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(Infographic) Unlocking Digital and Analytics at Scale for Consumer Goods
[Business]
2021/11/11 09:03
The why, what, and how of consumer digital and analytics transformations.CPG leaders around the world have been awakened to the potential of digital and analytics to transform the traditional interactions and processes in their businesses. However, despite the energy and engagement of top teams, often these efforts are not scaling up impact as quickly as necessary to keep pace.Frequently, this...
(Patent) Apple Has Invented an Advanced HMD Virtual Meetings App for the Coming Metaverse
[Tech]
2021/11/10 09:10
A week before Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company's new name was Meta (short for Meta Platforms Inc.) to reflect the future Metaverse, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a future Metaverse application related to business meetings.Apple's patent covers techniques for displaying a virtual object in an Enhanced Reality (E...
(Infographic) Metaverse Market and Ecosystem Map
[Business]
2021/11/10 09:09
In my article on the value-chain of the metaverse, I described the seven layers of the ecosystem. In this article I’m going to focus-in on three of the most important metaverse companies — Unity, Epic Games and Roblox — and describe the commonalities and differences.[click to enlarge]Let’s start with where companies (and some open source projects) sit within the market (version 6 .0 — upda...
The Next Generation of AI-Enabled Cars Will Really Understand You
[Tech]
2021/11/10 09:08
In-cabin sensing technologies watch for driver distraction and can also customize the occupant's experience.[Sensors inside the cabin of the car detect points on the body, infer movement, and thus assess possible driver impairment. AFFECTIVA]IT'S AN OLD-FASHIONED IDEA that drivers manage their cars, steering them straight and keeping them out of trouble. In the emerging era of smart vehicles, i...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Charting a Winning Course for CPG Value Creation
[Business]
2021/11/10 09:07
In the next normal, consumer-goods companies can achieve profitable growth and outsize returns by renewing their focus on core execution capabilities.The COVID-19 pandemic drastically upended the consumer and retail landscape, forcing consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies into a largely reactive mode. In response to unprecedented shifts in consumer behavior and market dynamics, many CPG compa...
(Video) MIT's Roboat III - Autonomous Boats Seem More Solvable Than Autonomous Cars
[Tech]
2021/11/10 09:06
MIT's Roboats will find useful applications in Amsterdam canals. A silver robotic boat hangs from a yellow crane over an Amsterdam canal. MIT BOATS ROBOTICSIt's become painfully obvious over the past few years just how difficult fully autonomous cars are. This isn't a dig at any of the companies developing autonomous cars (unless they're the sort of company who keeps on making ludicrous promis...
Visualizing the Race for EV Dominance : Eating Tesla’s Dust
[Business]
2021/11/10 09:05
Tesla has reigned supreme among electric car companies, ever since it first released the Roadster back in 2008.The California-based company headed by Elon Musk ended 2020 with 23% of the EV market and recently became the first automaker to hit a $1 trillion market capitalization. However, competitors like Volkswagen hope to accelerate their own EV efforts to unseat Musk’s company as the domina...
Symbl.ai, provider of conversational intelligence APIs and tools, gets $17M
[Investing]
2021/11/10 09:04
Symbl.ai, the Seattle-based company that provides APIs to developers to build apps capable of understanding natural human conversations, has raised a $17 million series A funding.Symbl.ai says its APIs unlock machine learning algorithms from a variety of industry partners and sources. The company helps developers ingest conversation data from text, voice, email, chat, video, and social, and pro...
The World’s First Atari Hotel
[Design]
2021/11/10 09:03
Designed by the global architecture firm Gensler, the building is a neon-accented take on the A-shaped Atari logo—and it’s coming to Las Vegas in 2022.As technologies become obsolete, the brands behind them have to adapt or die. Take Kodak, the long-dominant camera film company that has pivoted to pharmaceuticals. Sometimes brands evolve what they offer based on their strengths, and sometimes...
