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The Big Tech Big Freeze
[Investing]
2022/08/16 09:05
Big tech has been on a hiring spree for more than a decade, but things are changing.The big tech big freezeYesterday Google announced a hiring freeze, with the search engine giant putting a pause on all hiring for 2 weeks as the company reviews their "headcount needs".That announcement adds Google's name to the growing list of tech companies that have announced hiring freezes or slowdowns. Earl...
Virtual Windows Mimic Natural Light and Sky Views - Sky Factory
[Product]
2022/08/16 09:04
Sky Factory's digital images create a sense of relaxation in indoor settings such as hospitals and offices. The windows play long-form nature footage that helps improve wellbeing.Contact with nature is an important aspect of general wellbeing, yet can be difficult to fit into everyday life. And for people who work and study in windowless rooms, vision breaks that include views of nature are eve...
BIG Designing Ground to Air Driverless Vehicle for American Desert City Telosa
[Design]
2022/08/16 09:03
Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a road, air and hyperloop-capable autonomous vehicle for the new US city of Telosa currently being planned for five million people in an unconfirmed desert location.The Ground to Air, or G2A, would constitute a rhomboid passenger pod that can attach to a set of wheels to become a car, rotor blades to become a helicopter, rails to form an elevated trai...
(PDF) Deloitte - Global Automotive Consumer Study
[Consumer]
2022/08/15 09:10
Tracking key trends in the automotive industry.What consumer trends and disruptive technologies will have the most impact on the automotive industry in the year ahead? Explore the data and insights from the 13th year of Deloitte’s Global Automotive Consumer Study, and discover how more than 26,000 consumers from 25 countries are feeling about advanced technologies, electric vehicles, the purch...
(Patent) Ford Patents App to Warn Pedestrians, Cyclists of Autonomous Vehicles
[Tech]
2022/08/15 09:09
Ford has lodged a patent for an app for pedestrians and cyclists that will tell them if an autonomous vehicle will stop for them.Many pedestrians and cyclists look at their phones on the go, so Ford has filed a patent for a phone app that will warn them of a new danger: autonomous vehicles.First seen on Jalopnik, the Blue Oval filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in...
Brick by Brick: LEGO's Growing Toy Empire
[Business]
2022/08/15 09:08
90 years ago, on August 10, 1932, a Danish carpenter named Ole Kirk Kristiansen started a company making wooden toys. Renamed LEGO (a combination of the Danish words “Leg Godt”, i.e. “Play Well”) in 1935, the company soon started grappling with plastic bricks, laying the groundwork for the toy company we all know today.In 1958, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Ole's son, submitted a patent appli...
(Video) Meet Xiaomi’s New Humanoid Robot, CyberOne
[Product]
2022/08/15 09:07
Long gone are the days when a consumer electronics company could simply announce a phone and call it a day. At this morning’s big launch event in Beijing, Xiaomi followed up its foldable news by handing the stage over to CyberOne. The bipedal humanoid robot joined Lei Jun onstage, greeting the CEO and handing him a long-stem flower.At first glance, the robot isn’t exactly Atlas or Digit, in t...
How Parfait is Using AI to Upend The $13B Custom Wig Industry
[Business]
2022/08/15 09:06
The wig industry aimed at women of color has an estimated market in the neighborhood of $13 billion. Black women face unique issues when it comes to building these wigs, and the process traditionally has involved sitting with a stylist for eight hours or more.A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they...
Shoppers Start Their Product Search on Amazon
[Consumer]
2022/08/15 09:05
When it comes to online shopping, 61% of US consumers begin their product hunt on Amazon, close to half on a search engine like Google, and 32% on Walmart.com.Where US Consumers Start Their Search When Shopping Online, May 2022 (% of respondents)Beyond the chart: It’s important to not discount the 11% of those who start their product search on TikTok, considering the platform is relatively new...
