AI is changing the way that people search for products and services, with an increasing number of people now trusting the guidance of ChatGPT and other apps to help them find what they’re after.Indeed, according to research conducted by SimilarWeb, AI referrals to websites have increased by 357% since June 2024, reflecting the rising power of AI to drive discovery behavior.Which also changes t...

McDonald’s turns Happy Meal box into a blank canvas, inviting kids to draw how they feel.In the UK, McDonald's has stripped its iconic Happy Meal box back to basics — launching a limited-edition blank design that invites children to draw how they're feeling.Running through mid-November across the UK and Ireland, the initiative will distribute nearly four million white boxes and crayons, trans...

Three years after the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there’s little remaining doubt that artificial intelligence, or AI as it’s usually referred to, will change our lives in many ways. In some ways, it already has. For example, people are searching the web differently, often relying on AI summaries instead of scrolling through and clicking on search results. That is, if they even use a...

Chinese researchers have developed an underwater robot whose fins are electromagnetically—not mechanically—moved back and forth, leading to more fish-like agility. Zhe Wang et al. Fish are able to dart quickly through the water and turn on a dime with a flick of their tail. Researchers have been trying to achieve similar results with aquatic robots. In fact, one group in China has made progre...

Footwear brand Chupps creates a biodegradable billboard shaped like a sandal that is designed to disappear and dissolve in the rain. Made from natural materials, the project was installed at Bandra Bandstand in Mumbai, India, and had long disintegrated when it rained during the monsoon season. Chupp’s sandal-shaped biodegradable billboard came to life by combining mud, hay, bamboo, cow dung, a...

1. 에르메스 백의 높은 수익률에 투자할 수 있는 헤지펀드LUXUS, 에르메스 전용 펀드 출시: 전 블랙스톤 임원이 설립한 럭셔리 자산 투자사 LUXUS는 버킨백과 켈리백을 투자 등급 자산으로 취급하는 2개의 헤지펀드 출시.높은 투자 수익률: 5월에 100만 달러 규모로 조성된 첫 펀드로 평균 43일의 재판매 기간을 거쳐 34%의 순 투자수익률(ROI) 기록했으며, 두 번째 펀드는 200만 달러 규모로 조성.투자자 특전 및 시장 데이터...

Luxury asset investment company LUXUS debuts a fund dedicated to Hermès Birkin and Kelly bags—and investors get first dibs on the purses. Stocks, bonds and commodities are the name of the game for most hedge funds. But LUXUS has a unique investment: Hermès bags. The venture-backed wealth tech company focused on luxury investments founded by ex-Blackstone exec Dana Auslander just debuted two...

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Starbucks holiday menu has returned to coffeehouses, and they also unveiled their new holiday ad campaign, Drawn Together.Drawn Together celebrates joyful moments of connection that define the holiday season, such as skiing, ice skating and making snow angels, in animated, hand drawn illustrations that dance across the Starbucks holiday red cups.The track “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Pr...