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Xiaomi 12S Ultra Brings DSLR Level Photography to Your Palm
[Product]
2022/07/06 09:07
Last year’s flagship Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra impressed photography fanatics with its top-of-the-line hardware at a very competitive price. The Xiaomi 12 series is long-awaited in the tech community, and now the Chinese consumer electronics company has revealed the 12S series that includes the 12S, 12S Pro and 12S Ultra devices.The 12S and 12S Pro have minimal hardware upgrades, while the 12S Ultra...
Top 10 VC Firms have Ownership in 38% of All Unicorns
[Investing]
2022/07/06 09:06
Venture capital firms that have ownership in a large number of unicorns are pouring money into two sectors — internet services and fintech.In a bid to answer the question of where does big venture capital money go to, a new analysis looked at the most recent data on unicorns.The overall number of companies that exceed $1 billion in valuation has doubled in the past year alone, with venture cap...
(Video) Amazon Launches First Fleet of E-Cargo Bikes in The UK
[Business]
2022/07/06 09:05
Amazon’s electric delivery vans, e-cargo bikes and walkers will make more than five million last mile deliveries a year across Central London.Amazon has announced the launch of its first UK micromobility hub for more sustainable deliveries in Central London. E-cargo bikes and walkers from the new hub, along with Amazon’s electric fleet already on London’s roads, will make over five million d...
Most Consumers Want Brands to Personalize Their Communications
[Consumer]
2022/07/06 09:04
Seventy-three percent of respondents expect companies to understand their unique needs and expectations, and 62% think companies should anticipate their needs, according to a May 2022 Salesforce report.Attitude of Consumers Worldwide Toward Personalization and Customer Experience Provided by a Company, 2020 & 2022 (% of respondents)Consumers understand that brands use personal data to craft...
Modern Typewriter Comes with a Cylindrical E-Ink Screen - The Flowo Typewriter
[Design]
2022/07/06 09:03
Meet Flowo, a typewriter designed for the 21st century. A purpose-built machine that’s designed just for writing and editing, Flowo comes with a qwerty keyboard and a cylindrical screen on the top that automatically scrolls as you type. To rewind, just rotate the knob (as you would on a regular typewriter) and the screen scrolls upwards or downwards. It’s a perfect example of using just the r...
(PDF) WEF - Chief Economists Outlook : May 2022
[Investing]
2022/07/05 09:10
The May 2022 edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid extremely high uncertainty about geopolitical developments, the trajectory of the global economy and the next steps for economic policy. Instead of entering a post-COVID recovery phase, economies are experiencing additional shocks, first and foremost from the war in Ukraine and associated geopolitical repercussions, but also fr...
Luxury Goods Powerhouse LVMH Buys Napa Valley’s Joseph Phelps Vineyards
[Investing]
2022/07/05 09:09
Luxury goods powerhouse LVMH has purchased the historic Joseph Phelps Vineyards in California's Napa Valley for an undisclosed sum.Philippe Schaus, chairman and chief executive of the Moët Hennessy division of LVMH, called Joseph Phelps Vineyards ‘an iconic name and an iconic winery’.Joseph Phelps founded his eponymous winery on a 260ha former cattle ranch in Napa Valley in 1973.He turned it...
(Patent) Microsoft Seeks to Patent a Method for Enhancing Digital Imagery with Artificial Colorization
[Tech]
2022/07/05 09:08
U.S. patent application, US20220201239, describes a method for enhancing digital imagery. The method includes generating a histogram of intensity values for pixels within a linear, and intensity-based image. The method further includes applying local contrast enhancement to the image to generate a contrast-enhanced version of the image based on the histogram values, and applying artificial colo...
The First CRISPR Gene-Editing Drug is Coming - Possibly as Soon as Next Year
[Tech]
2022/07/05 09:07
The first CRISPR gene-editing drug, designed to treat blood disorders, could be on the market by 2023. Here’s what it means for the future of drug development.Until recently, CRISPR—the gene-editing technology that won scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry—sounded more like science fiction than medicine; lab-created molecular scissors are use...
