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The World's First Care Label Remover - LUKE
[Product]
2024/02/22 09:09
Care labels are uncomfortable on the skin. They are itchy. And when they stick out from underneath clothing, they are visible to others. It's no surprise that 60% of individuals choose to remove the care label. Or at least try to. It’s a frustrating effort: what’s left of the label frays or you cut holes into the fabric. This is why we delevoped LUKE. LUKE puts an end to annoying care labels...
BCG - 5 Game-Changing Technologies Nearing Their Tipping Point
[Tech]
2024/02/22 09:08
If necessity is the mother of invention, existential crises tend to be the great accelerators. The urgent need to address climate change, collapsing food systems, the next pandemic, and other global challenges is mobilizing investors, companies, researchers, and governments to speed the development of a raft of once-futuristic technologies with far-reaching business implications.ChatGPT’s arri...
Apple Made an AI Image Tool That Lets You Make Edits by Describing Them
[Tech]
2024/02/22 09:07
MGIE, or MLLM-Guided Image Editing, will crop photos and brighten specific areas of a photo.Apple researchers released a new model that lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software.The MGIE model, which Apple worked on with the University of California, Santa Barbara, can crop, resize, flip, and add filters to images all...
Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones
[Product]
2024/02/22 09:06
The combined market share of the top 10 smartphones in 2023 reached the highest ever at 20%, up from 19% in 2022.Apple’s iPhone 14 was the best-selling smartphone of 2023 and the iPhone 15 Pro Max was the best-selling smartphone of Q4 2023.Apple and Samsung were the only brands in the top-10 list.Apple, for the first time, captured the top seven positions in the global list of best-selling sma...
(Paper) Microsoft’s New AI Needs Just 3 Seconds of Audio to Clone a Voice
[Tech]
2024/02/22 09:05
VALL-E can even mimic a speaker’s emotions and acoustic environment.Microsoft’s new voice-cloning AI can simulate a speaker’s voice with remarkable accuracy — and all it needs to get started is a three-second sample of them talking.Voice cloning 101: Voice cloning isn’t new. Google the term, and you’ll get a long list of links to websites and apps offering to train an AI to produce audio...
Nature-Inspired Inks for Painting Planes and More
[Product]
2024/02/22 09:04
The nanomaterial-based ink delivers permanent colours at a fraction of the weight of conventional paint.In traditional materials science, colour comes from molecules absorbing specific colours from white light. Over time, the molecules degrade and the colour fades. However, colour in some natural materials, such as butterfly wings or bird feathers, occurs when light is reflected from nanostruct...
The Out-of-Home Advertising Recovery Has Not Been Equal
[Business]
2024/02/22 09:03
OOH has surpassed pre-pandemic highs, recovering from a 30% dip.Announcing! Brandweek is headed to Phoenix, Arizona this September 23–26. Join us there to explore the future of marketing, discover cutting-edge strategies and network with the best in the business.Nearly four years ago, a significant number of people went inside and stayed there. They relied on DoorDash for food, Peloton for exe...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Top M&A Trends in 2024 Report
[Business]
2024/02/21 09:10
Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.M&A dealmakers have been on a wild ride. From the pandemic-fueled rout in 2020 to 2021’s record-breaking recovery, followed by a steep decline in 2023, the global M&A market has offered something of a ma...
Amazon-Backed Startup, Hippo Harvest Raises $21M for Greenhouse Robots
[Investing]
2024/02/21 09:09
Lettuce isn’t the world’s most challenging crop, but as any farmer knows, there are plenty of problems that pop up between planting and harvest. The gamut runs from pests to pathogens and rain — both too little and too much.To shield the tender greens from the cruel world, many growers have taken their crops indoors — sprawling greenhouses or humming warehouses have become the new homes for...
