DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

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  DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF              

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


CLIMATE CHANGE'S IMPACT ON WINE




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  • Climate Change has had many negative influences on our lives.  But according to research from a world-renowned university, there is a standout positive.  Here's what we know:
  1. Oxford University researchers have discovered that global warming is improving the quality of wine
  2. Specifically, warmer summers and wetter winters yield better wine
  3. The study took a look at 50 years of wine scores from the Bordeaux wine region
  4. The key finding:  with greater warming wines get stronger
  5. Conversely, Climate Change is adversely impacting beer
  6. Global warming's rising temperatures is making lager and IPAs (Independent pale ales) taste more bitter
  • As we sit back and reflect on the gloom and doom of Climate Change, we can at least raise a glass of Bordeaux and toast Climate Change for one achievement - improving the quality of our wine.

DISNEY'S HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE & CUTE ROBOT


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  • Disney's new, 2-legged robot is a robotic phenom with charm, personality, balance and plenty of walking moves.  Here's what we know:
  1. Walt Disney Imagineering has created a bipedal robot that walks, dances, struts and shows of wide range of emotions - all with naturalness, balance and ease
  2. Being called a powerful display of engineering prowess
  3. Doesn't have a name yet
  4. Has a wide range of human interaction skills
  5. On social media, it's being hailed as "beautiful", "natural", "something every kid would want" and "a billion-dollar bot"
  6. Designers' goal: robot that is expressive as it moves
  7. Purpose:  to bring to the real world the creative designs of Disney animators
  8. Robot designed by combining procedural animation, modular hardware and reinforcement machine learning to mimic and learn the unique walking styles of different Disney characters
  9. Resembles Disney's Wall-E from 2008 animation
  10. Disney hopes to use the same technique to accelerate future robotic designs
  11. This no-name robot is getting rave reviews, but no word yet on how Disney might market it.

STELLANTIS TEASES AN E-DODGE CHARGER CONCEPT


                                        Source:  Stellantis


  • Stellantis is teasing that a new, electrified, modernized version of the iconic Dodge Charger may soon debut.  Here's what we know:
  1. Stellantis' Mopar brand is teasing the new electric concept
  2. Auto experts think it is an electrified Charger modernized for today's drivers
  3. Dodge Charger is an iconic car brand that goes back to 1968-1970 that was a breakthrough muscle car for that generation of drivers
  4. It looks ready to be resurrected as a 2023 concept EV at the upcoming SEMA show later this year.

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