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Burberry Brings Its Signature TB Monogram To Chinese TikTok
[Business]
2022/08/25 09:09
Burberry collaborated with Douyin to dress the short-video platform’s virtual avatars named Zaizai. Which brand will be next to leverage the feature ? British luxury house Burberry has collaborated with Douyin (China’s version of TikTok) to dress the short-video platform’s virtual avatars named Zaizai. “Douyin Zaizai” is a new feature that allows users to create their own avatars and socia...
Elon Musk’s Many Korean Fans Have Built a $15 Billion Tesla Stake
[Investing]
2022/08/25 09:08
In a country where economic inequality has inspired Parasite and Squid Game, retail investors hoping for a ticket to prosperity have amassed a huge position in the electric-car maker.Park Sunghyun and her husband sold their home in Seoul, moved into a rental apartment with their 7-year-old son, and plowed the family’s $230,000 of savings into shares of Tesla Inc.They’re not alone in betting e...
This AR Glasses Concept Tries to Make Smart Glasses More Practical
[Design]
2022/08/25 09:07
Our current civilization lives and thrives on information. Although there’s no escaping physical reality, much of this information is now stored and transmitted digitally. And it’s not just the usual culprits like emails, messages, videos, and photos. Even locations and physical objects can sometimes have digital information attached to them, information that we can’t see with just our naked...
(Infographic) Asia’s Digital Economy
[Business]
2022/08/25 09:06
Over the past several decades, Asia has enjoyed robust economic growth. Historically speaking, most of this growth was concentrated in China, and was due to a rapid expansion of manufacturing capability. Today, economic growth is being increasingly driven by the digital economy, and it’s spreading to many more countries in the region. In this infographic from the Hinrich Foundation, we take a...
(Video) Morti is a Robot Dog That Can Learn to Walk in an Hour
[Tech]
2022/08/25 09:05
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have developed a robotic four-legged dog that uses an algorithm to learn to walk from scratch "like a baby giraffe".Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have developed a robotic four-legged dog that uses an algorithm to learn to walk from scratch "like a baby giraffe".The four-kilogram robot is being used to help researchers at the German institution M...
Air Travel is Back for Tourists, But Not for Business Travelers
[Business]
2022/08/25 09:04
In a 2021 survey conducted by Morgan Stanley, corporate travel managers in the US, Europe, and Asia suggested their companies would replace about a quarter of typical business travel with virtual meetings in 2022.Their predictions were pretty spot on.Air travel has nearly bounced back to pre-pandemic levels in the US and Europe, led by a strong recovery in tourist demand. But business travel is...
This Ice Cream is Made from Lab-Grown Vegan Milk - Bravero Bot
[Product]
2022/08/25 09:03
The milk alternative is molecularly identical to the kind that comes from cows.The world is a problematic place for ice cream-loving environmentalists.As of 2015, the dairy industry produced emissions equivalent to 1.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually — that’s almost as much as the shipping and aviation industries combined.So, the environmentally responsible thing would be to cut down...
(Patent) Leaked Apple Patent Hints That The Next-Gen Pencil Will Sport a Rotating Element
[Design]
2022/08/24 09:10
Steve Jobs openly despised and ridiculed the styluses that were the mainstays of pocket PCs and Palm devices that predated smartphones, but more than a decade later, Apple would embrace the stylus and make it its own. Granted, the styluses of Jobs’ era were nothing more than glorified sticks to poke at tiny screens, providing no additional benefit to the user experience. The Apple Pencil was,...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Retailers Can Attract Frontline Talent Amid the Great Attrition
[Consumer]
2022/08/24 09:09
Almost half of US frontline retail employees and two-thirds of frontline managers say they are thinking about leaving their jobs in the next few months. What’s a retailer to do ?High attrition in retail is nothing new: annual employee turnover among frontline retail workers has been at least 60 percent for a long time. Retailers regularly face the challenge of replacing more than half of their...
