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(Video) Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered 'Copilot' for Word, Outlook and More
[Business]
2023/03/17 09:09
Microsoft 365 Copilot will work in apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more.Just a month after announcing artificial intelligence integration with its search engine Bing and browser Edge, Microsoft is introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot, a tool that'll work with you in its collection of apps including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and more. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft said t...
Pew - Where Americans Think AI Will Help The Most
[Consumer]
2023/03/17 09:08
How Americans view emerging uses of artificial intelligence, including programs to generate text or art.Artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene recently with programs like ChatGPT, which can generate text responses to human inquiries, and DALL-E 2, which can create sophisticated images from a handful of keywords. The emergence of these and other technologies has intensified debate abou...
AI Eats Media : Midjourney Launches a Magazine
[Design]
2023/03/17 09:07
Why someone would pay for print copies of images freely available online remains a question for Midjourney magazine and for the media business writ large.Midjourney is launching a monthly print magazine, “Midjourney.”A subscription will cost $4 per month, though you can get the first issue gratis if you sign up fast, according to the Wednesday announcement. Midjourney, an art generator powere...
The World's First Self-Warming Baby Bottle System - Ember
[Product]
2023/03/17 09:06
Ember has been a fascinating company to watch. The Los Angeles-based startup entered the scene with a self-heating mug, only to leverage its temperature tech learnings to enter the cold chain space, where it has developed containers for medical supply shipping.I suppose you could say that the firm has returned to its roots with the launch of its latest product. And frankly, baby bottles actuall...
Aramco : The State-Owned Saudi Company Had a Record-Breaking Year
[Investing]
2023/03/17 09:05
Saudi Aramco announced record profits of $161bn for 2022, up 46% on the year prior.That's the best year on record for the oil giant, which is ~95% state-owned, and the company remains second only to Apple on the list of the world's most valuable companies with a market cap of $1.9 trillion.Shopping spreeAramco’s CEO, Amin Nasser, said that “this is probably the highest net income ever recorde...
(Video) Zipline Develops a 'Practically Silent' Autonomous Delivery Drone
[Product]
2023/03/17 09:04
'Zips' have a range of 10 miles, carry 8 pounds of payload, and delivery time can be tracked to the second.Drone delivery company Zipline has revealed its new delivery platform, with drones so quiet they "sound like wind rustling leaves."Zipline has been around since 2014, and its existing Platform 1 (P1) technology has autonomously flown 40 million miles across Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, a...
(Video) Invisible Turntable Makes Playing Your Vinyl Look Almost Magical - Miniot
[Product]
2023/03/17 09:03
Vinyl and record players miraculously resurfaced a few years ago, giving people of all ages a chance to experience or revisit the unique quality of this analog medium. At first, most of the products tried to faithfully recreate the experience, going so far as modeling record players after vintage aesthetics. Recently, there have been new designs that try to appeal to more modern tastes and youn...
(PDF) BCG - Bright Spots for Telcos in a Downturn
[Business]
2023/03/16 09:10
In 2022, the worst year for equity markets since 2008, investors in the telco sector benefited from the sector’s utility-like characteristics. The median total shareholder return (TSR) for the S&P Global 1200 was –17% for the year, but the median TSR for telcos was –4%. (See Exhibit 1.) In fact, this was an encore from the last time capital markets sputtered in 2018, when global telcos w...
(Patent) Google Filed Patent for Creating “Three-Dimensional Maps of An Indoor Space.”
[Tech]
2023/03/16 09:09
Google filed patent applications for tech that learns the layout of your home so you’re not falling over your couch with that VR headset on. The company is seeking to patent tech for creating “three-dimensional maps of an indoor space.” This tech works by using depth sensors on your mobile device’s camera to “scan” the desired areas in your home and “generate realistic virtual rooms, whi...
