Apple’s long-rumored augmented reality smart glasses are nowhere on the horizon yet. Seemingly the launch is distant, but that doesn’t change the fact that the glasses aren’t the most-awaited Apple accessory. This means, designers have a good reason to toil with the expectations and present us with ideas to induce excitement. Case in point, the Apple Smart Glasses concept which has a very mo...

Just one in ten start-ups valued at $100 million grows to $1 billion within four years. Here are five trade-offs they made to get there.Earning a $100 million valuation is an exceptional achievement. In all of Europe, only about 850 start-ups reached this milestone between 2010 and 2017. Yet these companies have little time to celebrate. The venture capital (VC) firms that invest in them expect...

Intel’s deepfake detector analyzes ‘blood flow’ in video pixels to return results in milliseconds with 96% accuracy.As part of Intel's Responsible AI work, the company has productized FakeCatcher, a technology that can detect fake videos with a 96% accuracy rate. Intel’s deepfake detection platform is the world’s first real-time deepfake detector that returns results in milliseconds.“Deep...

The beverage start-up hopes advertisers are thirsty for a new marketing channel. Josh Cliffords, the CEO of the beverage company FreeWater, is turning bottled and boxed water into a new form of direct advertising.The idea is this: Slap an ad on the side of a water bottle and you can give it away for free. Freebies, Cliffords is convinced, are the best way to win over consumers.“Other advertisi...

Wordcraft is a ‘magic text editor’ meant to inspire writers when crafting new stories, but it’s not likely to replace your favorite authors anytime soon.Remember that time Google showed off its artificial intelligence prowess by demoing conversations with Pluto and a paper airplane? That was powered by LaMDA, one of Google’s latest-generation conversational AI models. Now, Google’s using L...

When people think about the future of work, remote and hybrid work are often the first things that come to mind. But the topic is broader and deeper—and includes leadership, culture, customers, talent, learning, reskilling, and more. To understand how organizations are preparing for the future, we surveyed executives from approximately 350 companies, more than one third of them in the C-suite,...

For Tome, which calls itself the “new storytelling format for work and important ideas,” integrating OpenAI’s DALL-E into its flexible, interactive slide options — which it announced today — was a natural fit to add a generative AI dimension to decks. When OpenAI announced the release of the DALL-E API in early November, the San-Francisco-based startup had its chance.“Making that a part o...

Ask anyone, even AI, to imagine a scooter and chances are you’ll NEVER come across something as avant-garde as this concept right here. Designed by Alexander Yamaev, this oddly eye-catching tricycle scooter concept comes with a rectangular side profile that slices through the air the way a credit card swipes through a payment machine, and a unique wheel setup featuring a massive front wheel th...

A new generation of purpose-led brands promises to improve the world by offering consumers ethical, sustainable purchase choices, but their success depends on scale.The world’s food system creates $10 trillion in value and feeds billions of people, but it also faces big challenges. Food and its production have unintended consequences, including pollution. The system overfeeds some and undernou...