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The Metaverse Could Radically Reshape Fashion
[Business]
2022/07/19 09:04
Garments that dissolve in water, change color, or sprout wings could thrive in Web3—and inspire a new era of design IRL.In 2020, London-based fashion designer Scarlett Yang created a garment that looked like glass, changed texture in response to temperature and weather, and dissolved if you left it in water. This wasn’t a sci-fi fever dream or magic trick, but a design made possible by modern...
Timbercraft Tiny Homes' Slimmed-Down Teton Sleeps 4 in Rustic Style
[Product]
2022/07/19 09:03
The Teton is based on a triple-axle trailer and measures a total length of 34 ft (10 m)Timbercraft Tiny Homes.Alabama's Timbercraft Tiny Homes has previously impressed us with its massive towable models, like the Denali XL, which combine cottage-like styling and spacious interiors. Its latest tiny house, the Teton, has a similar overall design, but comes with a more compact footprint that still...
(PDF) BCG - How the Metaverse Will Remake Your Strategy
[Business]
2022/07/18 09:10
The metaverse is already a big part of business. It will only become more central.As digital technologies move to the next stage of advancement—the metaverse—there are two questions companies should ask: How will the metaverse change our business? And how can we get ahead of the change and shape it to our advantage? This is our perspective on both.The Data and Technology UniverseThere’s plen...
(Patent) A New Apple Patent Demonstrates An Advanced Blood Pressure Device
[Tech]
2022/07/18 09:09
Our cover graphic is from that patent. Yesterday the U.S. Patent Office published a patent from Apple relating to a new UI for those that will use Apple’s blood pressure cuff to create a blood pressure journal.Apple’s patent application covers techniques for managing and/or presenting health data relating to hypertension using electronic devices. Today’s systems are generally cumbersome and...
(Paper) LM-Nav : Robotic Navigation with Large Pre-Trained Models of Language, Vision, and Action
[Tech]
2022/07/18 09:08
Goal-conditioned policies for robotic navigation can be trained on large, unannotated datasets, providing for good generalization to real-world settings. However, particularly in vision-based settings where specifying goals requires an image, this makes for an unnatural interface. Language provides a more convenient modality for communication with robots, but contemporary methods typically requ...
(Infographic) The World’s 1,170 Unicorn Companies
[Investing]
2022/07/18 09:07
Even as the market sours, startups are still hitting billion-dollar valuations. Our market map visualizes the 1,170 private companies worth $1B+ across artificial intelligence, e-commerce, fintech, and more.The momentum continued into 2022 — with the list reaching 1,000 unicorns for the first time in February — until macro trends like inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical shocks...
Tecton Raises $100M, Proving That The MLOps Market is Still Hot
[Investing]
2022/07/18 09:06
Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. e-commerce recommendations). But it’s difficult for any one employee to keep up with — much less manage — the massive volumes of data being created. That poses a problem, given AI...
Tesla’s Chinese Battery Maker, CATL is Scoping Out Factory Sites in Mexico
[Business]
2022/07/18 09:05
Battery maker weighs splitting investment in US and Mexico. Tesla, Ford could buy EV cells made across southern border.China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of batteries for electric vehicles, is considering at least two locations in Mexico for a manufacturing plant to potentially supply Tesla Inc. and Ford Motor Co.The battery manufacturer is considering...
American Attitudes Shift to Owning Digital Assets, Not Just Streaming Them
[Consumer]
2022/07/18 09:04
On a day when Netflix said it would launch an ad-supported service with Microsoft, it would appear the streaming world may, in fact, be poised to compete in popularity terms, as consumers begin to realise they can own digital assets, not merely rent or stream them.Based on a new survey of 2,000 Americans (so statistically relevant), a new study found that 77% of Americans would rather own digit...
