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(Video) Haleon & Microsoft Seeing AI Collaboration
[Tech]
2022/10/17 09:10
For Marc Powell, a seemingly simple trip to the store to buy medication or other consumer health products is often an onerous, complicated undertaking.Powell, who is blind, usually must ask a store employee to help find what he needs and then read the information on the packaging to him, which can feel intrusive. At home he’ll ask his partner, who has partial sight, for help, but the print is...
The World's Largest Luxury Company - LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton)
[Business]
2022/10/17 09:10
With geopolitical turmoil, soaring inflation and sinking stock markets, you might not imagine the current economic landscape would make the best backdrop for luxury goods spending sprees. LVMH’s latest results, however, strongly suggest otherwise.Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) reported on Tuesday that its sales had jumped 28% in the first 9 months of 2022, a remarkable growth rate on a ye...
(Paper) 4D Printing of Shape Memory Polymers : From Macro to Micro
[Tech]
2022/10/17 09:10
Smart polymers with “life-like” properties: due to dynamic chemical bonds the micrometric 3D structures can grow eight-fold in just a few hours and harden. Scale: 20 micrometers (µm). Credit: Christoph Spiegel (Heidelberg University). Although just cute little creatures at first glance, the microscopic geckos and octopuses fabricated by 3D laser printing in the molecular engineering labs at...
InVintory Raised $1.5M for An App for Wine Collectors
[Investing]
2022/10/17 09:10
InVintory, a New York-based provider of a wine cellaring platform, raised $1.5M in funding.The round was led by JJ Redick and Josh Hart.The company intends to use the funds to invest in product development and growth. The team plans to add features to both its free and subscription tiers, and is also working on a new product for collectors with larger home cellars to manage all aspects of their...
(Infographic) Visualizing 40 Years of U.S. Interest Rates
[Investing]
2022/10/17 09:10
In just six months, the Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates by 300 basis points in one of the fastest rate increases in decades. By the end of 2023, rates could rise to 4.50-4.75%.Yet in spite of these increases, rates still fall below historical averages.In Part 1 of our Seizing Capital Opportunities series from Citizens, we show interest rate trends over modern history, and the implicati...
Damien Hirst Just Burned 1,000 of His Paintings and Will Soon Burn Thousands More
[Design]
2022/10/17 09:10
A painting of multicolored dots by artist Damien Hirst burns at the Newport Street Gallery in London on Tuesday as part of his project "The Currency." For it, he released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could either keep the non-fungible token, in which case the painting would be burned, or keep the painting, in which case they would lose the NF...
This Cute and Tiny Wireless Charger Design is Genius In Its Simplicity
[Design]
2022/10/17 09:10
Wireless charging has been around for many years, but, as usual, it was Apple’s adoption of the technology that finally opened the floodgates for other companies. Naturally, that has given birth to a wide variety of accessories supporting wireless charging, ranging from charging mats to portable power banks. Wireless chargers don’t always have to be complex, though, and there is indeed a push...
Sequoia Capital - Generative AI : A Creative New World
[Business]
2022/10/14 09:10
A powerful new class of large language models is making it possible for machines to write, code, draw and create with credible and sometimes superhuman results.Humans are good at analyzing things. Machines are even better. Machines can analyze a set of data and find patterns in it for a multitude of use cases, whether it’s fraud or spam detection, forecasting the ETA of your delivery or predic...
(Patent) Apple Working on AirPods Pro Safety Features when Biking and Working Out
[Tech]
2022/10/14 09:09
Apple working on AirPods Pro Safety Features when Biking, Jogging and working out on a next-gen Exercise Mat with Sensors. Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to possible safety features built into future AirPods Pro. For instance, if a user is biking, the AirPods Pro will know the user's speed and velocity in relation to objects aro...
