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CB Insights - State of AI 2023 Recap
[Investing]
2024/02/07 09:10
The explosion of generative AI saves the AI sector from the worst of the venture drought. Although AI venture activity slowed down in 2023, the sector — and particularly, generative AI — remains the one clear bright spot in an otherwise somber fundraising environment. Based on our deep dive below, here is the TLDR on the state of AI:In 2023, AI startups raised $42.5B across 2,500 equity round...
Will Apple’s Vision Pro Spur Luxury’s Virtual Reality Breakthrough ?
[Business]
2024/02/07 09:09
Apple’s widely anticipated Vision Pro has spurred a virtual reality comeback. The question is whether luxury brands are ready, and whether consumers will bite?Apple’s widely anticipated Vision Pro has spurred a virtual reality comeback. The question is whether luxury brands are ready, and whether consumers will bite?After breaking headlines last June, Apple’s highly anticipated – and inexor...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Here to Stay : An Attractive Future for Medical Aesthetics
[Business]
2024/02/07 09:08
The medical-aesthetics sector shows strong resilience and room for strategic innovations in business models, product portfolios, and consumer targeting.Even at the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, the future looked bright for the medical-aesthetics industry. As we reported in 2021, the industry was poised to grow by as much as 14 percent annually through 2026.1 This growth was due to an expandi...
(Video) Amazon Launches an AI Chatbot to Help Shoppers
[Tech]
2024/02/07 09:07
Rufus is an expert shopping assistant trained on Amazon’s product catalog and information from across the web to answer customer questions on shopping needs, products, and comparisons, make recommendations based on this context, and facilitate product discovery in the same Amazon shopping experience customers use regularly.Launching today in beta to a small subset of customers in Amazon’s mob...
How Important Is China for Apple ?
[Business]
2024/02/07 09:06
China is a very important market for Apple, accounting for almost 20 percent of the company's total sales. After entering the Chinese smartphone market in 2010, Apple’s sales in the region grew more than 20-fold within five years, peaking at $58.7 billion in 2015 before gradually falling back to $40.3 billion in 2020, when Covid-19 heavily affected Apple's business in the region. Luckily for A...
Compact Urban Farms That Tackle Food Insecurity - Agrisiti
[Business]
2024/02/07 09:05
The system provides the structure for raising poultry, fish, and vegetables on a very small footprint.The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recommends daily consumption of at least 53.8 grammes of protein for the minimum level of good health. In Nigeria, however, the Nigerian Protein Deficiency Report 2020 found that more than 92 million citizens often go without eating any protein...
(Infographic) The World’s Richest Countries Across 3 Metrics
[Investing]
2024/02/07 09:04
How do you measure the economic success of a country ?By one classic measure, GDP per capita shows individual economic prosperity. But comparing countries simply by this metric doesn’t tell the whole story. To get a better idea of living standards, it helps to look at how far your money will go along with adjusting for labor productivity.This graphic shows the world’s richest countries by thr...
HOM-E Last-Mile Companion Robot to Keep You Safe
[Design]
2024/02/07 09:03
HOM-E is a safe last mile robot that would become a companion to ensure citizen’s last-mile home can be safe.When you have to go home late, some people might feel afraid, they family can come to meet them or call them. However, single-person households might go home alone due to many reasons, such as inconvenience of the safe return service and time. HOM-E is a companion robot designed to acco...
(Patent) Apple's In-Depth Patents Regarding The Use of In-Air Gestures to Control VisionOS
[Tech]
2024/02/06 09:10
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to their advanced Spatial Computer known as Vision Pro that using in-air finger and Hand gestures to control elements within the 3D XR environment of visionOS. Our report also links to two additional HMD related patents published today regarding gaze controls and more.Apple revealed that 5,000...
(PDF) BCG - For Pharmaceutical Companies, 3 Steps to Value with Generative AI
[Business]
2024/02/06 09:09
New GenAI offerings can benefit virtually every aspect of an organization, boosting efficiency and productivity in areas ranging from R&D to commercial activities.Because the technology has such wide potential, pharmaceutical companies need to adopt a structured approach to implementing it. In BCG’s six-part framework for implementing GenAI, three elements should be the biggest priorities...
(Video) AI Needs Breaks Too! by KitKat
[Business]
2024/02/06 09:08
It turns out, even AI could use a break now and then!The inspiration behind this playful campaign from KitKat Canada came from recent research by Google DeepMind, which discovered that even AI can perform better when it takes a break.The key phrase they found most effective was, “Take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step.”KitKat’s agency Courage took this insight and connected...
Sergey Brin-Backed Startup, 280 Earth Leverages Data Centers to Capture Carbon
[Investing]
2024/02/06 09:07
280 Earth spun out of Alphabet’s X lab with a unique plan to use waste heat to power machines that remove carbon from thin air.[Sergey Brin is backing 280 Earth, a startup spun out of Google X, that’s building a pilot facility to remove carbon from the air in The Dalles, Oregon, next to a Google data center.]Google’s co-founder and Alphabet Inc.'s moonshot lab X are making a bet on a technol...
