones in Quality Service Push
[Business]
2024/08/01 09:07
Japanese supermarket chain AEON has adopted an artificial intelligence (AI) system to assess and standardise its employees’ smiles, renewing the debate about workplace harassment.On July 1, the national brand announced it had become the world’s first company to promote a smile-gauging AI system, which it is using across its 240 shops around the country.Called “Mr Smile”, it was developed by...
3,000-W eBike/Scoot Hybrid Guaranteed to Turn Heads - Owlet Bikes
[Product]
2024/08/01 09:06
The Owlet One e-scootbike thing sports a 3,000-watt peak hub motor for 180 Nm of torque plus a 60-mile removable battery.Finding that many ebike riders prefer to throttle through commutes and urban adventures, LA-based startup Owlet opted to ditch the pedals altogether for its upcoming One model – a high-torque angular beast with attitude."It's a new class of urban transportation," explained t...
(Infographic) The 10 Busiest Ports in the World, by Cargo Traffic
[Business]
2024/08/01 09:05
In 2024, nine of the world’s 10 busiest ports are located in Asia, underscoring the eastward shift in global trade flows.Due to supply chain shifts and deeper integration, intraregional trade within Asia has grown significantly. In the 1990s, over 70% of Asian exports by value went beyond the region, with containers being shipped back mostly empty. By comparison, roughly 60% of exports in Asia...
Self-Driving Pod Helps Mobility-Impaired Pedestrians Cross Dangerous Roads
[Design]
2024/08/01 09:04
Plenty of new automotive technologies and concepts are naturally being made for the benefit of drivers and passengers, but they are supposed to also indirectly help pedestrians as well, at least in theory. With AI at the driver’s wheel, the promise of safer roads is being made, though we seem to still be far from achieving that ideal future. In the meantime, pedestrians crossing urban roads an...
Monthly Trend Report - August 2024
[Trendbird]
2024/08/01 09:03
MONTHLY TREND REPORT - August. 2024 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Market Sensing & Trend Research Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Always Ahead of The Curve."
(Patent) Samsung’s New Patent Hints at Tablet with Expandable Screen
[Tech]
2024/07/26 09:10
In the unrecorded race for perfecting the foldable smartphones, and even tablets – in some distinct parts of the world, – Samsung is taking a leap of faith. The South Korean tech company, if the leaked patent filing is to be believed, is planning a flexible display tablet, which would be capable of expanding in either direction, on the same plane, giving the user the freedom to control the si...
(PDF) 2024 Online Retail Report : US Online Retail Sales to Reach $1.2 Trillion
[Business]
2024/07/26 09:09
E-commerce is “maturing” and returning to “pre-pandemic normalcy” as it continues to capture market share, according to FTI Consulting. A customer using a smartphone to shop. U.S. online retail sales are forecast to rise nearly 10% in 2024, per a new report. Indicating the continued growth in e-commerce, U.S. online retail sales are forecast to rise 9.8% to $1.2 trillion this year, accordin...
OpenAI Announces SearchGPT, Its AI-Powered Search Engine
[Business]
2024/07/26 09:08
OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.The search engine starts with a large textbox that asks the user “What are you looking for?” But rather than returning a plain list of links, SearchGPT tries to organize and make sense of them. In one example from OpenAI, the s...
