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Coronavirus Is Changing How Consumers Shop
[Consumer]
2020/03/12 09:09
As uncertainty over coronavirus continues to grow, consumers are becoming more cautious about shopping in public places and are utilizing online shopping as a means of getting necessities.Nearly half (47.2%) of US internet users polled by Coresight Research last month said they are currently avoiding shopping centers and malls. If the outbreak worsens, roughly three-quarters (74.6%) said they w...
(Paper) Google - AutoML-Zero : Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
[Tech]
2020/03/12 09:08
Machine learning research has advanced in multiple aspects, including model structures and learning methods. The effort to automate such research, known as AutoML, has also made significant progress. However, this progress has largely focused on the architecture of neural networks, where it has relied on sophisticated expert-designed layers as building blocks---or similarly restrictive search s...
(PDF) Deloitte - Digital Transformation : Radically Transforming Your Support Models
[Business]
2020/03/12 09:07
The subscription economy is evolving into an experience-driven outcome economyHow to stay competitive in the experience-driven outcome economy? This article, eighth in a series, argues that companies should look to transform their customer support function’s role to one of customer advocacy.IN today’s experience-driven outcome economy, always-on customers are increasingly seeking a dynamic...
Museums Provide the Inspiration Behind These Immersive Brand Experiences
[Business]
2020/03/12 09:06
Recently, museum-like brand exhibitions are proliferating, allowing consumers to more deeply and meaningfully interact with a brand’s products and processes via a highly experiential, education-forward format. These installations are similar to the branded pop-up frenzy we’ve seen, but they level up in terms of sophistication, execution, and consumer takeaway.1. ChanelChanel is curating an im...
Tesla Topped 1st Place in Consumer Reports Owner Satisfaction Survey
[Consumer]
2020/03/12 09:05
According to a Consumer Reports survey, Tesla has the highest owner satisfaction rating among other brands by a wide margin.Consumer Reports (CR) has always rated each car using a group of ratings based on data or based on the experience of their testers and participants.CR surveys show that owner satisfaction can vary significantly by model and brand. To measure satisfaction, they ask particip...
In America, Even Pandemics are Political
[Consumer]
2020/03/12 09:04
Democrats are more worried than Republicans about covid-19.POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP has penetrated nearly every facet of American life. Today it influences not only Americans’ decisions at the ballot box, but also their views on race, immigration, the environment and helping the poor. Even scientific beliefs now fall along partisan lines. As Americans face the threat of a pandemic of covid-19, w...
(Video) Goodyear reCharge Concept : Making Tire Changing Easy with Capsules
[Design]
2020/03/12 09:03
Goodyear's "rechargeable" concept tire extrudes extra tread as needed. Goodyear's latest concept tire allows you to pop a cartridge of new tread compound into the center of the hub, where it extrudes out at the wheel surfaceWe love a good concept tire here at New Atlas. Incremental improvements aside, the wheel-to-road interface has been more or less stagnant since Goodyear rolled out the first...
(PDF) BCG - The 2020 TMT Value Creators Report - The Tech Star Keeps Burning Bright
[Business]
2020/03/11 09:10
With a median five-year TSR (from 2015 to 2019) of 18.3%, technology finished third among 33 industries in value creation, its third consecutive year in the top five. The top-ten tech performers over that period provide a window into the state of the industry as we depart one decade and enter another. (See Exhibit 1.) In the 2010s, digital technology went mainstream. With the cloud, it went eve...
Your Future Face-Scanning Phone Could Check for Live Skin - TrinamiX
[Tech]
2020/03/11 09:09
Sound creepy? It may actually make your Face ID-type sensor more secure and accurate. The company behind this expects to see the tech in phones by 2021.Fooling a face-scanning phone camera may be a lot more challenging in 2021. Live-skin-sensing technology is coming to phones, promising a way to 3D scan your face -- and also check to see if your face is made of actual living flesh.Trinamix, a s...
