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DARPA’s Massive Manta Ray Robotic Sub Hits The Sea
[Tech]
2024/05/13 09:04
The Manta ray dwarfs a a small work boat behind it.DARPA has finally unveiled more of its mysterious Manta Ray robotic sub, with impressive new images of the prototype Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (UUV) undergoing its first sea trials off the coast of Southern California.Looking like a cross between a B-21 Raider bomber and a refugee from a '60s sci-fi television series, the Manta Ray is about a...
(Video) Alora Baby Aims to Push Baby Gear Away from The ‘Landfill Economy’
[Product]
2024/05/13 09:03
Fast consumption and waste generation run rampant in all industries, but it’s particularly true around baby equipment. Tiny humans get big fast, and parents might be nervous to buy used items (“Is that high chair really sanitized?”) and are often too stressed out to think about what to do with the equipment the little tyke has grown out of. Enter Alora Baby, which is trying to shift the narr...
(PDF) BCG - Accelerating AI-Driven Marketing Maturity
[Business]
2024/05/10 09:10
To advance their marketing maturity, brands must embed data, conduct full-funnel marketing planning, and deliver technology-enhanced consumer experiences daily.To advance their marketing maturity, brands must embed data, conduct full-funnel marketing planning, and deliver technology-enhanced consumer experiences daily.Brands can unlock maturity benefits by leveraging the right capabilities thro...
(Video) iPhone 16S Concept Mimics The Rabbit R1 Format
[Design]
2024/05/10 09:09
We are still living with the iPhone 15 and its variants; the era of the iPhone 16 is further away from now. As known, it’s customary of Apple to drop its new seedlings (iPhone variants, if you like) in September every year and it looks like there is nothing unusual this year as well. Like every other year in the past, since Steve Jobs revealed the first iPhone – feels like it was a century ag...
Offleash’d Raised $700K for AI-Powered Matchmaking
[Investing]
2024/05/10 09:07
Offleash’d, a Los Angeles, Ca-based developer of a social community-building mobile app connecting pet parents through its patented AI-powered matchmaking process, raised $700K in Seed funding.The round was led by Bill and Juliana Wong, Florexis “Flex” and Cecille Velasco, Chris and Shelly Webber, Garold and Julia Harford.The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its busi...
Many Americans Will Tip at Restaurants, Even for Terrible Service
[Consumer]
2024/05/10 09:07
While adding a healthy percentage onto restaurant bills has been the norm for nearly as long as the hospitality industry has existed, the integration of touch-screen tipping — everywhere from coffee shops, to drive-thrus, to self-checkout kiosks — has meant that many Americans are now feeling the gratuity squeeze.Domino’s recently announced a bizarre solution to beat tipping tedium: yet more...
QIDI Vida : The AR Glasses for Cyclists and Athletes
[Product]
2024/05/10 09:06
QIDI asserts that it can bring all the advantages of augmented reality (AR) to the user's outdoor adventures with its upcoming product. The VIDA glasses are touted to pack all the tech necessary to make cycling futuristic, a heads-up display for info on performance, speed and heart-rate via in-built sensors included. They are also projected to replace the equipment necessary to keep teams toget...
(PDF) Mckinsey - A Microscope on Small Businesses : Spotting Opportunities to Boost Productivity
[Business]
2024/05/10 09:05
MSMEs are vital for growth and jobs, but struggle with productivity. The route to higher productivity lies in creating a win-win economic fabric for all companies.Micro-, small, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) form the backbone of economies. Across the 16 countries we examine, MSMEs account for two-thirds of business employment in advanced economies—and almost four-fifths in emerging econo...
The World's First AI-Driven Smart Mask
[Product]
2024/05/10 09:04
The COVID-19 pandemic may be over, but the challenge of maintaining clean air persists. If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past year, it’s that conventional solutions are no longer sufficient when it comes to breathing fresh air. Common disposable and cloth masks do block some harmful elements, but they also block proper airflow. Some fan-enabled masks improve that situation slightly...
This Discovery Could Lead to Creation of Credit Card-Sized Smartphones
[Tech]
2024/05/10 09:03
Phononic devices will last longer on a single charge.While the world is already amazed at smartphones that shrink in size, a discovery has the potential to disrupt the wireless communication space further. It will help build smartphones that can be as small as a credit card.The discovery relates to a new class of synthetic materials that can manipulate phonons. For context, phonons are the part...
(PDF) Accenture - Reinventing M&A with Generative AI
[Investing]
2024/05/09 09:10
In recent Accenture research, executives identified “Strategy & M&A” among the top three functions they intend to reinvent in the next 3 years.Gen AI will lead those reinventions, and M&A executives agree: 64% of M&A executives believe that Gen AI will revolutionize deal processes.Where M&A executives are investing, however, indicates a need for holistic strategies to real...
(Paper) StoryDiffusion : Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
[Tech]
2024/05/09 09:09
For recent diffusion-based generative models, maintaining consistent content across a series of generated images, especially those containing subjects and complex details, presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a new way of self-attention calculation, termed Consistent Self-Attention, that significantly boosts the consistency between the generated images and augments preval...
