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YouTube Announces AI-Powered Creative Guidance In Google Ads
[Business]
2023/09/21 09:04
Find out how creative guidance in Google Ads and other AI-powered features can help advertisers optimize video assets and video ad campaigns.Google Ads has introduced an AI-based feature to optimize video ad campaigns.The tool evaluates ads against specific creative best practices.Early adopters of AI-powered video ad campaigns have seen increase in conversions.In a continued effort to assist a...
Travel-Friendly Clothes Steamer That’s Ultra-portable and Solves The Purpose Like a Pro
[Design]
2023/09/21 09:03
Ironing and steaming clothes is one task I procrastinate more often than not. This is even irksome when I’m traveling and my clothes are less than ideal to wear even though they’ve been ironed to perfection when loaded in the suitcase.This calls for a portable ironing steamer that is not a hassle to carry along during traveling and does the task without much effort. Just like the G2 and G3 by...
(PDF) Bain - Technology Report 2023
[Business]
2023/09/20 09:10
Technology thrives on innovation, and today, the sector is in a period of renewal and reinvention. Tech is healthy, vibrant, and moving forward assertively, driven by strong global demand and broad interest in new technologies.What looked like a slowdown was actually a reset. After the Covid-19 spending bubble, demand slowed, valuations fell, and profitability mattered again. The sector respond...
(Paper) This Shape-Shifting Ball Can Reduce Anxiety by 75%
[Tech]
2023/09/20 09:09
Shape-Changing Biofeedback-Based Ball May Help Improve Mental Health.University of Bath Ph.D. student Alexz Farrall has invented a soft ball that ‘personifies’ breath, expanding and contracting as a person breathes in and exhales. Named the Physical Artefact for Well-being Support (PAWS), the interactive ball is meant to keep users focused and to help them regulate their emotions by giving th...
Apple Wins a Patent for AirPods with Posture Sensors That Automatically Shuts-off Spatial Audio
[Tech]
2023/09/20 09:08
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to user posture transition detection and classification using a linked biomechanical model. The invention more specifically relates to spatial audio in AirPods. This new system will ensure that spatial audio is enabled when the user is sitting down watching online content and automatically disable spatial audio...
U.S. Dollar Defends Role as Global Currency
[Investing]
2023/09/20 09:07
The de-dollarization of the world economy has been thrust back into the spotlight with the BRICS summit, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in late August. While lacking a spot on the agenda, decreasing the prevalence of the U.S. dollar in trade and financial transactions among the Global South was repeatedly referenced by the world leaders in attendance, for example Brazilian Pres...
Hermès Windows by Studio Job Windows Created for Landmark Prince, Hermès Hong Kong
[Design]
2023/09/20 09:06
Dutch-Belgian artist Job Smeets designs a magical vegetable garden window display for Hermès Hong Kong that will be on view from August until November 2023. Studio Job and Hermès create a dream-like oasis in the bustling metropolis giving a breath of fresh air to the urban environment. Drawing from the eccentric world of prize-winning vegetable growers, as well as his own home vegetable garde...
(Infographic) Bain - 2023 Holiday Shopping Outlook
[Consumer]
2023/09/20 09:05
Bain forecasts 3% nominal growth in US retail sales this holiday, the lowest since 2018. Six tips can help retailers weather the snowstorm.[bain]
(Paper) See-Through Sensors Hide Eye-Tracking in Plain Sight
[Tech]
2023/09/20 09:04
Graphene and quantum dots turn electronics transparent. An 8-by-8 array of photodetectors made of graphene and quantum dots is barely visible on a piece of clear quartz, and could lead to eye-tracking applications in which image sensors go right in front of the eye instead of to the side as they are in today’s devices. The list of applications for eye-tracking technology has grown long in rece...
Why So Many New Products for Adults Look Like They Were Made for Little Kids
[Design]
2023/09/20 09:03
I generally consider myself immune to social media ads, by virtue of them feeling a bit too much like a rickety snake-oil cart pulling up into my feed. But for weeks now, one advertisement has risen above all the miracle tonics, suspicious snack foods, and fast fashion, leaving me desperately trying to keep my wallet in my pocket.The Character Toolbox—a $165 storage unit that comes in a variet...
(Patent) Apple Filed A Patent Application for “User Identification Using Headphones.”
[Tech]
2023/09/19 09:10
Apple’s in-ear trackers. Apple may be working on a new way to identify you. The company filed a patent application for “user identification using headphones.” As the name suggests, the tech gives Apple the capability to identify if a user wearing a pair of headphones is the person that actually owns them, using their movement patterns.Here’s how it works: Apple monitors the movement of a us...
(Paper) Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier
[Tech]
2023/09/19 09:09
A lot of people have been asking if AI is really a big deal for the future of work. We have a new paper that strongly suggests the answer is YES.For the last several months, I been part of a team of social scientists working with Boston Consulting Group, turning their offices into the largest pre-registered experiment on the future of professional work in our AI-haunted age. Our first working p...
