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The Startup, Caden Inc Wants to Pay You to Share Your Data For Advertising
[Business]
2022/12/22 09:06
Caden Inc. hopes to give users thousands of dollars a year under one option of its data-sharing system, with lesser payments for more limited information.[John Roa, founder and chief executive of Caden. He said that one option in the public beta test will anonymize and pool data before sharing it with outside parties in exchange for $5 to $20 a month.]A startup backed by an internet-search pion...
Deloitte - Investing in eSports
[Business]
2022/12/22 09:05
Success checklist for non-endemic brands entering the video gaming and esports sector.Surging video gaming audiences worldwide are enticing external companies to venture inside the esports industry. Fabled riches could await those who can forge a relationship with an audience that is younger, more highly educated, technically literate, and with higher incomes than the general population but the...
China Exits ‘Dynamic Zero’ But Many Consumers Remain Indoors
[Consumer]
2022/12/22 09:04
China has ended almost all COVID-19 control measures, but a jump in caseload and the widespread concern about the disease are delaying retail recovery. On December 7, China announced 10 new rules that constitute a relaxation of almost all of its stringent COVID-19 pandemic control measures. Domestic travel and public spaces (except for medical institutions, nursing homes, and elementary and mid...
Polaroid-Inspired Coffee Machine Concept - The Polaroid Express
[Design]
2022/12/22 09:03
Who knew Polaroid and espresso were unlikely companions? This concept rather cleverly combines the two into the ‘ultimate coffee machine for amateurs’. If Polaroid brought great retro photography (and photo development) to the masses, the Polaroid Express does the same for instant coffee. Plus, can we just take a second to appreciate how clever the name Polaroid Express is?! (as a play on Pol...
(Paper) OpenAI Releases Point-E, An AI That Generates 3D Models
[Tech]
2022/12/21 09:10
The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU.Point-E doesn’t create 3D objects in the traditional sense. Rather...
Bain - As Digital Currencies Start to Embed in the Payments System, What Role for Banks ?
[Business]
2022/12/21 09:09
To avoid disintermediation and realize the potential benefits, banks need to decide now what their investment posture is and how far they want to engage.Digital currencies hold the promise of programmability, enriched data, lower costs, and faster payments. Banks, governments, and fintechs are beginning to deploy the currencies in different payment situations.We foresee that digital and traditi...
We’ve Been Living in Zoom Coffins This Year
[Product]
2022/12/21 09:08
From claustrophobic telephone closets to high-design collaboration pods, the market for private work booths is exploding.Before the pandemic, an estimated 70% of U.S. companies worked out of open plan offices. Their employees, by and large, hated them. With few, if any, walls separating them, workers were constantly distracted by each other’s noise. And when there was a need to get away from t...
Gold Nano-Coating Works Like an Anti-Fog Heating Element for Glasses
[Tech]
2022/12/21 09:07
Along with its use on eyeglasses (lens at right), the coating could also be utilized on windows, mirrors or optical sensors.While anti-fog sprays work to a certain extent, warming a glass surface is a better way of keeping it fog-free. A new coating material is designed to do so, and it utilizes light-absorbing gold nanoparticles instead of electricity.Most of the anti-fog sprays used on things...
Blockchain VC Funding Surpasses 2021 Total Despite Declining Since May
[Investing]
2022/12/21 09:06
It’s been a tough year for crypto, and venture capital activity confirms it. The collapse of FTX in November was the latest and most shocking in a series of closures of key market players this year,including Celsius, Voyager and BlockFi — that have shaken investor sentiment and wiped out $1.5 trillion in market capitalization from cryptocurrency space.Blockchain venture capital funding has be...
