TREND REPORTS
The Video Game Industry Is Bigger Than The Box Office
[Business]
2022/01/13 09:04
Video games vs. the box office.The chart above gives some context on just how big the video game biz is. Last year the video game industry was pegged at somewhere around $180bn by Newzoo. That's roughly ten times what the global movie industry brought in at the box office last year. Ten times. Admittedly last year the movie industry was still dealing with a pandemic hangover, but even in its be...
Corn-based Biodegradable Film Shown to Help Fresh Foods Last Longer
[Tech]
2022/01/13 09:03
It's ironic that even though many people are starving, a great deal of food gets discarded because it spoils before it can be eaten. A new natural-source packaging material could help, by making foods last longer – plus it's biodegradable.Developed by scientists at Harvard University and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the material takes the form of a transparent film.Made...
(매일경제기사) 트렌드버드, 2022 트렌드 전망 보고서 발표 : 파괴적 혁신 기술과 글로벌 유망 비즈니스 총망라
[Trendbird]
2022/01/12 09:10
글로벌 트렌드 리서치 서비스 트렌드버드(Trendbird)가 올해의 핵심적인 기술, 비즈니스 동향을 예측한 '2022 트렌드 전망 보고서(TRENDBIRD - Annual Trend Report 2022)'를 발간했다.올해 보고서에서는 지난해 글로벌 비즈니스의 전 영역에서 관측된 주요 흐름과 유망한 성장산업, 융합 아이템을 망라하고 이를 기반으로 올해와 향후 2~3년간 주목받을 비즈니스 이슈와 전망을 관련 사례와 함께 정리했다.보고서는 총 12권으...
(PDF) Annual Software Engineer Compensation Report - 2021
[Consumer]
2022/01/12 09:09
Levels.fyi's annual software engineer compensation report. View top paying companies, locations & trends.Our mission at Levels.fyi is to help people build better careers. To date, people like you have helped us collect the most accurate public data on salaries, benefits, leveling, and more. This year, we've grown our dataset to over 100,000 salaries spread across 1,500+ cities around the wo...
(Paper) Meta's AI That Understands Speech by Looking as Well as Hearing
[Tech]
2022/01/12 09:08
People use AI for a wide range of speech recognition and understanding tasks, from enabling smart speakers to developing tools for people who are hard of hearing or who have speech impairments. But oftentimes these speech understanding systems don’t work well in the everyday situations when we need them most: Where multiple people are speaking simultaneously or when there’s lots of background...
(Infographic) The Lifespans of Technological Adoptions
[Tech]
2022/01/12 09:07
The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US.[click to enlarge]Infographic : https://bit.ly/3nhPDsM[asymco]
McDonald's Everything has an Origin
[Business]
2022/01/12 09:06
70% of the ingredients used by McDonald's to make hamburgers in Spain come from local suppliers. To demonstrate its commitment to Spanish farmers and ranchers, the multinational has decided to install its emblematic totem poles in fields that form part of its supply chain and thus vindicate its obsession with the quality of its products.McDonald's installed the first pole in a field in Murcia (...
Covid E-Commerce Boom Sees U.S. Retailers Hunt for Warehouses
[Business]
2022/01/12 09:05
Covid-19 spurred consumers to change the way they shop, with many opting to go online rather than in store, especially at the start of the pandemic. E-commerce sales surged to a record 15.7% of total U.S. retail receipts in mid-2020, and while they’ve come slightly off that peak as shoppers return to brick-and-mortar stores, they remain elevated, Commerce Department data show.U.S. retailers ha...
(CES 2022) Abbott is Working on ‘Biowearables’ to Measure Glucose and Ketones
[Tech]
2022/01/12 09:04
The devices will be able to continuously monitor your body's composition and help you take action.Health tech company Abbott is working on “biowearable” devices to track certain elements of one’s body, with the idea that they’ll provide users with more insights about their general health and help them take action. The Lingo devices will measure glucose, ketones and lactate, and eventually t...
