TREND REPORTS
(PDF) WEF - From Disruption to Opportunity: Strategies for Rewiring Global Value Chains
[Business]
2024/05/13 09:08
Global value chains continue to face challenges ranging from the climate crisis to geopolitical headwinds and next-generation technologies. Manufacturers must decide how best to reconfigure their supply chains to safeguard their operations well into the future.Global value chains continue to face challenges ranging from the climate crisis to geopolitical headwinds and next-generation technologi...
Allozymes Puts Its Accelerated Enzymatics to Work on a Data and AI Play, Raising $15M
[Investing]
2024/05/13 09:07
Allozymes’ ingenious method of quickly testing millions of bio-based chemical reactions is proving to be not just a useful service, but the basis of a unique and valuable dataset. And where there’s a dataset, there’s AI — and where there’s AI, there are investors. The company just raised a $15 million Series A to grow its business from a helpful service to a world-class resource.We first c...
(Video) Sea-Bed 'Air Batteries' Offer Cheaper Long-Term Energy Storage - BaroMar
[Tech]
2024/05/13 09:06
BaroMar says its undersea compressed energy storage system creates an air battery cheaper than any other for long-duration storage.Israeli company BaroMar is preparing to test a clever new angle on grid-level energy storage, which it says will be the cheapest way to stabilize renewable grids over longer time scales. This innovative system lets water do the work.The zero-carbon energy grid of th...
Where E-Commerce Sales Are Growing Fastest
[Business]
2024/05/13 09:05
China is by far the biggest e-commerce market in the world as seen in figures from Statista Market Insights. This year, e-commerce sales in the country are standing at $1.24 trillion. While the market is currently slumping, Statista analysts expect it to make up for lost momentum with a growth of 62 percent to more than $2 trillion by 2029.Revenues generated in China make up the majority of the...
DARPA’s Massive Manta Ray Robotic Sub Hits The Sea
[Tech]
2024/05/13 09:04
The Manta ray dwarfs a a small work boat behind it.DARPA has finally unveiled more of its mysterious Manta Ray robotic sub, with impressive new images of the prototype Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (UUV) undergoing its first sea trials off the coast of Southern California.Looking like a cross between a B-21 Raider bomber and a refugee from a '60s sci-fi television series, the Manta Ray is about a...
(Video) Alora Baby Aims to Push Baby Gear Away from The ‘Landfill Economy’
[Product]
2024/05/13 09:03
Fast consumption and waste generation run rampant in all industries, but it’s particularly true around baby equipment. Tiny humans get big fast, and parents might be nervous to buy used items (“Is that high chair really sanitized?”) and are often too stressed out to think about what to do with the equipment the little tyke has grown out of. Enter Alora Baby, which is trying to shift the narr...
(PDF) BCG - Accelerating AI-Driven Marketing Maturity
[Business]
2024/05/10 09:10
To advance their marketing maturity, brands must embed data, conduct full-funnel marketing planning, and deliver technology-enhanced consumer experiences daily.To advance their marketing maturity, brands must embed data, conduct full-funnel marketing planning, and deliver technology-enhanced consumer experiences daily.Brands can unlock maturity benefits by leveraging the right capabilities thro...
(Video) iPhone 16S Concept Mimics The Rabbit R1 Format
[Design]
2024/05/10 09:09
We are still living with the iPhone 15 and its variants; the era of the iPhone 16 is further away from now. As known, it’s customary of Apple to drop its new seedlings (iPhone variants, if you like) in September every year and it looks like there is nothing unusual this year as well. Like every other year in the past, since Steve Jobs revealed the first iPhone – feels like it was a century ag...
Offleash’d Raised $700K for AI-Powered Matchmaking
[Investing]
2024/05/10 09:07
Offleash’d, a Los Angeles, Ca-based developer of a social community-building mobile app connecting pet parents through its patented AI-powered matchmaking process, raised $700K in Seed funding.The round was led by Bill and Juliana Wong, Florexis “Flex” and Cecille Velasco, Chris and Shelly Webber, Garold and Julia Harford.The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its busi...
