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(PDF) Mckinsey - Rethinking The Next Moves in Global Payments
[Investing]
2022/10/26 09:10
Shifts in the macro environment are creating opportunities and obstacles for participants across the worldwide payments ecosystem.The global payments industry demonstrated its resilience again in 2021, more than recouping the revenue erosion experienced in 2020, which was the sector’s first decline since the 2008–09 financial crisis. Our five-year revenue outlook now exceeds prepandemic expec...
(Patent) Apple has Won 3 AirPods-Related Patents
[Tech]
2022/10/26 09:09
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple 3 AirPods related patents. Two of the patents cover the construction of AirPods Max. The third is the one that more interesting in that it covers a feature not yet implemented, at least not knowingly. The patent covers the use of a Bioauthentication circuit that relates to AirPods Max being configured to authenticate whether a voiced...
Pew - More Americans Are Getting News on TikTok
[Consumer]
2022/10/26 09:08
A small but growing share of U.S. adults say they regularly get news on TikTok. This is in contrast with many other social media sites, where news consumption has either declined or stayed about the same in recent years.In just two years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has roughly tripled, from 3% in 2020 to 10% in 2022.The video-sharing platform has report...
AI-Powered Toilet Detects Kidney Disease and Diabetes - Olive KG
[Product]
2022/10/26 09:07
A new toilet seat could help to passively detect a number of medical conditions, potentially saving lives.An Israeli startup has developed a hi-tech toilet seat that can scan urine for early signs of diabetes, chronic kidney disease, bladder cancer, urinary tract infections, and even dehydration. The company, Olive Diagnostics, describes its tech as the “world’s first AI and spectroscopy-base...
Tellius Raises $16M for AI-Driven Decision Intelligence Platform
[Investing]
2022/10/26 09:06
Tellius, a Reston, VA-based provider of an AI-driven decision intelligence platform, raised $16M in Series B funding.The round, which brought total fundraising to $33m to date, was led by Baird Capital with participation from Sands Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, and Veraz Investments.The company intends to use the funds to enhance its platform, expand go-to-market capabilities, and support...
Come Dine With Meal Kits
[Design]
2022/10/26 09:05
Most people know the feeling of standing in the supermarket, completely bereft of ideas for what they could make for dinner that night. Recognizing this universal problem and filling the gap in the market (and people's brains), the emergence of companies selling meal kits has really grown since around 2007/2008 when two Swedish companies started providing the service. It wasn't until 2012 that...
&Walsh Uses AI to Create Branding for Nuclear Energy Advocate
[Design]
2022/10/26 09:04
American creative agency &Walsh has created the branding for the website of nuclear energy advocate Isodope using AI image generator DALL-E 2.Before creating the branding, New York-based &Walsh had been experimenting with OpenAI's DALL-E 2 platform to see if it could be useful for coming up with brand imagery."We used AI to generate many of the case study images, iconography, art direct...
A Winner of The Red Dot Design Concept Award 2022 - The Gaming Flex
[Design]
2022/10/26 09:03
The Red Dot Design Concept Award-winning case for the Galaxy Z Flip4 takes the folding phone and turns it into the world’s first gaming foldable. Cleverly designed with joysticks and controls that tuck within each other when folded, this Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 accessory still lets you use the phone as is, retaining all its smartphone functionality, albeit with a rather sizeable gaming upgrade!...
(PDF) Capgemini - Moving Towards Sustainable Product Design
[Business]
2022/10/25 09:10
With an overriding focus on “user-centricity,” modern product design may have made sense in a purely commercially driven business framework, but it can have negative consequences further down the line – both for other stakeholders and for the environment.For example, an estimated 80 percent of environmental impacts associated with products result from design decisions. As such, sustainable p...
