According to Newzoo's forecast, gamers across the globe will spend $137.9 billion on games in 2018. Mobile gaming will continue to be the largest segment. In total, mobile revenues will grow +25.5% year on year to reach $70.3 billion. Smartphones will account for 80% of this, or $56.4 billion in 2018,...
Only a decade ago, social media was little more than a budding trend. Although social sites like Friendster and MySpace that had a decent level of adoption, the population as a whole and businesses had not realised the potential of social media. Facebook was founded at 2004, Twitter appeared around 2005,...
Recent years, from payments to wealth management, from peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, “fintech” firms are growing rapidly. These “fintech” firms which are familiar to the public include Lending Club, OnDeck, Venmo, Rate Setter and SocietyOne. Lending Club alone, funded about $2 billion loans last quarter, and their lending to-date is more...
Metaverse is a relatively new concept and is still in the early stages of development. However, there is growing interest and investment in the metaverse from a variety of sources, including technology companies, media organizations, and venture capital firms. The metaverse is often described as a virtual world that is created...
The artificial intelligence technology is moving fast. Among which, Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) technology has moved to a new level and started to generate amazing results. Gen-AI is an AI which can generate the data for a specific purpose, this could be the new content such as a blog articles, music,...
A Brain Implant That Turns Your Thoughts Into Text? How it could be possible? Tom Oxley is a brain-computer interface specialist and the founder and CEO of Synchron, a neural interface technology company. He is A/Professor and Laboratory Head of the Vascular Bionics Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the...
This year's Snowflake Summit is coming and it is a four-days' event and is data focused. People and organizations that comprise the Data Cloud are expected to join the event and there will be discussions and talks around developing new data products and data apps. If you are interested in data...
Netflix is now offering video games. It has moved beyond TV shows and films, and started in launching Netflix games on mobile. As per Netflix, from November, members everywhere can play five mobile games: Stranger Things: 1984 (BonusXP), Stranger Things 3: The Game (BonusXP), Shooting Hoops (Frosty Pop), Card Blast (Amuzo...
During the pandemic, the online sales increased significantly, with this trend, the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) companies thrived. Shoppers want the good and services with a seamless delayed payment option. Today, the “buy now, pay later” only has a small portion of overall card spending. However, according to CB Insights’s...
Anyone has a Alexa or Google Home would have experienced Internet of Things, the connected network with connected objects - for example, you tell Google Home to turn on the lights. As technology develops, Internet of Things (IoT) will be brought into our lives more and more. Let's use connected cars...
Berkeley AI research group has a research creating a AI worm named "Everybody dance now". It uses motion transfer approach to map the movements from a source target to a destination target. Say, there is a person dancing, after some time (a few minutes), the moves of the person will be...
A few big technology companies such as Google, Apple and Mercedes-Benz are researching and building driverless vehicles. It is certain at some stage the driverless vehicles will be widely used globally. CB Insight's research outlines the following industries could potentially be impacted Insurance: It is believed that driverless cars will make...
After the release of the BionicOpter, in which Festo technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly, now FESTO has released another innovation – eMotionButterflies. The developers used their knowledge gained from the BionicOpter and other projects, combined the ultralight construction of artificial insects with coordinated flying behaviour. The...
A SixthSense device that can help the physical world interact with the world of data - it shows you the weather on your palm, advises you of flight delay on your boarding pass, takes a picture with your hands without a camera, allows you dial a phone call on your palm,...
Bitcoin has gained popularity in recent years. It is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money. According to bitcoin.org, Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network. Video source: youtube.com,...
If you think that today’s ebooks you download and read in pdf, or word or Kindle format are the types of ebooks we will still be reading in 3 years, you are wrong. Software developer Mike Matas demos the first interactive book for the iPad, where the ebook is like a...
Mary Lou Jepsen is the head of the Display Division at Google [x], she studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens. Her research is to discover the neural activity that underlies invention, creativity, thought - mental images and ideas are actually the same thing. Imagining if we can...
This speech is truly inspiring. In this speech, Guy Kawasaki takes us through 10 guiding principles for great innovations - "Rethink. Redefine. Recreate". Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). He was...
We all want to know how many jobs will be threatened by the rise of robots and technology. You might feel vulnerable if your job is one that could be affected. But thanks to a new report, 27% of the 160 million people in the United States labour force can breathe...
Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ latest and most advanced robot to date. She is a social humanoid robot, and has been covered by major media around the world and sparked interests from many people regardless of age, gender, and culture background. Her creator, David Hanson, said that Sophia could ultimately serve in...
"At least 40% of all businesses will die in the next 10 years, if they don't figure out how to change their entire company to accommodate technologies", John Chambers, Chairman of CISCO Sytems. Statista has published a digital economy compass document and provided more than 180 slides of the state and...
