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Ikea’s New Gaming Furniture Looks Like Furniture, Not an Energy Drink
[Design]
2024/04/16 09:04
With a focus on simple designs mixing bright and neutral colors, Ikea’s upcoming Brännboll collection is made for homes instead of ‘gamer dens.’By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Ikea is introducing a new range of gaming furniture that subverts the usual d...
Luca Curci Architects Unveils Floating Glass Museum Where Art, Nature And Sustainable Design Merge
[Design]
2024/04/16 09:03
Luca Curci Architects presents Floating Glass Museum, a groundbreaking project where the boundaries between art and nature blur and the water becomes a canvas for contemporary expression. The project has been conceived by an international team of architects and designers with the support of artificial intelligence.Inspired by the Venetian rich cultural heritage and the intricate craft of glassm...
(Video) NIKE Unveils A.I.R, Its 13 3D-Printed Sneakers Designed Using AI
[Design]
2024/04/15 09:10
Form and function meet fantasy as NIKE debuts A.I.R, a new collection of 13 concept sneakers made and designed with man-made sketches, computational and parametric design, generative AI, rapid prototyping, and 3D printers.In the exhibition and runway show designboom attended inside Palais Brongniart in Paris, NIKE introduced A.I.R, which is short for Athlete Imagined Revolution. John Hoke, NIKE...
(Patent) Apple Patent Reveals The Use of Glass Enclosures with Metal Nanoparticles
[Tech]
2024/04/15 09:09
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to electronic devices (iPhone, Apple Watch and Macs) having a ceramic-reinforced composite enclosure component that includes a porous ceramic structure in a glass-based matrix that includes metal nanoparticles.In Apple's patent background they note that some modern day portable electroni...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Today’s Good to Great : Next-Generation Operational Excellence
[Business]
2024/04/15 09:08
Is tech accelerating your business operations—or getting in the way? To get lasting value from their tech investments, business leaders need a renewed understanding of operational excellence.Any business that’s still standing after years of disruption has good reason to feel a sense of achievement. Only by learning, adapting, and getting really good at things that didn’t exist five years ago...
20 Most Used Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platforms of 2024
[Business]
2024/04/15 09:07
According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, the global artificial intelligence (AI) market was valued at $515.31 billion in 2023. The market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.6% and is forecasted to reach $2.02 trillion by the end of 2030. The growth in the AI industry is driven by a surge in AI applications, an increasing number of partnerships and colla...
How Web3 Brand 9dcc is Becoming Luxury’s Hottest Lifestyle Club
[Business]
2024/04/15 09:06
It was full steam ahead for Web3 in New York this week, as the metropolis welcomed back its annual NFT.NYC jamboree, running from April 3-5.This year, the usual suspects were in full attendance, including Gmoney’s luxury lifestyle platform 9dcc, whose pop-up activation we dissect below, and Doodles, an NFT project turned collaboration machine. Doodles recently announced a new music-based proje...
(M&A) Google's Acquisition Timeline
[Investing]
2024/04/15 09:05
More than a decade ago, Google made headlines with its landmark acquisition of YouTube for $1.7B. Since then, Google's acquisition spree has continued, totaling over 200 announced deals.Google’s biggest acquisition to date is Motorola Mobility, which it acquired for $12.5B in 2012 before selling it off for a quarter of its acquisition price 2 years later. Its largest acquisition which it still...
(Video) World's Most Powerful MRI Machine Captures First Stunning Brain Scans
[Tech]
2024/04/15 09:04
The world’s most powerful MRI machine has started proving its worth, by scanning living human brains. The resulting images give an ultra high resolution glimpse into the brain, which will help us better understand the nature of consciousness and treat neurodegenerative diseases.Developed by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the Iseult MRI machine packs a magne...
