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The Gruzovikus is an 'Intelligent' Freightliner Truck That Transports Cargo Without a Driver
[Design]
2020/02/18 09:04
Without context, if you looked at the Gruzovikus, your first instinct would be to wonder why its cockpit is so slim. You’d then notice that the Gruzovikus has no doors… or windows. The Gruzovikus doesn’t need a driver, because it IS the driver. Designed by Art Lebedev Studio, this freight-carrying semi-truck comes with an incredibly slim profile, and is fully autonomous i.e., it doesn’t nee...
(Infographic) How Technology is Shaping the Future of Education
[Tech]
2020/02/18 09:03
Technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives, and now it seems that education systems around the world are due for an update.Educators are tapping into the digital revolution and adopting new technologies to help students reach their full potential, but can they adapt quickly enough to prepare children for the changing future of work?The Growing Role of Tech in ClassroomsToday’s...
(PDF) Accenture - Technology Vision 2020 Report
[Business]
2020/02/17 09:10
Leading in this new decade means working to redefine the intersection between people and technology. - Post-digital people have high expectations, but companies are still building tech-driven products and services with playbooks from the past.- Businesses must resolve these mismatched expectations to unlock the promise of a world made better and easier by tech.There’s been a lot of talk about...
(Paper) Wearable Microphone Jamming
[Tech]
2020/02/17 09:09
We engineered a wearable microphone jammer that is capable of disabling microphones in its user’s surroundings, including hidden microphones. [(a) We engineered a wearable ultrasound jammer that can prevent surrounding microphones from eavesdropping on a conversation. (b) This is the actual speech that the conversation partner hears, since our jammer does not disrupt human hearing. However, (c...
IKEA Lets You Buy Products With Travel Time Instead Of Money
[Business]
2020/02/17 09:08
Even before you walk into one of IKEA’s unwinding stores, the journey it takes to get there might already be a laborious one. Many IKEA locations are dotted in the outskirts of cities, making them more like destinations themselves.In the latest campaign by IKEA Dubai and advertising agency Memac Ogilvy, time is literally money. The furniture giant thanked shoppers for spending a generous porti...
China Smartphone Sales to Dramatically Fall in Q1 2020 Under the Shadow of Coronavirus
[Investing]
2020/02/17 09:07
Q1 China smartphone sales will drop more than 20%. Global smartphone sales to drop 5% in 1Q 2020.Within a couple of months, the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) that emerged from the city of Wuhan has spread across China and the world. It bears some resemblance to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), though less lethal but more contagious. To curb the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, the Ch...
How Yandex.Taxi is Using Automation to Detect Drowsy and Dangerous Drivers
[Tech]
2020/02/17 09:06
Yandex is trialing a driver attention control system to combat drowsiness at the wheel.In its two decades in business, Yandex has been called the Russian Google, Amazon, and Spotify, mostly due to the Moscow-based tech giant’s expansive reach into every nook — including online search, music streaming, email, maps and navigation, video, and more. In 2011, Yandex launched a mobile taxi-hailing...
(Paper) EPFL Researchers Find a Way to 3D Print Whole Objects in Seconds
[Tech]
2020/02/17 09:05
When you think of 3D printing, you probably imagine a structure being created layer by layer, from the bottom up. Now, researchers from Switzerland's Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) say they have developed a completely new way of creating 3D objects that offer remarkable resolution "in record time."As EPFL News reports, the method draws on the principle of tomography -- the te...
Canon to Launch New ‘Camera Cloud Platform’ Called Image.canon
[Product]
2020/02/17 09:04
Less than two weeks after officially shutting down its last cloud platform, Canon is launching another. So say goodbye to Irista, and hello to image.canon: a new “camera cloud platform” that’s less about storage and more about keeping your camera in sync with PCs, smartphones, and other Web services.The launch of image.canon was buried in the landslide of Canon news from last night—a new le...
