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SoftBank’s $4 Billion Trading Gains on U.S. Stock-Option Bet
[Investing]
2020/09/07 09:08
SoftBank’s aggressive bets on equity derivatives were reportedly made at the instruction of its founder Masayoshi SonSoftBank is sitting on trading gains of about $4bn after founder Masayoshi Son drove aggressive bets on equity derivatives that helped propel the US stock market to record highs, said people with direct knowledge of the matter.The high-risk strategy has been built up over the pa...
(Video) New Mario Kart Live : Home Circuit Uses Augmented Reality to Race Inside Your Home
[Business]
2020/09/07 09:07
Hardcore racing games like Gran Turismo or F1 2020 are cool and all, but there's only one racing game the entire family can enjoy: Mario Kart. Now, Nintendo is taking the game one step beyond the tv screen and moving the race directly to your home—literally.During a Nintendo Direct broadcast on Thursday, the video game maker celebrated the 35th birthday of everyone's favorite plumber by announ...
(PDF) BCG - Can Subscription Video Providers Hold On to Their New Customers ?
[Consumer]
2020/09/07 09:06
Employers.Here’s the dilemma facing US subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) providers. Compared with their linear TV counterparts, they have disproportionately thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic. Viewing time is up, as are subscriptions. But heading into the crisis, the over-the-top (OTT) video market was highly competitive—and the competition has only intensified. While all providers have r...
(Paper) New Technology `WiPose' - Towards 3D Human Pose Construction Using WiFi
[Tech]
2020/09/07 09:05
A new technology ' WiPose ' was announced that can detect the posture and movement of a person over the wall with high accuracy using Wi-Fi radio waves. This is expected to overcome the shortcomings of conventional sensing technology using cameras, such as in dark environments or places with obstacles.You can see in a single shot what kind of technology 'WiPose' developed by Wenjun Jiang, a res...
(Video) Sense Five - Smart White Cane to Aid the Visually Impaired
[Design]
2020/09/07 09:04
German design studio werteloberfell presents a concept and prototype for a smart white cane that utilizes the human sense of touch to keep visually impaired users safe. Called ‘sense five’, the main feature of this clever device is its surface-changing handle, which becomes rough to indicate a potential risk up ahead. To pick up information from the surroundings, the cane uses an integrated i...
(Infographic) The World’s Richest Families in 2020
[Investing]
2020/09/07 09:03
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped the world’s wealthiest families from growing their fortunes. Over the past year, the richest family—the Waltons—grew their wealth by $25 billion, or almost $3 million per hour.This graphic, using data from Bloomberg, ranks the 25 most wealthy families in the world. The data excludes first-generation wealth and wealth controlled by a single heir, which is...
(Patent) Amazon Patents AR Tech to Show Product Reviews on Your Body Parts
[Tech]
2020/09/06 09:10
The concept proposes using augmented reality effects via smartphones and smart glasses to render and display the virtual product information on your hands and arms.You can easily access Amazon’s product reviews on a smartphone. But what if the same reviews could automatically pop up from your hands as you walk through a retail store? The idea may sound weird, but it’s actually the basis for a...
(PDF) BCG - Can Delivery Companies Keep Up with the E-Commerce Boom?
[Business]
2020/09/06 09:09
Employers.Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis has led to a big increase in e-commerce around the world. Wary consumers, many in lockdown, have been turning to online shopping in large numbers:During the third week of March, for example, e-commerce sales in the US were 58% higher than during the same period in 2019. Perhaps more telling, 20% of consumers in the US said that, over the previous 30...
(Paper) New AR App Helps Engineers Visualize Data to Improve Robot Design
[Tech]
2020/09/06 09:08
Robot Operating System (ROS), is one of the most robust and popular collections of robotics software frameworks on the planet. But its visualization tools are somewhat lacking, which spurred researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to create an augmented reality (AR) companion app for mobile devices and heads-up displays like Microsoft’s HoloLens. Developed in Unity and dubbed Iviz...
