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(PDF) Mckinsey - Gen AI : A Guide for CFOs
[Business]
2023/11/24 09:09
How should CFOs approach generative AI—enterprise-wide and in the finance function—and what can they do right now to rapidly climb the learning curve?Technology changes every business, often radically, and the pace of change is getting faster. Now, generative AI (gen AI) is beginning to show its disruptive potential (see sidebar “Gen AI: A primer”). The technology won’t affect all business...
Vivodyne Announces $38M Led by Khosla Ventures to Develop Lab-Grown Human Organs
[Investing]
2023/11/24 09:08
Vivodyne, a biotech that discovers and develops more effective drugs by testing them on lab-grown human organs, today announced the close of $38 million in total seed financing, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Kairos Ventures, CS Ventures, MBX Capital, and Bison Ventures.“What truly sets Vivodyne apart is the seamless integration of life-like, functional lab-grown human tissues...
Domino’s to Use This Flashy New Delivery Electric Bike with a Built-in Pizza Oven
[Product]
2023/11/24 09:07
Your next Domino’s pizza delivery could be a lot cooler… and hotter! The company is rolling out an impressive-looking new delivery e-bike with a built-in pizza oven. The bike is known as the dxb, and it could turn pizza delivery on its head.Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd made the announcement today, claiming to “boldly go where no pizza company has gone before.”The dxb delivery bike is bui...
(Video) Your Eyes Talk to Your Ears. Scientists Know What They’re Saying
[Tech]
2023/11/24 09:06
A test subject visually tracks a moving green dot while microphones listen for sounds made by her ears.Back in 2018, scientists at Duke University discovered that each time our eyes move, our ears make an imperceptible squeaking noise. Now, the researchers have developed a method of telling where a person is looking by analyzing those sounds.Although we don't consciously hear the noises, they c...
What Will Americans Buy on Black Friday ?
[Consumer]
2023/11/24 09:05
Black Friday falls on the fourth Friday of November each year, with Cyber Monday following just three days later.The two shopping days are some of the busiest of the year in the United States, with an estimated $19.6 billion raked in over the 2021 Thanksgiving weekend in e-commerce revenue alone.U.S. shoppers keen to make the most of discounted prices were asked in a Statista survey which items...
(Video) Wheely-X Lets Wheelchair Users Work Out on The Spot
[Product]
2023/11/24 09:04
Runners have treadmills for stationary indoor training, while cyclists have rollers and rowers have rowing machines, but … what is there for wheelchair users? Well, it turns out that they can utilize a li'l something called the Wheely-X.Manufactured by Korean company Kangsters, the Wheely-X consists of two sets of steel rollers and two aluminum ramps leading up to said rollers. All four compon...
Heatherwick Studio Heads to The Hills for Plant-Filled Tokyo District
[Design]
2023/11/24 09:03
Azabudai Hills is part of a massive redevelopment effort in central Tokyo that has taken 30 years.Heatherwick Studio has completed work on an ambitious new district in central Tokyo. Named Azabudai Hills, it showcases the firm's penchant for inserting lots of lush greenery into its projects and is defined by a series of low-rise buildings with complex dramatically curving latticed forms.Azabuda...
(PDF) The AI Revolution Report - Coatue Ventures
[Business]
2023/11/23 09:10
Atlassian CTO and current managing director of Coatue Ventures Sri Viswanath delivered a deep look at the state of artificial intelligence.He looks at GitHub stars, ChatGPT usage, AI application users per month, and many other metrics to track AI activity bubbling (and sometimes waning).Coatue has shared its full 115 page report with Newcomer readers first.In the presentation, Viswanath argues...
Stability AI Gets Into The Video-Generating Game
[Tech]
2023/11/23 09:09
AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves.See: Stability AI, which this afternoon announced Stable Video Diffusion, an AI model that generates videos by animating existing images. Based on Stability’s existing Stable Diffusion text-to-image model, Stable Video Diff...
