(Infographic) Coronavirus Stats About Home, Work and Digital Lives
[Consumer]
2020/04/15 09:05
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the world, people are finding themselves with the prospect of weeks or months under lockdown. Nearly all human activity that was normally reserved for the public sphere is getting shifted to the private and online sphere.In the very recent past, the hot topic was how to maintain work/life balance, often with an emphasis on how to prevent worklife fr...
Survival of The Biggest : Coronavirus Transforms Retail
[Business]
2020/04/15 09:04
The titans of the retail industry — Amazon, Walmart, Target and Costco — are poised to come out of the coronavirus crisis even stronger and more formidable than they were before, as smaller rivals suffer and wither.Why it matters: The pandemic will permanently reshape America's retail landscape — accelerating a winner-take-all race that started taking shape before stores were forced to close...
(Video) The Innovative Joyride Responsive Furniture
[Design]
2020/04/15 09:03
This responsive chair transforms shape when you sit.The innovative Responsive seats dock perfectly under the table when not needed, and transforms in to chairs when you do. A work table that is super minimal and versatile. ResponsiveFullScreen from SplicedStudios on Vimeo.Website : https://joyride.design/Watch Video : https://vimeo.com/369638049[joyride]
(Video) Dove's Newest Real Beauty Campaign "Courage Is Beautiful"
[Business]
2020/04/13 09:10
Unilever brand chief realized 'these conversations about beauty, however relevant they might have seemed a few months ago, now seem superficial'Dove's newest Real Beauty campaign, "Courage Is Beautiful," is the brand's most powerful yet. The 30-second ad features emotional photos of healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. In the video, the faces of the medical heroes risking their...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Safeguarding Our Lives and Our Livelihoods : The Imperative of Our Time
[Investing]
2020/04/13 09:09
We must solve for the virus and the economy. It starts with battling the virus.Everything has changed. Just a few weeks ago, all of us were living our usual busy lives. Now, things normally taken for granted—an evening with friends, the daily commute, a plane flight home—are no longer possible. Daily reports of increasing infections and deaths across the world raise our anxiety and, in cases...
(Video) How Apple and Google Are Enabling Covid-19 Contact-Tracing
[Tech]
2020/04/13 09:08
The tech giants have teamed up to use a Bluetooth-based framework to keep track of the spread of infections without compromising location privacy.The companies chose to skirt privacy pitfalls and implement a system that collects no location data.SINCE COVID-19 BEGAN its spread across the world, technologists have proposed using so-called contact-tracing apps to track infections via smartphones....
How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money
[Consumer]
2020/04/13 09:07
The chart shows the percentage change in spending from the beginning of the year. Each line is an average of the previous two weeks, which smooths out weekly anomalies.The coronavirus has profoundly altered daily life in America, ushering in sweeping upheavals to the U.S. economy. Among the most immediate effects of the crisis? Radical changes to how people spend their money.In a matter of week...
Quantum Computing Startup Raises $215M for Faster Device - PsiQuantum
[Investing]
2020/04/13 09:06
PsiQuantum’s photon-based model is still years away, but the company says it’ll be more powerful than Google’s or IBM’s.The technology industry has spent decades trying to puzzle out the basis of a quantum computer. Such a machine, powered not by the simple on/off choreography of conventional transistors but by the ethereal forces of quantum mechanics, would allow for calculations on a scal...
(Infographic) Tracking Spending on Consumables in the Grip of COVID-19
[Consumer]
2020/04/13 09:05
Although spending on paper products and food remains high, panic buying seems to have subsided. Tracking Spending on Food and Household Goods Amid COVID-19 ... Spending on Food and Household Goods in the Grip of COVID-19.Infographic : https://boston-consulting-group-res.cloudinary.com/image/fetch/w_2880,q_auto,f_auto/http://image-src.bcg.com/Images/Tracking-Spending-on-Consumables-in-the-Grip-o...