TREND REPORTS
Attendance at the World’s Biggest Art Museums has Plummeted
[Consumer]
2021/04/06 09:05
Many venues may not recover from the downturn.MANY MUSEUM-GOERS are accustomed to queues and crowds. In peak season the lines at the Louvre in Paris or the Accademia Gallery in Florence can be hours long; once inside, visitors must compete with hordes of fellow enthusiasts to catch a glimpse of the Mona Lisa or Michelangelo’s David. If you’re lucky, you may get to admire the work for 30 secon...
This Fully Automated Bionic Coffee Maker is Just Like a Robot Straight from The Jetsons
[Design]
2021/04/06 09:04
If you sometimes feel like a robot before your first cup of coffee, you’re in good company. Without even fully opening my eyes, I get my first cup of coffee going for the morning, and while it brews I get myself ready. On good days, I turn my stove off on time, and on other days, I gulp down a burnt cup of coffee. Coffee is a necessary part of the day for a lot of us and having that perfect cu...
(Infographic) World Reading Habits in 2020
[Consumer]
2021/04/06 09:03
2020 was a strange year, for obvious reasons. Many of us spent a lot of 2020 in lockdown, either trying to keep up with work or looking for a new job.Some turned to streaming services such as Netflix (for example, I subscribed to Disney Plus so I could finally watch The Mandalorian, only to discover the writing was terrible). Others spent their time learning new skills, while many took this an...
(PDF) Capgemini - Sustainable Mobility
[Business]
2021/04/05 09:10
What do customers and car buyers experience today, and how can OEMs turn sustainability into a competitive advantage?Sustainability is clearly a hot topic for the automotive industry, and one that has attracted considerable research.Even so, in our work with large automotive OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), we have become aware of an aspect that is not so well understood: the consumer’...
(Patent) Intel Aims to Patent a Method for Verifying Road Traffic Signs
[Tech]
2021/04/05 09:09
U.S. patent application, US20210097313, discloses a method for verifying road traffic signs that includes obtaining an image of a traffic sign, analyzing the image to determine a traffic sign information, and verifying the validity of the traffic sign information. The figure below illustrates the traffic sign verification system.Patent Application : https://bit.ly/3rPQ4do[USPTO]
NFT Art Marketplace SuperRare Closes $9M Series A
[Investing]
2021/04/05 09:08
The NFT ecosystem is having an explosive moment and the startups that were ready to run with it are getting lots of cash to continue capturing that momentum.SuperRare, an NFT art platform that has garnered tens of millions in new sales in recent weeks, has just raised millions from investors. The $9 million Series A round was led by Velvet Sea Ventures and 1confirmation. Other investors partici...
(Paper) Eye Tracking can Reveal an Unbelievable Amount of Information About You
[Tech]
2021/04/05 09:07
The windows of your soul can reveal an extraordinary amount about you, especially when a machine learning algorithm is watching.Eye tracking technology is starting to pop up more and more, keeping track of where you're looking and how your pupils and irises are reacting for a variety of different purposes. It doesn't require particularly complex technology; a HD video camera that can watch your...
ECLIPSE Wearable Modular Platform That Combines MR Glasses and Headset
[Design]
2021/04/05 09:06
Along the thousand years of evolution of human beings, we have formed a certain bionic and psycho model communicating with the outside world. Ordinarily, the communication tunnel is not a single thread through a particular organ, it is actually working in a mixed information signal field through the inputs which we call five senses of human beings, and commanded by our brain to make bionic refl...
CIOs to Focus Staffing Growth on Automation, Cloud and Support for Remote Work
[Consumer]
2021/04/05 09:05
Gartner Survey Reveals Over Half of CIOs Plan to Increase Full-Time Employees in IT to Accelerate Digital Initiatives in 2021.Fifty-five percent of CIOs plan to increase their total number of full-time employees (FTEs) in IT across the course of 2021, according to a recent survey* from Gartner, Inc. They will predominantly focus staffing growth in the areas of automation, cloud and analytics pl...
