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PHASE Scientific Raises $34M For Urine Test Platform Spanning Cancer, Women’s Health
[Investing]
2025/05/27 09:07
PHASE Scientific said the $34 million represents the largest series A in Asia's diagnostic technology sector since 2019.A Hong Kong-based developer of a catalog of urine-based tests for cancer, infectious diseases, women’s health and more has raised $34 million in venture capital funds to increase its global commercial reach. PHASE Scientific’s goal is to provide a range of non-invasive diagn...
(Video) Branded Shadows - Brahma
[Design]
2025/05/27 09:06
Asunción - May 2025 - In recent years, Paraguay has had the hottest summers ever recorded. That's why Brahma decided to use something as refreshing as a cold beer to remind people to cool off from the scorching heat.We mapped the hottest spots in Asunción and branded the shadows that existed in those places, strategically adding its logo to the points that project the shadow. Through a non-tr...
(Infographic) Key Social Media Marketing Trends for 2025
[Business]
2025/05/27 09:05
Is your 2025 social media marketing approach still following 2022 social media trends ?Social Media Advertising Trends: A Visual Look at What’s Shaping the FutureSocial media advertising trends are evolving at lightning speed.If you’re working with a brand on social media, it’s your job to stay on top of all the changes coming your way.The risk of not evolving with the times is being left be...
Seeing Infrared : Scientists Create Contact Lenses That Grant ‘Super-Vision’
[Tech]
2025/05/27 09:04
Breakthrough could lead to range of wearables that extend range of vision and help people with colour blindness.Researchers have given people a taste of superhuman vision after creating contact lenses that allow them to see infrared light, a band of the electromagnetic spectrum that is invisible to the naked eye.Unlike night vision goggles, the contact lenses need no power source, and because t...
Gen Z Is Willing To Sell Their Personal Data—For Just $50 A Month
[Consumer]
2025/05/27 09:04
A new app, Verb.AI, wants to pay the generation that’s most laissez-faire on digital privacy for their scrolling time.Rather than clocking in at a Saturday job or selling old clothes for quick cash, Gen Zers have another side hustle up their sleeve: selling their personal data.To take advantage of the nearly seven hours a day Gen Z spends on their phones, a new app called Verb.AI, launched by...
(PDF) Global Sector Trends on Generative AI
[Business]
2025/05/26 09:10
A new report published by market intelligence and research firm SimilarWeb, covering global web traffic patterns for AI-related platforms for 12 weeks ending May 9, 2025, offers a useful look for businesses and users interested in the current landscape of generative AI use online.Using proprietary analytics based on site visits, the report tracks trends across all sectors, including general-pur...
The Wild Story Of How Gut Health AI Toilet Startup Throne Raised $4M
[Investing]
2025/05/26 09:09
The tale of how smart toilet startup Throne landed its seed round is so full of serendipities, one could almost believe it was orchestrated by the hand of Fortuna, Roman goddess of providence.Throne is an Austin-based company working on an AI-powered toilet device for consumers. It uses computer vision (cameras pointing in the bowl plus AI software) to monitor gut health conditions. It just rai...
(Paper) Meet LegoGPT, An AI Model That Creates Custom Lego Sets
[Tech]
2025/05/26 09:08
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled something delightfully geeky: LegoGPT, an AI model that builds Lego structures straight from text prompts.The study, published last Thursday, explains the mechanics in depth. Armed with a massive dataset of Lego builds constructed by the team with captions, the researchers trained a model similar to ChatGPT — but instead of guessing the n...
(PDF) BCG - Amid Tariffs, Cost Control Now Rivals Growth as the Top Priority
[Investing]
2025/05/26 09:07
In the face of recent tariff proposals and widespread economic uncertainty, IT leaders are prioritizing controlling costs—and doubling down on AI investments to help manage budgets and boost productivity.Almost 60% of IT leaders participating in a recent BCG survey believe that a recession is likely or already underway in 2025.Most survey respondents say that they have begun to adopt a range o...
