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(Video) Mobile Drone Lighting System Uses 288 LEDs to Turn Night Into Day
[Tech]
2025/04/09 09:07
The Flying Sun 1000 package uses an LED-equipped drone to pump out 300,000 lumens of ground-illuminating lightFreefly Systems.Sometimes a flashlight just isn't enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Manufactured by Washington-state-based dro...
Women’s Protein Appetite Shakes Up $100 Billion Nutrition Market
[Business]
2025/04/09 09:06
A blossoming wellness boom and growing uptake of slimming injections are opening a brand new opportunity for protein shake makers: more female customers.Women have become an increasingly important customer segment for sports nutrition companies as demand jumps from both GLP-1 users and a more nebulous — but growing — class of shoppers: women who care about strength and wellbeing, rather than...
SignalFire Raises Over $1B as LPs Embrace Data-Driven Investing
[Investing]
2025/04/09 09:05
Thirteen years ago, when Chris Farmer founded early-stage venture firm SignalFire with data analysis at the core of its investment strategy, many were skeptical about the approach — conventional wisdom dictated that nascent companies didn’t have enough data to make investment algorithms effective.“This was a very radical idea, and everyone thought I was crazy,” Farmer (pictured above, on th...
Luxury Brands Must Inspire as Recession Risk Rises
[Business]
2025/04/09 09:04
Luxury brands are increasing their prices to offset rising tariffs. However, without enhancing their value proposition, these price hikes may backfire.As recession risks loom large over the global economy, luxury brands are facing unprecedented challenges in maintaining consumer loyalty and perceived value.Over the past two years, many brands within the industry have implemented significant pri...
(Infographic) The World’s Most Visited Websites by Time Spent Per Visit
[Consumer]
2025/04/09 09:03
On average, people spent 20m 47s on YouTube per visit, the highest amount of time across the top 20 most visited websites in the world.Across social media platforms, people spent more time on X (12m 37s) than Facebook (10m 59s) and Instagram (8m 41s).People who use ChatGPT spent nearly seven minutes on average per visit, beating out Reddit (6m 7s) and Wikipedia (3m 18s).Today, megacap companies...
(PDF) Kearney - Winning in a Cooling Market : Strategies for Luxury Brands
[Business]
2025/04/08 09:10
This year’s Global Luxury Industry Outlook highlights key findings shaping the future of the global luxury market. Some are exciting. Others may be causes for concern. But all show that change is inevitable even in this, perhaps the most protected of all categories of consumer goods and services.Global growth slows. Overall global luxury industry growth is projected at 1 to 3 percent through 2...
'The Ordinary Eggs' : New York Skincare Brand Selling Eggs
[Business]
2025/04/08 09:09
The Ordinary, a beauty and skincare brand, has started selling eggs at $3.37 per dozen in New York City amid a severe egg shortage. The initiative, created in collaboration with the art collective MSCHF, aims to provide affordable eggs during a significant shortage caused by avian influenza.Egg prices in the US have surged from $1.21 per dozen in 2005 to nearly $5 today, marking a 310% increase...
AI Video Startup Moonvalley Raised a Fresh $43M
[Investing]
2025/04/08 09:08
Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, has raised a fresh $43 million in venture capital, according to an SEC filing.The filing lists 11 unnamed investors and comes roughly a week after Moonvalley launched its first AI video-generating model, Marey. Moonvalley previously raised $70 million in seed funding from backers including General Catalyst, K...
Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’
[Business]
2025/04/08 09:07
In the absence of clear answers from Google, creators have struggled to discern how much of their pain is due to AI Overviews or due to other changes in search. In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.But by the time the ad ran about a month later,...
