(Paper) Microsoft Explains How It Improved Automatic Image Captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
[Tech]
2020/10/18 09:07
Microsoft launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. [Image captioning results on nocaps. B: A baseline without adding VIVO pretraining. V: With VIVOpretraining. Red text represents novel objects. The bounding box color is brighter when the similarity is higher.]The company calls the servic...
(Infographic) Consumers Are Burned Out by Advertising With Covid-19 Messaging
[Consumer]
2020/10/18 09:06
As brands try to address the pandemic, consumers are becoming increasingly frustrated by messaging that doesn't feel authentic. Every time you open up your laptop, scroll through social media or flip through the TV channels, you’re bound to come across something about Covid-19. But when it comes to advertising, recent data shows, consumers are fed up and want a reprieve.Real Talk Insights cond...
TULA Skincare Launches Millennial Focused ‘Ageless’ Franchise to Help Disrupt the Anti-Aging Category
[Business]
2020/10/18 09:05
Company disrupts the anti-aging category with clean clinical solutions that welcome millennials into the space with an innovative perspective on embracing skin at every age.TULA Skincare, the leading clean clinical skincare brand powered by probiotics and superfoods, today announced the launch of its new 'Ageless' product franchise, as the Company continues its record-setting growth, to help di...
The 'Auvis' Digital Stethoscope Detects the Early Signs of Arthrosis
[Design]
2020/10/18 09:04
The 'Auvis' digital stethoscope has been designed by Lara Laddey of the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel University as a health monitoring solution that will offer healthcare providers with a better way to track for problems. The device works by being positioned onto the skin around joints and will go to work utilizing advanced sensors to detect for sounds being emitted by joints. This could help...
Turn Kitchen Waste Into Real Compost in Only 48h - KALEA
[Product]
2020/10/18 09:03
KALEA is a fully automatic kitchen composter, which unites a natural composting process with an unique and smart technology.Using a compost heap is a great way of putting food waste to use, but that waste can take several weeks or longer to become compost – in the meantime, it may stink or attract pests. The indoor Kalea device, on the other hand, is claimed to produce compost in just two days...
Q3 2020 Global Venture Report : Funding Holds Up And The Exit Markets Open
[Investing]
2020/10/15 09:10
Depending on where you are in the world, we are eight to 10 months deep into a global pandemic without an end in sight.When lockdowns were rapidly implemented worldwide in March, the prevailing sentiment was that an economic downturn was coming. Naturally, the thinking went, this would impact venture funding and the IPO markets.That has happened, but not as negatively or in the way many expecte...
(Video) Inflatable Electric Scooter is Made to Fit Each Rider - Poimo
[Product]
2020/10/15 09:08
The new custom-fit Poimo e-scootermercari R4D.It was just this May that we heard about Poimo, an experimental inflatable electric scooter developed at Tokyo University. Well, its designers have now unveiled a custom-fit version that would be made for each user, based on photos that they provide.First of all, why would anyone want an inflatable scooter? Well, as is the case with a lot of other i...
(PDF) BCG - A Three-Season Strategy for Fashion and Luxury Retailers
[Business]
2020/10/15 09:08
The COVID-19 outbreak may be ubiquitous, but its impact on global commercial activity is anything but uniform. Grocers have done well as consumers stock up on staples, for instance, but fashion and luxury (F&L) companies have felt the pinch of the pandemic acutely. As a result, they need to develop drastically different inventory and sales strategies to heal their businesses and emerge with...
(Video) The Future of Prosthetics - An AI, Open-Source Bionic Leg
[Tech]
2020/10/15 09:07
Details on the design and clinical tests of an open-source bionic leg are now freely available online, so that researchers can hopefully create and test safe and useful new prosthetics.Bionic knees, ankles and legs under development worldwide to help patients walk are equipped with electric motors. Getting the most from such powered prosthetics requires safe and reliable control systems that ca...