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(PDF) The Future of Food 2025 Report
[Business]
2024/10/16 09:10
Marriott’s report highlights Asia Pacific’s role in transforming global culinary trends, focusing on innovation, tradition, and sustainability.The Luxury Group by Marriott International released its new comprehensive report, The Future of Food 2025, which highlights the transformative power of the Asia Pacific region in shaping global culinary and dining trends. With insights from more than 3...
How Google Aims to Transform Shopping with AI
[Business]
2024/10/16 09:09
The search giant is rebuilding its shopping experience around AI, rolling out new features like personalised product feeds and AI-powered shopping guides, beginning this week.Google’s shopping experience is getting an AI overhaul.The search leader on Tuesday announced a suite of updates aimed at helping the masses who collectively shop across Google more than 1 billion times a day find the pro...
Azra Games Raises $42.7M for Next-Generation Mobile RPG with Web3 Features
[Investing]
2024/10/16 09:08
.Azra Games has defied the funding gods and raised $42.7 million in funding to accelerate development of its Project Legends mobile role-playing game.The Web3-based game has been in the works roughly since Mark Otero, CEO and a veteran entrepreneur, founded the company in January 2022.In interview with GamesBeat, Otero said the company’s energies in creating its RPG are focused on providing th...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Five Make-or-Break Truths About Next-Gen e-Commerce
[Business]
2024/10/16 09:07
McKinsey research shows that leading companies aren’t afraid to invest and are determined to make tech a centerpiece for the next generation of e-commerce.E-commerce is undergoing a fundamental change that is reshaping how customers buy and companies sell. While generative AI (gen AI) has grabbed the attention of executives over the past year, a quieter wave of technology-driven innovation is...
(Video) An AI Pet with Emotional Capabilities - Moflin
[Product]
2024/10/16 09:06
Casio’s AI-powered robot pet, Moflin, is now available to preorder in Japan, ushering in the start of a dystopian pet-owner future where you send your furry partner to Casio’s repair center rather than take it to the vet.Moflin looks like a large Guinea pig, without the mouth, or as Audio Editor, Becky Scarrott puts it, “a Porg from Star Wars, but horizontal.” It’s intended to be held and...
(Infographic) What Do Instagram Influencers Think about AI
[Consumer]
2024/10/16 09:05
With the generative AI hype cycle in full swing, every platform is working frantically to come up with new ways to integrate AI creation tools into their systems, to help enable creativity, and boost engagement.But thus far, most of the generative AI options within social apps have felt pretty flat.There are AI chatbots, which can help in content discovery, but don’t really add much beyond the...
Preclinical Studies Suggest A Drug-free Nasal Spray Could Ward Off Respiratory Infections
[Tech]
2024/10/16 09:04
A new study details how a nasal spray formulated by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital may work to protect against viral and bacterial respiratory infections. Based on their preclinical studies, the researchers say the broad-spectrum nasal spray is long-lasting, safe, and, if validated in humans, could play a key role in reducing respiratory diseases and safeguarding public health...
Small Space Hacks : These Chairs Double as Hangers
[Design]
2024/10/16 09:03
You know when you see something and you think, how has this not existed before?! That is exactly how we felt the moment we saw The Hanger Chair, created by Philippe Malouin for Umbra Shift.mid-century ones, the color-dipped folding ones and more. The thing is, they tend to take up way too much room when they’re not being used. Especially if, like us, you live in a city and are constantly on th...
(Infographic) SpaceX Starship Orbital Flight Test 5
[Tech]
2024/10/15 09:10
US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally issued a launch license for the 5th integrated flight test of SpaceX's Starship rocket (booster B12, ship S30)! Here is an infographic of the upcoming flight test by Australian space illustrator Tony Bela. [click to enlarge]The flight is scheduled as soon as Sunday, October 13 (the 30-minute test window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT) from Starbase, Boca...
(PDF) Materials Market Report 2024
[Business]
2024/10/15 09:09
Global fiber production reached an all-time high of 124 million tonnes in 2023, according to Textile Exchange’s annual Materials Market Report.Textile Exchange’s Materials Market Report has been the leading source for global fiber and materials production volumes for the last decade. It helps inform the textile industry’s efforts to reduce emissions associated with raw material production in...
(Patent) Nvidia Wants to Learn from Robots
[Tech]
2024/10/15 09:08
Nvidia filed a patent application for “training machine learning models using robot simulation data”.Patent Application : https://bit.ly/4eYRc85[uspto]
Sequoia Capital - Generative AI’s Act o1
[Business]
2024/10/15 09:07
Two years into the Generative AI revolution, research is progressing the field from “thinking fast”—rapid-fire pre-trained responses—to “thinking slow”— reasoning at inference time. This evolution is unlocking a new cohort of agentic applications. On the second anniversary of our essay “Generative AI: A Creative New World,” the AI ecosystem looks very different, and we have some predic...
