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Asia's Sinking Cities
[Investing]
2021/07/14 09:02
Climate change, rising sea levels and flooding are expected to have an outsized impact on Asia where millions of people live on low-lying land in close proximity to the ocean. A new report by Greenpeace East Asia looks at the risks in seven regional cities, concluding that in these metropolises alone, more than 15 million people could be affected by rising sea levels and flooding by 2030.While...
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested
[Investing]
2021/07/13 09:10
Global venture capital funding in the first half of 2021 shattered records as more than $288 billion was invested worldwide, Crunchbase numbers show. That’s up by just under $110 billion compared to the previous half-year record that was just set in the second half of 2020.A greater number of those venture-backed companies have gone public valued above $10 billion so far this year — just half...
Osso VR Raises $27M to Train Surgeons Via Simulations
[Investing]
2021/07/13 09:09
Osso VR has raised $27 million to train doctors and other medical professionals using virtual reality surgery simulations.The San Francisco-based Osso VR said its numerous hospitals have validated its virtual reality surgical training and assessment platform as a training tool for surgeons.GSR Ventures led the second institutional round of funding, with participation from SignalFire, Kaiser Per...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Making Online Grocery a Winning Proposition
[Business]
2021/07/13 09:08
The global pandemic brought online platforms to center stage for grocers. Retailers should consider five trends and take five steps to ensure this shift is sustainable and profitable.Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the US grocery sector was lagging other retail sectors in e-commerce adoption. Customer reservations about buying fresh food online, along with high e-commerce fees and nonintuitive...
(Video) The First Fully Loudspeaker-Free Cinema Sound System - Flexsound Pulse
[Product]
2021/07/13 09:07
The FLEXSOUND Pulse generates its own immersive ‘bubble’ of full-range audio around the person sitting in it. Its makers designed it to be the cinema seat of the future, but they see it being used in gaming, live performances, and even at home.The terms ‘immersive’ and ‘loud’ aren’t necessarily interchangeable… that’s a distinction that the FLEXSOUND Pulse focuses on. It replaces the n...
Global Music Subscriber Market Shares Q1 2021
[Business]
2021/07/13 09:06
The music industry’s growing obsession with declining ARPU will continue to colour the outlook for the global streaming market in revenue terms, but the positive driver of this equation is the rapid growth of music subscribers.There were 100 million new music subscribers in 2020, taking the total to 467 million. (In 2019 there were just 83 million net new subscribers). A further 19.5 million n...
Fraunhofer & Vibrosonic - A Contact Lens for The Ear
[Tech]
2021/07/13 09:05
In most hearing aids, sounds emitted by a tiny speaker are directed down the ear canal. The "alpha" hearing aid is different, however – and reportedly better – in that its speaker actually sits directly against the wearer's eardrum.Described as a "hearing contact lens," the device is being manufactured by German startup Vibrosonic. It incorporates technology developed by researchers at the Un...
(Paper) Coffee vs Tea vs Soft Drinks : Caffeinated Drink Popularity
[Consumer]
2021/07/13 09:04
Coffee, tea, or soft drinks… How do you get your caffeine fix?It might be the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive substance, but your preferred caffeine drink of choice might come down to where you live.A study into caffeine consumption of 57 countries examined the role it plays in our diets, using the volume sales of caffeine-containing beverages from Euromonitor to see what caffeine s...
(Video) HyperPort Would Fire Shipping Containers Around at Transonic Speeds
[Tech]
2021/07/13 09:03
Hyperloop Transport Technologies has presented an ultra-high-speed shipping port logistics system it says can shift up to 2,800 containers a day, covering hundreds of kilometers in minutes – while decreasing emissions wherever it's rolled out.The whole thing would be like a giant cargo-carrying version of the pneumatic tube systems that once blasted thousands of messages around every hour, bac...
