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(PDF) Mckinsey - The Promise of Travel in The Age of AI
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:10
What will define the next age of travel? Digital technology and artificial intelligence are empowering the industry to reimagine the travel experience and unlock long-term growth.Every generation has its own “golden age” of travel, often defined by the widespread adoption of new technology—from the jet engine of the 1950s that drastically reduced travel times to the dot-com period of the 199...
(Patent) Apple Invents a Virtual Canvas App for Artists When Using Apple Vision Pro
[Tech]
2023/10/11 09:09
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a possible future Vision Pro app that provides artists with a virtual canvas & sketchbook that will provide virtual erasing and smudging techniques and the ability to paint or draw in layers that could be edited.Apple's newly granted patent describes techniques for providing an interactive computer-genera...
(Infographic) How AI and the Metaverse Will Impact the Datasphere
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:08
The datasphere—the infrastructure that stores and processes our data—is critical to many of the advanced technologies on which we rely.So we partnered with HIVE Digital on this infographic to take a deep dive on how it could evolve to meet the twin challenges of AI and the metaverse.That LLM required a training compute of 380 quintillion FLOP/s, or floating-point operations per second, a meas...
(Paper) Graphene Sensor Could Let You Control Robots with Your Mind
[Tech]
2023/10/11 09:07
The Australian Army has already used the mind-control headset to command a robot dog.Australian researchers have used the “wonder material” graphene to develop a sensor that could enable anyone to control robot technology with their minds.“The hands-free, voice-free technology works outside laboratory settings, anytime, anywhere,” said co-developer Francesca Iacopi. “It makes interfaces su...
Prada Designing Lunar Spacesuits for NASA Moon Mission - AxEMU Spacesuit
[Design]
2023/10/11 09:06
Fashion house Prada has teamed up with commercial space company Axiom Space to create lunar spacesuits for NASA's Artemis III mission, which will be the first crewed moon landing since 1972.Called Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), the suits will be designed to give astronauts "advanced capabilities for space exploration," Prada said.They are an evolution of NASA's Exploration Extraveh...
Amazon is Embracing Ads, This Time on Prime Video
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:05
Amazon Prime Video has joined the growing slew of streamers with ad-supported offerings, announcing plans to roll out the new tier in the US in early 2024. The service will set users back an extra $2.99 a month if they want to carry on enjoying The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel or The Boys ad-free.It all ads upAmazon has said that the limited ads will allow the company to continue its content spending,...
Glass Health is Building an AI for Suggesting Medical Diagnoses
[Business]
2023/10/11 09:04
While a medical student at UC San Francisco, Dereck Paul grew concerned that innovation in medical software was lagging behind other sectors, like finance and aerospace. He came to believe that patients are best served when doctors are equipped with software that reflects the cutting edge of tech, and dreamed of starting a company that’d prioritize the needs of patients and doctors over hospit...
Red Dot Award : Design Concept for The Year 2023 - The Falcon Solar
[Design]
2023/10/11 09:03
Carbon-neutral flight seems to quite literally be on the horizon with this conceptual falcon-shaped aircraft. The eponymously named Falcon Horizon embraces the boundless potential of solar power with a uniquely designed body that additionally helps with lift and allows the aircraft to navigate the skies. Departing from conventional aircraft design, this concept harnesses the advantages of flyin...
(Patent) Apple Patents That Future Smartglasses Will Use Interferometric Sensors
[Tech]
2023/10/10 09:10
Future Smartglasses will use advanced Optical Sensor modules including an Interferometric Sensor & extended Depth of Focus Optics.Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to future devices such as smartglasses, Apple Vision Pro and even Apple Pencil integrating interferometric sensors to sense various physical phenomena (e.g., presenc...
