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Amazon's Escalating Logistics Costs
[Investing]
2019/03/06 10:45
Amazon launched a new service called Amazon Day on Thursday, which enables Prime members to have all their orders delivered on the same day of any given week. While Amazon is selling this new feature as a perk that will help customers take control of deliveries and reduce packaging, the new delivery option could also help the e-commerce giant achieve its ultimate goal of carbon-neutral shipment...
Virtual Reality Adds to Tourism Through Touch, Smell and Real People’s Experiences
[Business]
2019/03/06 10:45
Back in 2001, an acquaintance who worked for Lonely Planet told me about a surprise discovery. The travel guide business had an audience of people who would buy their travel books, but never travel. Lonely Planet dubbed them “virtual tourists”.Now Lonely Planet, and others, have become excited by tourism powered by virtual reality (VR) – both on this planet and, thanks to NASA, on others.VR...
Bitcoin's 4-Year Cycle ? This Pattern Suggests Bitcoin could be En Route to $20,000
[Investing]
2019/03/06 10:45
Bitcoin may be getting its groove back, albeit slowly. The digital currency finally snapped a record-setting, six-month losing streak by closing out February with a win, gaining 11% to finish the month just shy of $3,800.[Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets]Now, with a potential base forming, chart watchers are eyeing a pattern, that if correct, could take bitcoin, BTCUSD, -0.18% the best-known c...
Starbucks Biodegradable Coffee Cup - Crème's ‘HyO-Cup’
[Design]
2019/03/06 10:44
A coffee cup made from home-grown vegetables could serve as a sustainable alternative to the 250 billion fiber cups starbucks uses annually. Brooklyn-based design studio crème is behind the design which repurposes gourds, a large fruit with a hard skin, to create the ‘HyO-cup’.Gourds have traditionally been used by ancestors as receptacles like cups for centuries. they are fast-growing plant...
(Infographic) How AI and Big Data Will Unlock the Next Wave of Mineral Discoveries
[Business]
2019/03/06 10:44
Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are rapidly proving their value across many industries.Today’s infographic comes from GoldSpot Discoveries, and it shows that when this tech is applied to massive geological data sets, that there is growing potential to unlock the next wave of mineral discoveries.Mineral Exploration: Fortunes Go to the FewDiscoveri...
The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2019, According to Bill Gates
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:50
For the past 18 years, MIT Technology Review has published an annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies that it believes will have the biggest long-term impact on society. This year, Bill Gates helped curate the selections.It's fitting: investors and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are known for making sweeping futuristic predictions in their own annual letter. In 2015, they predicted...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Private Markets Come of Age
[Investing]
2019/03/05 10:50
McKinsey’s annual review reveals an expanding and developing industry.Private markets stayed strong in 2018. True, fundraising was down 11 percent. But $778 billion of new capital flowed in. Investors have a new motivation to allocate to private markets: exposure. More investors believe that private markets have become effectively required for diversified participation in global growth. Global...
Alphabet's Wind Energy Kites to Fly Offshore
[Tech]
2019/03/05 10:50
Airborne wind energy company Makani has graduated from X's experimental labs and is teaming up with offshore energy giant Shell.Renewable energy technologies seem to fill every nook and cranny of the earth. Turbines generate power on the seafloor and off coastlines. Solar panels carpet desolate deserts and abandoned wastelands. Volcanic aquifers, mountain streams, and urban sewage systems all h...
Are Foldable Phones a Fad ?
[Consumer]
2019/03/05 10:50
After years dominated by incremental upgrades rather than eye-catching innovations, the smartphone industry finally had something new to show off at last week’s Mobile World Congress. Foldable phones, i.e. phones with actual foldable displays as opposed to the flip phones popular in the early 2000s, are the next big thing in the smartphone market, at least that’s what the industry wants us to...
