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Starbucks Biodegradable Coffee Cup - Crème's ‘HyO-Cup’
[Design]
2019/03/06 10:44
A coffee cup made from home-grown vegetables could serve as a sustainable alternative to the 250 billion fiber cups starbucks uses annually. Brooklyn-based design studio crème is behind the design which repurposes gourds, a large fruit with a hard skin, to create the ‘HyO-cup’.Gourds have traditionally been used by ancestors as receptacles like cups for centuries. they are fast-growing plant...
(Infographic) How AI and Big Data Will Unlock the Next Wave of Mineral Discoveries
[Business]
2019/03/06 10:44
Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are rapidly proving their value across many industries.Today’s infographic comes from GoldSpot Discoveries, and it shows that when this tech is applied to massive geological data sets, that there is growing potential to unlock the next wave of mineral discoveries.Mineral Exploration: Fortunes Go to the FewDiscoveri...
The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2019, According to Bill Gates
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:50
For the past 18 years, MIT Technology Review has published an annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies that it believes will have the biggest long-term impact on society. This year, Bill Gates helped curate the selections.It's fitting: investors and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are known for making sweeping futuristic predictions in their own annual letter. In 2015, they predicted...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Private Markets Come of Age
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:50
McKinsey’s annual review reveals an expanding and developing industry.Private markets stayed strong in 2018. True, fundraising was down 11 percent. But $778 billion of new capital flowed in. Investors have a new motivation to allocate to private markets: exposure. More investors believe that private markets have become effectively required for diversified participation in global growth. Global...
Alphabet's Wind Energy Kites to Fly Offshore
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:50
Airborne wind energy company Makani has graduated from X's experimental labs and is teaming up with offshore energy giant Shell.Renewable energy technologies seem to fill every nook and cranny of the earth. Turbines generate power on the seafloor and off coastlines. Solar panels carpet desolate deserts and abandoned wastelands. Volcanic aquifers, mountain streams, and urban sewage systems all h...
Are Foldable Phones a Fad ?
[Consumer]
2019/03/05 10:50
After years dominated by incremental upgrades rather than eye-catching innovations, the smartphone industry finally had something new to show off at last week’s Mobile World Congress. Foldable phones, i.e. phones with actual foldable displays as opposed to the flip phones popular in the early 2000s, are the next big thing in the smartphone market, at least that’s what the industry wants us to...
Motif Ingredients Launches With $90M To Make Meatless Protein
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:49
Biotech unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks said today it’s launching a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients which will work on developing proteins that can serve as meat and dairy replacements. Boston-based Motif is starting out the gate with $90 million in Series A funding.In its statement about the new company, Ginkgo said Motif Ingredients will “leverage biotechnology to create novel solutions for fo...
What Investing $100 EARLY in Stocks and Bitcoin Would Be Worth Today
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:49
There’s a lot of power in being first. And when it comes to Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, it pays to be among one of the earliest investors.But we wanted to understand how much it would pay, so we ran an experiment. Imagine you could go back in time and invest $100 into a handful of great companies when they initially went public. What would your investments be worth today?Let’s start wi...
The Water in This Hospital is all Pulled out of Thin Air - Zero Mass Water
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:49
In Jamaica, one hospital is giving up bottled water by using a system from Zero Mass Water, which uses the moisture in the air as a water supply.In Jamaica, bottled water is often seen as a necessity, even though the country struggles so much with plastic pollution that the government recently implemented a countrywide ban on plastic bags, straws, and Styrofoam. At the children’s ward of a loc...
