TREND REPORTS
(Patent) Apple's In-Depth Patents Regarding The Use of In-Air Gestures to Control VisionOS
[Tech]
2024/02/06 09:10
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to their advanced Spatial Computer known as Vision Pro that using in-air finger and Hand gestures to control elements within the 3D XR environment of visionOS. Our report also links to two additional HMD related patents published today regarding gaze controls and more.Apple revealed that 5,000...
(PDF) BCG - For Pharmaceutical Companies, 3 Steps to Value with Generative AI
[Business]
2024/02/06 09:09
New GenAI offerings can benefit virtually every aspect of an organization, boosting efficiency and productivity in areas ranging from R&D to commercial activities.Because the technology has such wide potential, pharmaceutical companies need to adopt a structured approach to implementing it. In BCG’s six-part framework for implementing GenAI, three elements should be the biggest priorities...
(Video) AI Needs Breaks Too! by KitKat
[Business]
2024/02/06 09:08
It turns out, even AI could use a break now and then!The inspiration behind this playful campaign from KitKat Canada came from recent research by Google DeepMind, which discovered that even AI can perform better when it takes a break.The key phrase they found most effective was, “Take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step.”KitKat’s agency Courage took this insight and connected...
Sergey Brin-Backed Startup, 280 Earth Leverages Data Centers to Capture Carbon
[Investing]
2024/02/06 09:07
280 Earth spun out of Alphabet’s X lab with a unique plan to use waste heat to power machines that remove carbon from thin air.[Sergey Brin is backing 280 Earth, a startup spun out of Google X, that’s building a pilot facility to remove carbon from the air in The Dalles, Oregon, next to a Google data center.]Google’s co-founder and Alphabet Inc.'s moonshot lab X are making a bet on a technol...
(Paper) This Camera Tech Protects Your Face from Unauthorized Recognition
[Tech]
2024/02/06 09:06
Facial recognition also seriously threatens personal privacy, as it can be used to track, monitor, or profile people without their consent or knowledge.Facial recognition is a technology that can identify or verify a person's identity based on their face. It can be used for various purposes, such as unlocking smartphones, verifying identities at airports, or finding missing persons. However, fa...
Meta is Still Finding New Users for Its Social Media Empire
[Business]
2024/02/06 09:05
Facebook has officially left its teenage years behind, with the social networking platform that started in a Harvard dorm room celebrating its 20th birthday on Sunday.Just a few days earlier, the company’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was being grilled by a Senate committee over concerns about child safety on the “Family of Apps” under the holding company monolith that is Meta, which in...
(Video) Coke's AI-Generated Super Bowl Ad Is Downright Scary
[Business]
2024/02/06 09:04
This year's Super Bowl is less than a week away, and advertisers are stumbling over each other to get as much time in the limelight as they can.Some are jumping the gun and have released their game time commercial early, including the Coca-Cola-owned sports drink brand Bodyarmor — which has used nausea-inducing generative AI to make an arguably lukewarm point about offering its customers a "re...
Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils Hydrogen Refuelling Stations for Italian Marinas
[Design]
2024/02/06 09:03
British studio Zaha Hadid Architects is creating 100 refuelling stations in Italian marinas for energy company NatPower as the "world's first green hydrogen refuelling infrastructure".Designed to be used by recreational boats, the refuelling stations by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) will supply green hydrogen – a type of hydrogen produced using renewable energy.The first charging station is set...
(PDF) BCG - The Chatbot Is Dead—Long Live the Chatbot
[Business]
2024/02/05 09:10
Generative AI can transform online chat sessions into something more real—known as “conversational commerce”—so retailers can reduce the necessity for support by people.Conversational commerce powered by Generative AI (GenAI) can guide customers throughout the typical eCommerce funnel from discovery to conversion.Conversational commerce can reduce customer service costs by about 30%, while...
