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Amazon at 30 : All Grown Up
[Business]
2024/07/12 09:05
30 years ago, on July 5, 1994, Jeff Bezos founded a company called Cadabra, Inc. While that may not ring a bell with everyone, the company’s later name certainly will: Amazon.com. The story goes that Bezos quickly changed the name to Amazon after a lawyer had misheard the original name as “cadaver” – and the rest is history. On July 16, 1995, the unheard-of company from Seattle launched a w...
Like Most Americans, McDonald’s has Given Up on Beyond Meat
[Investing]
2024/07/12 09:04
The McPlant is dead, long live the $5 deal.McDonald’s will likely be meat-free-free in America for the foreseeable future, after the company confirmed at a WSJ forum on Wednesday that the McPlant, a burger made in collaboration with Beyond Meat, failed when it was rolled out in hundreds of locations across California and Texas in 2022.That’s a sizable setback for Beyond, which, despite some s...
(Video) Revolutionary Three-Wheel Electric Trike is like a Car with Pedal-Powered Battery
[Product]
2024/07/12 09:03
The world of mobility is evolving rapidly. After electric cars and e-bikes, make way for Twike: an electric bike designed like a car and driven using joysticks, reminiscent of old arcade games. This is not fiction but a continuous endeavor by automaker TWIKE GmbH to create a human-powered hybrid vehicle aimed at providing a sustainable mode of transportation. The German manufacturer of battery-...
(PDF) Bain - China Shopper Report 2024, Vol. 1
[Consumer]
2024/07/11 09:10
China FMCG Settles into New Reality, with Moderate Growth and Continuous Price Pressures.This is the 13th consecutive year we have tracked the shopping behaviors of Chinese consumers. Our continuing research has given us a valuable, long-term view across 106 fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories purchased for home consumption in China.1 As in each of the past 12 years, we analyzed the 26...
This Gadget Turns Any Watch into a Smartwatch - The Ganance Heir
[Product]
2024/07/11 09:09
Smartwatches are great for tracking your steps, logging your workouts and reminding you how poorly you slept the prior night.But they're not so great at pairing with a nice suit, or showing your off personal style.The Ganance Heir wants to change that. It's a new smart disc that attaches to your favorite watch, imbuing it with the power of a smartwatch without changing the handsome aesthetics o...
Sequoia Captial - AI’s $600B Question
[Investing]
2024/07/11 09:08
The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. Navigating what comes next will be essential.In September 2023, I published AI’s $200B Question. The goal of the piece was to ask the question: “Where is all the revenue?” At that time, I noticed a big gap between the revenue expectations implied by the AI infrastructure build-out, and actual revenue growth in the AI ecosystem, which is also a proxy...
Apple AirPods Might Come with an IR Camera as Soon as 2026
[Product]
2024/07/11 09:07
Apple's AirPods will one day come with built-in cameras. While that may sound preposterous for a gadget whose primary purpose is to deliver sound into your ears, there is a good reason for it: spatial experiences.According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is planning to mass produce AirPods with infrared (IR) camera modules by 2026. These cameras would be similar to the Face ID received on...
Chinese Company Packs a PC Inside a Foldable Keyboard
[Product]
2024/07/11 09:06
Linglong showed off a portable PC design in China that folds smaller than a laptop. There’s an AMD Ryzen 7 PC hiding inside this folding keyboard.Headless portable PCs packing everything except a display are growing in popularity among enthusiasts who don’t want to settle for a laptop they can’t easily upgrade — and now Chinese manufacturer Linglong is taking things further with this foldin...
The World's Most Liveable Cities
[Consumer]
2024/07/11 09:05
Each year, The Economist publishes a ranking of the cities with the best living conditions. In 2024, the Liveability Index saw slight improvements, despite geopolitical conflicts, civil unrest and housing crises. This is partly due to advances in healthcare and education in a number of cities in developing markets. As the following chart shows, Vienna has been crowned as the world’s most livea...
The Future of The Tech Office is Taking Shape in Asia - Tencent Helix
[Design]
2024/07/11 09:04
Out with the gimmicks and in with good design.Over the last quarter century, the tech company office has become its own sub-genre of architecture. It’s the type of building that, whether through hubris or extreme wealth, eschews the buttoned-up standards of conventional offices. There are bright colors, playful work settings, plentiful social areas, and an abundance of extracurricular activiti...
(Infographic) A Compendium of the Most Iconic Artificial Intelligence From Fiction
[Business]
2024/07/11 09:03
AI is all over the headlines these days. Seems like not long ago at all when artificial intelligence was a thing of fiction.There is a long history of science fiction featuring the benefits of consequences of introducing AI to a future society. Now that the future is here, this fascinating compendium from AIPRM gives us a look at the ways we’ve imagined AI over the decades.The first AI charact...
(Patent) A New Apple Patent Describes Smart Gestures and AI Being Used in a Future Apple Watch
[Tech]
2024/07/10 09:10
At the Apple WWDC24 event introduced Apple Intelligence, Apple's version of AI. While the focus of the event was about all things related to AI coming to iOS 18, a new Apple patent published on June 20 revealed that Apple Intelligence is coming to Apple Watch.The patent specifically states: "In some embodiments, the smart gesture may be identified without the use of a personal electronic device...
