Three-dimensional renderings of urinals. From left to right: Duchamp’s “La Fontaine,” a contemporary commercial model, Cornucopia, and Nautilus. One of the most stubborn problems in modern hygiene begins with a simple splash.When men relieve themselves at public urinals, they often trigger an invisible but noxious cascade. Tiny droplets, unseen and unchecked, rebound from the urinal’s surfa...

After 6.5% growth in air travel in 2024, airlines should see similar growth in 2025, although many variables are in play.Ongoing aircraft and parts delivery delays are likely to limit capacity.Labor negotiations across the industry will result in long-term, step-change increases in wages.Air travel demand from India is rising, and there is cautious optimism for the return of Chinese internation...

Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco connect their subject Ann's brain implant to the voice synthesizer computer.California-based researchers have developed an AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices.This new technology from researchers at University of California Berkeley and University of California San Francisco, t...

A year ago this month, Boston Dynamics revealed its all-new humanoid robot, Atlas. This marked a shift in their strategy from hydraulic servos to electric– a stronger, more robust actuation suite that showed their seriousness when it came to competing to be the leader in the next wave of consumer appliances: Humanoid Robots. Shortly after this revelation, the first generation of this graphic c...

Pfizer just pulled the plug on its daily weight-loss pill, danuglipron, after a clinical trial flagged a potential drug-related liver injury. That decision comes after earlier setbacks tied to severe nausea in its twice-daily versionand leaves Pfizer even further behind in a weight-loss market expected to hit $130 billion by 2030. With demand for Covid products fading fast, the company had pinn...

Snapchat have a new collaboration with L’Oreal’s Colour Protect haircare range, the #1 haircare range in the UK, now available in a refillable pouch and with a new key ingredient Vitamin Cg.From 11th-13th of April consumers will be able to visit the pop-up AR-powered beauty vending machine at Westfield Shopping Centre in White City, West London to win a free refill of L’Oreal’s ELVIVE Colou...

AI grabs 1 in 5 venture deals. Early-stage deal sizes balloon. Billion-dollar M&A deals sweep the tech landscape. Here’s everything you need to know about VC.Venture capital funding reached the highest level in nearly 3 years in Q1’25 — led by OpenAI’s mammoth $40B round — as AI continues to reshape the venture ecosystem. Opportunities across stages and geographies have fueled growth i...

Apple won a patent for all-glass device embodiments for Apple Watch, Mac & an iPhone that allows Imagery on both Front and Backsides.Apple has a long string of patents that demonstrates their ongoing work on future glass device embodiments going back to at least 2014 regarding an all-glass iPhone. Other patents could be reviewed here: 01, 02, 03 and 04 (for an Apple Watch). Today, the U.S....

Marketers must plan their media buys based on what truly drives influence, and they must lean into AI to power execution.Marketers have traditionally force-fit touchpoints into a linear funnel model to guide strategy, budget allocation, and communication.The “influence map” is a reimagining of the linear funnel that reduces artificial barriers between stages and ensures the right level of cus...