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Twitter’s Future is In Doubt as Threads Tops 100 Million Users
[Business]
2023/07/11 09:09
Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw.Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less than a week after it launched, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday, marking a staggering feat for any social netw...
(Patent) Apple is Inventing a Revolutionary Car Audio System for Apple Car
[Tech]
2023/07/11 09:08
Most of Apple's work on the Apple Car has been concerned with construction and design, but the company is inventing a whole new stereo system for the vehicle.If countless Apple patent applications over the years have hidden how they were really to do with Apple Vision Pro, doubtlessly so many have actually been about the Apple Car. Yet now it's as if Apple has given up trying to be secretive, b...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Unleashing Developer Productivity with Generative AI
[Business]
2023/07/11 09:07
A McKinsey study shows that software developers can complete coding tasks up to twice as fast with generative AI. Four actions can maximize productivity and minimize risks.Technology leaders aiming to accelerate software development can expect groundbreaking time savings with generative AI. However, they’ll need more than tooling to exploit the full potential of this disruptive technology.Our...
Tesla's Robot 'Optimus' Arrives in a Tesla Store in New York
[Product]
2023/07/11 09:06
Tesla’s humanoid robot ‘Optimus,’ which the company describes as capable of performing unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks, has been displayed in New York to help retail performance, as reported by Electrek.After the robot garnered much attention at a recent artificial intelligence (AI) expo in China, the automotive EV company thought that planting Optimus in its stores across North America...
U.S. Home Price Growth Over 50 Years
[Investing]
2023/07/11 09:05
U.S. home prices grew significantly in 2022, even as interest rates climbed higher.Yet in inflation-adjusted terms, this growth rate was far lower. By Q4 2022, it fell to being flat year-on-year, making it the slowest real growth seen in a decade.The above graphic compares nominal and real residential property price growth over 50 years based on the latest data from the Bank for International S...
AI-Powered AR Wearable Startup, Brilliant Labs Scores $3M From Oculus And Siri Co-Founders
[Investing]
2023/07/11 09:04
Brilliant Labs, a Singapore-based startup that develops augmented-reality wearables powered by ChatGPT, raised more than $3 million in a seed round from investors including cofounders of some of Silicon Valley’s best-known companies.Bobak Tavangar, cofounder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, wearing his company's AR monocle.BRILLIANT LABSBrendan Iribe, cofounder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality head...
Robotic Rotating Table Service Elevates Your Dining Experience
[Design]
2023/07/11 09:03
It’s the robotic version of our conventional rotating table. This unique project would elevate your dining experience. Most dining robot uses fixed plates that make it difficult to pickup your food from that multi-level tray, the waiter has to bend over to reach them, it’s inelegant. This design aims to create a robotic dining table that allows you to pickup your food more convenient and eleg...
(Patent) Mastercard Wants to Let You Pay with a Mask On
[Tech]
2023/07/10 09:10
The company wants to patent a method for payment authentication “while wearing a face covering” by embedding a “wireless transmitter chip associated with a unique identifier” into the user’s mask.Patent Application : https://bit.ly/3rjemSD[uspto]
BCG - For Chip Makers, the Decarbonization Challenge Lies Upstream
[Business]
2023/07/10 09:09
Advances in semiconductor capabilities are helping to reduce global carbon emissions by spurring electrification. But that good news comes with a less desirable reality: semiconductor manufacturing is responsible for as much CO2 output as half of US households.Chip makers have taken steps to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. But to accelerate their carbon-reduction efforts, chip companies m...
