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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Amazon was the last of the big five U.S. tech companies to report its earnings for the first three months of 2021 on Thursday. And like the other four GAFAM companies before it, Amazon reported yet another blowout quarter, flying past analyst expectation both in terms of revenue and profit. The e-commerce behemoth saw net sales surge 44 percent to $109 billion in the three months ended March 31...

The Trombia Free autonomous electric street sweeper cleaning up on the night shift in Helsinki.After first unveiling a fully autonomous electric street sweeper last year, Finland's Trombia Technologies has taken to the streets of Helsinki as part of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab. This saw the Trombia Free begin operations along the Helsinki Baana bicycle lane as well as night-time street cleani...