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(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...
Researchers Discover a Surprising Visual Trick for Falling Asleep Faster
[Tech]
2021/06/20 09:04
Using VR and data visualization, they let sleepers watch their own brain waves as they drifted off. People who sleep well go to bed calm, while those who don’t lie in bed anxious or ruminating. But as anyone who has trouble sleeping knows, you can’t always just tell your racing brain to relax and forget about that student loan debt until tomorrow morning. So sleeping poorly can be a self-rein...
Leica's Very Own Leitz Phone 1 is a Rebadged Sharp Aquos R6
[Product]
2021/06/20 09:03
They share the same 1-inch camera sensor and '240Hz' display.Following the long-time collaboration with Huawei and the more recent Sharp Aquos R6, Leica is finally launching its own smartphone. Announced at a Tokyo press conference earlier today, the Leitz Phone 1 is Leica's first self-branded mobile phone, and it'll be a Softbank exclusive when it launches in July. The camera maker isn't afrai...
(Patent) Apple Patents a Haptic Output System to Direct the User’s Attention Towards a Virtual Object
[Tech]
2021/06/17 09:10
U.S. patent application, US20210176548, discloses a method for producing a haptic output associated with a virtual-reality environment. The method includes detecting a notification associated with a graphical object or the presence of an audio source, determining whether a head-mounted haptic accessory is being worn by the user, and initiating the actuation pattern to produce a directional hapt...
