Microsoft, health insurer Cigna Corp and Mayo Clinic are part of a coalition pushing for digital records of people who get vaccinated against Covid-19.A key aim of the project, called Vaccination Credential Initiative, is to help people store encrypted digital copies of their immunisation records in a digital wallet of their choice, the companies said in a joint statement.These records could ev...

Ever since Apple and other Big Tech companies hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion, many sectors are revving to follow suit—including the automotive industry.But among those car brands racing to reach this total valuation, some are closer to the finish line than others. This visualization uses data from Yahoo Finance to rank the world’s top car manufacturers by market capitalization.Wha...

In the world of Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, a wave of young consumers are investing in demi-fine pendants, earrings and chains to elevate their everyday wear on screen — without the fine jewellery price tag.Demi-fine is a category popularised first by luxury e-tailer Net-a-Porter for a new swathe of brands focused on trend-led, affordable pieces using precious metal. While the jewellery marke...

The Vertical Field urban farm pod can be installed in parking lots or inside warehouses, with a modular design that can grow according to customer need.Last month we reported that a huge vertical farming operation near Copenhagen in Denmark recently completed its first harvest. That setup uses hydroponics, but the veggies grown in Vertical Field urban farming pods take root in real soil.Traditi...

“글로벌 트렌드 리서치 서비스 제공업체 트렌드버드 (TRENDBIRD), 코로나 19 시대의 온라인 기업 교육을 위해 글로벌 트렌드와 실리콘밸리 유망 스타트업을 분석한 맞춤형 교육 동영상 서비스 제공” 1) SK 그룹 : 지난해 SK그룹 mySUNI(써니)와 공동 개발한 글로벌 트렌드 & 인사이트 영상을 1년간 SK 구성원들에게 제공하여 호평을 받은데 이어, 금년에는 실리콘 밸리 유망 스타트업 50개를 분석한 시즌 2 영상 제공중2)...

Thanks to an unprecedented growth spurt, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes to our lifestyles it brought along, Netflix passed the 200 million subscriber milestone in 2020.After a brief slowdown in Q3 2020, the company added 8.5 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, beating its own guidance as well as analyst expectations. The world’s most popular video streaming serv...

U.S. patent application, US20210021673, relates to a device for facilitating group-based data transfer. The device is configured to receive signals from multiple devices in it’s proximity, determine an identifier for each of the devices, determine a subset of devices that share a group with the particular device, and converge the data received from the subset of devices based on the particular...

Product leaders should explore these must-know emerging technologies.[click to enlarge]Although virtual assistants have been around for a while, and most consumers are used to dealing with them, the application is limited and the experience can be poor. However, there is a whole new level of virtual assistance on the way called advanced virtual assistants, which are capable of functioning as vi...

AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing.The Milpitas, California-based company was started in 2016 by Vinod Dham, a former Intel executive known as the “father of the Pentium.” He teamed up with younger chip designers to develop Real AI processors for edge applications, those at the edge of the network. Dham is now a board member, an...