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(Video) Folding Wheels on a Folding Bike. The First - Tuck Bike
[Product]
2021/06/21 09:05
The tuck bike, folded up and ready to be toted tuck bike.There's a tradeoff with folding bikes – if they're going to fold down into a small package, then they need to have small, often-impractical wheels. That's where the tuck bike comes in, as it has full-size 700c wheels that actually fold along with the frame.The tuck bike was invented by Alex Animashaun, a California-based chartered mechan...
Audi Shows Us Its Concept for Luxurious Charging Lounges of the Future
[Design]
2021/06/21 09:04
Audi charging hub with quick-charging stations addresses future peak demands and the lack of charging opportunities at home. Premium concept with lounge and exclusive reservations.Audi is driving its transformation as a provider of sustainable premium mobility. The brand plans to ramp up its efforts by 2025 with a wide range of more than 20 fully electric models. The key to its success and the...
(Infographic) LGBTQ+ Consumers Look for Genuine Brand Support That Outlasts Pride Month
[Consumer]
2021/06/21 09:03
More than 60% say their retail habits and preferences have changed since last year.Nearly 40% of those surveyed say they want to spend money with a brand that aligns with their personal values. Every Pride Month, there are conversations about how to do things the right way—avoiding mistakes and inauthentic gestures. And according to LGBTQ+ community members surveyed by retail app Shopkick, thi...
(Patent) What's Next for Lululemon's Tech Ambitions ?
[Tech]
2021/06/20 09:10
A year ago, the retailer acquired Mirror. But patents reveal that the at-home fitness technology is perhaps just the beginning of a new chapter of innovation.Enthusiasm over the technology isn't a big surprise — in June 2020, Lululemon made a big play by acquiring the at-home fitness company. It seemed to be a natural next step forward. Only a year earlier, the retailer joined in a $34 million...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Cultivated Meat : Out of The Lab, Into the Frying Pan
[Business]
2021/06/20 09:09
Making cultivated meat a $25 billion global industry by 2030 presents opportunities within and beyond today’s food industry.Cultivated meat, a product that a handful of restaurant patrons bit into for the first time in December, could change the world’s menus in astonishing ways. It could mean that one day consumers will pay no more for Wagyu beef and bluefin tuna than for chicken nuggets and...
(Video) Facebook AI Can Now Copy Text Style in Images Using Just a Single Word - TextStyleBrush
[Tech]
2021/06/20 09:08
Facebook is introducing TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word. With this AI model, you can edit and replace text in images.Unlike most AI systems that can do this for well-defined, specialized tasks, TextStyleBrush is the first self-supervised AI model that replaces text in images of both handwriting and scenes — in one shot...
Mendel Raises $18M for Clinical AI Platform
[Investing]
2021/06/20 09:07
Mendel, a San Jose, CA-based clinical AI platform that understands the unstructured, natural language content within medical documents, raised $18m in Series A funding.The round was led by DCM, with participation from OliveTree, Zola Global Investors and Millennium Technology Value Partners and return investors Launch Capital, SOSV, Bootstrap Labs and Chairman of UCSF Health Hub Mark Goldstein....
Facebook Will Begin Beaming Advertisements Into Virtual Reality
[Business]
2021/06/20 09:06
Advertising giant Facebook announced Wednesday that they’re going to begin testing advertising inside virtual reality titles on its Oculus platform soon. The first roll-out is limited enough, with Facebook testing ads inside a single gaming shooter title: Blaston from Resolution Games. They are interestingly not rolling this out with a first-party title, though I’m sure integration with Oculu...
Pandemic-Fueled Bicycle Boom Coasts Into 2021
[Business]
2021/06/20 09:05
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, forcing gyms to shutter and public transportation to suspend operation, millions of Americans re-discovered bicycles as a safe, socially-distanced form of physical exercise and transportation. The latest bike boom hit retailers unprepared, causing new bicycles to become a scarce commodity, exacerbated by the fact that global bicycl...
