How bad can it get ?Usually when the share price of a well-known tech company falls more than 10% it's a perfect story for us to do a chart on. But in the last few weeks we've been overwhelmed, as almost every single day multiple major household names have been taking double-digit losses. We highlighted some of the worst affected last week — many of which have continued their slide this week.W...

Who knows what secrets await in the hearts of plants? Brightseed has found a couple of them, anyway, using an AI-based analysis method and will be bringing its first products to market soon with the help of a $68 million B round.Brightseed’s thesis is simply that there are almost certainly some very helpful and healthy substances waiting in plants, which have yet to be either discovered or pop...

Up until recently, young people’s primary experience of the market was that stocks almost always go up.Generation Z investors are experiencing their first bear market, and that’s a good thing.I’m referring to investors who were born after 1996 and currently 26 or younger. They would have been no older than age 12 during the last major bear market, in 2008, and almost certainly weren’t payin...

A new heat engine is highly efficient and designed to work in tandem with renewable sources of energy.The thermophotovoltaic cell, also called a “heat engine,” is 1 square centimeter, but the research team behind it are looking to scale up. Photo: Felice FrankelResearchers at MIT have built a highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cell that, when paired with renewable resources, efficiently conv...

Across generations, retirement is the No. 1 investing goal in the US. That said, Gen Z is far more likely to focus on getting rich or learning to invest than older age groups. While 81% of baby boomer investors have their eye on retirement—no surprise as many are approaching that milestone—just 35% of Gen Z investors consider it their main priority.Beyond the chart: Gen Z’s greater focus on...

While comparing the 2013 Mac Pro to a trashcan may have been a little mean in hindsight, its shiny cylindrical exterior translates well to a coffee machine, as per this concept by Young Geon Ahn.Meet Apple Drip – a conceptual caffeine distributing machine that brews “the best coffee Apple’s ever made” if Tim Cook had to ever take to the stage to introduce such an appliance. It flips Jony Iv...

The latest Consumer Pulse survey shows that, across America, people have simultaneously embraced new behaviors and reverted to old ones. What will they do next?Stick to new COVID-19-era habits, or go back to the old ways of doing things? For most US consumers, the answer seems to be “both.” Two years into the pandemic, people across the country have discovered that they like shopping online,...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a charging station for an electric vehicle that provides an automated process for consumer convenience. Apple notes that exiting a vehicle to connect the vehicle to a charging station may be inconvenient for the operator of the vehicle. In addition, electric vehicle charging stations that require manual conne...

In May, a Congolese collective will drop NFTs minted of a sacred statue once owned by the community, now held by the VMFA. In the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) sits a 25 inches-tall wooden statue labeled a Diviner’s Figure, originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since February, that same sculpture also has a home on the blockchain, having been tokenized...