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Bringing Cheap Clean Water to Remote Rural Regions - Remote Waters
[Product]
2024/01/18 09:04
How does a modular, solar-powered desalination system serve off-grid areas?Today, around two billion people around the world lack reliable access to clean drinking water. And while there are a large number of programmes aimed at expanding access to water in urban areas, improving rural water supply can be more expensive and difficult to deliver, and so often takes a back seat. Now, however, Chi...
MCM, Loewe, and Mulberry Welcome the Year of the Dragon
[Business]
2024/01/18 09:03
For this week’s Lunar New Year collab spotlights, MCM taps Bape, Loewe partners with China’s jade carvers, and Mulberry joins forces with Mira Mikati.As we usher in the Year of the Dragon, global luxury brands are crafting collaborations that authentically embrace Chinese culture and demonstrate their nuanced understanding of the Chinese market.In this week’s global collaboration spotlights,...
(PDF) Accenture - Technology Vision 2024 : Human by Design
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:10
Technology is becoming human by design, and enterprises that prepare now will win in the future.How people access and interact with information is radically changing as human-like, AI-powered chatbots synthesize vast amounts of information and provide answers and advice.AI is starting to reason like us, and will soon comprise entire ecosystems of AI agents who will work with one another and act...
(Video) The Twitter (X) Smartphone Sports an X-shaped Camera And Rear Display
[Design]
2024/01/17 09:09
While the world’s been living on a prayer of a Tesla phone some day, designer Antonio De Rosa had a much better idea – why not build a phone centered around a much more smartphone-centric company? The Object-X is every microblogger’s dream device, with its own dedicated display unit just for Twitter (ahem, X). You can see notifications, browse the app, send tweets, and even access your Tesla...
(Video) Verve Motion Raises $20M for Soft Exoskeletons
[Investing]
2024/01/17 09:08
Verve Motion, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of exoskeletons for a variety of industrial uses, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The new funding will help Verve scale its SafeLift soft exoskeleton.Verve Motion is a spinout of the Biodesign Lab at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It has now raised more than $40 million since it was founded in 2...
Apple Passed Samsung as World’s Top Phone Maker in 2023
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:08
The iPhone sold more than Samsung’s devices globally in 2023. Apple iPhone sales held up well over the course of last year.Apple Inc.’s iPhone dethroned Samsung Electronics Co. devices to become the best-selling smartphone series over the course of 2023, the first time South Korea’s largest company has lost the top spot since 2010.The iPhone accounted for a fifth of the global market with cl...
Xyte Stirs Up $30M to Enable Any Hardware Maker to Build Subscription Products
[Investing]
2024/01/17 09:06
The hardware industry is under pressure these days: slower spending cycles from consumers and businesses, market saturation — not to mention innovation largely coming in the form of software at the moment — are all contributing to an overall decline in sales. Now, a startup has raised some funding to expand its alternative to hardware sales: hardware-as-a-service.Xyte (pronounced “Excite”),...
(Infographic) Prediction Consensus : What the Experts See Coming in 2024
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:05
As we look ahead to 2024, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology to track in this new year.In this now fifth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2024 Global Forecast Series), we’ve summarized 25 of the most common predictions and forecasts by experts into a single visual of what’s expected...
C-Beauty Exports to South Korea Surge : Is K-Beauty Over ?
[Business]
2024/01/17 09:04
Chinese beauty brands report robust sales in South Korea. Will China, deeply influenced by K-beauty, pick up the trendsetting mantle?On December 25, the South Korean Trade Association released a surprising number: In the first eight months of 2023, Chinese cosmetics exports to South Korea surged 190 percent.Could it be that a country so deeply influenced by the K-wave and K-beauty for over the...
