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The Billionaires' Brand Emporium
[Business]
2023/11/07 09:08
The people who have built some of the world's most successful and influential companies have earned the extra cash that has enabled them to found and acquire - more companies and brands. However, the world's richest billionaires, including Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, have employed different strategies to build their brand emporiums. While some haven't tired of bringin...
(Video) Microsoft’s Futuristic ‘Project Silica’ Stores Data on Glass Plates for 10,000 Years
[Tech]
2023/11/07 09:07
3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk. Microsoft is currently developing the data storage of the future. Much more durable and uncomplicated than any hard disk.Microsoft Research, the R&D arm of the Redmond software giant, is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates in a futuristic initiative dubbed “Project Silica.” If successful...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Why AI-Enabled Customer Service is Key to Scaling Telco Personalization
[Business]
2023/11/07 09:06
Telcos increasingly rely on customized commercial marketing. But integrating those efforts with service-related outreach into a comprehensive next-best-experience engine is critical for growth.Agrowing number of telcos are harnessing commercial next-best-action engines that use real-time, data-based insights for objectives such as boosting cross-selling and upselling, reducing churn, improving...
Plantiga Technologies’ AI-Powered Footwear Sensor Pod Aims to Reduce Injury Risks
[Product]
2023/11/07 09:05
Plantiga Technologies, a Vancouver-based movement analytics company, wants to help people improve rehabilitation and reduce injury risks through an artificial intelligence-powered monitoring sensor pod that can be embedded into shoes, orthotics or insoles to analyze users’ movement patterns. Plantiga is participating in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and while it’s been aroun...
The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
[Investing]
2023/11/07 09:04
The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations.The United Nations has published a major new tally of the impact the world’s food system has on our health and the planet. According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the world’s foo...
Sushi-Themed Suitcases Bring Joy to One of The Most Stressful Aspects of Traveling
[Design]
2023/11/07 09:03
After being stuck indoors for so long because of COVID, people have started traveling again en masse and with such intensity that the term “revenge travel” was coined. Whether it’s just across the country or to another one, people have started to remember the feeling of freedom that traveling produces. At the same time, however, it also reminds them of some of the stress involved, particular...
(Patent) Apple Continues to Refine One of Their Smart Ring Patents
[Tech]
2023/11/06 09:10
Apple has designed Vision Pro to use simple hand gestures to control elements of visionOS. This is accomplished by using a series of sophisticated cameras to track a user's eyes and hands. Yet for future smartglasses, televisions, Macs, Apple Watch and other wearables like AirPods, such cameras are not available to control such devices as noted in patent figure #16 below. For these devices, App...
BCG - Real Estate in Crisis
[Investing]
2023/11/06 09:09
The German real estate industry’s ongoing market uncertainty driven by higher interest rates, recession fears, and inflation will likely continue to weigh on property values and financing costs, according to Boston Consulting Group’s latest analysis. Transaction volumes are declining and it has become more difficult to refinance or redeem existing financing, with regularly maturing liabilitie...
New Weight Loss Drug Acts Like an “Exercise Pill”
[Tech]
2023/11/06 09:08
Long thought a pipe dream, scientists have discovered a drug that mimics the effects of exercise.The weight loss drug revolution appears to have truly arrived. For decades, there have been compounds available that trim weight or buff muscles, but they always have come with dangerous side effects and worsened long-term health. The trade-off simply wasn’t worth it. A prized weight loss pill stil...
