1. (PDF) PwC 보고서 - AI에서 ROI를 얻고 싶다면? 비용 절감이 아닌 '성장 엔진'으로의 전환 전략선도 기업과 후발 주자 간의 재무 성과 양극화 심화: 최상위 20% 기업이 전체 AI 수익의 74%를 독식하며, AI 적합도가 높은 기업의 재무 성과가 타사 대비 7.2배 높게 나타나는 격차 확인.비즈니스 모델 재창조와 산업 융합의 가치 포착: AI를 단순 내부 생산성 도구가 아닌 산업 간 경계를 허물고 새로운 가치 풀(Value Pool)을 찾아내는 '성장 및 재발명 엔진'으로 활용하는 전략 안착.신뢰 기반의 거버넌스와 재사용 가능한 기술 기초 구축: 책임 있는 AI 프레임워크와 중앙 집중식 AI...

The Apple Watch won't be getting any extra biometric security measures anytime soon, because it's an engineering nightmare.Like other Apple products, there are security measures in place on the Apple Watch to make sure only the owner can use it. However, while it is one of the few Apple products to not include biometric security, it's going to be that way for a long time.In a Monday post to Weibo, serial leaker Instant Digital denounces apparent rumors of Apple bringing some form of biometric security to the Apple Watch as pure speculation.T...

The Biggest Returns from AI Are Coming to Companies That Treat It as a Growth Engine, Not Just a Cost Tool.PwC’s new AI performance study suggests that the gap between companies experimenting with AI and those actually creating value from it is already widening fast. The report finds that the most AI-fit companies deliver AI-driven financial performance 7.2 times higher than other businesses, while 20% of the 1,217 companies surveyed capture 74% of all AI-driven returns. That makes the current AI race less a story about who has the most pil...

Musely, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform focused on prescription skincare, hair treatment, and menopause care, has secured more than $360 million in non-dilutive financingfrom General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), highlighting the growing popularity of alternative startup financing structures that avoid traditional venture capital dilution.Founded in 2014 by Jack Jia, Musely originally launched as a wellness community platform before pivoting into prescription skincare and telemedicine services in 2019. The company has rep...

UNICEF Spain redirects the unspent money sitting on festival cashless wristbands into donations, targeting funds that attendees had already written off.At music festivals, attendees often load money onto cashless wristbands to pay for drinks, food and merch. They almost always overshoot. The leftover balance, sometimes a few euros, sometimes more, theoretically belongs to the attendee, who can claim it back through a refund process that opens days after an event ends. A meaningful share goes unredeemed. Cash Forward, a new initiative from UN...

As demand for artificial intelligence continues to reshape the labor market, job postings increasingly reflect a growing need for technical and infrastructure-related skills. According to an analysis from Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, based on billions of U.S. job postings collected since 2010 by Lightcast (where a single posting may list multiple AI-related skills), demand for these competencies has surged across a wide range of fields over the past decade.As our chart shows, programming and core technical skills remain at th...

Abel Fragrance is turning to biotech to capture scent from food waste streams.The top note in a new perfume called Miami Split comes from an unexpected place: a banana processing plant in Ecuador. The fragrance is extracted from banana-scented water, a byproduct of washing fruit, that was previously thrown away.It’s one of the unusual ingredients sourced by Abel Fragrance, a company that avoids using any fossil fuels in its products. Instead, it is looking to biotech to make natural fragrances. Right now, petrochemicals are the status quo i...

A Red Dot Design Award and a $210,000 Kickstarter campaign are two very different kinds of validation. One comes from a jury of design professionals evaluating form, function, and coherence. The other comes from tens of thousands of people who looked at a product and handed over money before it shipped. SparkO, the compact wearable EDC flashlight from California’s ScoutLite, earned both. That combination suggests something specific about the object: it reads clearly to designers and solves something real for everyday people. At $45.99 and 4...

We continue our Parametricism series by looking at Metropol Parasol by German architecture studio J Mayer H and engineering firm Arup, a flowing timber canopy perched above the historic Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain.Officially named Setas de Sevilla or Mushrooms of Seville, the fungi-shaped structure was completed in 2011 and contains food markets, bars, restaurants and an archaeological museum both within and beneath its canopy, which is topped by a winding walkway.Perhaps better described as a piece of urban sculpture or furni...