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AI Social Media Vetting Startup, Ferretly Secures $2.5M
[Investing]
2024/09/04 09:06
AI social media vetting startup Ferretly has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and is launching a new platform designed to screen election personnel. Founded in 2019, Ferretly leverages AI to scan social media and publicly available online data to uncover potential risks and behaviors that traditional background checks may overlook.The startup is the brainchild of Darrin Lipscomb, who previou...
(Video) Hydrogen or Battery ? World-First Train Glides Along on Either
[Tech]
2024/09/04 09:04
The RS Zero is the first train that can run on either hydrogen or battery power.The company that broke a Guinness World Record this year with its all-hydrogen train has just announced another world first. Stadler Rail has developed a fleet of train cars that can run on either hydrogen or battery power for branch rail services.Since 1996, one of the most iconic trains in Europe has been riding t...
Bird’s Singing Inspired Tweettunes Concept Earphones
[Design]
2024/09/04 09:03
Inspired by singing birds, TweetTunes is concept earphones with a stand designed in the shape of a tree. At first sight, it looks like birds sitting on the tree singing. Motivated by the elegant pose of a bird sitting on a tree in the forest, TweetTunes is hoped to allow user to also experience calmness and healing while listening to the music. Thanks to Midjourney, the design team can create A...
(PDF) BCG - Put On Your Running Shoes - Future of Consumer Intelligence Series
[Consumer]
2024/09/03 09:10
Focus groups, surveys, segmentations, customer journey maps, customer data platforms, data appends, and the practice over the past five to eight years of naming C-level customer officers—companies spend a lot of time and energy on the customer.Going for GoldIn our first article in this series, “Filling the Empty Chair,” we detailed how executives and their organizations go to great lengths t...
(Patent) Microsoft Invents Devices That are Designed to Support BCI for Monitoring Health
[Tech]
2024/09/03 09:09
On August 15, the U.S. Patent Office and Europe's WIPO published a patent application from Microsoft relating to self-dispensing electrodes. Electrodes are positioned on humans to sense electrical signals associated with various biological processes, such as heart function and/or brain function. This will lead to Brain-Computer Interfaces for work productivity and entertainment scenarios.Micros...
iCloud Storage Remains Apple’s Most Popular Service
[Business]
2024/09/03 09:08
Apple’s service garden: With growing regulatory oversight, Apple may soon need to look at its services for more revenue.Price-gouge crackdown: Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a ban on price gouging, but the question becomes who it should target. Have feedback for us? Just hit reply - we'd love to hear from you! Apple’s services segment is increasingly important to its bottom line as a...
Ex-Microsoft Engineers’ Supio Raises $25M to Bring GenAI to Personal Injury Cases
[Investing]
2024/09/03 09:07
Supio, an AI platform for personal injury law, has emerged from stealth with $25 million Series A funding. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures (which recently invested in AI-powered product discovery platform Constructor and proptech unicorn EliseAI) with participation from existing investors Bonfire Ventures and Foothill Ventures. The new investment brings Supio’s total funding to date to...
(Video) Wearing 'Retimer 3' for 45 Minutes a Day Can Fix Your Sleep Cycle
[Product]
2024/09/03 09:06
Your sleep health is more linked to your regular health than you think. A lack of sleep (or just bad quality sleep) can lead to fatigue, cognitive issues, or even physical illnesses… and 1 in 3 people are at risk of these, because of bad quality (or quantity) sleep. The reason? Exposure to screens, working odd hours/shifts, inconsistent bedtimes and wake-up times, or even jet lag. However, thi...
(Infographic) Visualizing the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing, by Sector
[Business]
2024/09/03 09:05
Between 2002 and 2022, the U.S. lost more than 45,000 manufacturing firms amid evolving global trade dynamics.While the U.S. was the world’s leading manufacturer up to 2010, production has fallen $2.4 trillion behind China as of 2022. Factors such as trade liberalization, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, and China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, have con...
