TREND REPORTS
(Video) MIT - A Bionic Knee Integrated Into Tissue Can Restore Natural Movement
[Tech]
2025/07/16 09:06
MIT researchers have developed a new bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional prosthesis.Unlike prostheses in which the residual limb sits within a socket, the new system is directly integrated with the user’s muscle and bone tissue. This enables greater stability and gives the...
Record-High Coffee Prices Poised To Keep Rising On Upcoming Brazil Tariffs
[Investing]
2025/07/16 09:05
Anyone who relies on a morning cup of coffee will have noticed how much their caffeine kick has been setting them back of late.Now, as the Trump administration prepares to impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil to the US from August 1, people may have to fork out even more. Coffee prices have recently surged to an all-time high, hitting $7.93 per pound of ground roast coffee in May — up fr...
Open Hotels Reimagines Budget Stays With AI Management And Virtual Staff
[Business]
2025/07/16 09:04
It filed a U.S. patent application for its Remote Hotel Management System. Aims to operate 1,000 hotels in India by 2030 and expand globally. INDIA’S EMBASSY GROUP hospitality arm, Olive, recently launched Open Hotels, a remote-operated, AI-native hotel brand. The sub-brand plans to integrate 130 hotels and generate $23.5 million or Rs 200 crore in revenue this financial year.Bengaluru-based E...
Mind-Bending ‘Hollow Pencil’ Reduces Wood And Waste By Almost 85%
[Design]
2025/07/16 09:03
By replacing wood with honeycombed paper, the Hollow Pencil presents an absolutely audacious redesign of perhaps one of the most ‘classically perfect’ inventions of all time. Pencils haven’t changed much in hundreds of years. They still come wrapped in wood with a graphite lead running along the center. The preferred cross-section is usually hexagonal, but cylindrical, triangular, and even f...
Inside South Korea’s Cosmetic Tourism Boom
[Business]
2025/07/15 09:10
Korea’s medical tourism sector is thriving — but strict defamation laws, cultural differences and nationwide doctors’ strikes present unique challenges to foreigners seeking medical and aesthetic treatments in the global beauty capital.Apgujeong is the name of a particularly affluent ward in the upscale Gangnam district of Seoul, located right where the neighbourhood meets the southern bank...
The Sculpting Robots Quietly Used by Big-Name Artists
[Design]
2025/07/15 09:09
Two studio owners whose clients include Jeff Koons and Maya Lin dominate robot-chiseled art. One is spending big to preserve the human touch.High in the marble quarries of Carrara, Italy, a four-and-a-half-ton robot steadily carves the likeness of Indian spiritual leader Sai Baba. Lying flat in the cold sunlight, the sage’s likeness is slowly emerging from a massive block of premium Carrara ma...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How AI and Automation Can Transform the Consumer Enterprise
[Business]
2025/07/15 09:08
New analysis helps quantify the impact of technological disruption and shows how consumer companies can turn automation’s potential into value.Let’s say a retail merchandiser starts the process of analyzing scores of sales data and making recommendations for stock adjustments. Today, this worker is likely to perform that task using some amount of assistance from AI and automation tools, but n...
(Video) AI Robots Fill In For Weed Killers And Farm Hands
[Tech]
2025/07/15 09:07
Aigen's solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding.Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds.As farms across the United States face a shortage of laborers and weeds grow resistant to herbicides, startup Aigen...
The AI Layoffs Begin
[Consumer]
2025/07/15 09:06
Six months into 2025, over 50,000 tech workers have already been laid off, with giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, PwC, and Chegg Inc. making headlines. While AI is often cited as the culprit, insiders say the reality is more complex—part efficiency, part financial recalibration.At Microsoft, nearly 6,000 employees were let go, including a veteran developer who spent 18 years at the com...
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