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Ready-to-drink Cocktails Are a Hit with Millennials and Gen Z
[Product]
2024/06/25 09:04
With alcohol sales flat, companies from Suntory to Diageo are investing heavily in flavor innovation to boost a growing segment that young drinkers are embracing.At the corporate office of Suntory Global Spirits in New York’s Flatiron District, I visited the liquor giant’s research and development lab, where I sipped on cocktails including an Old Overholt whiskey sour and two libations made w...
The Lava Lamp has Existed for 60-Plus Years. It’s Never Looked Like This
[Product]
2024/06/25 09:04
Groovy lighting, meet moody lighting.The lava lamp isn’t something you’d typically think of when imagining sophisticated interior design. Or mood lighting. Or adults. It’s a kid’s toy and college dorm room relic whose heyday is long past.English lava lamp manufacturer Mathmos has elevated the form, though, with a sexy, dark-matte lava lamp made as a limited-edition collaboration with Dutch...
The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning
[Consumer]
2024/06/25 09:04
Just over a year ago, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy recommended that legislators, parents, and tech companies take steps to make social media safer for children in light of the youth mental health crisis. Now, he’s ringing the alarm bell even louder with a new piece in the New York Times today where he suggests implementing a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms.The...
5 Trends Driving The Adoption of Cloud AI Technologies
[Business]
2024/06/24 09:10
Bessemer Venture Partners is one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture firms and one of the earliest to make a bet on SaaS and cloud technologies. Historically, It has parlayed the firm’s expertise into annual trend reports such as the State of the Cloud.In 2023, with the rise of ChatGPT, the company declared that language model-powered AI was here to stay. And it was right. For this yea...
(Video) Canon’s Quirky New Lenses Help You Create Content for Apple Vision Pro and VR
[Design]
2024/06/24 09:09
Mixed reality platforms try to seamlessly blend physical and digital objects, but our current technologies have their limits. You can, for example, view a regular photo or video in this virtual world, but it’d be like seeing a TV float in front of you. Such content doesn’t fully convey the power and the possibilities offered by these technologies, for which you’ll require specialized tools t...
(PDF) BCG - How Retail Media Can Top the CMO Agenda
[Business]
2024/06/24 09:08
Retail Media 3.0 will unlock the channel’s potential as a powerful, strategic marketing tool. But to get there, players must leverage partnerships and insights.Securing brands’ continued support for retail media networks (RMNs) rests on two pillars. RMNs will have to deliver media excellence on par with the big advertising giants. And they will need to share customer and business insights, us...
(Video) Remilk Makes History as First Animal-Free Milk Protein Greenlit for Use in Canada
[Product]
2024/06/24 09:07
Health Canada follows U.S., Israel, and Singapore authorities -- determines Remilk's animal-free protein is safe for consumptionRemilk, a global leader in the development and production of animal-free dairy, announced today it has received Health Canada's "Letter of No Objection", enabling the use and sale of its animal-free BLG protein in Canada.In Feb 2023, Remilk received a "No Questions Let...
AI Isn’t Making Much Money for Software Companies — Yet
[Business]
2024/06/24 09:06
AI is eating software.Every day in my email inbox, there’s another press release from a tech company launching a generative artificial intelligence feature.It’s clear that application makers are laser-focused on building AI tools. What’s less clear is whether anyone is willing to pay for them.New generative features let you craft pitches using Salesforce, summarize your employees’ skills in...
Kinetic Raises $21M in Series B Funding
[Investing]
2024/06/24 09:05
Kinetic, a Santa Ana, CA-based automotive infrastructure company that delivers digital maintenance and servicing for EVs and AVs through its network of service centers, raised $21m in Series B funding.The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from returning investors Lux Capital, Construct Capital and Haystack Ventures along with new investors Allstate Strategic Ventures and Liber...
