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If Sony Walkman, YouTube, Audible, and Apple made Car Things, This is How They’d Look
[Design]
2025/04/14 09:03
Spotify officially discontinued their first and only hardware product – the Car Thing in December 2024, leaving us entering 2025 with a palpable car media player-shaped void in our hearts. But here’s a question – what if we just had other companies make Car Things instead of Spotify? This new ChatGPT AI feature allowed us to imagine what the Car Thing would look like if it was built by other...
HBR - How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
[Consumer]
2025/04/12 09:10
Since then, the hype around AI, gen AI, and large language models (LLMs) has only amplified. User interest has doubled, investment in AI is skyrocketing, governments are taking more emphatic and explicit positions, and the stakes are about as high as they get—the future of humanity, according to some.The HBR editors and I felt a need to update the research. Much has happened over the past 12 m...
(M&A) Prada Group to Buy Versace for €1.25 Billion
[Investing]
2025/04/12 09:09
Prada plans to invest an additional €250 million in relaunching Versace, which has struggled to keep up with bigger heritage brands since selling to Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings in 2018.Prada Group has agreed to acquire Versace from Capri Holdings for €1.25 billion ($1.38 billion), after negotiating a discount of more than €200 million due to the impact of US president Donald Trump’s...
(Paper) In a First, Breakthrough 3D Holograms Can be Touched, Grabbed and Poked
[Tech]
2025/04/12 09:08
Futuristic holograms you can manipulate have become a reality sooner than we thought, thanks to breakthrough display. Holograms that can be physically manipulated have made their way out of science fiction and into real life thanks to a breakthrough in mixed reality technology.In a new study uploaded March 6 to the HAL open archive, scientists explored how three-dimensional holograms could be g...
(PDF) Agentic Architectures for Retrieval-intensive Applications
[Tech]
2025/04/12 09:07
A comprehensive guide to mastering fundamentals, patterns, and examples of agentic architectures.This e-book introduced agentic architectures. It discussed the components, which are the foundational building blocks, and the underlying patterns, which can be combined into an overall architecture.Depending on the complexity of your use case, we first discussed the advantages and disadvantages of...
Jaeger-LeCoultre Unveils The Atmos Infinite 'Halo'
[Product]
2025/04/12 09:06
The clock can virtually run forever from just a slight change in air temperature.A NEW INTERPRETATION WITH A WHITE LACQUER DIAL AMPLIFIES THE AESTHETIC PURITY OF THE DESIGNKEY FACTS:Watchmaking ingenuity: a revolutionary ‘perpetual motion’ horological concept, invented in 1928, with a change of one degree Celsius providing 48 hours of power reserveA new white lacquer dial: requiring 10 coats...
Solve Intelligence Raises $12M to Bring AI to IP, Patent Workflows
[Investing]
2025/04/12 09:06
A startup out of Delaware, Solve Intelligence, is using generative AI to speed up that work, believing its tech is uniquely suited to the needs of patent attorneys who need both domain expertise and legal knowledge to do their work.Solve offers an in-browser document editor that works like Google Docs but is powered by an AI model to help attorneys with the drafting and writing required for IP...
Buffett’s $12.7B Masterstroke
[Investing]
2025/04/12 09:04
What if the best time to make money… is when everyone else is panicking?⠀As markets trembled under the weight of tariffs, inflation, and recession fears, Warren Buffett did what Warren Buffett does best: he stayed calm—and got richer.⠀While the S&P 500 crashed, Berkshire Hathaway rose.⠀His net worth grew $12.7B gain while other billionaires lost fortunes.⠀His secret? Japan.⠀Buffett d...
Appliance Concept Revolutionizes Kitchen Design with Innovation and Ergonomics
[Design]
2025/04/12 09:03
For those who love to cook at home, the dream of course is to have a spacious and well-designed kitchen so you can make dishes to your heart’s delight. Unfortunately, not everyone is blessed to have that. A lot of those who live in small spaces have to make do with multi-functional appliances and not all of them are of course that well-designed or well thought of. Ideally, we can find somethin...
