TREND REPORTS
EvBox's Faster, More Efficient Electric Car Chargers
[Business]
2020/03/05 09:07
The new chargers offer continuous full power and load balancing, and a design that is adaptable to any type of electric car.Netherlands-based company, EvBox, has developed ultra-fast electric car chargers that signify a new generation of electric car supplies, according to the company. The EVBox Troniq 100 boasts an output of 100 kW, and the redesigned EVBox Ultroniq will have an output of up t...
(PDF) Youth Behavior Trends in the US, 9th Grade, 14-15 Years Old
[Consumer]
2020/03/05 09:06
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report uses YRBS data to focus on four priority focus areas associated with STDs, including HIV, and unintended teen pregnancy:To raise awareness and understanding, this report presents the 2017 data by sex, by race/ethnicity, and for sexual minority youth. The report looks at the past decade and examines linear YRBS trends for each focus a...
(Paper) A New AI Chip can Perform Image Recognition Tasks in Nanoseconds
[Tech]
2020/03/05 09:05
A new type of artificial eye, made by combining light-sensing electronics with a neural network on a single tiny chip, can make sense of what it’s seeing in just a few nanoseconds, far faster than existing image sensors.Why it matters: Computer vision is integral to many applications of AI—from driverless cars to industrial robots to smart sensors that act as our eyes in remote locations—and...
Coronavirus has Already Dealt a Half-Billion-Dollar Blow to the Tech Industry’s Events Economy
[Business]
2020/03/05 09:04
Some of the industry’s biggest events have been postponed, moved online, or canceled altogether.After the Mobile World Congress got canceled in February, several more companies are shutting down their own conferences. As the novel coronavirus continues to take a human and economic toll across the world, the lucrative business of tech conferences is not immune.The direct economic loss from the...
MVRDV and Airbus Investigate How Vertiports Could be Integrated Into Cities
[Design]
2020/03/05 09:03
Architecture firm MVRDV has collaborated with aircraft manufacturer Airbus to research how landing hubs for passenger drones, called vertiports, could become part of transportation networks in future cities.The report, called Urban Air Mobility (UAM) City Integration, focused on how vertiports could serve aerial vehicle technology and supplement existing transport networks.MVRDV founding partne...
(PDF) Mckinsey : Coronavirus COVID-19 : Facts and Insights
[Business]
2020/03/04 09:10
The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. It is also having a growing impact on the global economy. This article is intended to provide business leaders with a perspective on the evolving situation and implications for their companies. The outbreak is moving quickly, and some of the perspectives in this article may fall rapidly ou...
Alibaba’s New AI System can Detect Coronavirus in Seconds with 96% Accuracy
[Tech]
2020/03/04 09:09
Chinese technology giant Alibaba recently developed an AI system for diagnosing the COVID-19 (coronavirus).Alibaba’s like Amazon, Microsoft, a video game company, and a nation-wide healthcare network all rolled into one with every branch being fed solutions from the company’s world-class AI department.Per a report from Nikkei’s Asian Review (h/t TechSpot), Alibaba claims its new system can d...
Berkshire Hathaway is the World’s Second-Most Profitable Firm
[Investing]
2020/03/04 09:08
ON FEBRUARY 22ND Warren Buffett reported that the conglomerate he runs, Berkshire Hathaway, earned net income of $81.4bn in 2019. That makes Berkshire, America’s biggest non-tech firm by market value, more profitable than any other company anywhere bar Saudi Aramco, an oil giant. Yet after years of mostly level-pegging or outperforming the broader market, Berkshire’s shares did only one-third...
Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, UV Sanitizing Startups See Surge In Sales
[Business]
2020/03/04 09:07
While the new strain of coronavirus is causing disruptions to the travel industry and broader economy, heightened concerns about germs are contributing to a surge in sales for some startups in the disinfecting space.Zoom Communications, which makes video conferencing software, gained more users so far this year than it did in all of 2019, according to Bernstein Research. Sales of Bath and Body...
