TREND REPORTS
(Video) Expression-Matching Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams
[Tech]
2024/04/16 09:09
Most of the best robots, ones that can walk, run, climb steps, and do parkour, do not have faces, and there may be a good reason for that. If any of them did have mugs like the one on this new research robot, we'd likely stop in our tracks in front of them, staring wordlessly as they ran right over us.Building robots with faces and the ability to mimic human expressions is an ongoing fascinatio...
Tesla to Lay Off More Than 10% of Staff Globally as Sales Fall
[Business]
2024/04/16 09:08
Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.The layoffs were announced to staff just a week before Tesla is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings. The move comes as Tesla has seen its profit margin n...
U.S. & China Dominate The Art Market
[Consumer]
2024/04/16 09:07
April 15 is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promoting the development and enjoyment of art.The following chart looks at the results of public auctions of art works registered between January 1 and December 31, 2023 by Artron and Artprice, a company dedicated to the analysis of art market information from databases with millions of auction records. This study refers to auctions of paintings, s...
(Video) Tiny Electric Robovan Cleans 1 Million Square Feet of Road
[Product]
2024/04/16 09:06
The Robosweeper S1 is designed to work in parks, traffic lanes, river banks and sidewalks.Keeping bike paths and roads clear of debris is a necessary but thankless task for sanitation workers. The Robosweeper S1 from WeRide can work alongside street crews, or can work alone to quietly clean up day or night.WeRide was founded in 2017 by the former chief scientist at Baidu's autonomous driving la...
Netflix Has Been Cutting Content Spending
[Business]
2024/04/16 09:05
Netflix is still trying to nail movies.Netflix’s new movie chief is already shaking things up. Just two weeks into his tenure, Dan Lin has laid off 15 employees in the film department (~10% of its staff) and reorganized the division by genre instead of budget level, as the streaming giant looks to produce a wider spectrum of films.Lin’s new vision for one of Netflix’s highest profile departm...
Ikea’s New Gaming Furniture Looks Like Furniture, Not an Energy Drink
[Design]
2024/04/16 09:04
With a focus on simple designs mixing bright and neutral colors, Ikea’s upcoming Brännboll collection is made for homes instead of ‘gamer dens.’By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Ikea is introducing a new range of gaming furniture that subverts the usual d...
Luca Curci Architects Unveils Floating Glass Museum Where Art, Nature And Sustainable Design Merge
[Design]
2024/04/16 09:03
Luca Curci Architects presents Floating Glass Museum, a groundbreaking project where the boundaries between art and nature blur and the water becomes a canvas for contemporary expression. The project has been conceived by an international team of architects and designers with the support of artificial intelligence.Inspired by the Venetian rich cultural heritage and the intricate craft of glassm...
(Video) NIKE Unveils A.I.R, Its 13 3D-Printed Sneakers Designed Using AI
[Design]
2024/04/15 09:10
Form and function meet fantasy as NIKE debuts A.I.R, a new collection of 13 concept sneakers made and designed with man-made sketches, computational and parametric design, generative AI, rapid prototyping, and 3D printers.In the exhibition and runway show designboom attended inside Palais Brongniart in Paris, NIKE introduced A.I.R, which is short for Athlete Imagined Revolution. John Hoke, NIKE...
(Patent) Apple Patent Reveals The Use of Glass Enclosures with Metal Nanoparticles
[Tech]
2024/04/15 09:09
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to electronic devices (iPhone, Apple Watch and Macs) having a ceramic-reinforced composite enclosure component that includes a porous ceramic structure in a glass-based matrix that includes metal nanoparticles.In Apple's patent background they note that some modern day portable electroni...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Today’s Good to Great : Next-Generation Operational Excellence
[Business]
2024/04/15 09:08
Is tech accelerating your business operations—or getting in the way? To get lasting value from their tech investments, business leaders need a renewed understanding of operational excellence.Any business that’s still standing after years of disruption has good reason to feel a sense of achievement. Only by learning, adapting, and getting really good at things that didn’t exist five years ago...
20 Most Used Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platforms of 2024
[Business]
2024/04/15 09:07
According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, the global artificial intelligence (AI) market was valued at $515.31 billion in 2023. The market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.6% and is forecasted to reach $2.02 trillion by the end of 2030. The growth in the AI industry is driven by a surge in AI applications, an increasing number of partnerships and colla...
How Web3 Brand 9dcc is Becoming Luxury’s Hottest Lifestyle Club
[Business]
2024/04/15 09:06
It was full steam ahead for Web3 in New York this week, as the metropolis welcomed back its annual NFT.NYC jamboree, running from April 3-5.This year, the usual suspects were in full attendance, including Gmoney’s luxury lifestyle platform 9dcc, whose pop-up activation we dissect below, and Doodles, an NFT project turned collaboration machine. Doodles recently announced a new music-based proje...
