TREND REPORTS
India, The Next Global Superpower ?
[Consumer]
2023/04/24 09:05
New data from the UN confirms what demographers have forecasted for years — that India is set to become the most populous nation on Earth, edging out its neighbor and rival China by approximately 3 million people, by the middle of this year.Given how slow demographic trends are to change, and how far behind the United States is in third place, it’s likely that India will remain at the top spo...
MedGPT – Could We Revolutionise Healthcare ?
[Tech]
2023/04/24 09:04
My thoughts on how we can use AI to super charge the Healthcare Industry.MedGPT - A proposal on how we can super charge the healthcare industry with an AI diagnosis agent.It's a well known problem that doctors and nurses all around the world are in short supply. Education is long, pay and hours are bad. Yet, somehow hospitals are serving patients and the healthcare heroes are saving lives every...
Vivo Intros Its First Clamshell Foldable Phone, The Vivo X Flip
[Product]
2023/04/24 09:03
Vivo actually announced two foldable smartphones during its press event in China. We’ve already talked about the Vivo X Fold 2, and we’ll now focus on the Vivo X Flip. The Vivo X Flip is the company’s very first clamshell foldable smartphone. This thing was rumored for a long time, and it’s finally official.The VIvo X Flip has been tested for 500,000 foldsIt is technically inferior to the V...
(Patent) Ex-Apple Employees Debut AI-Powered Wearable - Humane AI
[Tech]
2023/04/21 09:10
Humane, a startup that is backed by OpenAI's CEO and Microsoft, demoed its interface projecting device at TED 2023. Here's a first look.There's been a lot of chatter recently surrounding Apple's upcoming mixed reality headset and the potential of it becoming the "next big thing" since the debut of the original iPhone. However, the future of mobile technology may be within closer reach than we t...
(PDF) Mckinsey - CX (Customer Experience) - Led Growth : A New Way to Create Value
[Consumer]
2023/04/21 09:09
A strategy focused on improving the experience of existing customers can deliver breakthrough growth for incumbent companies—often more than double that of their industry peers.The world’s largest companies have a thorny problem in common. Airlines, insurers, telcos, utilities, and other major incumbents are all struggling to achieve sustainable, profitable growth in a world in which their of...
Google Consolidates AI Research Divisions Into Google DeepMind
[Business]
2023/04/21 09:08
As Google looks to maintain pace in AI with the rest of the tech giants, it’s consolidating its AI research divisions.Google announced Google DeepMind, a new unit made up of the DeepMind team and the Google Brain team from Google Research. In a blog post, DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said that Google DeepMind will work “in close collaboration . . . across the Google product area...
Kindred Raise $15M for a Home-Swapping Network
[Investing]
2023/04/21 09:07
The concept of taking existing properties and repurposing them is not a new one. After all, Airbnb is a high-profile example of people turning vacation homes, for example, into revenue generators when they’re not using them. The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to stay.One San Francisco-based startup has emerged that wants to not on...
At €200 Billion, Hermes Surfs Luxury Boom to Surpass Novartis
[Investing]
2023/04/21 09:06
Hermes is now worth more than twice the valuation of Airbus. Luxury stocks propel French stock market ahead of London.Hermes International, the maker of the iconic Birkin handbag, soared past €200 billion ($218 billion) in market value for the first time ever this week, surpassing Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG.The stock has been rallying along with other luxury shares this year, as investors see...
Translucent Aerogel Bricks Could Outperform Their Opaque Counterparts
[Product]
2023/04/21 09:05
While glass bricks are effective for allowing daylight into buildings, they're not good insulators and they can't be used for entire load-bearing walls. Such is reportedly not the case, however, with experimental new aerogel-filled translucent bricks.Six years ago, Dr. Jannis Wernery and colleagues from Switzerland's Empa research group stuffed the cavities in regular hollow clay bricks with a...
