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(PDF) BCG - The Gaming Report : Leveling Up for the New Reality
[Business]
2025/01/02 09:10
The days of double-digit growth are gone. Game publishers must embrace new monetization strategies and focus on markets—and demographics—that they haven’t fully tapped.Game development costs have skyrocketed, leading publishers to place fewer bets—putting more on the line with fewer opportunities to recover from misses. And there have been misses, sparking layoffs and studio closures.While...
China Unveils New Quadruped Robot Capable of Carrying Adult
[Tech]
2025/01/02 09:09
An all-terrain quadruped robot capable of performing Thomas Flare, on-the-spot side flips, downhill dives, rapid movement in water, leaping from a 2.8-meter-high rooftop, and even carrying an adult across rough terrain has been developed by a company in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. With the increasing deployment in more and more public settings, these new capabilities mark the indu...
(Paper) MIT - Want to Design The Car of The Future ? Here Are 8,000 Designs
[Tech]
2025/01/02 09:08
MIT and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are hoping to get carmakers’ wheels turning when it comes to transforming automotive design with the launch of DrivAerNet++, the largest open-source dataset of its kind.Featuring over 8,000 AI-generated electric vehicle (EV) designs, the project aims to streamline car development by combining cutting-edge computational methods with aerodynamic i...
(Infographic) 2024 In Search : Google’s Top Trending Searches
[Consumer]
2025/01/02 09:07
From international sports milestones to the loss of major celebrities, 2024 was a year packed with headlines.To get a pulse on what the world was most curious about, we look at what the world Googled the most this past year. This graphic visualizes the top 10 trending Google searches worldwide in 2024.The top trending searches were those with the highest increase in search interest compared to...
Compression Socks with A Doping Effect : CEO of Stox
[Business]
2025/01/02 09:06
Compression socks, whether used in sports, leisure or for medical purposes, aren't exactly considered a sexy accessory. Caspar Disselhoff agreed. So, almost 10 years ago, he founded Stox Energy Socks - the company making compression socks with medical technology fashionable.Stox was born in 2015, and already started out with a medical background. Disselhoff's research revealed a high demand for...
Calo Raises $25M to Expand Its Ready-to-Eat Meal Service Beyond the Middle East
[Investing]
2025/01/02 09:05
A business built around increasingly customized ready-to-eat meals has netted Middle Eastern startup Calo a sizeable funding injection as it looks to expand both what it can offer its time-strapped customers and where it delivers its growing range of just-heat-to-eat dishes.The meal delivery market in the Middle East will hit $11.2 billion by 2030, according to a report from MarkNtel Advisors p...
Big Tech Company Spending On AI Data Centers
[Business]
2025/01/02 09:04
Big tech companies are aggressively investing billions of dollars in AI data centers to meet the escalating demand for computational power and infrastructure necessary for advanced AI workloads.This graphic visualizes the total AI capital expenditures and data center operating costs for Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon from January to August 2024.AI capital expenditures are one-time or infre...
Robot Caddie Concept Helps You Make Smart Decisions on The Green
[Design]
2025/01/02 09:03
There are probably two kinds of people in the world when it comes to robots: those who think that it’s more convenient to have them around and those who are scared that they might become our overlords someday, just like in those sci-fi movies. If you’re somewhere in the former camp or at least in between the two, you’re not surprised or afraid that we see them take on more tasks that actual...
(Patent) Apple invents User Interfaces for Positioning a Virtual Keyboard
[Tech]
2024/12/23 09:10
The U.S. Patent Office published a patent application of Apple's that relates to methods and user interfaces for positioning a virtual keyboard in a three-dimensional environment, displaying various types of virtual keyboards, for switching between virtual keyboards, and/or displaying a virtual keyboard based on a user's body position.One of Apple's latest inventions relates to user interfaces...
