TREND REPORTS
Whatsapp - "Privacy Swap"
[Business]
2024/10/09 09:09
Overpopulation and an unprecedented rise in residential developments has made privacy scarce in major U.S. cities. Leading to exposed windows, and exposed lives. To WhatsApp, privacy is everything. [click to enlarge]With proprietary end-to-end encryption, interlocking layers of protection and countless other privacy measures, no other messaging application is doing it quite like they do.So to s...
Apple Releases Depth Pro, An AI Model That Rewrites The Rules of 3D Vision
[Tech]
2024/10/09 09:08
Apple’s AI research team has developed a new model that could significantly advance how machines perceive depth, potentially transforming industries ranging from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles.The system, called Depth Pro, is able to generate detailed 3D depth maps from single 2D images in a fraction of a second—without relying on the camera data traditionally needed to make such pr...
Fashion’s Plastic Addiction in 4 Charts
[Business]
2024/10/09 09:07
Cheap and versatile polyester has underpinned both the fashion industry’s growth and its worsening environmental footprint. Efforts to switch to recycled fibre are stalled, new data show.Last year, global textile production grew to a record 124 million tonnes. The increase was largely the result of higher volumes of virgin polyester, which now accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total market...
These Fridges Run On Solar Panels and Can Stay Cold for 40 Hours - EasyFreeze
[Product]
2024/10/09 09:06
Amped Innovation’s EasyFreeze fridge is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.If you live in Lagos, Nigeria, your power might go out for hours at a time on a typical day. A standard refrigerator obviously won’t work well, and few residents own one. But a startup designed a new solar fridge with a battery to work on an unreliable grid like Nigeria’s. It can also work co...
Sonair Takes A Cue From Dolphins to Build Autonomous 3D Vision Without Lidar
[Tech]
2024/10/09 09:05
Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables noninvasive body scans and underwater communication and can help us park our cars. A young startup called Sonair out of Norway wants to employ it for something else: 3D computer vision used in autonomous hardware applications. Sonair’s founder and CEO Knut Sandven believes the company’s application of ultrasound technology — a g...
The World’s Most Innovative Countries in 2024
[Investing]
2024/10/09 09:04
The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ranks 133 economies based on their innovation capabilities and performance. This year’s report highlights shifts in global innovation leadership, with a focus on emerging economies challenging traditional leaders.To summarize the results of this year’s GII, we visualized each economy’s s...
C-Zero is Raising $18M to Make Emission-Free Hydrogen Using Natural Gas
[Investing]
2024/10/09 09:03
Hydrogen startup C-Zero has raised $5 million of an $18 million funding round, according to an SEC filing.The company is developing a way to strip hydrogen from methane without emitting carbon dioxide. The resulting hydrogen can be used in a range of industries today, including ammonia and petrochemical production, and potentially others in the near future, including transportation and steel pr...
Louis Vuitton’s Bed Trunk Gets Contemporary Update by Pharrell Williams
[Product]
2024/10/07 09:10
Fellow LV designer Nicolas Ghesquière has also reinterpreted the historic, 19th-century piece.The French maison just unveiled two new versions of its iconic bed trunk designed by artistic director of the women’s collections Nicolas Ghesquière and men’s creative director Pharrell Williams, respectively. The modern successors are based on the 19th-century original but have a contemporary twis...
(Paper) Double-Edged Stars : Michelin Stars, Reactivity, and Restaurant Exits
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:09
The personal stress that comes with working toward — and then maintaining — a Michelin star has been well documented in TV shows such as The Bear or memoirs like Burn the Place. On the other hand, it would seem the restaurants themselves can only benefit from such a major accolade. Yet a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, actually finds that restaurants that received a M...
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