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(Infographic) CB Insights - Book of Strategy Map
[Business]
2024/05/16 09:08
CB Insights book of strategy maps shines a light on the strategies of the world’s most important companies. [click to enlarge]These strategies are not found by listening to senior executives rattle off carefully coached talking points. They’re found by mining data. Where is a company deploying its resources? Who are a company’s partners, investments, and M&A targets? These are the non-BS...
(Video) Luxury’s Next Big Personal Shopper ? Meta’s AI Smart Glasses
[Business]
2024/05/16 09:07
Meta unveils a new styling assistant for its smart eyewear; Gucci expands its gaming presence; and Ralph Lauren deploys virtual try-on mirrors.Luxury’s next big personal shopper doesn’t arrive in the form of a human or chatbot, but a pair of AI-powered Ray-Ban specs.This week, Meta unveiled that its smart glasses, produced in partnership with the classic American eyewear brand Ray-Ban, will n...
(Video) Next-Gen Spatial Displays Make for Headset-Free Working in 3 Dimensions
[Tech]
2024/05/16 09:06
The Looking Glass 16-inch and 32-inch (shown) spatial displays "enable stunning group 3D visualization without headsets".The Looking Glass Factory has launched two new spatial displays for creative professionals "who demand cutting-edge visualization tools for developing, presenting, and interacting with 3D digital images, video and applications in real time."Where the Brooklyn-based company's...
China Is Keeping the Wind Power Revolution Blowing
[Business]
2024/05/16 09:05
The West must spend more money on clean technology to rewire the world’s energy systems.For the past few years, the global wind industry has been stuck in the doldrums. With rising interest rates and materials costs whittling away developers’ profit margins, and political and economic elites cooling on the energy transition, installations of new turbines went sideways. Even as the electric ve...
After Surpassing $100M in ARR, Harness Grabs a $150M Line of Credit
[Investing]
2024/05/16 09:04
Harness isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Crunchbase.On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially a line of credit that the company can draw on as needed. It could be the final private financial step before an even...
An Interactive Lamp Series That Brings The Cosmic Moments Into Interiors
[Design]
2024/05/16 09:03
Space, with its vastness and complexity, has always captivated the human imagination. Our solar system, a celestial ballet of planets and stars, has inspired various aspects of human life and design, from ancient sundials to modern-day innovations. The COSMOOVAL lamp series is a testament to this inspiration, drawing on the phenomenal interconnectivity of our solar system to create a collection...
(Video) OpenAI Debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ Model Now Powering ChatGPT
[Business]
2024/05/15 09:10
OpenAI announced a new flagship generative AI model on Monday that they call GPT-4o — the “o” stands for “omni,” referring to the model’s ability to handle text, speech, and video. GPT-4o is set to roll out “iteratively” across the company’s developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks.OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said that GPT-4o provides “GPT-4-level” intelligence but i...
(PDF) What Consumers Want from Influencer Marketing
[Consumer]
2024/05/15 09:09
A new research report on influencer marketing published by analytics company. Sprout Social reveals that young people of Gen Z have different values on social media than older generations.The research report, published by Sprout Social, is the result of a survey of 2,000 Americans and British adults.The first survey question was about 'Qualities consumers look for in an influencer.' The most so...
This Apple Watch X Concept is Absolutely Absurd
[Design]
2024/05/15 09:08
Later this year or in 2025, Apple is expected to release the tenth-generation Apple Watch, which could be called the “Apple Watch X” — similar to how the 10th iPhone was named the iPhone X. This release is highly anticipated, and third-party designers are already creating concepts for it. One such design has caught our attention.Designer Lukas Gehrer at the German design agency Wordsmattr ca...
