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(PDF) BCG - 9 Key Steps to Achieve Sustainability in Retail
[Business]
2022/05/26 09:10
Few retailers excel at being green, but the sector is striving for improvement. Where is your company on the maturity curve?A new maturity survey from BCG, developed in collaboration with the World Retail Congress, finds that sustainability is now a strategic priority for many retail companies. That’s the good news. The more important finding from the survey, which polled employees at 37 major...
(Video) At-Home Pupillometry Using Smartphone Facial Identification Cameras
[Tech]
2022/05/26 09:09
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD and other neurological diseases and disorders—by recording closeups of their eye.The app uses a near-infrared camera, which is built into newer smartphones for facial recognition, along with a regular selfie camera to track how a person’s pupil...
Start-up Blinq Raises $5M with Digital Business Card
[Investing]
2022/05/26 09:08
Digital business card start-up Blinq has raised $5 million in its seed funding round. Venture Capital funds Blackbird and Square Peg Capital co-invested in the seed round, for the first time since Canva.“Blinq is one of the fastest-growing platforms we’ve seen in recent years. Just as Twitter and Airbnb took off at events such as South by Southwest, it’s exciting to see Blinq do the same thi...
(Video) ZipCharge Reveals Charging Hubs Packing Suitcase-sized Powerbanks
[Product]
2022/05/26 09:07
The ZipCharge GoHub module is designed to host five or 10 Go EV powerbanks, and will fit in a standard parking space at the shopping mall, community space or business park.Late last year, UK startup ZipCharge announced the development of a suitcase-sized powerbank on wheels for charging electric vehicles. Now the company has revealed its next idea, a modular charging and storage hub called the...
Air Travel Forecast : When Will Airlines Recover from Covid-19 ?
[Consumer]
2022/05/26 09:06
The Russia-Ukraine war and ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns in China continue to stymie global air traffic recovery.In May 2020, we began making regular forecasts of how soon aviation demand would recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, based on several potential scenarios and the latest information.Here are the latest developments as of April 2022.Several headwinds pushed our baseline rec...
Twisting for Soft Intelligent Autonomous Robot in Unstructured Environments
[Tech]
2022/05/26 09:05
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pennsylvania have developed soft robots that are capable of navigating complex environments, such as mazes, without input from humans or computer software.“These soft robots demonstrate a concept called ‘physical intelligence,’ meaning that structural design and smart materials are what allow the soft robot to navigate va...
Super-efficient Solar Cells are Digitally Printed to Fit Any Device - Perovskia Solar
[Product]
2022/05/26 09:04
Cleantech company Perovskia Solar combines inkjet printing with customised design to build solar cells that fit almost any product. Designed for seamless integration into existing devices, the Perovskia solar cells work exceptionally well even in low lighting conditions.Perovskia is a calcium titanite mineral that, when applied in a thin film as a semiconductor, is an incredibly efficient metho...
Dine & Party Underwater In This Giant Entertainment Submarine - U-Boat Worx
[Design]
2022/05/26 09:03
Ever dreamed of throwing a party in the depths of sea without getting wet? Hold your breath, a new 1,615-sqft submarine has emerged to take you closer to your wish. Aptly named the “Under Water Entertainment Platform,” or UWEP in short, this party submarine can accommodate up to 120 guests in a fully air-conditioned, decked out space while cruising at a depth of 200 meters (650 feet) under th...
(Patent) Canon Patents AI That Optically Zooms a Lens to Reframe Photos
[Tech]
2022/05/25 09:10
Canon has been awarded a patent for new artificial intelligence (AI) driven technology that will automatically zoom in to better frame a photo before capture.Canon’s new AI Zoom technology seeks to identify subjects within a photo’s frame and then either optically or digitally zoom into the picture without the photographer having to adjust it themselves.Moreover, the camera would have various...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Marketing in the Metaverse
[Business]
2022/05/25 09:09
Although widespread adoption of the metaverse may take some time, leading brands are already rewriting the rules of marketing.Talk of the metaverse has been ubiquitous over the past several months.1 In 2021, internet searches for the term increased by 7,200 percent. In December, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared his ambition to “help bring the metaverse to lif...
(Paper) Google Imagen : Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding
[Tech]
2022/05/25 09:08
The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2’s ability to draw/paint/imagine just about anything… but OpenAI isn’t the only one working on something like that. Google Research has rushed to publicize a similar model it’s been working on — which it claims is even better.Imagen (get it?) is a text-to-image diffusion-based generator built on...
(Video) Chipotle's Breakthrough NHL Mixed-Reality Ad
[Business]
2022/05/25 09:07
How the Avalanche and its new sponsor assembled a tech-enabled burrito bowl ad.Chipotle quite literally broke the ice on a new kind of ad last week, using mixed reality technology to spring an unexpected surprise on viewers of a Stanley Cup playoff game between the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues. The stunt, which made it appear a gigantic hand broke through the ice to grab a burrito bow...
