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(Infographic) How Do Different Generations Spend Their Money on Food ?
[Consumer]
2021/03/09 09:03
Americans’ food spending habits have a changed a lot in the past century. Individuals from the Silent Generation, the demographic directly after the Great Depression, spend their money much differently than the members of Generation Z.How much does the average person spend on food? Which generations are spending the most on fruits, vegetables, and meat? Are younger generations dining out more...
(PDF) Stanford - 2021 AI Index Report
[Business]
2021/03/09 00:10
The 2021 AI Index report is one of the most comprehensive reports about artificial intelligence to date. This latest edition significantly expands the amount of data available in the report, which was drawn from a broader set of academic, private, and non-profit organizations for calibration. The report also shows the effect of COVID-19 on AI development from multiple perspectives, including ho...
This Flying AI Robot Can Pick Fruit – Preventing Waste in the Process - Tevel
[Tech]
2021/03/09 00:09
There’s a global shortage of seasonal fruit pickers, made worse by COVID-19 travel restrictions. Some farmers are forced to leave ripe fruit to rot as a result. Now AI flying drones can spot the ripest fruit and pick it autonomously.The makers say the robots will save money and reduce food waste.It’s getting harder to find fruit pickers to harvest the world’s orchards. COVID-19 travel restri...
(Video) Intel Assists NFL Hopefuls with 3D Athlete Tracking and AI Insights
[Tech]
2021/03/09 00:08
Intel revealed that its 3D Athlete Tracking (3DAT) technology is being employed by Exos, a firm that focuses on human performance conditioning, to help train professional athletes aspiring to join the National Football League (NFL) and other organizations.Intel’s 3DAT technology captures skeletal data when an athlete is sprinting, using a video camera running at 60 frames per second. That data...
How Bitcoin's Vast Energy Use Could Burst Its Bubble
[Business]
2021/03/09 00:07
Elon Musk made a paper profit of more than $900m following an investment in Bitcoin.We've all heard the stories of Bitcoin millionaires. Elon Musk is the latest.His electric car company Tesla made a paper profit of more than $900m (£646m) after buying $1.5bn (£1bn) -worth of the cryptocurrency in early February.Its high profile support helped pushed the price of a single Bitcoin to more than...
BlackRock Powers Exscientia to $100M Series C Round to Fund Autonomous Drug Design
[Investing]
2021/03/09 00:06
Exscientia has raised $100 million to further develop its artificial intelligence drug discovery platform while advancing its proprietary pipeline into clinical trials. The series C saw Exscientia add BlackRock to an investor syndicate already dotted with big names.U.K.-based Exscientia has established itself as a notable player in the AI drug discovery space through a series of deals with biop...
(Video) How Your Smart Phone Can See You Sweat - Gatorade Gx Sweat Patch
[Product]
2021/03/09 00:05
A soft, skin‐mounted microfluidic device for capture, collection and analysis of sweat. Cheap, Rugged, Sweat-Sensing Skin Patch Hints at Bloodless Testing.Into this stay-at-home era of DIY personal training comes the first sweat-monitoring patch intended for broad consumer use. Rolling out this week from PepsiCo is the Gx Sweat Patch, developed by startup Epicore Biosystems in partnership with...
(Video) The World's First Urban Sun Cleans Public Spaces of the Coronavirus
[Design]
2021/03/09 00:04
Studio Roosegaarde has proposed a light that uses ultraviolet radiation to sanitise outdoor spaces, claiming this could reduce the risk of people contracting Covid-19.Urban Sun uses far-UVC, a type of ultraviolet light with a lower wavelength that is thought to kill viruses while potentially posing a lower health risk to humans."World's first Urban Sun cleans public spaces of the coronavirus fo...
(Infographic) How eCommerce Benefits from Product Configuration
[Business]
2021/03/09 00:03
Personalization has been a long touted feature of eCommerce, but using a product configurator – the true technology behind scalable customization makes it possible.Check out this infographic from PARTsolutions for a deep dive for more.Infographic : https://bit.ly/30o5uue[PARTsolutions]
