3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 338 Your fortune in your hand. Ledger hardware wallet gets big funding Ledger builds cold (hardware) wallets for digital assets, crypto currencies mainly. Cold wallet means the private keys to access the assets are saved offline on a device (like USB-stick), not on a hot wallet that is connected to…

Google I/O 2023. A point of view by Space and Lemon Innovations founder, Laurent Burdin The end of the happy days, this is my conclusion after the pale and defensive 2 hours of Google presenting its answer to OpenAI at Google I/O on May 10th, 2023. In (+) and (-). Positive, negative. (-) Very defensive. Google is always reminding us that they are behind the progress of AI…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 337 Invest in human-like robots, 1X Based in Oslo, 1X has been around for exactly 9 years and gets a large boost with an invest of $22m by OpenAI (and Tiger Global) in March 2023. OpenAI spreads into androids. In fact 1X develops androids…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 336 Anthropic, the main contender Anthropic is the main contender to OpenAI. Former employees founded it in 2021, with an ambition to do exactly the same as OpenAI, but “more safely”. They gathered $1,3 billion (300m from Google) for that purpose. And then…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 335 Do you believe in life … after game? The Believer Company Former managers at Riot Games (“League of Legends”) formed 6 months ago a new game publisher with a credo as a name, “The Believer Company”. Gathered already in two rounds $80 million, also from a16z. The company is forming themselves and are bringing two aspects into gaming: “fantastic” gaming experience…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 334 Cool brand On with a flagship Swiss sports brand On opens its first UK retail store. Large showroom and physical experience section on the ground floor. Product presentation and retail area on the top floor. A highlight: a robot arm showing the movement of different kinds of running shoes. Opinion: Lower ground floor to become a…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 333 €20m for sheet music — an immense library Enote is a music technology start-up. An immense library of sheet music with any option of types of notations, jumps + short cut to piece. Enote also offers automated music transcription and analysis (for example the length one played a piece of music, compared to others). Multi-device — tablet (main…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 332 Journalist-curated daily news by Informed.so Informed is a Berlin-based news startup. They employ journalists to curate a daily-brief of “must-reads” to, you guessed it, stay informed. No super deep-dives, but the major news to keep conversation with friends and co-workers going. Sources are major news outlets (mostly from English speaking countries), like The Atlantic, The…

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 331 In-car holographics, rising with Envisics Envisics provides with technology to overlay information upon reality while driving a car (avoiding distraction with clear symbolic elements). Dynamic Holography Platform is the product, it runs on head-up displays. Hyundai Mobis (mobility ventures) is the lead investor with $100m, last round last Thursday. Stellantis, GM and Jaguar involved as…