TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) Investment Opportunities in Biotech
[Investing]
2023/07/12 09:06
With the world evolving at an unprecedented pace, nearly every sector is being disrupted in some way or another. In transportation, EVs were spearheaded by Tesla, which emerged as the first new American automaker in decades, and is now one of the world’s most valuable companies. Similarly, in the realm of AI, OpenAI has taken a leading position in large language models, demonstrating the immen...
Thesis: $13.5M Raised for Customized Approaches To Cognitive Performance Products
[Investing]
2023/07/12 09:05
Thesis – a company that offers a customized approach to cognitive performance products based on your unique brain chemistry – announced that it has raised over $13.5 million in funding. The company had recently closed on a Series A round totaling $8.4 million with investors that included Unilever Ventures, Redo Ventures, Alive VC, Break Trail, NBA superstar Kevin Love and model Kate Bock. Pre...
Damien Hirst Enlivens Tiffany & co. Ginza Flagship with 'Blossoming' Facade Art
[Design]
2023/07/12 09:04
Luxury giant Tiffany & Co. celebrated the opening of its renovated Ginza flagship in Tokyo with a spellbinding artwork by English artist Damien Hirst. The floral-inspired design engulfs the store‘s faceted facade, beginning as a blue backdrop at street level before ‘blooming’ and spreading upward — morphing into an enchanting palette of pink, white, green, and red ‘petals. The opening...
The Economics of Coffee : A Visual Breakdown
[Investing]
2023/07/12 09:03
Giuseppe Lavazza, chairman of one of the world's leading coffee roasters, expects customers to be able to get their caffeine fix cheaper in the coming months, as consumers begin to benefit from the falling price of wholesale beans.With more than 60% of Americans drinking coffee every single day, you might expect the price of coffee to be headline news.But, even if coffee wholesale prices do tum...
(PDF) Deloitte Summer Travel Survey 2023 : The Experience Economy Endures
[Consumer]
2023/07/11 09:10
More than two years after the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines helped relaunch the experience economy, this summer is poised to improve on an already buoyant Summer 2022. Half of Americans say they will take a leisure vacation this summer, up from 46% in 2022. And they are doing so with enthusiasm, taking more international flights and adding an average of one trip to their calendar. Concerns, howe...
Twitter’s Future is In Doubt as Threads Tops 100 Million Users
[Business]
2023/07/11 09:09
Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw.Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less than a week after it launched, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday, marking a staggering feat for any social netw...
(Patent) Apple is Inventing a Revolutionary Car Audio System for Apple Car
[Tech]
2023/07/11 09:08
Most of Apple's work on the Apple Car has been concerned with construction and design, but the company is inventing a whole new stereo system for the vehicle.If countless Apple patent applications over the years have hidden how they were really to do with Apple Vision Pro, doubtlessly so many have actually been about the Apple Car. Yet now it's as if Apple has given up trying to be secretive, b...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Unleashing Developer Productivity with Generative AI
[Business]
2023/07/11 09:07
A McKinsey study shows that software developers can complete coding tasks up to twice as fast with generative AI. Four actions can maximize productivity and minimize risks.Technology leaders aiming to accelerate software development can expect groundbreaking time savings with generative AI. However, they’ll need more than tooling to exploit the full potential of this disruptive technology.Our...
Tesla's Robot 'Optimus' Arrives in a Tesla Store in New York
[Product]
2023/07/11 09:06
Tesla’s humanoid robot ‘Optimus,’ which the company describes as capable of performing unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks, has been displayed in New York to help retail performance, as reported by Electrek.After the robot garnered much attention at a recent artificial intelligence (AI) expo in China, the automotive EV company thought that planting Optimus in its stores across North America...
