After years of steady gains, the US restaurant sector may be reaching a turning point. Although food away from home now accounts for more than half of US food and beverage spending, growth is plateauing as persistent inflation, tariffs, and economic uncertainty are forcing diners to rethink the value of every restaurant visit.A new McKinsey analysis, drawing on insights from the McKinsey Consum...

Nike’s latest shoe will free your mind. Well, that’s what it's saying, at least. January has seen the launch of the Nike Mind 001 and 002, a forward-thinking slide designed with far more than just comfort in mind. This is the first offering to spring from brain of Nike's Mind Science Department, spiritually related to big-swing projects like the Joyride recovery shoe and the Adapt auto-lacing...

Burberry is brewing a new kind of brand experience in Shanghai, transforming a simple coffee truck into a mobile expression of its British heritage and contemporary lifestyle vision. The activation functions as a traveling touchpoint for the brand, extending Burberry’s universe beyond traditional retail into the everyday rhythm of the city.Designed as a playful yet refined micro environment, t...

As digital transformation accelerates, organizations are scaling on-demand technologies—cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and Gen AI—to drive agility, innovation, and competitiveness. But rising costs, decentralized spending, and governance gaps are threatening profitability and performance.The on-demand tech paradox: Balancing speed and spend explores how organizations can move beyond ado...

Soho House, the global members-only club operator, announced it has secured approximately $200 million in new financing to complete its take-private deal, rescuing a transaction that had been on the verge of collapse. The funding includes $50 million in equity from Morse Ventures Inc., owned by MCR Chairman and CEO Tyler Morse, plus an additional $50 million from MCR, bringing total equity comm...

Louis Vuitton’s evolution from a young trunk maker in 1854 to the cornerstone of LVMH mirrors the rise of modern luxury. Early innovations like flat-top trunks in lightweight Trianon canvas, the 1888 Damier pattern, and the 1896 LV Monogram turned functional travel goods into instantly recognizable status objects. These design codes created a branded universe that could stretch from luggage an...

Stacking High-Bandwidth Memory On Top Of GPUs Pushes Thermal Limits—And How Engineers Might Fix It.Peek inside the package of AMD’s or Nvidia’s most advanced AI products, and you’ll find a familiar arrangement: the GPU is flanked on two sides by high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the most advanced memory chips available. These memory chips are placed as close as possible to the computing chips th...

Talking to phones and smart speakers in public still feels awkward. You either whisper to your wrist or say “Hey Siri” out loud on a crowded train, and everyone turns to look. Pulling out a phone just to check a notification breaks whatever you were doing, and making big hand gestures to control earbuds turns you into the person air-conducting an invisible orchestra on the sidewalk.Dribble is...

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