Category Archives: Business
West Elm’s New AI Tool Scans Pinterest To Recommend Furnishings
From a handful of images, neural networks learn someone’s style and match it to furniture, rugs, curtains, and more in a few seconds.
Shopping for a new couch online? That could mean looking through hundreds of shapes, styles, fabrics, and colors. Redoing a whole living room or bedroom involves not only new pieces of furniture but considering how they all fit together. Mid-priced furnishings retailer West Elm thinks AI can narrow the search by learning your personal aesthetic. The new West Elm Pinterest Style Finder uses neural networks to get a sense of style from your own or anyone else’s Pinterest Read More
Source:: Fast Company
How to Build a High-Performance Team
These seven components that make up a standard for excellence of performance for a world-class team.
Source:: Entrepreneur
Heineken’s Non-Alcoholic Beer Ads Take Inclusivity To A New Level
Finally, someone is selling beer to people who don’t drink.
WHAT: The first ads for Heineken’s non-alcoholic “0.0” beer
Source:: Fast Company
This Is How Airbnb Is Trying To Force The Ad Industry (And Itself) To Make Diversity A Priority
CMO Jonathan Mildenhall used Cannes Lions to not only recruit more diverse talent, but to try and encourage others to take the issue more seriously.
One of the simplest, most talked about ads during this year’s Super Bowl was from Airbnb. There were no celebrities, Hollywood-sized special effects, or complex commercial narrative. It was just a collection of portraits–faces of men and women of all colors and nationalities–with these words: “We believe no matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love, or who you worship, we all belong. The world is more beautiful, the more you accept. #weaccept”
Source:: Fast Company
This Open-Source Kit Lets You Print Out An Aquaponic Garden For Your Kitchen
By relying on local maker labs to distribute its mini garden model, one Barcelona startup is lowering its carbon footprint while getting more people growing their own greens.
If you want to try growing part of your lunch inside your kitchen, one option is to drop nearly $200 on a smart garden that uses artificial intelligence to help greens or tomatoes grow faster (the device also requires the purchase of custom “plant pods” rather than just seeds). Another option: download a free digital file, take it to your local maker lab, and print out a garden that’s a little lower-tech.
Source:: Fast Company
