TREND REPORTS
Tik, Tok, Boom : New Bill Leaves TikTok’s Future in The Balance
[Consumer]
2024/03/18 09:05
As you might have heard from news sites, broadcasters, or even TikTok’s CEO himself while scrolling through the app, the House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday requiring Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the platform or see TikTok face a total ban in the US. While the legislation still faces plenty more hurdles before it becomes law, that hasn’t stopped global discourse regarding t...
Bentley and The Macallan Partnership - The Macallan Horizon
[Design]
2024/03/18 09:04
Bentley Motors has partnered with luxury whisky brand The Macallan to create a limited edition single malt Scotch whisky presented in a precision-engineered glass vessel that "challenges the conventions of traditional whisky".[click to enlarge]Called The Macallan Horizon, the single malt whisky is the first product to emerge from the brands' collaboration, a partnership that defines by a shared...
Decoding’s China’s $170 Billion ‘Romance Economy’
[Business]
2024/03/18 09:03
Love, luxury brands, and unique services like "scolding to cure love-brain" are helping redefine gifting and affection.[“My suitor doesn’t send red envelopes or gifts on Valentine’s Day. Is it because he has low emotional intelligence?” asks @lightexistance on Weibo.]White Day, which falls today, is sometimes mentioned as another Chinese Valentine’s Day, but it is not as popular, yet. Comi...
(Paper) Google Deepmind : A Generalist AI Agent for 3D Virtual Environments
[Tech]
2024/03/15 09:10
We present new research on a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA) that can follow natural-language instructions to carry out tasks in a variety of video game settings.Video games are a key proving ground for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Like the real world, games are rich learning environments with responsive, real-time settings and ever-changing goals.From our early work with...
Mckinsey - Implementing Generative AI with Speed and Safety
[Business]
2024/03/15 09:09
Generative AI poses both risks and opportunities. Here’s a road map to mitigate the former while moving to capture the latter from day one.Generative AI (gen AI) presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for companies, with the potential for transformative impact across innovation, growth, and productivity. The technology can now produce credible software code, text, speech, high-fidelity im...
James Dyson Award 2024 Opens for Entries
[Product]
2024/03/15 09:08
The James Dyson Foundation is inviting design students and recent graduates who are "problem-solvers, not grandstanders" to enter its annual James Dyson Award.Launched earlier this month, the James Dyson Award 2024 aims to recognise the world's most exciting young inventors who have created "ambitious designs that address a global issue".The awards are open to students and recent graduates and...
(Video) Meet Punyo, Toyota’s Soft Robot for Whole-Body Manipulation Research
[Tech]
2024/03/15 09:07
Punyo is the newest robot from Toyota but instead of looking like your typical robots that carry heavy things for us, it looks more like that adorable Baymax from Disney’s Big Hero 6. It’s even wearing a “sweater” that is actually functional as it actually enhances the robot’s capability to carry various things. Normally, robots just use their hands and their claw-like “fingers” but Puny...
(Infographic) The 4th Bitcoin Halving Explained
[Investing]
2024/03/15 09:06
Sometime in April 2024, the reward that cryptocurrency miners receive for mining bitcoin (BTC) will go from ₿6.25 to ₿3.125, with significant consequences for the world’s most valuable digital currency.To help understand this quadrennial event, we’ve teamed up with HIVE Digital to take a deep dive on historical bitcoin data from Coinmetrics to see what the three previous halvings might tell...
Liquid Death : The Brash "Water in a Can" Startup is Now Worth $1.4 Billion
[Investing]
2024/03/15 09:06
Liquid Death, the “goth kid of canned water” made a splash earlier this week with a $67 million funding round that brought its valuation to $1.4 billion — double what it achieved 2 years ago, giving the punky startup coveted unicorn status.Investors backing the deal include actor Josh Brolin and entertainment company Live Nation, which has helped supercharge growth thanks to an exclusive sup...
