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(PDF) PwC - Global NextGen Survey 2019
[Business]
2019/11/11 00:10
Agents of change: Earning your licence to operate.In our largest survey of NextGens to date, we heard from nearly 1,000 respondents who are becoming, or aspiring to become, family business leaders. And across geographies and industries, we heard a common refrain: the majority of you see yourselves as capable, committed and ambitious agents of change for the digital world. You just want the curr...
Burberry Gets Into Gaming with 'B Bounce'
[Business]
2019/11/11 00:09
Players use “supercharged” Burberry monogram puffer jackets to race a deer-shaped character to the moon.UK-fashion retailer Burberry has launched an online game called B Bounce, which combines gaming with brand recognition and a chance to win prizes. The game can be played online, and on giant screens in some Burberry stores.In B Bounce, players use “supercharged” Burberry monogram puffer j...
Harvard Business Review - The Top CEO 100, 2019 Edition
[Business]
2019/11/11 00:08
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World, 2019. HBR's annual list of the world's top chief executives.When Jensen Huang cofounded NVIDIA, in 1993, he focused on a single niche: building powerful computer chips to create graphics for fast-moving video games. As the company went public in 1999 and grew through the 2000s, video games remained its growth engine—but even back then, Huang, a Taiwanese...
(Video) This Trippy T-Shirt Makes You Invisible to AI
[Tech]
2019/11/11 00:07
This adversarial design could be printed on a shirt to fool object recognition algorithms.In modern cities, we're constantly surveilled through CCTV cameras in both public and private spaces, and by companies trying to sell us shit based on everything we do. We are always being watched.But what if a simple T-shirt could make you invisible to commercial AIs trying to spot humans?A team of resear...
Bowery Raises $50M More For Indoor, Pesticide-Free Farms
[Investing]
2019/11/11 00:06
Indoor farming startup Bowery announced today it has raised an additional $50M in an extension of its Series B round. This comes just nearly 11 months after it raised $90 million in a Series B round that we reported on at the time.In a written statement, Bowery said the add-on was the result “of significant momentum in the business.” Temasek led the extension and Henry Kravis, co-founder of K...
(Patent) Microsoft Seeks a Patent for Authenticating Users to Workplace Systems via a Wearable Device
[Tech]
2019/11/11 00:05
US patent application 20190340347 discloses a wearable device configured to authenticate a user by identifying the user within a physical environment, authenticating the user with another wearable device in the same environment and dissociating the user with the wearable device upon end-of-use.Subsequently, the wearable device authenticates a new user in the environment. The figure below illust...
'Sheet Masks are the New Plastic Straws' – The Movement to Streamline Your Skincare
[Product]
2019/11/11 00:04
For a long time beauty routines only seemed to get more elaborate. But thanks to environmental concerns – as well as questions about the effectiveness of layering products - some corners of the industry are finally arguing that less is more.The #shelfie is so passé. The trend for posting Instagram snaps of beauty cabinets stuffed with myriad, millennial-pink products looks set to take a downt...
PriestmanGoode Shakes Up Air Travel to Eliminate Single-Use Plastic
[Design]
2019/11/11 00:03
Industrial design studio PriestmanGoode swaps single-use plastic for ground coffee beans and rice husk in its overhaul of throwaway cabin service goods from meal trays to toiletries.Developed as part of a new exhibition at London's Design Museum titled Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink, PriestmanGoode has redesigned various elements of the on-board cabin service in a bid to reduce the amount...
(Patent) Apple Granted New Patent That Reimagines the iPhone Case
[Tech]
2019/11/07 11:39
A new Apple patent points to a new kind of iPhone case. The case could be used as both a handle and a stand. There are provisions for a projected keyboard, too.The world of iPhone cases is filled with a raft of options that all basically look identical. They're all pieces of rubber, plastic, or metal that an iPhone slips into and that's all there is to it. But a newly granted Apple patent reima...
