TUGA signs LOI for ultra clean cabin air. Rensair will work with TUGA Innovations to develop a new standard for air quality within urban mobility.TUGA Innovations is also supporting an innovative project by Francisca Cunha and Sofia Pereira. They are working on making visible the invisible vehicle’s emissions using their own Plume technology.Sunday News is a selection of the links posted daily by the Explora community. I can add you if you want (you need to have a Facebook account). Newcomers can check previous Sunday News editions here. If you are a new reader, you may catch up by reading Sunday News’ First, Second, Third Year and Fourth Year Highlights.Antonio Camara
Education
Carlos Neto: “A escola a tempo inteiro é uma vergonha nacional”
Food
Eat more fish: when switching to seafood helps — and when it doesn’t
The reopening of a Lisbon’s classic
Health
Dermal tattoo biosensors for colorimetric metabolite detection. They can be used to manage diabetes and liver failure
Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
Sports
A (beginner’s) guide to Formula 1
Analyzing the NBA’s business growth strategy: How the basketball league is investing in technology to better engage with fans
‘Fox NFL Sunday’ to debut groundbreaking new XR/AR studio
Roger Federer as religious experience (2006)
Mobility
Pounds that kill: The external costs of vehicle weight
Aston Martin “human drone” concept
Tesla wants your vote for new supercharger locations
A tiny, unmanned plane could land almost anywhere for military intel
Chinese researchers test cars that hover over roads using magnets
Cities, Nature and Clean Tech
Visualizing 40 different animal sleep patterns
Cats give the laws of physics a biiig stretch
Climate Alpha is a new platform that uses algorithms to determine how cities will transform in the face of climate change
Developing new companies
At Google Venture a decade ago we searched for AI enabled companies and came up dry. That has changed. AI is going to eat software companies. Primarily because it creates entire new UX that incumbents can’t adopt without breaking their product. 10-year hypercycle just started.
See thread here @byersblake
A guide to corporate innovation: 19 strategies to drive innovation now. Really, “19 bulletproof strategies if you want your corporation to look innovative”
How to build a powerful marketing machine
The AI unbundling, by Ben Thompson
Bloomingdale’s goes all-in the Metaverse with new virtual store
Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odissey
Roblox is ready to grow up
The Merge is here: Ethereum has switched to proof of stake
Could this be a glimpse of life in the 2030s? by McKinsey
AR/VR/AI/IoT/Quantum Computing/Metaverse/Bio
How QR codes work
How much realness do virtual agents need?
Make any idea real. Just write it. Text to video, coming soon to Runway. Read also Runway teases AI-powered text-to-video editing using written prompts
AI tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney are helping architects—and their clients—design new buildings
NLP & AI Revolution – Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs), by Elad Gil
Researchers publish post-quantum upgrade to the Signal protocol
Far out
The heroes we are allowed. Read also blog post here
Rocketland. “Worshippers of Elon Musk have flocked to the middle of nowhere in Texas to watch SpaceX’s attempts to build a space-worthy rocket — and to find friends”
This man is trying to put mirrors in space to generate solar power at night
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
When the Queen died, someone had to tell the bees. Mark Norman explores this and other UK rural practices in Telling the Bees and Other Customs: The Folklore of Rural Crafts |
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Sempre boas escolhas. Obrigada.