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The Future of E-Commerce, Powered by Generative AI
[Business]
2025/05/08 10:04
BoF’s latest white paper, in partnership with Zalando, unpacks the opportunities in leveraging the next generation technology across the e-commerce value chain, from optimising customer experience and content displays, to understanding legal and ethical frameworks.A person looks at a screen — which overlays their face, showing you their point of view as they shop online. On the screen there a...
Bliss Sustainable Baby Monitor Helps Parents Keep An Eye of Their Baby with Smart Sensors
[Design]
2025/05/08 10:03
A baby monitor is a must have device to assist you to keep an eye on your baby. Unfortunately, internet-connected monitor that is supposedly send feeds to users only can be hacked by others where they can turn it into their spy camera. Bliss Sustainable Baby Monitor is a concept device that aims to become your trusted companion where you don’t need a camera to keep an eye of your baby. It is e...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Silicon Squeeze : AI’s Impact On The Semiconductor Industry
[Business]
2025/05/07 09:10
AI has generated explosive growth in the semiconductor industry, but only the top 5 percent of companies have benefited. How can the rest of the industry catch up?[Image description: A stacked column chart shows economic profit and loss in the semiconductor industry from 2000 to 2024. The aggregate economic profit from 2000 to 2009 was $38 billion, with a margin—aggregate economic profit divid...
Visa Gives AI Shopping Agents ‘Intelligent Commerce’ Superpowers
[Business]
2025/05/07 09:09
Visa wants the next wave of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to do more than curate a dream vacation or the perfect outfit to wear for it. It wants it to pick up the tab.Unveiled Wednesday (April 30) at the company’s Global Product Drop, the Visa Intelligent Commerce program opens the network’s rails to developers building AI agents that search, recommend and now pay on behalf of consumer...
Your Next Accessory Could be Made From Real T. Rex
[Product]
2025/05/07 09:08
Experts say the chances of growing T. rex leather anytime soon look less than likely. When scientists do eventually lab-grow fossilized dinosaur collagen, it will be expensive.When it roamed the Earth 80 million years ago, a 40-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex was one of nature's most terrifying prospects. Soon, it could be a purse.A group of researchers and bio-engineers in the U.K. say they’re wo...
Top 10 Generative Artificial Intelligence Job Titles : Rise of the GenAI Consultant
[Consumer]
2025/05/07 09:07
Growth in GenAI roles over the past year has been driven by consultants who are likely intended to help implement the tools, rather than develop them.While GenAI terms appear in only about three in every 1,000 job postings, they are growing rapidly. The share of US job postings mentioning GenAI or related terms has skyrocketed over the past year, up 170% from January 2024 to January 2025. Softw...
Lightrun Grabs $70M Using AI to Debug Code in Production
[Investing]
2025/05/07 09:06
AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But AI coding has also resulted in something else: a vast increase in lines of code, and thus the likelihood of bugs resulting in crashes or other mishaps.On Monday, an Israeli startup called Lightrun, which has built an observability platform to identify and debug (remediate) code b...
Swiss Start-Up Sun-Ways Inaugurates First Rail Track Solar Power Project
[Tech]
2025/05/07 09:05
Switzerland's first removable solar power facility on a railway line has been inaugurated in the canton of Neuchâtel.Passenger trains will be travelling over a photovoltaic installation that has been laid between the tracks.The space that remains unused between the two tracks will produce electricity from 100% renewable solar sources, according to Vaud-based start-up Sun-Ways.The system has en...
Gen Z x AI : Consciousness, Careers, and Chatbot Confessions
[Consumer]
2025/05/07 09:04
Gen Z has embraced AI, and for good reason—it can fuel our creativity, take on tedious tasks, and provide instant answers to just about any question. Yet, fears remain over whether the Terminator will come to fruition or if there will be any jobs left once automation fulfills its potential.62% of Gen Zers use artificial intelligence to assist them at work, but 21% have shared sensitive company...
