TREND REPORTS
Airline Industry Returns to Profits in 2023
[Business]
2023/12/21 09:07
Having largely left behind Covid-related turbulences, the global airline industry emerged from the storm in 2023, returning to profitability after three years of deep losses. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), commercial airlines are expected to end the year with $23.3 billion in net profit, up from a loss of $3.8 billion in 2022 and significantly higher than previ...
Lingrove, CA-based Composite Materials Company, Raised $10M in Funding
[Investing]
2023/12/21 09:06
The round was led by Lewis & Clark Agrifood and Diamond Edge Ventures, with participation from Bunge Ventures and SOSV.The company intends to use the funds to ramp up production of ekoa®, a natural, durable, and carbon-negative alternative to conventional materials used in construction.Led by CEO Joe Luttwak, Lingrove is working to create, carbon-negative interiors to combat climate change...
(Infographic) 5 Drivers Behind the Growth of the GPU Cloud Computing Market
[Business]
2023/12/21 09:05
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are specialized computer chips originally designed for use in gaming, but have recently found a second life on the cloud because of their capabilities in high performance computing. GPUs use parallel processing to efficiently and effectively solve complex problems across a wide range of domains, much faster than the serial processing approach of CPUs.In this vis...
Metabolically Labeled CAR-T Cells Against Cancer
[Tech]
2023/12/21 09:04
Patient-derived T cells carrying immune-enhancing cytokines on their surfaces through simple and effective approach could help expand adoptive T cell therapies to treatment of solid tumors.Cytokine enhancement of therapeutic T cells before their adoptive transfer to recipients with solid and hard-to-treat blood cancersNovel metabolic labeling technology that engineers T cells’ surface sugars a...
Tiny VW ID. Buzz e-Camper Lives Large with Queen Bed and Flex Kitchen
[Product]
2023/12/21 09:03
Tonke creates about as comfortable and functional a camper van as the small all-electric VW ID. Buzz can handle with pop-tops or expanding walls.The good folks at Tonke know their way around a smart, flexible Volkswagen camper van build, and they know their way around an equally smart, versatile electric camper. Now they merge those skill sets to create a Volkswagen ID. Buzz mini-camper that lo...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Grocery Retail in Asia : Thriving in Changing Consumption Patterns
[Business]
2023/12/20 09:10
Asian grocers and FMCG companies are dealing with the impact of inflation and changing consumer preferences. Our analysis highlights five trends, but the devil is in the details for each market.Consumers, regardless of markets, continue to face headwinds due to inflation. In Asia, it topped 6 percent since the beginning of 2022 and accounted for most of the spending growth in fast-moving consum...
Sip Sustainably : A Plastic-Lid-Free Drinks Cup
[Design]
2023/12/20 09:09
One company is eliminating the need for a separate plastic lid in hot beverage containers.It’s estimated that, around the world, at least 500 billion disposable cups are used yearly. These containers may be handy for grabbing a hot drink on the go, but so few are recycled that the majority either end up in landfills or as pollution, affecting our oceans, lakes, and rivers. To tackle this plast...
(Infographic) Visualizing How Big Tech Companies Make Their Billions
[Investing]
2023/12/20 09:08
First there was oil, then tobacco, then pharma. The “Big” epithet has always denoted the unique scale and power of certain industries, and today’s Big Tech companies are the perfect example.These six tech giants—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta (formerly Facebook), and Nvidia—are each one of the eight most valuable companies in the world by market capitalization.Thanks to the ubiqu...
(Paper) DeWave : Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
[Tech]
2023/12/20 09:07
The translation of brain dynamics into natural language is pivotal for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). With the swift advancement of large language models, such as ChatGPT, the need to bridge the gap between the brain and languages becomes increasingly pressing. Current methods, however, require eye-tracking fixations or event markers to segment brain dynamics into word-level features, which...
How US Couples Meet in The US
[Consumer]
2023/12/20 09:06
“I've seen charts like this before, but they've all had a big error in them, so I went back to the original data source (which was pretty messy) to find the truth.In the past, this chart has been shown with the category "bar or restaurant" rising since 2000—the only category rising in addition to "met online". But the authors noted in their original study that:[The chart's] apparent post-2010...
Galaxy Flip Case with a Built-in Foldable Tripod can Transform Your Phone Into Camcorder
[Design]
2023/12/20 09:05
I had literally forgotten about camcorders; I don’t even rightly remember the last time I used one. Since cameras on the smartphones have outdone handycams and reached near DSLR efficacy – at least with high-end models – there’s been a drastic slump in everyday usage of camcorders. Whether you want to capture family moments at home, record landscapes, or timelapse a sunset, mobile cameras a...
Cyber-Colleagues : Where AI Might Fit in The American Workplace
[Consumer]
2023/12/20 09:04
After some of its content was revealed to be AI-produced and accredited to non-existent authors, the CEO of Sports Illustrated was fired by the magazine’s publisher, The Area Group, earlier this week.Writer profiles on the 70-year-old periodical's site were found to include headshots from an AI-generated picture marketplace, and certain articles featured sweeping, bot-like statements, such as...
