Events expected to play out in the Chinese economy over the next several years have been compressed into a short few months.Over the last few months, COVID-19 has spread across the world, uniting humanity in a shared experience that has highlighted the vulnerability of our societies. As the first country to grapple with the crisis, China has been on the frontlines both of post-COVID-19 economic...

Coronavirus-related closures of retail stores and restaurants have received the lion’s share of attention over the past two months, but other public gathering spaces have been similarly impacted, including art galleries and museums. Today, museum app maker Cuseum debuted Museum From Home, an augmented reality solution that lets users experience famous works of art as if they’re hanging on the...

The electronic skin uses sweat as its fuel source, and can host various sensors and wireless comms.Many of us now keep tabs on how we're doing by wearing health and fitness trackers like those from Fitbit, which run on batteries that need charging. Researchers from Caltech have developed an electronic skin that can be packed with sensors, and that's powered by the sweat of its wearer."One of th...

As opposed to airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and millions of small businesses that are fighting for survival amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s most prominent tech companies have been remarkably unaffected by the crisis (so far).That’s one of the takeaways from a deluge of earnings reports that came out last week, providing us with a first glimpse at the pandemic’s economic fallout...

Burst Oral Care, a startup that sells an electric toothbrush boasting charcoal bristles and 33,000 sonic vibrations per minute, has raised a Series C of undisclosed size.Although we don’t know the amount of the round, the Series C was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, and Burst says it more than doubled the valuation from its previous round. (Goldman Sachs’ other direct-to-consumer investme...

Lifebuoy’s Handle on Hygiene, a supermarket trolley hygiene device launched in Dubai, has won the Grand Prix Outdoor at the Dubai Lynx Awards. Launched in early 2015, the project is entered on a device attached to trolley handles, applying a thin layer of Lifebuoy sanitiser liquid, killing 99.9% of germs with one simple swipe. Carrefour supermarkets have installed the Lifebuoy Handle on Hygien...

Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique has created an open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus.The helmet-like design, called the iSphere, comprises two transparent, hollow hemispheres that have been secured together and cut to create a hole for the user to fit their head through.Plastique Fantastique founders Marco Cane...

Pandemic-induced social isolation has altered the relationship consumers have with technology.With the physical world now slowly receding, consumers are suddenly more reliant on apps for communication, shopping, staying healthy, and entertainment.Today’s graphic pulls data from a new report by MoEngage and Apptopia, and it plots the winners and losers of the pandemic from the app world in Nort...

Warren Buffett spoke to the world Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK-A, BRK-B) 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting. Circumstances were different this year, and investors from around the world tuned in to seek investing wisdom from the “Oracle of Omaha” and guidance on how to navigate the highly uncertain environment amid one of the worst public health and economic crises in history.Saturday m...