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Sonair Takes A Cue From Dolphins to Build Autonomous 3D Vision Without Lidar
[Tech]
2024/10/09 09:05
Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables noninvasive body scans and underwater communication and can help us park our cars. A young startup called Sonair out of Norway wants to employ it for something else: 3D computer vision used in autonomous hardware applications. Sonair’s founder and CEO Knut Sandven believes the company’s application of ultrasound technology — a g...
The World’s Most Innovative Countries in 2024
[Investing]
2024/10/09 09:04
The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ranks 133 economies based on their innovation capabilities and performance. This year’s report highlights shifts in global innovation leadership, with a focus on emerging economies challenging traditional leaders.To summarize the results of this year’s GII, we visualized each economy’s s...
C-Zero is Raising $18M to Make Emission-Free Hydrogen Using Natural Gas
[Investing]
2024/10/09 09:03
Hydrogen startup C-Zero has raised $5 million of an $18 million funding round, according to an SEC filing.The company is developing a way to strip hydrogen from methane without emitting carbon dioxide. The resulting hydrogen can be used in a range of industries today, including ammonia and petrochemical production, and potentially others in the near future, including transportation and steel pr...
Louis Vuitton’s Bed Trunk Gets Contemporary Update by Pharrell Williams
[Product]
2024/10/07 09:10
Fellow LV designer Nicolas Ghesquière has also reinterpreted the historic, 19th-century piece.The French maison just unveiled two new versions of its iconic bed trunk designed by artistic director of the women’s collections Nicolas Ghesquière and men’s creative director Pharrell Williams, respectively. The modern successors are based on the 19th-century original but have a contemporary twis...
(Paper) Double-Edged Stars : Michelin Stars, Reactivity, and Restaurant Exits
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:09
The personal stress that comes with working toward — and then maintaining — a Michelin star has been well documented in TV shows such as The Bear or memoirs like Burn the Place. On the other hand, it would seem the restaurants themselves can only benefit from such a major accolade. Yet a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, actually finds that restaurants that received a M...
What Sephora’s Annual Festival Reveals About The Future of Beauty
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:08
Fans flocked to Sephora’s ‘beauty funhouse’ in Atlanta last week to meet brands like Sol de Janeiro, Danessa Myricks, and Brown Girl Jane.In the early 20th century, Atlanta’s Pullman Yards was a thriving industrial complex, a leading hub for chemical manufacturing. This past weekend, the entertainment and event venue was home to a very different industry, as 8,000 beauty fans descended from...
(Paper) Letta, UC Berkeley’s Groundbreaking AI Startups, Has Just Come Out of Stealth
[Investing]
2024/10/07 09:07
A startup called Letta has just emerged from stealth with tech that helps AI models remember users and conversations. Created in UC Berkeley’s famed labs startup factory, it also announced $10 million in seed money led by Felicis’ Astasia Myers, at a $70 million post-money valuation. Letta is also backed by a who’s who of angel investors in AI, like Google’s Jeff Dean, Hugging Face’s Clem...
A Bold AI Ambition for B2B Marketing, Sales, and Service
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:06
AI can fundamentally transform the customer journey—if organizations pursue the right unified strategy.According to new BCG research, 74% of marketing, sales, and service leaders expect GenAI to enhance key business metrics.But first movers haven’t achieved the expected value or ROI because their initial use cases don’t go far enough.BCG’s Deploy Reshape Invent transformation framework sets...
It’s All ‘Smiles’ Following Gut New York’s First Campaign for Heinz
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:05
Ketchup fans go to extremes to let people know that ‘It Ha-Ha-Has to Be Heinz’Gut New York’s first campaign for Heinz was a messy one—in a good way.Kraft Heinz in-house agency The Kitchen also provided support for “Heinz Smiles,” consisting of three ads in which fans of Heinz Tomato Ketchup smear the product all over their faces with huge smiles to show just how much they love the taste.G...
