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(Video) AnyClip Snaps Up $47M for Its Video Search and Analytics Technology
[Investing]
2021/06/01 09:09
Video is, quite literally, what gets the world moving online these days, and is expected to account for 82% of all IP traffic this year. Today a startup that has built a set of tools to help better parse, index and ultimately discover that trove of content is announcing a big round of funding to expand its business after seeing 600% growth in the last year.AnyClip — which combines artificial i...
Cathie Wood’s Bad Spring Is Only a Blip When the Future Is So Magnificent
[Investing]
2021/06/01 09:08
Her flagship fund ARKK, which had a dramatic breakout during the pandemic, is way off its peak as bold bets on Tesla and Bitcoin have faltered. But for the superstar portfolio manager, there’s always five years from now.In the weirdest year of our lives, the rise of Cathie Wood is hardly the weirdest thing to happen. But still. She’s the first star in an industry, the $6.3 trillion world of e...
Panasonic Technology Underpins a New Model for Plant Factory Systems
[Tech]
2021/06/01 09:07
Panasonic is involved in a project on the island of Ishigaki, southwest of Okinawa, to seek ways to grow vegetables in subtropical monsoon conditions. Part of the Japanese government's Asian Monsoon Plant Factory System (PFS) Consortium, the goal is to create a stable local supply of produce despite the climate.Regions that are subject to monsoon seasons can see a wide range of effects, from a...
World’s First ‘Virtual Door’ Connects Lublin to Lithuanian Capital Vilnius in Real Time
[Product]
2021/06/01 09:06
By bringing strangers in two completely different countries together, the organizers hope a bridge will be built between people who would otherwise never meet.Though 600 kilometres apart, a ‘virtual door’ has been unveiled connecting the cities of Lublin and Vilnius together – the first such project anywhere in the world.Seeking to foster a sense of global unity, the portal was unveiled on L...
Why The Food-Delivery Boom May Soon Hit the Skids
[Business]
2021/06/01 09:05
Hint : restaurants are reopeningTHE CLOSURE of shops and imposition of mandatory lockdowns at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic last year emptied cities of commuters and consumers. Mornings were greeted by peaceful birdsong and nights were abuzz with a new breed of urban explorer: an army of bicycle and scooter couriers delivering take-away meals.Sales for the app-makers that connect these dri...
This High-Design Air Conditioner is Powerful and Efficient - Windmill AC
[Product]
2021/06/01 09:04
Windmill’s window air conditioner has more in common with Apple’s HomePods than the hulking ACs of yore. Even Room Rater would approve.Windmill wants to solve one of summer’s most intractable problems: the blight of ugly air conditioners. The New York-based startup launched in 2020 with a 10,000-person waitlist for its $395 smart AC, a sleek window unit that has more in common, design-wise,...
Wind-Powered Street Lamps Reduce Light Pollution in Germany - Papilio
[Design]
2021/06/01 09:03
The motion-activated design uses wind to power its turbines and has an extra-warm, insect-friendly colour temperature.German design student Tobias Trübenbacher, from the University of the Arts Berlin, has developed a lamp post that only illuminates when necessary. The lamp also includes an integrated wind turbine that produces its own renewable energy.The lamp, named Papilio, was designed to r...
(PDF) PwC - 3rd Annual Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report 2021
[Investing]
2021/06/01 00:10
This year, AIMA was invited to partner with PwC and Elwood Asset Management on their 3rd annual crypto hedge fund report to provide insights into the rising interest in the digital assets industry from the perspective of non-crypto focused hedge funds (referred to as ‘Traditional’ hedge funds in this report).AIMA’s chapter within this report looks at whether “traditional” hedge funds have...
(Patent) Intel Eyes a Patent for Virtual Wearables
[Tech]
2021/06/01 00:09
U.S. patent application, US20210157149, discloses a mechanism for dynamically facilitating virtual wearables. The method includes detecting a wearable area on a human body, scanning the wearable area to facilitate the suitability of the wearable area for projection, and projecting the virtual wearable on the wearable area using a projector of a primary wearable device of the user. The figure be...
