As the startup market has matured over the years, so too have the models for company acceleration and growth. New industries have unfolded to nurture seedling companies and develop them from conception through to launch and eventual exit. These models include accelerators, incubators, VCs, angels, and now the startup studio model is unfolding as a new approach to accelerating innovation.
In 2014, Andrew Ng predicted that by 2020 more than half of all web searches would be non-text and instead they would instead be image and voice-based. While voice has yet to overtake the keyboard in terms of search traffic we are seeing a new inflection point in the voice market the rise of Conversational AI. Moving beyond simply voice commands and by combining the latest in voice recognition and language parsing technology with text-based smarts of interactive chatbots that has been developing rapidly over the last few years, Conversational AI promises to be a rich new vein of technology innovation.
Anthem, the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S, has started to use blockchain technology to help patients securely access and share their medical data. The company plans to roll out the feature, which is in pilot testing now, to groups of members in the next few months. All 40 million members will have access to it in the next two to three years, according to company officials.
70% of Americans would not trust an autonomous vehicle but 72% of Chinese consumers would trust one
Self-driving cars aren’t quite ready for large-scale commercial deployment, but as the technology advances most companies developing it plan multiple layers of safety. Aurora, a startup that counts Amazon as an investor, thinks a system of remote monitors acting much like air-traffic controllers is one way to help ensure public acceptance of its robotic chauffeurs.
Augmented reality doesn't get the love that virtual reality does. It's inherently less flashy, confined now mostly to our phones as opposed to snazzy headsets.
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