350+ influencers with a collective audience of 3.5 billion people are flocking to a platform called Escapex, which gives them their own apps. It’s part of the next wave of social media focused on smaller, more private groups.Last week, actor Jeremy Renner posted a time-lapse video of himself trying on different outfits in front of the mirror. “Suiting up for the Avengers press tour,” he wrot...

A team of Israeli researchers has “printed” the world’s first 3-D vascularized, engineered heart.On Monday, a team of Tel Aviv University researchers revealed the heart, which was made using a patient’s own cells and biological material. Until now, scientists have successfully printed only simple tissues without blood vessels.“This is the first time anyone anywhere has successfully enginee...

A new survey finds that 14 percent of US Netflix users are watching the service without paying for it.A new survey from analysts MoffettNathanson finds that 14 percent of US Netflix users admit that they’re watching the service using an account paid for by someone they don’t live with. That is, they’re watching Netflix even though they’re not technically supposed to be watching Netflix.As a...

Bloomengine is a smart planter that will care for your delicate plants during its infancy stage.It can be challenging, growing delicate plants from seeds. A group of Korean entrepreneurs is out to make the process easier – and techier – with the Wi-Fi-connected, water-pump-equipped and smartphone-controlled Bloomengine.Users start by placing an included disc-shaped peat pellet in water, and a...

Valencian design studio culdesac custom has drawn from the aesthetics and futuristic universe of stanley kubrick’s acclaimed film 2001: a space odyssey to create the product design and identity of honeygreen+. Titled innovation by nature, the project expands in two levels: a series of methacrylate capsules that highlight the nuances and differences between the different types of honey; and two...

With patterns getting more extreme, brands across verticals need to pay attention.Rain actually seems to help some industries like apparel, beauty and footwear.When it comes to foot traffic, brands have always had to take inclement weather into account. But with weather getting more extreme as the climate steadily changes, stores need to be more prepared than ever for fluctuations. New research...

The superstar effect is real, and in this new competitive environment, strategy matters more than ever.The rapid growth of very large global companies is fueling widespread debate about “superstar” effects and superstar companies. The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) recently published its first findings in a series of research papers on this topic. One motivating factor for our ongoing resear...

If successful, the virtual reality training program will be rolled out across the UK during 2019.Doctors in the south of the UK can now run through virtual reality simulations of emergency care for folks suffering from Type 1 diabetes, before applying what they've learned on real patients.Developed by the NHS England diabetes team and VR simulation firm Oxford Medical Simulation, with funding f...

AI that creates original clips from text snippets isn’t as novel as it sounds. Last year, researchers detailed a system that tapped a pair of neural networks — layers of mathematical functions modeled after biological neurons — to generate videos 32 frames long and 64×64 pixels in size from descriptions like “playing golf on the grass.” But in a newly published paper on the preprint serve...