The Gen Z sports icon speaks to Jing Daily at Watches and Wonders in Geneva about balancing classes and competitions and using her platform responsibly.Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu has transfixed the sports, luxury and fashion worlds. Known as Gu Ailing in China, the California-born superstar has excelled in professional freestyle skiing, the half pipe, slope style and big air events, making...

With limited growth in traditional buying and selling, retailers need new revenue and profit streams.Growth is becoming more elusive in core retailing activities, to the extent that, by 2030, half of industry profits could come from nontraditional sources such as marketplaces, advertising, and financial services.Retailers can seize the opportunities that lie “beyond trade” by launching Engine...

Patrons at Harrods London can now take a literal step inside the luxurious world of Prada, as the Italian label recently opened the doors to its café, offering customers an experience filled with the brand’s iconic visual hallmarks—ranging from the interior decor to the menu and tableware. Within Prada Caffè, one will immediately notice how all of the walls, ceilings, and velvet-upholstered...

Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?I first started paying attention to Amazon’s ad business a couple of years ago, when a line called ‘other’ in the back of the accounts starte...

A foot-sensing floor mat can detect a user's movements and translate them to a VR world.Virtual reality headsets now come close enough to fooling your eyes into believing you’re someplace else, but the experience doesn’t translate as well to the rest of your body. Researchers from South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology want VR to be a whole body experience, and have create...

Nontraditional categories of digital gaming, online video, messaging apps, smart home, and digital music are showing faster growth, with projected five-year CAGRs of 5%-21% according to new research from Omdia.[click to enlarge]Although of smaller value than established telco services such as mobile data, pay TV and broadband, these fast-growing markets will be worth $513bn by 2027, the two big...

Distyl AI, a San Francisco-based analytics firm that helps large companies use generative artificial intelligence and language models, has raised $7 million in seed funding and formed an alliance with OpenAI, a leading research organization in the field.The funding round was led by Coatue and Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Nat Friedman, the former chief executive of GitHub;...

“AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10.”Recent breakthroughs in AI image generation have created widespread anxiety in China’s video game art industry.Given the high quality of AI-produced artwork, many illustrators are losing their jobs to AI image generators such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2.The gamin...

Consumers today demand more Chatbot automation to ease their day-to-day and businesses are starting to listen. This infographic from Tabitha Naylor is a testament to this growth and shows that the best is yet to come with the Chatbot industry.Infographic : https://bit.ly/3KAL08e[TabithaNaylor]