TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) Popular Alternative Payment Methods Across the World
[Business]
2024/08/16 09:05
Alternative payment methods are defined as any payment that isn’t cash, credit, or debit card. Alternative payment methods may represent a buy now pay later plan, digital wallet, mobile payment, online banking, real-time payment, or voucher-based payment.Alternative payment methods are gaining popularity due to the security of their transactions and how speedy and convenient they are. These fo...
Heineken-Themed Music Device Lets You Discover New Music
[Design]
2024/08/16 09:03
Heineken has laid great emphasis on the importance of social connections all these years, even before the times we got familiar with online socializing. For the Gen-Z the brand signifies freedom of thought and enjoyment with no strings attached. Going with this philosophy, a team of designers has conjured up this cool gadget christened Hei-Five.A culmination of Heineken and high five, the palm-...
Robot-Looking Kitchen Air Purifier Can Get Close to Your Stove to Absorb Smoke
[Design]
2024/08/16 09:03
Not all houses have built-in exhaust systems or have space for kitchen hoods so when you cook, it can turn a bit smoky and smelly in there. And of course, we know that the smoke isn’t always that healthy and there may be other harmful elements there. Having an air-purifying product that is small enough to fit in your kitchen but powerful enough to suck out all the smoke would be the ideal solu...
(PDF) Bain - Advanced Air Mobility : What Electric Air Taxis Need to Take Off
[Business]
2024/08/15 09:10
Small electric aircraft that take off and land vertically create new investment opportunities.Commercial air taxi services may commence in the next two or three years but will not reach scale until the mid-2030s.Electric air taxis will remain a premium-priced mode of transport aimed at mid- and upper-income travelers.Market growth will depend in part on operators’ ability to fund initial losse...
(Paper) Google Robot Paddles Human Table Tennis Competitors
[Tech]
2024/08/15 09:09
Google DeepMind's table tennis robot takes on a human competitor in a trial of the system.Using heaps of data, Google trained a table-tennis-playing robot to take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and dexterity. It also looks really fun."Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a...
Eli Lilly's Zepbound Rises While Novo Nordisk's Ozempic Levels Off
[Business]
2024/08/15 09:08
Eli Lilly's Zepbound and Mounjaro beat Wall Street expectations while Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Wegovy disappointed.Eli Lilly may eventually catch up to Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk when it comes to selling the weight loss drugs that have boomed in popularity in recent years.Eli Lilly reported on Thursday that sales for Zepbound, which it has only sold for less than a year, reached $1.2 billion,...
(Video) Massive 40-MW Floating Wind Turbine Array Wins Major Tick of Approval
[Tech]
2024/08/15 09:07
While the quest for pulling more megawatts from wind turbines has generally led to bigger and bigger rotors on turbines of conventional design – like this monster 22-MW number in China – Norway’s Wind Catching Systems (WCS) has taken a different path. It claims its mega-array of smaller rotors arranged in a grid would achieve up to 126 MW, or five times the energy of a 15-MW single-rotor tur...
(Infographic) How Have the Top 25 Most Popular College Majors Changed Over Time ?
[Consumer]
2024/08/15 09:06
There is a world of college majors to choose from in topics that range from broad to obscure. Over the years, there have been many trends and changes in the higher education industry. STEM is on the rise, liberal arts struggles, then surges again.The team at Student Choice gave us an illustrated look at these changes with a range of graphs showing us the popularity of majors between 2016 and 20...
Pedal-by-Wire Cargo Cycle Hauls 1,000 Pounds Like a Mini HD Truck
[Product]
2024/08/15 09:05
The Dynamic Drives Intelectra: Part electric quad-cycle, part pickup truck, and part heavy duty go-cart.Looking like a cross between a pedaled dump truck and a modern day motor carriage, the new Intelectra from German startup Dynamic Drives Giessen is a seriously muscular cargo mover for cities.Its pickup truck-like bed swallows up to half a dozen Eurocrates and carries just under 1,000 lb (454...
Callaway’s Exploring a Topgolf Spinoff
[Investing]
2024/08/15 09:04
Topgolf — the driving range chain where families, friends, and colleagues can whack a few balls onto greens littered with interactive targets — isn’t getting the footfall it used to, leading parent co. Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. to explore a potential spinoff.Golf ball, bag, and club-making giant Callaway acquired Topgolf in a 2021 deal that valued the make-golf-fun-again brand at more th...
Saudi Arabia’s Wild Plan to Build 11 Futuristic Soccer Stadiums for The 2034 World Cup
[Design]
2024/08/15 09:03
The audacious architecture will come with some serious challenges.Saudi Arabia is embarking on a new project that defies belief. In addition to the 10,200-square-mile urban development, Neom, the country now has to finish 11 new soccer stadiums, expand four more, and build 132 training venues for 48 national teams before the World Cup kicks off in 2034. To call it a big job is an understatement...
(PDF) Mckinsey - LLM to ROI : How to Scale Gen AI in Retail
[Business]
2024/08/13 09:10
Retailers continue to experiment with generative AI and are seeing that the technology holds great promise for reigniting growth—if they move quickly to seize the opportunity.Once generative AI (gen AI) hit the mainstream, in late 2022, it took little time for retail executives to realize the potential in front of them. Mentions of artificial intelligence (AI) in retailers’ earnings calls soa...
