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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...
(PDF) Capgemini - The AI-Powered Enterprise
[Business]
2021/05/13 09:10
Billions of dollars have been flooding into AI. And it’s no wonder – after all, this technology has the power to utterly transform the way we do business. More and more companies across sectors are moving beyond pilots and proofs of concept. But how successful are they at achieving scale, especially in light of the current pandemic?To find out, for the latest report from the Capgemini Researc...
(Video) Apple iPhone M1 Concept
[Design]
2021/05/13 09:09
This is probably the most unusual camera bump I’ve ever come across because for once, it isn’t on the back of the phone… it’s on the top. Marking a rather clear deviation from the design trend of the iPhones before it, the iPhone 13 concept tries to do things differently by breaking the mold and probably questioning those self-evident rules of smartphone design. The video which De Rosa put...
(Video) Dove 'Reverse Selfie Campaign' Tackles Problem of Face-Tuning Apps
[Business]
2021/05/13 09:08
Unilever-owned company Dove is critiquing the way in which self-esteem in young women is being eroded by apps that change the way they look.Advertising agency Ogilvy has partnered with director Benito Montorio to produce a 60-second advertising campaign for Dove, which highlights the dangers of retouching apps and edited selfies on social media, and how they can affect the self-esteem of young...
(Paper) New Imaging Tech Offers Incredibly Detailed 3D Videos of Pulsating Brains
[Tech]
2021/05/13 09:07
Researchers from the Mātai Medical Research Institute, in New Zealand, and Stevens Institute of Technology -- and others -- report a new and enhanced method to visualize difficult-to-spot brain conditionsMagnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images are usually meant to be static. But now, researchers from Mātai Medical Research Institute (Mātai), Stevens Institute of Technology, Stanford Universi...
