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(PDF) Earning Report - LVMH Q1 Misses Sales Forecast as Core Business Slumps
[Investing]
2025/04/15 09:10
LVMH's first-quarter revenue undershot expectations, as shoppers in the United States pulled back on beauty products and drinks while sales in China stayed weak.The 3% decline in first-quarter sales - well below analyst expectations for 2% growth in January to March - were a first sign that luxury companies could face another tough year following President Donald Trump's recent tariff announcem...
London-based AI Creative Studio Wonder raises €2.6 Million for GenAI Visual Content
[Investing]
2025/04/15 09:09
Wonder, an AI-native creative studio, has raised €2.6 million in pre-Seed funding to enable the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers to craft visual content and bring concepts to life faster – improving the efficiency of the content creation process.Backed by LocalGlobe and Blackbird, the round also saw participation from Mati Staniszewski (Co-founder, ElevenLabs), Laura Modiano (He...
Physicists have Designed a Urinal That Drastically Reduces Splashback
[Design]
2025/04/15 09:08
Three-dimensional renderings of urinals. From left to right: Duchamp’s “La Fontaine,” a contemporary commercial model, Cornucopia, and Nautilus. One of the most stubborn problems in modern hygiene begins with a simple splash.When men relieve themselves at public urinals, they often trigger an invisible but noxious cascade. Tiny droplets, unseen and unchecked, rebound from the urinal’s surfa...
BCG - Air Travel Demand Outlook 2025 : Steady Growth Despite Supply Constraints
[Consumer]
2025/04/15 09:07
After 6.5% growth in air travel in 2024, airlines should see similar growth in 2025, although many variables are in play.Ongoing aircraft and parts delivery delays are likely to limit capacity.Labor negotiations across the industry will result in long-term, step-change increases in wages.Air travel demand from India is rising, and there is cautious optimism for the return of Chinese internation...
(Video) UC Berkeley : Brain-to-Voice Neuroprosthesis Restores Naturalistic Speech
[Tech]
2025/04/15 09:06
Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco connect their subject Ann's brain implant to the voice synthesizer computer.California-based researchers have developed an AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices.This new technology from researchers at University of California Berkeley and University of California San Francisco, t...
The Current Generation of Humanoid Robots (2025)
[Tech]
2025/04/15 09:05
A year ago this month, Boston Dynamics revealed its all-new humanoid robot, Atlas. This marked a shift in their strategy from hydraulic servos to electric– a stronger, more robust actuation suite that showed their seriousness when it came to competing to be the leader in the next wave of consumer appliances: Humanoid Robots. Shortly after this revelation, the first generation of this graphic c...
Pfizer's $130B Weight-Loss Dream Just Collapsed
[Business]
2025/04/15 09:04
Pfizer just pulled the plug on its daily weight-loss pill, danuglipron, after a clinical trial flagged a potential drug-related liver injury. That decision comes after earlier setbacks tied to severe nausea in its twice-daily versionand leaves Pfizer even further behind in a weight-loss market expected to hit $130 billion by 2030. With demand for Covid products fading fast, the company had pinn...
Snapchat L’Oreal AR-Powered Beauty Vending Machine
[Product]
2025/04/15 09:03
Snapchat have a new collaboration with L’Oreal’s Colour Protect haircare range, the #1 haircare range in the UK, now available in a refillable pouch and with a new key ingredient Vitamin Cg.From 11th-13th of April consumers will be able to visit the pop-up AR-powered beauty vending machine at Westfield Shopping Centre in White City, West London to win a free refill of L’Oreal’s ELVIVE Colou...
Daily Report : CB Insights - State of Venture Q1’25 Report
[Daily Report]
2025/04/14 09:11
1. CB Insights: 2025년 1분기 벤처 시장 – AI와 메가딜이 시장 주도 OpenAI 주도로 분기 투자금 3년 만에 최고치 기록: Q1’25 글로벌 VC 투자금은 1,210억 달러로 Q2’22 이후 최고 수준을 기록했으며, 이 중 OpenAI가 단독으로 400억 달러를 유치해 전체의 3분의 1을 차지함. 반면 거래 건수는 5,846건으로 전년 대비 28% 감소해 자금 집중 현상이 두드러짐. AI가 전체 딜의 20% 차지, 인프라에서 수직 솔루션 중심으로 전...
