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Mighty Buildings Raises $52M to Build 3D-Printed Prefab Homes
[Investing]
2023/09/14 09:05
Mighty Buildings, a startup building tech for prefabricated, ostensibly environmentally-friendly homes, today announced that it raised $52 million in a funding round co-led by Waed Ventures and Bold Capital with participation by Khosla Ventures.The new tranche, which sources familiar with the matter say values the startup at between $300 million and $350 million, brings Mighty Buildings’ total...
Google DeepMind has Launched a Watermarking Tool for AI-Generated Images
[Tech]
2023/09/14 09:04
It’s the first Big Tech firm to publicly launch one, after a group of them pledged to develop them at the White House in July.Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool that labels whether images have been generated with AI.The tool, called SynthID, will initially be available only to users of Google’s AI image generator Imagen, which is hosted on Google Cloud’s machine learning pl...
Mercedes-Benz ‘Land, Sea, Air’ Fragrance Trilogy for Men
[Product]
2023/09/14 09:03
German luxury and commercial automotive brand Mercedes-Benz recently released its fragrance collection for men called "Land, Sea, Air A Fragrance Trilogy." It's a set of three luxurious perfumes focusing completely on the roots of the mythical star of the brand. Mercedes-Benz created their first-ever fragrances in recycled glass bottles with aluminum caps. The packaging is made of algae-derived...
(PDF) Altrata's World Ultra Wealth Report 2023
[Consumer]
2023/09/13 09:10
Despite seeing an 11 percent fall in its number of ultra wealthy people in 2022, Asia still has more people in the group than Europe. Ultra wealthy people are defined here as those who each have a net worth in excess of $30 million.According to Altrata's World Ultra Wealth 2023 report, Asia’s number of ultra wealthy people overtook the figure in Europe for the first time back in 2019. Analysts...
(Video) Anduril Adds AI Aircraft 'Fury' to Its Autonomous Fleet
[Product]
2023/09/13 09:09
Acquisition expands Anduril’s suite of autonomous capabilities into the group 5 autonomous aircraft space.Defense technology company Anduril Industries today announced its acquisition of Blue Force Technologies, a developer of autonomous aircraft with an integrated aerostructures division serving a wide range of defense and commercial customers. This transaction will expand Anduril’s existing...
Apple’s High-Stakes iPhone Launch Explained in Five Charts
[Business]
2023/09/13 09:08
Apple Inc.’s annual iPhone unveiling is always its most momentous time of the year — a chance to impress consumers with the company’s latest model and set up the holiday selling season.But Apple has more than usual riding on the new iPhone 15 lineup, which will be introduced Tuesday at 10 a.m. California time. The tech titan is looking to snap several straight quarters of sluggish sales — i...
Pahdo Labs Raises $15M for Anime-Inspired Game World and UGC Platform
[Investing]
2023/09/13 09:07
Pahdo Labs has raised $15 million in funding for the startup’s plans to create an anime-style role-playing game and user-generated content (UGC) platform.Pahdo Labs aims to revolutionize the anime RPG genre by empowering players to build their own virtual worlds with the aid of AI tools and procedural generation, said founder Daniel Zou, in an interview with GamesBeat.Andreessen Horowitz (A16z...
The ScreenDress Reads Your Mind So Your Coworkers Don’t have to
[Design]
2023/09/13 09:06
This gown reflects how much mental stress you’re experiencing at any given moment. What if all clothes were designed like this?Fashion is a form of expression; it allows us to articulate who we are or how we’re feeling. But what if it could help communicate how much we have on our minds?Anouk Wipprecht, a Dutch designer who is somewhat obsessed with creating garment that reads minds, has craf...
(Infographic) It's a Frugal Back-to-School Season as Inflation Bites
[Consumer]
2023/09/13 09:05
Spending is up from 2022, and shoppers still prefer stores over the internet.About half of U.S. adults with a student in their home planned to pull back on purchasing classroom supplies due to higher prices, according to 84.51°.‘Twas the weeks before school, when all through the nation, consumers kept shopping in spite of inflation.This back-to-school season, sales are on track to increase 3%...
