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The Exploding Generative AI Market
[Investing]
2024/01/16 09:08
The number of providers in every category, and their funding, has ballooned over the past three years.[bain]
Revolutionary MIT Tech Traps Water Micropollutants Like Magnets
[Tech]
2024/01/16 09:07
Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a hydrogel system using zwitterionic materials for efficient water treatment in just one step, with minimal impact on the environment.[MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint.]Micropollutants are tiny particles that can damage human health and the environment, such...
The Largest Risks Faced by the World
[Investing]
2024/01/16 09:06
Over the next ten years, climate change and its consequences will pose the greatest risk to the world. That’s according to roughly 1,500 global experts from academia, business and politics, who were asked to evaluate 34 global risks over a two-year and a 10-year horizon for the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Perception Survey.With inflation easing in most parts of the world, the e...
Bio-Cement: A Potential Material That May Replace Regular Cement
[Design]
2024/01/16 09:05
Industrial designer Mary Lempres has unveiled a groundbreaking bio-cement structure named Reef Rocket, inspired by the intricate and resilient nature of oyster reefs. Designed to combat coastal flooding, filter seawater, and foster biodiversity, Reef Rocket utilizes biomimicry principles to mimic the functionalities of naturally occurring oyster reefs.The structure comprises two bio-cement modu...
(Infographic) Direct Lithium Extraction Disrupt the $90B Lithium Market ?
[Business]
2024/01/16 09:04
This graphic shows the growing value of the lithium market and the supply challenges faced by this lithium market. It then establishes direct lithium extraction as a solution to this supply challenge and EnergyX as a company that provides this solution.Will Direct Lithium Extraction Disrupt the $90B Lithium Market?Current lithium extraction and refinement methods are outdated, often harmful to...
BIG Unveils Gelephu Mindfulness City Masterplan Informed By Bhutanese Culture
[Design]
2024/01/16 09:03
BIG has unveiled a masterplan for Bhutan, the world’s first carbon-negative country, which is informed by Bhutanese culture and the principles of Gross National Happiness index (GNH), and the country’s strong spiritual heritage. Called Gelephu Mindfulness City, the 1,000-square-kilometre development is located in the town of Gelephu in Southern Bhutan. The new masterplan is being designed by...
(Patent) Amazon Wants Its AI to Understand The Real World
[Tech]
2024/01/15 09:10
The company wants to patent “attention-based deep reinforcement learning” for autonomous agents. This system aims to help autonomous agents that were trained using reinforcement learning to perform with more accuracy in unfamiliar environments. Though an autonomous system can be trained on a simulation designed to look as realistic as possible, a “model trained using a simulation may perform...
(PDF) Cognizant - Generative AI Could Disrupting Up To 90% of Existing Jobs
[Consumer]
2024/01/15 09:09
Hard numbers are finally here. Generative AI could deliver up to $1 trillion in annual growth by 2032, while potentially disrupting up to 90% of existing jobs. How can leaders navigate an upheaval of this scale and realize the technology’s full potential? By investing in people.As generative AI has swept across the global stage, it’s been clear something big was about to happen—to the econom...
(CES 2024) Swarovski Optik and Marc Newson Create AI Smart Binoculars
[Product]
2024/01/15 09:08
Designed by Marc Newson and unveiled at this week's Consumer Electronics Show, Swarovski Optik's AX Visio binoculars are equipped with artificial intelligence so they can identify bird and animal species.Swarovski Optik — the segment of the Swarovski group dedicated to sports optics such as binoculars and rifle scopes — said it considers AX Visio to be the world's first smart binoculars, capa...
