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(Infographic) A Strategic Menu for Restaurant Recovery
[Business]
2021/05/17 09:03
Renewed Appetite: A Strategic Menu for Restaurant Recovery. Six actions can give brands an edge as the sector looks to rebound from Covid-19 globally.Infographic : https://bit.ly/3ydc32b[bain]
(Paper) Machine Learning Algorithm Transforms GTA V Into a Photorealistic Video Game
[Tech]
2021/05/16 09:10
There have been several GTA V mods released over the years that make the game more realistic, but none have even come close to photorealism.Researchers Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija and Vladlen Koltun might have the solution for that…machine learning. They managed to enhance the game by a convolutional network trained using a novel adversarial objective, which provides strong supervis...
(PDF) Deloitte - Putting Digital at the Heart of Strategy
[Business]
2021/05/16 09:09
When everyone is digital, strategy is the differentiator. Before long, every business will be a digital business. CEOs must make explicit choices about their strategy to win in a digital economy..For most organizations, the shock and disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed vulnerabilities that leaders had never identified before. Yet many of these organizations rose to the challenge, with...
Adidas x Allbirds is an Industry-Changing Collaboration
[Product]
2021/05/16 09:08
The brands announced the FUTURECRAFT.FOOTPRINT, a running shoe with a carbon footprint of just 2.94kg CO2e per pair.Adidas and Allbirds unveiled the FUTURECRAFT.FOOTPRINT running shoe. Learn about the sustainable shoe's carbon footprint, launch dates and more.Last May, sportswear companies Adidas and Allbirds announced a partnership focused on a sustainable future for performance footwear — to...
Top Unicorn Investors " Who's Backed The Most Billion-Dollar Companies
[Investing]
2021/05/16 09:07
Over the years, some 1,300 investors have backed these unicorns. While 56% of unicorn investors have only invested in one unicorn company, there are some investors who have pulled away from the group, backing 10, 20, and even 100+ unicorn companies.[click to enlarge]The top 10 unicorn investors and the most valuable unicorn companies (valued at $1B+) in their portfolios.New York-based Tiger Glo...
(M&A) Retail Giant Walmart Acquires Virtual Clothing Try-on Startup Zeekit
[Investing]
2021/05/16 09:06
Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit, which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a simulation that takes into account body di...
Why Hainan is a Luxury Hotspot
[Business]
2021/05/16 09:05
Hainan, a tropical resort island in southern China, has become the latest boom market for duty-free fashion and beauty. Vogue Business reports from the Hainan Consumer Products Expo.All the big names were there, from LVMH to Kering, L’Oréal to Shiseido: a roll call of luxury’s leading brands all present at the first Hainan International Consumer Products Expo, staged this month at Haikou, th...
(Video) Edge AI Chipset Developer Sima.ai Raises $80M
[Investing]
2021/05/16 09:04
Sima.ai, a company developing embedded edge hardware for machine learning applications, today announced that it raised $80 million in a series B round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. The startup says that the funds will be used to commercialize its first-generation system-on-a-chip product, as well as to jumpstart development of its second-generation product’s architecture a...
(Video) MIT Senseable City Lab Maps Brazilian Favela with Handheld 3D-Scanners - Favelas 4D
[Tech]
2021/05/16 09:03
Researchers at digital laboratory MIT Senseable City Lab have used handheld 3D-scanning technology to analyse the architecture of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela.Called Favelas 4D, the project uses point cloud data from handheld Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) scans in order to study the form of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro. The low-income urban settlements have complex structures t...
