While a medical student at UC San Francisco, Dereck Paul grew concerned that innovation in medical software was lagging behind other sectors, like finance and aerospace. He came to believe that patients are best served when doctors are equipped with software that reflects the cutting edge of tech, and dreamed of starting a company that’d prioritize the needs of patients and doctors over hospit...

Carbon-neutral flight seems to quite literally be on the horizon with this conceptual falcon-shaped aircraft. The eponymously named Falcon Horizon embraces the boundless potential of solar power with a uniquely designed body that additionally helps with lift and allows the aircraft to navigate the skies. Departing from conventional aircraft design, this concept harnesses the advantages of flyin...

Future Smartglasses will use advanced Optical Sensor modules including an Interferometric Sensor & extended Depth of Focus Optics.Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to future devices such as smartglasses, Apple Vision Pro and even Apple Pencil integrating interferometric sensors to sense various physical phenomena (e.g., presenc...

Netflix has pulled a masterful sleight of hand to steal attention for the third and final season of Lupin.With marketing agency Jellyfish France as its accomplice, the streaming giant has plotted elegant posters in parts of France that replicate advertisements by luxury brands like Rolex, Chanel, Hermès, Cartier, Celine, and Tiffany & Co, appropriating even their logos and brand aesthetics...

Grocery executives face a host of new challenges, including flat growth and margin pressure. Five trends could point the way to renewed momentum.After a tumultuous 2022, grocery executives hoped rampant inflation and snarled supply chains would soon recede, signaling the return to a more traditional landscape. In some ways, they got their wish: inflation has fallen significantly, and supply sho...

The beauty industry churns out millions of pounds of unrecyclable plastic every year. Can better data get it to stop ?When my jar of Glossier concealer ran out recently, I stood in my kitchen for five minutes, trying to figure out if I could toss it in the recycling bin. I assumed that the metallic cap was not recyclable, but I squinted to see if the glass jar had a recycling symbol on it. It d...

The hardest part for junk-rated companies on both sides of the Atlantic is yet to come.A better-than-expected macroeconomic backdrop, following record-low rates in the wake of the pandemic, has helped many teetering companies stay afloat since interest rates started to climb. That may be about to change as the maturity wall for junk-rated companies starts to steepen and firms find that the cash...

Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances.On Wednesday, at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Detroit, a Disney Research team presented a brand new robotic character during their evening keynote address. The adorable robot packs an enormous amount of expression into its child-size body, from its highly...

It might allow self-driving cars, drones, and robots to use regular cameras to move around our world.parked cars in "bounding boxes".A new method named MonoXiver uses AI to build up reliable 3D maps of a camera’s surroundings based only on 2D photos. The technology could be especially useful for navigation in self-driving cars. The challenge: As 2D representations of a 3D world, photos are mis...