TREND REPORTS
(Video) Verve Motion Raises $20M for Soft Exoskeletons
[Investing]
2024/01/17 09:08
Verve Motion, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of exoskeletons for a variety of industrial uses, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The new funding will help Verve scale its SafeLift soft exoskeleton.Verve Motion is a spinout of the Biodesign Lab at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It has now raised more than $40 million since it was founded in 2...
Xyte Stirs Up $30M to Enable Any Hardware Maker to Build Subscription Products
[Investing]
2024/01/17 09:06
The hardware industry is under pressure these days: slower spending cycles from consumers and businesses, market saturation — not to mention innovation largely coming in the form of software at the moment — are all contributing to an overall decline in sales. Now, a startup has raised some funding to expand its alternative to hardware sales: hardware-as-a-service.Xyte (pronounced “Excite”),...
(Infographic) Prediction Consensus : What the Experts See Coming in 2024
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:05
As we look ahead to 2024, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology to track in this new year.In this now fifth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2024 Global Forecast Series), we’ve summarized 25 of the most common predictions and forecasts by experts into a single visual of what’s expected...
C-Beauty Exports to South Korea Surge : Is K-Beauty Over ?
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:04
Chinese beauty brands report robust sales in South Korea. Will China, deeply influenced by K-beauty, pick up the trendsetting mantle?On December 25, the South Korean Trade Association released a surprising number: In the first eight months of 2023, Chinese cosmetics exports to South Korea surged 190 percent.Could it be that a country so deeply influenced by the K-wave and K-beauty for over the...
Retailers Lean on Data, AI for Content Personalization
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:03
Key stat: 71% of US retail decision-makers have invested in data/AI-enabled content for personalization, according to an August 2023 report from Coresight Research and Obsess.Beyond the chart:Over three-quarters (77%) of companies that have invested in data/AI-enabled content for personalization have reported significant or moderate increases in online sales, per the same report.The top three p...
(매일경제) 글로벌 마켓 센싱 & 트렌드 리서치 서비스 TRENDIRD, Annual Trend Report 2024 발표
[Trendbird]
2024/01/16 15:44
글로벌 트렌드 센싱 & 리서치 서비스 트렌드버드 (Trendbird), 2024 트렌드 전망 보고서 발표 : 생성 AI를 필두로 2024년을 이끌어 갈 기술 트렌드 전망(매일경제 기사 원문 링크 : https://www.mk.co.kr/news/business/10921966)글로벌 트렌드 리서치 업체, 트렌드버드(Trendbird)는 ‘2024 트렌드 전망 보고서(TRENDBIRD–Annual Trend Report 2024)’를 발간했다고 밝혔다. 이 보고서에서는 2023년 한 해 글로벌 비즈니...
(Paper) These AI-Powered Apps, TBscreen Can Hear The Cause of a Cough
[Tech]
2024/01/16 09:09
Smartphone apps can differentiate between tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions. It’s part of an AI-driven trend: using sound to diagnose illnesses.This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.This week I came across a paper that uses AI in a way...
The Exploding Generative AI Market
[Investing]
2024/01/16 09:08
The number of providers in every category, and their funding, has ballooned over the past three years.[bain]
Revolutionary MIT Tech Traps Water Micropollutants Like Magnets
[Tech]
2024/01/16 09:07
Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a hydrogel system using zwitterionic materials for efficient water treatment in just one step, with minimal impact on the environment.[MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint.]Micropollutants are tiny particles that can damage human health and the environment, such...
The Largest Risks Faced by the World
[Investing]
2024/01/16 09:06
Over the next ten years, climate change and its consequences will pose the greatest risk to the world. That’s according to roughly 1,500 global experts from academia, business and politics, who were asked to evaluate 34 global risks over a two-year and a 10-year horizon for the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Perception Survey.With inflation easing in most parts of the world, the e...
Bio-Cement: A Potential Material That May Replace Regular Cement
[Design]
2024/01/16 09:05
Industrial designer Mary Lempres has unveiled a groundbreaking bio-cement structure named Reef Rocket, inspired by the intricate and resilient nature of oyster reefs. Designed to combat coastal flooding, filter seawater, and foster biodiversity, Reef Rocket utilizes biomimicry principles to mimic the functionalities of naturally occurring oyster reefs.The structure comprises two bio-cement modu...
(Infographic) Direct Lithium Extraction Disrupt the $90B Lithium Market ?
[Business]
2024/01/16 09:04
This graphic shows the growing value of the lithium market and the supply challenges faced by this lithium market. It then establishes direct lithium extraction as a solution to this supply challenge and EnergyX as a company that provides this solution.Will Direct Lithium Extraction Disrupt the $90B Lithium Market?Current lithium extraction and refinement methods are outdated, often harmful to...
