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Many Americans Will Tip at Restaurants, Even for Terrible Service
[Consumer]
2024/05/10 09:07
While adding a healthy percentage onto restaurant bills has been the norm for nearly as long as the hospitality industry has existed, the integration of touch-screen tipping — everywhere from coffee shops, to drive-thrus, to self-checkout kiosks — has meant that many Americans are now feeling the gratuity squeeze.Domino’s recently announced a bizarre solution to beat tipping tedium: yet more...
QIDI Vida : The AR Glasses for Cyclists and Athletes
[Product]
2024/05/10 09:06
QIDI asserts that it can bring all the advantages of augmented reality (AR) to the user's outdoor adventures with its upcoming product. The VIDA glasses are touted to pack all the tech necessary to make cycling futuristic, a heads-up display for info on performance, speed and heart-rate via in-built sensors included. They are also projected to replace the equipment necessary to keep teams toget...
(PDF) Mckinsey - A Microscope on Small Businesses : Spotting Opportunities to Boost Productivity
[Business]
2024/05/10 09:05
MSMEs are vital for growth and jobs, but struggle with productivity. The route to higher productivity lies in creating a win-win economic fabric for all companies.Micro-, small, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) form the backbone of economies. Across the 16 countries we examine, MSMEs account for two-thirds of business employment in advanced economies—and almost four-fifths in emerging econo...
The World's First AI-Driven Smart Mask
[Product]
2024/05/10 09:04
The COVID-19 pandemic may be over, but the challenge of maintaining clean air persists. If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past year, it’s that conventional solutions are no longer sufficient when it comes to breathing fresh air. Common disposable and cloth masks do block some harmful elements, but they also block proper airflow. Some fan-enabled masks improve that situation slightly...
This Discovery Could Lead to Creation of Credit Card-Sized Smartphones
[Tech]
2024/05/10 09:03
Phononic devices will last longer on a single charge.While the world is already amazed at smartphones that shrink in size, a discovery has the potential to disrupt the wireless communication space further. It will help build smartphones that can be as small as a credit card.The discovery relates to a new class of synthetic materials that can manipulate phonons. For context, phonons are the part...
(PDF) Accenture - Reinventing M&A with Generative AI
[Investing]
2024/05/09 09:10
In recent Accenture research, executives identified “Strategy & M&A” among the top three functions they intend to reinvent in the next 3 years.Gen AI will lead those reinventions, and M&A executives agree: 64% of M&A executives believe that Gen AI will revolutionize deal processes.Where M&A executives are investing, however, indicates a need for holistic strategies to real...
(Paper) StoryDiffusion : Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
[Tech]
2024/05/09 09:09
For recent diffusion-based generative models, maintaining consistent content across a series of generated images, especially those containing subjects and complex details, presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a new way of self-attention calculation, termed Consistent Self-Attention, that significantly boosts the consistency between the generated images and augments preval...
Lab-Grown Diamonds Startup Raises $10M to Sell Gems to Gen Z
[Investing]
2024/05/09 09:08
Throughout hip-hop’s long history, jewelry has served as an important vehicle for artists to convey their ideas and affluence, or simply to dazzle onlookers. Diamonds, in particular, serve as an important motif, famously exemplified by Drake’s $400,000 diamond-encrusted iPhone case.But not everyone is a millionaire rapper, and most people can’t exactly afford to wear bust down watches floode...
(Infographic) How B2B Sales and Marketing Leaders Are Getting the Most from Generative AI
[Business]
2024/05/09 09:07
Leading companies are finding ways to deploy generative AI at scale, giving them an edge in the coming years.Infographic : https://bit.ly/3UOjBpz[bain]
