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The Highest Earning Athletes in Seven Professional Sports
[Investing]
2024/04/22 09:07
How much money do the world’s biggest athletes really make? And how do they compare across different sports?We visualized the highest earning athletes in various professional sports, according to calculations from Forbes. Earnings reported here cover the period of May 2022 to May 2023. Earnings includes on-field (salary, bonuses, prize money) and off-field (endorsements, licensing, etc).Los An...
(Video) 3-Legged Asteroid-Hopping Robot Passes Zero G Airplane-ride Test - SpaceHopper
[Tech]
2024/04/22 09:06
The SpaceHopper may ultimately make its way across the surface of asteroids via a series of long-distance hops.A three-legged robot could one day be hopping across the surface of asteroids, searching for valuable minerals. Known as the SpaceHopper, the bot was recently put to the test on a zero-gravity aircraft flight.The SpaceHopper program was first launched two and a half years ago, as a stu...
Deep Learning : How Do AI Models Fare on Human Tests ?
[Tech]
2024/04/22 09:06
As AI has gone mainstream, companies haven’t been shy in deploying the technology — applying it to manual and repetitive tasks and even citing it as a reason for mass layoffs.But how does AI compare to humans on technical tasks? A new report, Stanford University’s 2024 AI Index, summarizes where the burgeoning technology is at.The headline is that recent breakthroughs have heralded an unprec...
(Paper) MIT Study Reveals an AI Model That Can Predict Future Actions of Human
[Tech]
2024/04/22 09:05
This AI model analyzes the limitations of an agent. This way it can find out what humans or other AI models are going to do next.A new study from researchers at MIT and the University of Washington reveals an AI model that can accurately predict a person or a machine’s future actions. The AI is known as the latent inference budget model (L-IBM). The study authors claim that L-IBM is better tha...
Mortgage Rates Climb Past 7% for the First Time in 2024
[Investing]
2024/04/22 09:03
Mortgage rates in the United States climbed to the highest level since November 2023 this week, as higher-than-expected inflation readings have dashed hopes of the Fed starting to cut rates soon. According to Freddie Mac, the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage increased to 7.10 percent in the week ended April 18, making it difficult for many would-be homebuyers to afford a house.Along wi...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Novel Proteins : Consumer Appetite for Sustainably Made Ingredients
[Business]
2024/04/21 09:10
Novel ingredients could shape the future of food—but are consumers willing to try (and pay for) them? Our survey on US consumer sentiment offers insights for formulators, brands, and retailers.Ingredients made with biotechnology could play an important role in the future of food—and they’re beginning to come to market. Over the past five years, $4 billion has been invested to develop novel i...
(Video) Boston Dynamics Reveals Its Most Astonishing Humanoid Robot So Far
[Product]
2024/04/21 09:09
All-electric robot is more and less human than ever. Boston Dynamics all but trade-marked jaw-dropping robot videos with its hydraulics-power Atlas robot's dancing and parkouring videos. Now it's upped the ante and I'm scraping my jaw off the floor again after watching the brief introduction video for its all-electric and completely redesigned Atlas robot.The All New Atlas is Boston Dynamic's f...
Dyson Reveals A New Way to Perfect Your Vacuuming with an Augmented Reality (AR) Tool
[Product]
2024/04/21 09:08
Dyson Unveils Augmented Reality tool that shows where you have vacuumed on your phone in real time, making deep cleaning quicker and more precise.As people gear up for their annual Spring Clean, Dyson reveals a new way to perfect your vacuuming with an Augmented Reality (AR) tool that ensures no spot is missed.In-depth study of cleaning behaviors shows that users habitually overestimate the tim...
(PDF) Capgemini - Connected Products : Enhancing Consumers’ Lives with Technology
[Consumer]
2024/04/21 09:07
In this Capgemini Research Institute report, Connected products: Enhancing consumers’ lives with technology, we examine the position of connected products as an integral aspect of the modern consumer lifestyle, with one-third of consumers now using connected products around the clock.From the convenience of voice assistants to the health benefits of wearable technologies, consumers have welcom...
