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(PDF) BCG - Government Incentives and US Competitiveness in Semiconductor Manufacturing
[Business]
2020/09/21 09:09
The semiconductor industry is critical to economic competitiveness and national security in an era of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and 5G communications.The US semiconductor industry has long been the global semiconductor leader, consistently accounting for 45% to 50% of global revenues. But the US share of semiconductor manufacturing capacity, which was 37% back in 1990, ha...
(Video) Facebook's Infinite Office is a Virtual Office Space for the WFH Crowd
[Business]
2020/09/21 09:08
The Logitech K830 can also now be used in a VR environment.A couple of years ago, Facebook announced Oculus for Business, a software suite for enterprise-grade VR. But today, at Facebook Connect, the company is introducing a new virtual office experience for the work-from-home crowd. It’s called Infinite Office, and it promises to make WFH a lot more immersive.With Infinite Office, you can put...
(M&A) How Nvidia’s Purchase of Arm Could Open New Markets
[Investing]
2020/09/21 09:07
WHEN SOFTBANK, a Japanese technology group, paid $32bn for Arm in 2016, it was the biggest deal in chipmaking history. That record held until September 13th, when Nvidia, a big American chipmaker, announced its intention to buy the Britain-based chip-designer for $40bn.Although they share an industry, Arm and its prospective owner are very different. Nvidia makes GPUs: pricey, specialised accel...
(Video) IBM, Amazon, DXC, Deloitte, Accenture, UneeQ Launch Digital Human Partnership - UneeQ
[Business]
2020/09/21 09:06
AI-Powered Humans will have a big role in online and offline experiences in the next few years.Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found its way into a wide spectrum of human experiences — from routine transactions to meaningful, life-changing events. Soon it may be hard to tell where organic interactions end and AI features begin.Digital humans are AI-powered life-like virtual beings that exist...
Clothing Stores Fall Behind in Uneven Retail Recovery
[Business]
2020/09/21 09:05
Despite the expiration of the weekly supplement to unemployment benefits at the end of July, U.S. consumer spending continued to bounce back in August, albeit at a slower pace than before. According to preliminary estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday, seasonally adjusted retail and food services sales amounted to $537.5 billion last month, up more than 30 percent from its...
German Space Agency Reveals an Autonomous, Electric Urban Mobility Prototype - U-Shift
[Design]
2020/09/21 09:04
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has debuted a prototype of what it calls “U-Shift,” an urban mobility vehicle designed for multiple uses. U-Shift is a fully electric vehicle, designed for autonomous operation, and could serve in a number of capacities, including as an on-demand shuttle, a bus, a mobile distribution center for package delivery or even as a traveling salesroom.As you can see...
This Meditation Pod for Workplaces Reduces Anxiety and Helps You Focus - Openseed
[Product]
2020/09/21 09:03
Looking like a portal from the future, or perhaps, some other inhabitable planet – this meditation pod is a godsent installation for current stressful times. Designed in a way to lend you the much needed “me time” the pod is the brain-child of OpenSeed. They believe that the “human race will access higher states of awareness, not through external technological developments, but by taking th...
(PDF) WEF - The Impact of 5G : Creating New Value across Industries and Society
[Business]
2020/09/20 09:10
The positive impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its related emerging technologies will be fully realized through the wide-scale deployment of 5G communication networks in combination with other connectivity solutions. The key functional drivers of 5G will unlock a broad range of opportunities, including the optimization of service delivery, decision-making, and end-user experience....
(Video) Microsoft's Project Natick Finds That Underwater Datacenters are Reliable and Effective
[Tech]
2020/09/20 09:09
Around the globe, data centers consume massive amounts of energy and water during operations. Underwater centers could enable more sustainable deployments in the years ahead.In recent years, Microsoft has mode long-term commitments to various green energy initiatives. Earlier this year, the company announced that it had successfully powered data center servers using hydrogen fuel cells. Now, th...
