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Former Tesla and SpaceX Designers are Selling Tiny $17,500 Prefab 'Urban Escape Pods'
[Product]
2020/12/23 09:05
Jupe is selling tiny prefab portable shelters. The 111 square-foot pods were designed by ex-Tesla, Airbnb, and SpaceX employees. They cost $17,500, and orders will start being fulfilled in March.Tiny-living startup Jupe just released new images of its sci-fi inspired portable shelters, or "cosmos-inspired urban escape pods," which are now available to preorder.The company was founded by Jeff Wi...
Korean $168 Billion Sovereign Fund To Boost Alternative Assets
[Investing]
2020/12/23 09:04
South Korea’s $168 billion sovereign wealth fund is planning to allocate as much as a fifth of its portfolio in alternative assets like tech ventures, as it bets that near-zero interest rates will stay on for a long time..- KIC to increase alternative assets to up to 20% of portfolio- KIC bought stay-at-home stocks like Peloton and Zscaler“In the mid-to-long term, our direction is to steadily...
Blow Bubbles & Avoid Lockdown Monotony with 'Soap Mask'
[Design]
2020/12/23 09:03
Interdisciplinary creative laboratory aerosoap introduces the ‘soap mask‘, a face shield frame that serves as a large bubble maker. Although not particularly protective, the mask aims to make our homebound reality a little less stressful and a little more fun, by blowing colorful soap bubbles. ‘Our soap mask does not provide efficient or even long-lasting protection, not a bit’ the aerosoap...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How US Customers’ Attitudes to Fintech are Shifting During the Pandemic
[Consumer]
2020/12/22 09:10
Recent surveys of US consumers reveal some shifting attitudes towards banks and fintechs after more than six months of the COVID-19 crisis.Beyond its devastating impact on human health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped much about the day-to-day lives of people across the globe. In this post, we highlight some observations on how the experience of living through a pandemic has...
Shopping for a Beauty Product ? Try It On with Google
[Business]
2020/12/22 09:09
With the holidays right around the corner, more than 73 percent of U.S. shoppers are planning to buy online. There are plenty of perks with online shopping, from the convenience of doing it from your couch to the multitude of options right at your fingertips.At the same time, many still crave that in-store experience, whether it’s seeing a product up close, trying it on or getting advice from...
VC Defies 2020 Expectations Despite the Pandemic
[Investing]
2020/12/22 09:08
In its now-infamous "Black Swan" letter of warning to startup founders and CEOs in March about the coronavirus and its potential impact on the industry, Sequoia got a lot right about the pandemic.Businesses would cut spending and headcount to offset a drop in sales. Supply chains would be disrupted. The Federal Reserve would slash rates. Software companies would be less exposed than, say, hardw...
(Video) Holotron Presents a Lower-Body VR Exoskeleton with Full Force Feedback
[Product]
2020/12/22 09:07
The Holotron VR exoskeleton, currently in much less attractive prototype form, might one day mount prettily to your wall like this.As quickly as our brains accept virtual reality once our vision and hearing are hijacked, there are plenty of people trying to extend the illusion across our other senses, moving towards a future of total physical immersion that replicates experiences across all our...
(PDF) Bain - Shock-Proof : How to Forge Resilient Supply Chains
[Business]
2020/12/22 09:06
Only 36% of senior executives rank cost reduction as a top three supply chain goal, down from 63% over the past three years. US industries depend on China and East Asia for $680 billion of imports annually.To improve supply chain resilience, 45% of respondents plan to shift production closer to home markets in the coming three years.As Covid-19 threw fragile global supply chains into disarray,...
PepsiCo Adopts AI to Make Cheetos More Consistent
[Tech]
2020/12/22 09:05
The novel AI solution is powered by Microsoft Project Bonsai and it monitors the production from beginning to end.In a new blog released on Microsoft's website, PepsiCo describes how the firm leverages AI to make Cheetos so tasty and light. The secret lies behind an AI solution powered by Microsoft Project Bonsai.The future for process controls“This is the future for process controls,” said i...
