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Callaway’s Exploring a Topgolf Spinoff
[Investing]
2024/08/15 09:04
Topgolf — the driving range chain where families, friends, and colleagues can whack a few balls onto greens littered with interactive targets — isn’t getting the footfall it used to, leading parent co. Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. to explore a potential spinoff.Golf ball, bag, and club-making giant Callaway acquired Topgolf in a 2021 deal that valued the make-golf-fun-again brand at more th...
Saudi Arabia’s Wild Plan to Build 11 Futuristic Soccer Stadiums for The 2034 World Cup
[Design]
2024/08/15 09:03
The audacious architecture will come with some serious challenges.Saudi Arabia is embarking on a new project that defies belief. In addition to the 10,200-square-mile urban development, Neom, the country now has to finish 11 new soccer stadiums, expand four more, and build 132 training venues for 48 national teams before the World Cup kicks off in 2034. To call it a big job is an understatement...
(PDF) Mckinsey - LLM to ROI : How to Scale Gen AI in Retail
[Business]
2024/08/13 09:10
Retailers continue to experiment with generative AI and are seeing that the technology holds great promise for reigniting growth—if they move quickly to seize the opportunity.Once generative AI (gen AI) hit the mainstream, in late 2022, it took little time for retail executives to realize the potential in front of them. Mentions of artificial intelligence (AI) in retailers’ earnings calls soa...
(Patent) Snap Filed a Patent Application for “Voice Input for AR Wearable Devices”
[Tech]
2024/08/13 09:09
The company filed a patent application for “voice input for AR wearable devices,” referring to its smart glasses. Snap’s tech aims to give its users more control over their augmented reality interfaces. “Often, the wearable devices have very little room for interface controls on the wearable devices,” Snap said in the filing. By using voice control, this tech allows users to “operate [the...
Skild AI Grabs $300M to Build Foundation Model for Robotics
[Investing]
2024/08/13 09:08
Skild’s foundation model is intended to serve as a shared, general-purpose brain for tasks including manipulation, locomotion, and navigation. A new wave of startups is emerging to apply recent artificial intelligence advances into more sophisticated robot behavior. Yesterday, Skild AI emerged from stealth mode and announced that it has closed a $300 million Series A round. The Pittsburgh-base...
(Infographic) Athletes with the Most Olympic Medals
[Consumer]
2024/08/13 09:07
While athletes compete in the Paris Olympics for gold medals and records, one title is still far from being taken: the most victorious Olympic athlete of all time.With 28 medals, American swimmer Michael Phelps is considered the GOAT. But who else joins the list, and which of those athletes are still active?In this graphic, we show the top nine athletes by the total number of Olympic medals won...
(Video) Boston Is Turning to Google AI to Help with Road Traffic
[Tech]
2024/08/13 09:06
Google says 'Project Green Light' is an example of how AI can be used for good.Boston is looking to Google AI to curb road traffic. Boston will use the technology from Google’s “Project Green Light” to improve traffic light timing.Google uses its AI to measure traffic trends and recommend minor switches to traffic lights. Boston said traffic fell more than 50% at stoplights where it tested t...
The Younger The Traveler, The More International
[Consumer]
2024/08/13 09:05
According to the 2024 state of tourism and hospitality report by McKinsey, Millenials are traveling more than any other generation. However, when it comes to how the generations divide their trips between international and domestic destinations, Gen Z travelers tended to take nearly as many international trips as they did domestically. On the other end of the spectrum, Baby Boomers were twice a...
Yayoi Kusama installs mirrored orbs outside Liverpool Street Station in London
[Design]
2024/08/13 09:03
For Infinite Accumulation, her largest-ever permanent sculpture, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has created a series of connected metallic spheres by the Elizabeth Line entrance of London's Liverpool Street Station.Reflective orbs were placed along a curving, twisting structure to form the Infinite Accumulation installation, which is around 100 metres long and rises 10 metres above the public spa...
