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(Infographic) Lionel Messi's Impact on Miami—and Soccer
[Business]
2023/10/12 09:08
Demand for attending matches has grown since Messi signed with Inter Miami CF. This could be the tipping point for the beautiful game in the U.S.Learn the ins, outs, dos and don’ts of creator marketing at Social Media Week Europe this 10–11 October in London. Register for your in-person or virtual pass.Soccer has been growing in popularity in the U.S.—thanks, in part, to a dominant women’s...
AI is Policing the Package Theft Beat for UPS As ‘Porch Piracy’ Surge Continues
[Business]
2023/10/12 09:07
Hundreds of millions of packages are stolen every year adding up to big sums for companies from Amazon to United Parcel Service.UPS’s latest effort to prevent ‘porch piracy’ is using artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms that assign delivery addresses a confidence score based on address-specific data, and it is working with retailers including Costco Wholesale.The logistics co...
Musée d’Orsay’s NFT Venture Could Be Make-or-Break For Cultural Web3
[Tech]
2023/10/12 09:06
Paris’ Musée d’Orsay recently plunged into the turbulent waters of NFTs, partnering with cryptocurrency giant Binance to mint NFTs of select artworks from its revered collection. While it’s not unusual for cultural organizations to offer digital assets, the Musée d’Orsay’s move comes at a time when the NFT market is facing a perceptible dip in consumer conception of value, sparking debat...
IMF: Inflation to Remain Elevated Until 2025
[Investing]
2023/10/12 09:05
Despite inflation coming down notably from its 2022 highs in recent months thanks to gradual easing of supply chain disruptions and declining commodity prices, the International Monetary Fund doesn’t expect consumer price increases to return to the desired levels of around 2 percent before 2025 in most advanced economies.According to its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF predicts global i...
Single-bladed Floating Wind Turbine Promises Half The Cost, More Power
[Tech]
2023/10/12 09:04
Giant single-bladed turbines could create more power in floating offshore arrays, at half the cost of a traditional design.We haven't seen a floating offshore wind turbine like this before. Touchwind claims its innovative single-blade turbines will solve several problems to drive down cost and downtime, using a single, huge blade with no fancy active pitch controls.Most of the world's best wind...
(Video) Bratz World AR Experience Brings Fashion Dolls to Life at Walmart
[Business]
2023/10/12 09:03
Shoppers will be able to enter a virtual world inspired by the popular toy line.[The Bratz World AR experience allows Walmart shoppers to take pictures with the fashion dolls.MGA Entertainment]Learn the ins, outs, dos and don’ts of creator marketing at Social Media Week Europe this 10–11 October in London. Register for your in-person or virtual pass.Ahead of the holiday shopping season, toy c...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Promise of Travel in The Age of AI
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:10
What will define the next age of travel? Digital technology and artificial intelligence are empowering the industry to reimagine the travel experience and unlock long-term growth.Every generation has its own “golden age” of travel, often defined by the widespread adoption of new technology—from the jet engine of the 1950s that drastically reduced travel times to the dot-com period of the 199...
(Patent) Apple Invents a Virtual Canvas App for Artists When Using Apple Vision Pro
[Tech]
2023/10/11 09:09
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a possible future Vision Pro app that provides artists with a virtual canvas & sketchbook that will provide virtual erasing and smudging techniques and the ability to paint or draw in layers that could be edited.Apple's newly granted patent describes techniques for providing an interactive computer-genera...
(Infographic) How AI and the Metaverse Will Impact the Datasphere
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:08
The datasphere—the infrastructure that stores and processes our data—is critical to many of the advanced technologies on which we rely.So we partnered with HIVE Digital on this infographic to take a deep dive on how it could evolve to meet the twin challenges of AI and the metaverse.That LLM required a training compute of 380 quintillion FLOP/s, or floating-point operations per second, a meas...
(Paper) Graphene Sensor Could Let You Control Robots with Your Mind
[Tech]
2023/10/11 09:07
The Australian Army has already used the mind-control headset to command a robot dog.Australian researchers have used the “wonder material” graphene to develop a sensor that could enable anyone to control robot technology with their minds.“The hands-free, voice-free technology works outside laboratory settings, anytime, anywhere,” said co-developer Francesca Iacopi. “It makes interfaces su...
Prada Designing Lunar Spacesuits for NASA Moon Mission - AxEMU Spacesuit
[Design]
2023/10/11 09:06
Fashion house Prada has teamed up with commercial space company Axiom Space to create lunar spacesuits for NASA's Artemis III mission, which will be the first crewed moon landing since 1972.Called Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), the suits will be designed to give astronauts "advanced capabilities for space exploration," Prada said.They are an evolution of NASA's Exploration Extraveh...
Amazon is Embracing Ads, This Time on Prime Video
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:05
Amazon Prime Video has joined the growing slew of streamers with ad-supported offerings, announcing plans to roll out the new tier in the US in early 2024. The service will set users back an extra $2.99 a month if they want to carry on enjoying The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel or The Boys ad-free.It all ads upAmazon has said that the limited ads will allow the company to continue its content spending,...
