Normalcy by spring, and herd immunity by fall? We assess the prospects for an end in 2021.More than eight months and 900,000 deaths into the COVID-19 pandemic,1 people around the world are longing for an end. In our view, there are two important definitions of “end,” each with a separate timeline:An epidemiological end point when herd immunity is achieved. One end point will occur when the pr...

The front-facing, wide-angle camera zooms in up to four times in size, allowing the remote person to get involved in detailed on-site work. The GoBe Robots reproduce each user’s face in real size on the screen for a more authentic remote working experienceSpotted: online connections more personable. When workplaces moved out of the office and into the home, many people struggled with the lack...

The Taycan electric car has already become Porsche’s best-selling car in Europe, destroying the sales of the Panamera, its closest gas-powered competitor.In terms of specs and design, the Porsche hit the mark with the Taycan, but the high price has raised questions about the vehicle’s potential success.Porsche only started delivering the Taycan less than a year ago, and after ramping up produ...

When an unprecedented global pandemic forced many countries, cities, states and provinces to take drastic and restrictive social distancing measures, consumers had to hunker down. Like elsewhere in the world, consumers in the U.S. had to quickly adapt to not being able to do the things that were normal aspects of daily life: dining out, catching a ballgame with pals that weren’t cardboard cuto...

Industrial design studio, BKID, has developed an all-in-one hybrid dog harness with an integrated lightweight, retractable leash module and a 1.5 m (5ft) tape-type leash. Designed for outdoor dog equipment brand, tailhigh, the product is equipped with an innovative technology that allows users to control or free their dog at any time. the hybrid harness eliminates the need for an additional lea...

The World’s 100 Most Valuable Brands & When They Were FoundedDid you know that the average age of the 100 most valuable brands in the world is an incredible 89.43 years, with 40 of the top brands having been founded more than 100 years ago?The information gathered from Forbes and Wikipedia and compiled into an infographic by TitleMax.com, lays out the 100 most valuable brands across the gl...

Nielsen Music/MRC Data's U.S. Midyear Report reveals that amid unprecedented challenges, total audio consumption grew 9.4% over prior year.YetThe U.S. music industry experienced a tumultuous first half of 2020 when the coronavirus hit the country, prompting stay-at-home orders and suspending concerts by late March. Fortunately, recorded-music consumption has proven resilient: Audio streams are...

Perfect Diary plans for a US IPO before the end of this year, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as underwriters.Guangzhou-based cosmetics brand Perfect Diary has completed a new fundraising round for an undisclosed amount of capital from investors including Warburg Pincus, Carlyle Group, and Loyal Valley Capital, Chinese media outlet IPOZaozhidao reported on Monday, citing people close to t...

This paper aims to caption daily life --i.e., to create a textual description of people's activities and interactions with objects in their homes. Addressing this problem requires novel methods beyond traditional video captioning, as most people would have privacy concerns about deploying cameras throughout their homes. We introduce \name, a new model for captioning daily life by analyzing the...