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Nvidia Invested $1 Billion in AI Companies in 2024
[Investing]
2025/01/05 09:07
According to a report from the FT citing corporate filings and Dealroom research, Nvidia invested in 50 startup funding rounds and corporate deals during 2024, a 15 percent increase on the $872 million the company spent across 39 funding rounds in 2023.Having analyzed the data, the FT said that Nvidia had primarily invested in AI companies with large compute infrastructure needs, including orga...
(CES 2025) LG Reveals Multifunctional 3-in-1 Projector Combining Lighting and Speaker
[Product]
2025/01/05 09:06
LG Electronics (LG) is reinforcing its reputation as a top provider of lifestyle projectors with the introduction of two brand-new models at CES 2025. Raising the bar for the lifestyle projector category, LG’s “new-concept” models are designed to deliver maximum space efficiency. The CES Innovation Award-winning PF600U is a versatile device that seamlessly combines a projector with a Bluetoo...
AI Agents are The New iPaaS and The Next Frontier of Competition in Digital Ops Orchestration
[Business]
2025/01/05 09:05
From the moment there was more than one software product in a company’s tech stack, there’s been jockeying to determine who was boss.If the tech stack were an orchestra, which product would be the conductor?Whichever one directed the flow of data among apps and determined which function in which app was called when — literally orchestrating the tech stack — would wield a position of great p...
Target Releases Sneakers That Grow With Feet—A Sizable Innovation For Footwear
[Product]
2025/01/05 09:04
The footwear industry clearly has room to grow. In steps shoe designer Dr D’Wayne Edwards with ÜNOS by Sz, a line of sneakers that expand, or shrink, with the wearer.The concept behind the name is simple but clever: “U Need One Size.” By addressing one of the most common footwear challenges—outgrowing shoes—Edwards has created a solution designed to fit both kids and adults with expanding...
Hands-Free, Movable Hair Dryer ‘Pillar’
[Design]
2025/01/05 09:03
ByeongKyu Park conceptualizes Pillar, a hands-free hair dryer that triples as a night lamp and a shelf for cosmetics and skincare products. The industrial designer divides the tower into three parts. The top houses the lightbulb, which, when turned on, projects the beam upwards and sideways through the circular grille. The middle part is where the hair dryer is. This is the star of the hands-fr...
(PDF) BCG - The Gaming Report : Leveling Up for the New Reality
[Business]
2025/01/02 09:10
The days of double-digit growth are gone. Game publishers must embrace new monetization strategies and focus on markets—and demographics—that they haven’t fully tapped.Game development costs have skyrocketed, leading publishers to place fewer bets—putting more on the line with fewer opportunities to recover from misses. And there have been misses, sparking layoffs and studio closures.While...
China Unveils New Quadruped Robot Capable of Carrying Adult
[Tech]
2025/01/02 09:09
An all-terrain quadruped robot capable of performing Thomas Flare, on-the-spot side flips, downhill dives, rapid movement in water, leaping from a 2.8-meter-high rooftop, and even carrying an adult across rough terrain has been developed by a company in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. With the increasing deployment in more and more public settings, these new capabilities mark the indu...
(Paper) MIT - Want to Design The Car of The Future ? Here Are 8,000 Designs
[Tech]
2025/01/02 09:08
MIT and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are hoping to get carmakers’ wheels turning when it comes to transforming automotive design with the launch of DrivAerNet++, the largest open-source dataset of its kind.Featuring over 8,000 AI-generated electric vehicle (EV) designs, the project aims to streamline car development by combining cutting-edge computational methods with aerodynamic i...
(Infographic) 2024 In Search : Google’s Top Trending Searches
[Consumer]
2025/01/02 09:07
From international sports milestones to the loss of major celebrities, 2024 was a year packed with headlines.To get a pulse on what the world was most curious about, we look at what the world Googled the most this past year. This graphic visualizes the top 10 trending Google searches worldwide in 2024.The top trending searches were those with the highest increase in search interest compared to...
