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Google and the DOD are Building an AI-Powered Microscope to Help Doctors Spot Cancer
[Tech]
2023/09/22 09:08
The Department of Defense has teamed up with Google to build an AI-powered microscope that can help doctors identify cancer.The tool is called an Augmented Reality Microscope, and it will usually cost health systems between $90,000 to $100,000.Experts believe the ARM will help support doctors in smaller labs as they battle with workforce shortages and mounting caseloads.In his office at the VA...
The Breakfast Category is Under Pressure
[Business]
2023/09/22 09:07
It's crunch time for manufacturers of the ‘breakfast of champions’: next month Kellogg’s, the iconic cereal brand that brought us Corn Flakes, will snap, crackle and pop into two divisions. On Oct 2nd, shares in WK Kellogg, a spin-off focused solely on cereal production, will begin trading, while the remaining Kellogg Company will rebrand to ‘Kellanova’ as it hones in on global snacking an...
An Ultra-Thin Battery Powered by Saline for Smart Contact Lenses
[Tech]
2023/09/22 09:06
Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.The battery’s development was led by Associate Professor Lee Seok Woo from NTU’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE).Smart contact lenses are high-tech contact lenses cap...
AI Has Already Created As Many Images As Photographers Have Taken in 150 Years
[Tech]
2023/09/22 09:05
In the past year, dozens of communities dedicated to AI art have accelerated across the Internet, from Reddit to Twitter to Discord, with thousands of AI artists practicing their skills to create precise prompts and sharing the results with others. The amount of content created during this time is hard to measure, but whatever it is, it’s incredibly big. We’ve kept track of some AI image stat...
TRLab Secures $5M in Seed Funding to Expand Digital Art Endeavors
[Investing]
2023/09/22 09:04
TRLab, a fine art-focused tech startup with bases in New York and Hong Kong, has successfully raised $5 million in a seed funding round, signaling a robust growth trajectory for the firm that stands at the intersection of art and technology.The funding round, led by Hivemind Capital Partners and OKX Ventures with participation from HashKey Capital, marks a pivotal moment for the women-led start...
Haptic Lingerie Uses AI to Craft Erotica Based on The User's Touch
[Design]
2023/09/22 09:03
Designer Summer Chen has combined artificial intelligence and sensor-embedded lingerie to create a "touch-to-text" system generating erotica, developed as part of her studies at the Royal College of Art.Titled Enigma, the project involves a lingerie set laced with haptic sensors that capture data such as where a person is touching themselves, for how long and with what kind of pressure.This dat...
How Are Consumers Using Generative AI ?
[Business]
2023/09/21 09:10
It’s been 9 months since ChatGPT was released and 7 months since it became the fastest consumer application to reach 100 million monthly active users, ushering in a new era of generative AI.But other than ChatGPT, how are consumers interacting with generative AI (GenAI) products? In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Who might be the next “big w...
DALL-E 3 - ChatGPT Can Now Generate Images, Too
[Tech]
2023/09/21 09:09
OpenAI released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and incorporated the technology into its popular ChatGPT chatbot.ChatGPT can now generate images — and they are shockingly detailed.On Wednesday, OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and folded the techno...
UK Company BackPedal Uses GPS And On-Ground Teams To Stop E-Bike Theft
[Business]
2023/09/21 09:08
The company boasts an impressive 89-percent success rate in the recovery of stolen e-bikes. BackPedal specializes in the recovery of stolen e-bikes with technology and on-ground personnel.Despite the soaring popularity of electric bikes in a rapidly growing market, where high-end models are becoming increasingly expensive, these bikes are not immune to theft. Even with conventional anti-theft m...
(Infographic) The Highest Paid CEOs in the S&P 500
[Investing]
2023/09/21 09:07
Many of the world’s most valuable companies are listed on the S&P 500, the benchmark index for the U.S. stock market.For this reason, it is no surprise to see that CEOs of these key companies have multi-million dollar compensation packages. But what do these pay packages comprise? And do these CEOs always receive the compensation they are awarded? Or does it increase and decrease with stoc...
(Video) Active Wind Turbine Control Aims to Cut Bird Deaths by 80%
[Tech]
2023/09/21 09:06
Norwegian researchers say they've found a potential way to cut down the numbers of birds killed by wind turbines.One inconvenient truth for the clean energy industry – and a source of seemingly great concern to the fossil fuel lobby – is the indisputable fact that wind turbines kill birds. Researchers say smarter turbines could dramatically cut the toll.It's hard to ascertain how many birds f...
Sequoia Capital - Bringing Generative AI to Healthcare
[Business]
2023/09/21 09:05
Where startups have traditionally struggled, LLMs have the potential to unlock growth and disruption.Healthcare is a massive market rife with administrative inefficiencies. Of the over $4T in annual spend in the U.S. alone, $300B of that is administrative opex, mostly in repetitive, labor intensive processes. Generative AI is especially well suited to attack the labor costs of this services-hea...
