TREND REPORTS
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021
[Investing]
2021/04/13 09:10
Venture funding in the U.S. hit $64 billion in the first quarter, according to analysis from Ernst & Young, using data from Crunchbase.Global funding last quarter hit an all-time high, marking the first single quarter to reach above $100 billion, according to Crunchbase data.Alongside the investment boom, new unicorn startups — those private companies valued at $1 billion or more — were c...
(Paper) Automatic Comic Generation with Stylistic Multi-page Layouts and Emotion-driven Text Balloon Generation
[Tech]
2021/04/13 09:09
In this paper, we propose a fully automatic system for generating comic books from videos without any human intervention. Given an input video along with its subtitles, our approach first extracts informative keyframes by analyzing the subtitles, and stylizes keyframes into comic-style images. Then, we propose a novel automatic multi-page layout framework, which can allocate the images across m...
Marriott is Testing Contactless Check-in via Kiosk as Travel Begins to Return
[Business]
2021/04/13 09:08
Marriott is testing contactless check-in and check-out kiosks and a "grab-and-go marketplace." The hotel giant is looking to "blend" contactless amenities with face-to-face interactions. The demand for contactless solutions has been on the rise throughout COVID-19.COVID-19 spurred a demand for contactless services, and Marriott is now leaning into this by testing its new contactless arrival kio...
Fully Vaccinated People Are Free to Fly Commercial Again
[Business]
2021/04/13 09:07
Last month I forecasted we’d see a travel boom this summer as newly vaccinated Americans book their first big trips and vacations since the pandemic began.Today I’m even more convinced this will happen, following new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying that fully vaccinated people can travel “at low risk to themselves.” What’s more, travelers within th...
‘DJI Automotive’ Dives Into the World of Autonomous EVs
[Business]
2021/04/13 09:06
Some significant news from DJI, but it involves cars instead of drones. The company is working on supplying sensors – and perhaps much more – for autonomous vehicles. If you step back and shake your head for a second, this actually makes a lot of…sense.Rumors about this first started floating a few months back. Reuters reported in January that the company was building an engineering team to...
Intel’s Latest Hail Mary Is a $20 Billion Bet on American Manufacturing
[Business]
2021/04/13 09:05
The chipmaker helped create Silicon Valley—but cultural complacency and a missed mobile boom have left it far behind competitors.The statement, conveyed as the third bullet point of a quarterly earnings release, was both mind-numbingly technical and inscrutably terse—almost to the point of meaninglessness for anyone who was not a professional investor or analyst. “Accelerating 10nm product t...
An Ergonomic Paper Cup That Folds Into Itself to Create a Spill-proof Lid - Unocup
[Design]
2021/04/13 09:04
Most of us have abandoned plastic straws but the next big culprit of our to-go coffees are the plastic lids! About 8.25 million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean each year and these take a million years to decompose causing significant damage to the oceans and marine life. Not-so-fun fact: New York City alone generates enough plastic lid waste to cover the entire earth THREE times. To solve...
Treasure Hunt Shopping Experience Forms Part of Future Retail
[Design]
2021/04/13 09:03
The Moniker Sport section of the store is designed to evoke the feeling of space exploration.A fashion shop in Oslo has been designed to draw in shoppers by creating a playful, experiential focusIn the post-COVID world, experience is going to be more important than ever for enticing shoppers back into shops in person. In fact, design firm Snøhetta is counting on this. The firm has designed a n...
(PDF) Pew - Social Media Use in 2021
[Consumer]
2021/04/12 09:10
A majority of Americans say they use YouTube and Facebook, while use of Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok is especially common among adults under 30.Despite a string of controversies and the public’s relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, roughly seven-in-ten Americans say they ever use any kind of social media site – a share that has remained relatively stable over the pa...
