Decoding’s China’s $170 Billion ‘Romance Economy’
Love, luxury brands, and unique services like "scolding to cure love-brain" are helping redefine gifting and affection.[“My suitor doesn’t send r...
(Paper) Google Deepmind : A Generalist AI Agent for 3D Virtual Envi...
We present new research on a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA) that can follow natural-language instructions to carry out tasks in a va...
Mckinsey - Implementing Generative AI with Speed and Safety
Generative AI poses both risks and opportunities. Here’s a road map to mitigate the former while moving to capture the latter from day one.Generat...
James Dyson Award 2024 Opens for Entries
The James Dyson Foundation is inviting design students and recent graduates who are "problem-solvers, not grandstanders" to enter its annual James...
(Video) Meet Punyo, Toyota’s Soft Robot for Whole-Body Manipulatio...
Punyo is the newest robot from Toyota but instead of looking like your typical robots that carry heavy things for us, it looks more like that adora...
(Infographic) The 4th Bitcoin Halving Explained
Sometime in April 2024, the reward that cryptocurrency miners receive for mining bitcoin (BTC) will go from ₿6.25 to ₿3.125, with significant con...
Liquid Death : The Brash "Water in a Can" Startup is Now Worth $1.4...
Liquid Death, the “goth kid of canned water” made a splash earlier this week with a $67 million funding round that brought its valuation to $1.4...
American Drivers Can't Catch a Break
The latest pinch for drivers is the cost of auto insurance, which is up 20.6% year over year as of February and the biggest jump in the cost of car...
(Paper) New AI-Assisted Wearable Enables Speech Without Vocal Cords
Speaking without vocal folds using a machine-learning-assisted wearable sensing-actuation system.Bioengineers at UCLA have invented a thin, flexibl...
Maison Margiela x Gentle Monster Pop-up Opens with Haus Nowhere Sha...
Blending the identities of Maison Margiela and Gentle Monster, Haus Nowhere Shanghai hosts a limited time pop-up. Photo: Haus Nowhere ShanghaiDetai...
(PDF) The Art Basel & UBS - Art Market Report 2024
Art Basel and UBS present The Art Market Report 2024, an annual global art market analysis. The Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2024 provides a...
(Video) With OpenAI, Figure 01 Can Now Have Full Conversations with...
Thanks to a collaboration between Figure and OpenAI, the Figure 01 humanoid robot can now converse with people in real-time, and act on requests to...
Luxury Postnatal Retreats Draw Affluent Parents Around the US
Modeled after recovery centers in Taiwan and South Korea, high-end businesses are capitalizing on the dearth of postpartum support for Americans.Af...
eXeX and Cromwell Hospital Pioneer The First Use of Apple Vision Pr...
Cromwell Hospital has become the first hospital in the UK and Europe to use the Apple Vision Pro, a spatial computing device, as a surgical logisti...
The Largest Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S.
In early January 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (U.S. SEC) gave its approval on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to track Bitcoin, g...
TECH Dexcom’s First-ever Over-the-Counter Glucose Monitor Patch Ge...
The patch provides continuous glucose monitoring, sends readings directly to a wearer's smartphone and supplies personal insights into one's glucos...
Tallest 3D-Printed Building In The World To Illuminate The Skies Of...
Nestled in the scenic Julier mountain pass of Mulegns, Switzerland, stands Tor Alva, also affectionately known as the “Weisser Turm” or White Tow...
Keurig Just Killed The Coffee-Pod With Their New Compostable Compre...
Around 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed on a daily basis, and even if a fraction of them are produced in Keurig or Nespresso machines, thos...
(PDF) Bain - Global Private Equity Report Private Equity Outlook 2024
Spiking interest rates derailed dealmaking in 2023 and left the capital flywheel sputtering. Getting unstuck is job one in the year ahead.Private e...
Touchscreen iMac like the Microsoft Surface Studio hinted by Apple...
Apple products have always been hailed by designers, and its computers have long been the tool of choice for many digital content creators, especia...
It’s a Bull Market For Gold
Did you see Gold break out to new all-time highs? These are the highest prices ever for Gold, in all of human history. But if you’re paying attent...
AI Meets Old Masters in The Fight to Authenticate Paintings
Machine learning can be the difference between a charming picture and a masterpiece worth millions.[AI programs differ over whether these are both...
Luxury Watch Sales at Auctions Drop 13% After Post-Covid Surge
Mercury Project says sales dipped after post-Covid surge. Three of the most expensive timepieces are from Patek Philippe.Sales of luxury watches su...
(Video) Stratolaunch Conducts First Powered Flight of New Hypersoni...
U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch conducted the first powered test flight of a new unmanned craft for hypersonic research on Saturday and called...
The Six 'Gatekeepers' Regulated by the Digital Markets Act
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) – the European Union’s most wide-ranging effort to rein in the power of big tech companies – went into effect this...
Food Compost Bin Concept Turns Food Waste and Cardboard Into Fertil...
Our eating habits have changed drastically over the past years, especially after the recent boom in food delivery services. Unfortunately, this isn...
(PDF) Mckinsey Time to Move : Sporting Goods 2024
Many sporting goods executives are looking to 2024 with more optimism. But in the year ahead, they will need to adapt to shifting consumer preferen...
Apple Car Designs Give Tantalizing Look at What Might Have Been
The Apple car was a case study in what happens when corporate indecision, technological challenges and market realities combine: a wasted opportuni...
MIT - Is This The Future of Fashion ?
Developed by the Self-Assembly Lab, the 4D Knit Dress uses several technologies to create a custom design and a custom fit, while addressing sustai...
CB Insights - State of CVC 2023 Report
Corporate venture capital-backed deals and dollars fall to multi-year lows as CVCs shield themselves from the volatile tech market.The corporate ve...
Covariant is Building ChatGPT for Robots
Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial i...
International Tourism to Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2024
While few industries were spared by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years, even fewer have been hit as hard as the tourism...