TREND REPORTS
(Video) Decentraland Announces The Metaverse Festival
[Business]
2021/10/21 09:09
Virtual reality (VR) platform Decentraland is hosting a four-day long Metaverse Festival, bringing everything music lovers expect from a fest into the virtual world, including big-name headliners, merch stands, and… portable toilets.“It is a celebration of music and culture in the virtual social world, but also a recognition that the metaverse has arrived as a viable, irresistible, and profit...
(Patent) Bosche Patents “Artificial Intelligence for a Vehicle Service Ecosystem
[Tech]
2021/10/21 09:08
Founded in 1886, Bosch operates multiple business sectors such as consumer goods, industrial technology and automotive mobility solutions. The German company teamed up with Microsoft to develop software-defined vehicles with cloud support services for traffic infrastructure, repair shops and cloud-based software modules designed to bring over-the-air updates to entire vehicle fleets.U.S. patent...
Roblox is Going to be Competing with Facebook in the Future
[Business]
2021/10/21 09:07
This week Facebook announced that it's looking to change its name to better reflect its future ambition to build the "metaverse" — a virtual space where people could play games, interact, socialize and work.Pulling an Alphabet (which Google changed its name to in 2015) is an interesting move, and it underlines how serious Zuckerberg is about Facebook's future in virtual spaces (although everyo...
(M&A) DeepMind Acquires and Open-Sources Robotics Simulator MuJoCo
[Tech]
2021/10/21 09:06
DeepMind, the AI lab owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, today announced that it has acquired and released the MuJoCo simulator, making it freely available to researchers as a precompiled library. In a blog post, the lab says that it’ll work to prepare the codebase for a release in 2022 and “continue to improve” MuJoCo as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license.A recent art...
Moscow Metro Introduces ‘World’s First’ Pay-by-Face System
[Tech]
2021/10/21 09:05
The Moscow Metro rolled out what authorities have touted as the world’s first fare payment system based on facial recognition technology.The cashless, cardless and phone-less system, called “Face Pay,” has been fitted at special turnstiles across the Russian capital’s more than 240 metro stations.“To enter the metro, passengers won’t need a card or a smartphone — just look at the camera...
More US Children Consume YouTube Videos Than Any Other Type of Media
[Consumer]
2021/10/21 09:04
YouTube videos are the most popular medium among US children online, with 85% of those surveyed watching that content recently. In second place is video-on-demand, viewed by 71%, while gaming content caught the attention of 60% of respondents. Social media cracked the top four but is far less popular, with 46% consuming content on TikTok and other social platforms.[emarketer]
(Video) A Folding Electric Motorbike - ICOMA's Tatamel Bike
[Product]
2021/10/21 09:03
Japanese company ICOMA unveils a foldable electric motorcycle called ‘tatamel bike’. Ideal for getting around the city or commuting to work, the mini motorbike can be folded down into a small enough size that it can be stored under a standard office desk, meaning you don’t need to worry about parking ever again.When ready to ride, the motorcycle measures 1230mm long, 1000mm tall, and 650mm w...
(PDF) UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2021
[Investing]
2021/10/20 09:10
Ranked: The World’s Biggest Real Estate Bubbles in 2021.Identifying real estate bubbles is a tricky business. After all, even though many of us “know a bubble when we see it”, we don’t have tangible proof of a bubble until it actually bursts.And by then, it’s too late.The map above, based on data from the Real Estate Bubble Index by UBS, serves as an early warning system, evaluating 25 glo...
The Squid Game Security Camera Guards
[Design]
2021/10/20 09:09
While I would have wished the Squid Game security was themed on the cold expressionless masked character, the “Front Man”, this design is a perfect addition for every pop-culture enthusiast!If you haven’t heard of Squid Game, you must be living under a rock! Hunger Games was already your cup of tea, then a highly viral South Korean dark series trending on Netflix should be on your binge-watc...
