(Video) Giant Wheels And Robots Help Dyson Farm Strawberries In The UK
[Tech]
2025/07/09 09:06
When most people think of Dyson, vacuum cleaners and air purifiers probably come to mind. But Dyson has also ventured into the world of agriculture, bringing its signature innovation to strawberry farming. It might seem strange and unrelated to their original business, but James Dyson himself thinks it’s a natural fit, since “growing things is like making things.” The company is focusing on...
(Video) How AI Infiltrated Perfume - Osmo AI
[Business]
2025/07/09 09:05
At a pristine, multimillion-dollar lab on the Manhattan waterfront, just down the street from a men’s homeless shelter and the medical examiner’s office, a slice of summer plum is being converted into fragrance code. This is the work of Osmo, a fragrance tech startup claiming to build artificial olfactory intelligence. Osmo has parlayed this innovation into offering turnkey fragrance compound...
The Plummeting Cost of Renewable Energy
[Investing]
2025/07/09 09:04
The price of concentrated solar power declined by 54% since 2014 and solar photovoltaic (PV) declined by 75%.Concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to produce concentrated sunlight, stood at a $53 billion market in 2023.Wind power is at least 60% less expensive than in 2014, driven by larger generating capacity and technical advancements improving installation costs.Renewable energy is ge...
‘Design Thinking’ Is On Its Deathbed (And That’s Okay)
[Design]
2025/07/09 09:03
Design thinking, the notion that anyone can solve problems like a designer with the right method and mindset, was a mainstay of corporate America from the 2000s into the 2010s. In recent years, though, the ideology’s effectiveness has been called into question, and it has become one of the most divisive topics in the field.Now it looks like corporations have started sidestepping the term compl...
(PDF) WEF - The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2025
[Tech]
2025/07/08 09:10
The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025, developed in collaboration with Frontiers, highlights 10 innovations with the potential to reshape industries and societies.Structural battery composites, advanced nuclear technologies, and collaborative sensing stood among the top emerging technologies of 2025, based on data from the World Economic Forum's annual report.Additionally, engineered living...
Anthropic Project Vend : Can Claude Run A Small Shop ?
[Tech]
2025/07/08 09:09
An AI Ran a Vending Machine for a Month and Proved It Couldn’t Handle Passive Income. Anthropic tried testing Claude’s entrepreneurial spirit. Then came the weird existential crisis.What happens when you let an AI run a very small business? That’s the question Anthropic set out to answer with a recent experiment. The company behind Claude AI set out to monitor how Claude Sonnet 3.7 would per...
(Video) Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's immersive installation at Bourse de Commerce
[Design]
2025/07/08 09:08
Installation Clinamen by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot invites reflection through sound and movement.This summer, the Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection offers an immersive sonic and visual experience with clinamen, an installation by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. Situated in the museum’s iconic Rotunda, the installation features a vast circular basin filled with water that mirror...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Looking Upstream: A Path To Unlocking Low-Carbon, Circular Materials
[Business]
2025/07/08 09:07
Many value chains need to collaborate to create low-carbon, circular materials for complex products. This overview offers a guide on where to start for materials producers and downstream customers.Materials value chains are complex and span the entire globe, and they represent 20% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To reach net-zero targets, the world is undergoing a materials transition...
(Paper) MIT - New Imaging Technique Reconstructs The Shapes Of Hidden Objects
[Tech]
2025/07/08 09:06
A new imaging technique developed by MIT researchers could enable quality-control robots in a warehouse to peer through a cardboard shipping box and see that the handle of a mug buried under packing peanuts is broken. Their approach leverages millimeter wave (mmWave) signals, the same type of signals used in Wi-Fi, to create accurate 3D reconstructions of objects that are blocked from view. The...