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(Video) Winged Cargo Ship Saves Three Tonnes of Fuel Per Day on First Voyage
[Tech]
2024/04/10 09:09
An age of greener, more efficient shipping may be in the offing as a specially modified 43,000-tonne bulk freighter completes a six-month sea trial using a combination of diesel engines and a set of high-tech automatic sails to catch the wind.Mixing sail and power isn't a new thing. In fact, it goes back to the very first steamships when shipmasters weren't particularly keen to rely on a cranky...
(Infographic) AI 100 : The Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups of 2024
[Investing]
2024/04/10 09:08
The AI 100 is CB Insights' annual list of the top private AI companies in the world. From new AI architectures to precision manufacturing, this year’s winners are tackling some of the hardest challenges across industries.[click to enlarge]CB Insights is launching the 8th annual AI 100 — a ranking of the 100 most promising private AI companies in the world.Highlights from the 2024 cohort inclu...
Researchers Produce Grafts That Replicate The Human Ear
[Tech]
2024/04/10 09:07
Pictured is the intricate, left-ear plastic scaffold that was created on a 3D printer based on data from a person's ear, anterior view (left) and posterior view (right). Using state-of-the-art tissue engineering techniques and a 3D printer, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering have assembled a replica of an adult human ear that looks and feels natural. The study, publis...
Here Comes The Sun (Streaming Version)
[Business]
2024/04/10 09:06
For years streaming has been heralded as the potential savior of the music world, a harbinger of change that could bring riches back to a wider pool of struggling artists, labels, and publishers. But, especially on the back of recent news that Spotify is set to raise prices by $1-2 a month for the second consecutive year, some critics are starting to ask: why is it taking so long?Indeed, though...
Could a Luxury Car Brand like Audi Get Into Fitness Equipment ?
[Design]
2024/04/10 09:05
Luxury car brands don’t sell transportation… they sell a lifestyle, so what if you carried that idea to any other category? Designer Qingsheng Meng asked themself the same question, wondering what would happen if you took a luxury car brand like Audi’s DNA and applied it to another category, for example, exercise equipment. Sure, it sounds odd on the face of it, but Bose makes speakers and t...
(Infographic) Nine Critical Energy Minerals for Investors
[Investing]
2024/04/10 09:04
Emission-free technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels, wind turbines, and nuclear reactors are critical to reducing energy-related emissions and fulfilling net zero goals by 2050.In this graphic, we’ve partnered with Sprott to explore nine minerals crucial for these technologies and their projected compound annual growth rates (CAGR) in global market size from 2022 to 2027.I...
CLAY N1 Electric Skateboard Concept for Young Adults
[Design]
2024/04/10 09:03
CLAY N1 Electric Skateboard is an alternative to electric scooter. It focuses on practicality and safety while taking into account fashion and convenience of the rider. Targeting students and younger generations, CLAY N1 is designed to become an ideal companion while moving around urban environment, its portability makes it easy to carry this board on public transport.Designed by Noah Lei, CLAY...
TIME - The 100 Most Influential People in AI
[Business]
2024/04/08 09:10
What is unique about AI is also what is most feared and celebrated—its ability to match some of our own skills, and then to go further, accomplishing what humans cannot. AI’s capacity to model itself on human behavior has become its defining feature. Yet behind every advance in machine learning and large language models are, in fact, people—both the often obscured human labor that makes larg...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Investing in Productivity Growth
[Investing]
2024/04/08 09:09
It’s time to raise investment and catch the next productivity wave.The past quarter century has been a success story for global productivity. Median economy productivity has jumped sixfold. Thirty emerging economies, with 3.6 billion people, are in the “fast lane” of improvement; if they maintained this pace, they would converge to advanced-economy productivity levels within roughly the next...
