2018 in general was not a great year for stocks, with the S&P 500 down 6.2%. However, the CEO compensation of S&P CEOs continued to rise, reaching a median of $12.4 million in 2018. What explains this unprecedented rise in executive compensation, and is it reason for concern?Our viz highlights the results of a Wall Street Journal report on the 2018 compensation of S&P 500 CEOs. The...

What impact might the expansion of health span have on society?​In a future of health focused on preventing disease, aging may no longer be defined by disease, but, rather, extended vitality. This shift could have far-reaching implications.WHAT IMPACT might the expansion of health span—the amount of time that one is healthy in life—have on society? The future of aging could look radically di...

Motion Graphic Designer Takayuki Yoshida Imagines Cyberpunk Crosswalk.While hologram technology has certainly made strides, for example enabling dead musicians from 2Pac, Michael Jackson, Billie Holiday, Roy Orbison and Amy Winehouse to go on tour, or a circus in Germany to do away with animals in an effort to end animal cruelty, we have yet to see the kind of immersive holograms animating city...

More retailers are embracing product-recognition technology pioneered by Amazon. A man strolled down the candy aisle of a grocery store in England last month, picked up a bar of chocolate and stashed it in his back pocket. He wasn’t stealing. Specially equipped surveillance cameras were tracking both his body and the products he was taking off the shelves, to help him pay for them.Tesco PLC, o...

36Kr shows 1H funding on track to fall 33% as sharing-economy darlings lose their shine.Chinese startups face increasing difficulty in raising money to fuel their businesses as various headwinds including the country's slower economic growth shrink the availability of venture capital.Fundraising slowed to 362.9 billion yuan ($52.6 billion) in the first half of 2019. At this rate, the full-year...

An exciting breakthrough from Columbia University researchers demonstrates a new way to grow human hair follicles using 3D printed molds. This is the first time human hair follicle cells have been grown completely in lab conditions, opening up a potentially unlimited source of hair follicles for future hair restoration surgical procedures.Over the last few decades hair transplantation surgery h...

AI that can generate new flavor combinations from scratch is nothing novel, but what about models that can taste those flavors like a human? In a recently published paper (“A portable potentiometric electronic tongue leveraging smartphone and cloud platforms“) and an accompanying blog post, researchers at IBM’s Zurich-based R&D division detailed Hypertaste, an artificial tongue designed...

Business Insider surveyed 1,884 people ages 13 to 21. Of those, more than 52% said they were not at all likely to purchase cryptocurrency in the next six months. Nearly 17% said they were not so likely.More than 26% said they were somewhat likely, very likely, or extremely likely to purchase cryptocurrency over that time period.Since the survey was conducted, however, popular cryptocurrencies l...

Obviously executing an airlift in cities isn’t particularly feasible. You’ve got buildings, cars, pedestrians, telephone wires, traffic lights, along with a dozen other complications. Helicopters, no matter how small, can’t do the job in crowded cities, and regular ambulances end up bearing the brunt of congested roads and traffic. In swoops (quite literally) the Ambular, an eVTOL designed t...