Author: Thefuturedatainsights
L’Oréal has invested in an AI-powered startup, Noli, that acts as a personal beauty advisor. The “AI Beauty Trust Agent” tool delivers personalized, science-backed recommendations for consumers by drawing on beauty science, clinical skincare, product reviews, and consumer data.The platform uses a “Beauty Knowledge Graph” trained on over 1 million skin data points and thousands of product formulations. It leverages AI to decode a user’s unique beauty profile and recommend products from more than 21 brands, including CeraVe, La Roche-Posay, Kiehl’s, Lancôme and L’Oréal Paris.Also: L’Oreal works with Google on gen AI-accelerated content generation“In a world of infinite choices, trust is the…
A view shows the wreckage of an Air India aircraft, bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025. Adnan Abidi | ReutersAn Air India plane that was bound for London and carrying 242 people crashed seconds after takeoff in western India on Thursday, killing all but one person on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.The crash killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.It marked the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was the deadliest plane crash in years.Here’s what to know:What kind of plane was it?The…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed approving Texas’ application to oversee its own permitting for projects to inject carbon dioxide underground, a move long sought by that state’s regulators and oil and gas companies with projects in the wings. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Texas is best positioned to protect its drinking water from contamination while enabling lucrative CO2 injection projects, also known as carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects to mitigate climate change, to proceed. Carbon injection will enable the permanent storage of CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial facilities deep underground, a way some companies…
The ring clock. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02929-2 Over the past decades, physicists have been trying to develop increasingly sophisticated and precise clocks to reliably measure the duration of physical processes that unfold over very short periods of time, helping to validate various theoretical predictions. These include so-called quantum clocks, timekeeping systems that leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to measure time with extremely high precision. After meeting at the Quantum Thermodynamics Conference (QTD) 2023 in Vienna, a team of researchers at Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and the University…
Apple’s plans to improve App Store discoverability using AI tagging techniques are now available in the developer beta build of iOS 26. However, the tags do not appear on the public App Store as of yet, nor are they informing the App Store Search algorithm on the public store. Image Credits:App Store screenshot (developer beta 1, iOS 26) Of course, with any upcoming App Store update, there’s speculation about how changes will impact an app’s search ranking. A new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures, for example, suggests metadata extracted from an app’s screenshots is influencing its ranking. The firm…
Hebron Sher remembers daydreaming in 2019 when Elon Musk promised Tesla’s cars would become robotaxis, capable of going out in the world to make money for owners. Sher was already a user of the car-sharing platform Turo, and the idea of turning a Tesla into an even bigger moneymaker was an attractive proposition. But as years went by, Musk failed to follow through on that promise. So, in 2021, Sher assembled a small team and brought on co-founder Saimah Chaudhry to start his own company. “Hey, we’re just going to do this ourselves,” he thought at the time. What they…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) applauds President Trump for decisive action by issuing his Executive Order on drones—a much needed step to protect America from its adversaries. Importantly, the order will help safeguard chemical facilities and other critical infrastructure from drone attacks.Drones offer tremendous benefits to the chemical industry by keeping workers out of harm’s way to perform equipment inspections, site surveillance, and emergency response. However, when misused, drones can pose serious risks. And those risks are already being realized. According to an ACC member survey, 85% of companies report having detected unauthorized drones near their facilities—incidents that could endanger…
Founders: Nick Green (CEO), Sasha Siddhartha, Gunnar Lovelace, Kate MullingLaunched: 2014Headquarters: Los AngelesFunding: $300 millionValuation: N/AKey Technologies: N/AIndustry: Food, logisticsPrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 list: 1 (No. 20 in 2024)Igor Gnedo, Antonina Lepore & Adrianne PaerelsIn a decade, Thrive Market has grown from a niche health food startup to a major online grocery player. The company now has more than 1.6 million paid members across the continental U.S., making further moves over the past year to expand operations and strengthen its position.Thrive opened a dedicated frozen foods facility in Sparks, Nevada, in October. By bringing logistics in-house, the company said it…
New ‘best practice’ protocols are setting a tougher industry standard to crack down on costly diseases like BVD and Johne’s – just as pressure ramps up across the UK to take action.The updated guidance [PDF], released by Cattle Health Certification Standards (CHECS), arrives at a pivotal moment as the sector looks to eradicate both diseases.Among the most notable updates is the introduction of the Dairy BVD Negative programme—a new option for dairy herds to demonstrate low BVD risk following the end of the BVDFree scheme in England. The new system includes quarterly bulk milk testing and youngstock screening to support…
By Bojan Brkic Published on 11/06/2025 – 15:00 GMT+2•Updated 16:41ADVERTISEMENTTurkistan – the city that lies in the hot, dry steppe of southwestern Kazakhstan. This ancient place of caravan sarays on the Silk Road, holy to the Muslims, attracts over a million visitors every year. Some of them come as pilgrims, to pay respects to the holy teacher Hoja Ahmad Jasawi, who wrote religious verses and taught disciples in the 12 the century. Some come simply to admire the old architecture and archeological treasures around. All of them flock, as by some kind of gravity, at the magnificent, awe-inspiring mausoleum built by…