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The Luxury Brands Selling Luxury NFTs
[Product]
2022/02/21 09:08
The NFT craze has reached the high fashion industry. Our chart with data gathered by Statista gives an overview of different NFT sales by luxury and collectable brands, some of them bringing in millions.A very lucrative NFT sale was launched by Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana. Collezione Genesi – bringing in more than $6 million on a hybrid physical/NFT model – consisted of nine pie...
(Video) AI Startup Sonantic Says Its Tech Captures New Subtleties of Speech
[Tech]
2022/02/21 09:07
Sonantic’s demo pairs an AI generated voice with a real human actor. The quality of AI-generated voices has improved rapidly in recent years, but there are still aspects of human speech that escape synthetic imitation. Sure, AI actors can deliver smooth corporate voiceovers for presentations and adverts, but more complex performances — a convincing rendition of Hamlet, for example — remain o...
Spoke Launches Music Therapy App for Gen Z, Raises $1.5M
[Investing]
2022/02/21 09:06
A new startup is launching what it calls “functional music”, and it’s raised institutional backing to power its next phase.Spoke is a new app that generates music with what it dubs “mindfulness benefits”. The app is based on 18 months of R&D with modern musical artists and scientific advisors (a clinical trial is planned) and combines music with the mindfulness prompts aimed largely at...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Dawn of the FemTech Revolution
[Business]
2022/02/21 09:05
As opportunities in women’s health accelerate, FemTech is helping to match capital and talent to unmet needs—with promising early results.Women’s healthcare enables better outcomes for women patients and consumers,1 investors and other stakeholders across the value chain, and society at large. We explore many of these opportunities, and the broader context in which they have developed, in a...
(Paper) Google DeepMind Use AI to Control Plasmas for Nuclear Fusion
[Tech]
2022/02/21 09:04
Across decades of development, scientists have been pursuing nuclear fusion technology through endless experiments, calculations and simulations, trying to find the optimal mix of conditions for atoms to fuse and continually release huge amounts of energy. The Alphabet-owned company DeepMind has now lent its considerable artificial intelligence know-how to the effort through a new partnership w...
MinusDUST Outdoor Air Pollution Capture to Reduce Toxic Pollutants
[Design]
2022/02/21 09:03
The modular units can be used singly or in networks and have customisable facades.Air pollution levels in India are among the highest in the world, threatening the country’s health and economy. This has catalysed the creation of a range of air purifying solutions, from portable devices mounted on baby strollers to in-home options that look like artwork.For areas with more concentrated levels o...
(Patent) Apple Pursues a Patent on a Method for Navigation Using AR
[Tech]
2022/02/18 09:10
U.S. patent application, US20220026233, discloses a method for navigation using augmented reality. The method includes receiving route information from a route server, receiving a series of images captured by a camera along the route, analyzing the series of images to determine a horizon, identifying one or more designated lanes from the one or more available lanes, and displaying, to a user, t...
(PDF) Deloitte - Cut Carbon, Cut Costs
[Business]
2022/02/18 09:09
CFOs in Europe can save money as well as the climate – if they act now!Most companies want to act on climate change themselves but also face pressure to do so from customers and stakeholders, as well as governments, in the form of increasing regulation. Many of the decisions to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change in other ways have cost implications, and therefore CFOs are involv...
Disney Launches New Business to Develop Residential Communities
[Product]
2022/02/18 09:08
The first Storyliving by Disney development will be named Cotino, and will be located in California's Coachella Valley.Disney has revealed an ambitious plan to create a number of new residential communities throughout the United States. The scheme, which is branded Storyliving by Disney, will launch with a large luxury housing development that will consist of roughly 1,900 homes.The first Story...
