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(PDF) Mckinsey - What are The Biotech Investment Themes That will Shape the Industry ?
[Investing]
2022/06/22 09:09
From 2019 to 2021, venture capitalists plowed $35 billion into biotech companies with advanced platform technologies that could transform the industry.The past three years have seen a boom in venture capital (VC) funding in the biotechnology sector. Our research shows that VC companies invested in 2,200 biotech start-ups worldwide in 2016; by 2021, that number had grown to 3,100.1 We also found...
(Paper) A Smart Jumpsuit Tracks Infants’ Motor Development
[Tech]
2022/06/22 09:08
The MAIJU (pictured) can identify postures such as lying supine, lying prone, crawling, sitting and standing, along with various movements within each posture.One of the best ways of tracking an infant's neurological development is to observe their movements as they play. A new "smart" jumpsuit is designed to do so automatically, providing consistently accurate data via machine learning technol...
Inflation Is Americans' Top Concern
[Consumer]
2022/06/22 09:07
As inflation creeped up to the highest level in more than 40 years in recent months, the issue of rising costs of living has also climbed to the top of Americans’ mind. According to results from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey, 44 percent of U.S. adults now think that inflation is among the most pressing issues that need to be addressed in their country, displacing issues like immigration a...
Amy, A Israel-based AI-Driven Sales Intelligence Solution Raised a $6 Million
[Investing]
2022/06/22 09:06
Amy, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based AI-driven sales intelligence solution that automates pre-meeting prospect research and enables meaningful business connections, raised a $6 million Seed funding.The round was led by Next Coast Ventures and Lorne Abony, with participation from Jim Mellon and Eric Ludwig, Micha Breakstone, Joey Low, and James Kong, among others.The company intends to use the funds to...
The Cost of Buying Green
[Consumer]
2022/06/22 09:05
As concerns around personal finances rise globally, more shoppers face choices between what’s sustainable for the planet and what’s sustainable for their wallets.Societal beliefs around climate change have come a long way. Globally, most believe that human actions have created a climate change emergency.1 Roughly half are worried or even anxious about it.2But belief doesn’t always result in...
The Tesla Mobile Resort Hotel
[Design]
2022/06/22 09:04
Designed and envisioned by China-based artist ‘LOONGT’, the Tesla Mobile Resort Hotel is more than just a Roadster shot in space. It’s a mammoth-like structure on wheels that cruises along on Mars’ landscape, giving occupants a stunning view of the red planet.Although purely sci-fi in nature, the Tesla Mobile Resort Hotel does paint a pretty vivid picture of the future. Imagine a building t...
This Shape-Shifting Kick Scooter Transforms Into Electric Bicycle and Vice Versa
[Design]
2022/06/22 09:03
Commuting in crowded spaces demands a swift and agile ride that’s easy to store when not needed. A city bicycle, or even better a kick scooter is the best option for an urban lifestyle. If these commuters are high on style and function while not overcomplicating things, it’s the red cherry on top.When it comes to personal commuters, less is more and vice versa too. So, what if you get the per...
(PDF) BCG - Streaming Video Heads Back to the Future
[Business]
2022/06/21 09:10
Consumers are in control, and company strategies are shifting as the market matures. Is the streaming-video marketplace of the early 2020s beginning to resemble the linear-TV landscape of 40 years ago?Back then, ad-supported television still reigned, while cable, satellite, and other video distributors offered consumers a rapidly expanding number of paid-TV channels, the most popular of which w...
A.I. Software Called DALL-E Turns Your Words Into Pictures
[Tech]
2022/06/21 09:09
Google and OpenAI are among companies that have developed artificial intelligence models that generate images based on text.Pictures from a publicly-available tool called DALL-E Mini have become trendy on social media.As with other AI technologies, there are moral and ethical concerns about how the products will be used.The DALL-E Mini software from a group of open-source developers isn't perfe...
