Augmented/Virtual Reality Tools – Startups that leverage augmented or virtual reality to aid retailers in layout of stores and the design of promotional displays. InContext Solutions, which has worked with clients like Walmart, Nestle, and Kellogg's, lets brands visualize marketing concepts and test new designs on shoppers in virtual reality to gauge their efficacy before launch. Augment aims to help brands, such as General Mills, L'Oreal, and Coca-Cola, pitch their vending machines, kiosks, or merchandise displays to retailers by showing how they would look in augmented/virtual reality. Beacon-Based Analytics and Marketing – Companies that provide hardware and software to help stores track visitors. Many focus on data collection for internal analytics, such as merchandise tracking, adjusting staffing levels, monitoring promotions, etc. Euclid Analytics, for example, tracks visitors to monitor the impact of promotions on driving store visits and to better understand when people visit stores and specific aisles.

Smart transportation uses information technology and artificial intelligence to efficiently manage and coordinate transportation systems. The application of smart transportation network allows the travelling population to have better knowledge of the traffic for better coordination. In addition, the use of smart transportation also ensures safety for the drivers. The market is experiencing growth due to their increasing demand across all geographic locations. The rising need for safe and secured transportation and planning of smart cities by governments have propelled the growth of the global smart transportation market. However, the high initial investment and lack of data might restrain the market's growth during the forecast period.

Today, right now, is a transformative moment. You are as likely to read this on your phone or tablet as you are on a laptop or in print. Every company wants to remodel itself as a lean, mean digital disruptor. Hotel companies look in awe at Airbnb, whose digital model propelled them from nowhere to a 30-billion valuation. A hotel giant that owns no rooms – groundbreaking.

Today on In Case You Missed It: Nissan created smart chairs that autonomously move themselves while people are seated in them, modeled off of the car maker's ProPILOT driving system. The chairs are being used in Japan to keep people neatly in line outside of restaurants and when one chair has been vacated, it will move itself to the end of the row, while everyone else is bumped up. Meanwhile, Elon Musk inspired and frustrated with his new plan to get folks to Mars on the largest rocket ever constructed, which he's calling the Interplanetary Transport System. The announcement was made with few details, but he's the original Tony Stark so we're willing to give him some room on it. The Komatsu autonomous dump truck video is here, but if you need a break from all this technology, bliss out to a coral timelapse video that will make you appreciate them anew.

The worlds of AI, Deep Learning and Machine Intelligence are rapidly evolving and it's hard to keep up! To help you get up-to-date we've rounded up the latest must-see AI news, interviews and videos. RE•WORK Blogs Neural Attention: Machine Learning Meets Neuroscience Neural attention has been applied successfully to a variety of different applications including NLP, vision, and memory. We spoke to Brian Cheung, from UC Berkeley & Google Brain, to learn more about the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. Machine Intelligence Is Transforming Genomics & Precision Medicine New applications for deep learning are rapidly emerging, with healthcare often touted as the industry to be most disrupted by AI.

It was the best of times p His photographs capture the culture of rock and punk music; the beguiling moments with the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and many more as they made New York's CBGB club their home in the late 1970s. John Thackwray, a French and South African commercial filmmaker and photographer, has traveled the globe since 2010, and photographed over 1,200 bedrooms of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s. More than a decade ago, the European Space Agency launched an orbiter named Rosetta, bound on a circuitous voyage to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In the years since, Rosetta has been drawn in and flung along by multiple gravity assist maneuvers, visiting the Earth three times and making … A few weeks ago we suggested you follow 5 topics that cover the more basic aspects of the business of blogging. Today let's focus on something equally important: the life of a blogger. This week I attended MMA SM2 Innovation Summit in New York, which took place during Advertising Week.

Marian Jacob is covering South East Asia. Marian worked in marketing and corporate communications for over a decade, covering both internal and external communications. She began her career in professional services, leading up to communications business partnering in various multi-national organizations with progressive cultures. Marian has worked on both global and regional roles within communications. She also provides counsel to companies on strategic communications and marketing opportunities.

SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -2.80 % Chief Executive Masayoshi Son on Friday said he intends to invest around five trillion won ( 4.5 billion) in South Korea's technology sector over the next decade. A SoftBank spokesman said that during a meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul, the founder of the Japanese telecommunications and internet conglomerate said he intended to invest in fields including smart robots, the "Internet of Things" and artificial intelligence, areas Mr. Son has said would be a focus for his company over the next 30 years. It isn't the first time Mr. Son has shown interest in the South Korean tech sector. Last year SoftBank invested 1 billion in South Korea's largest mobile-commerce company, Coupang, which the companies said was the largest-ever internet investment in South Korea. Friday's meeting comes after SoftBank closed earlier this month its 32 billion deal to acquire U.K. chip maker ARM Holdings PLC in the largest acquisition of a European technology company.

Earlier this summer, Nintendo announced that it will be relaunching its iconic NES console in the U.S. on November 11th. The NES Classic Edition will come with 30 games pre-installed, including classics like Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, and more. Now, Japanese gamers get to join in on all of the fun because they'll be getting a mini version of the Famicom called the Nintendo Classic Mini: Famicom. Similar to the NES Classic Mini, the Famicom Mini comes preloaded with 30 games, two wired controllers, but gamers will have to buy the AC adapter separately for 10. The mini Famicom will be available on November 10th, which is a day before the mini NES comes out in the U.S., for 59. "We wanted to give fans of all ages the opportunity to revisit Nintendo's original system and rediscover why they fell in love with Nintendo in the first place," Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime said in a statement.

New drone footage shows children playing football amid the ruins of rebel-held neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria.