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The PUMA x 247 Collection is Phoebe GIll-Approved
[Business]
2024/12/18 09:05
British fashion brand Represent launches biggest performance wear collaboration to date, with PUMA x 247 collection, fronted by Olympic star Phoebe Gill.Represent 247, the performance wear arm of one of the fastest growing British fashion brands, Represent, has announced its biggest partnership to date with sportswear giant, PUMA.Launching on December 18th, the campaign for the 12 piece trainin...
How Was 2024? Not as Bad as the Last Few Years Global Mood
[Consumer]
2024/12/18 09:04
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down in 2020, it seems like the world has been in constant crisis mode. In each of the past few years, the overwhelming feeling towards the end of December has been: the next year can only get better.With the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East dragging on, the effects of the global cost of living crisis still lingering and political uphe...
Zero-Waste Restaurant Silo Opens The Fermentation Factory
[Business]
2024/12/18 09:03
Hackney Wick's 'Fermentation Factory' will produce unique ferments such as a miso made from spent beer grains collected from Silo's partner, Crate Brewery. The Fermentation Factory is set to open its doors in an abandoned nightclub in Hackney Wick in September 2024, ushering in an exciting new chapter for Silo and the zero-waste movement.Timed to coincide with Silo's 10th anniversary, the resta...
(Patent) Nvidia’s Data Center Automation
[Tech]
2024/12/17 09:10
The company filed a patent application for “intelligent components of a data center,” which details a system to use autonomous machines to manage and operate data center server racks and components. “As the size of data centers and the complexity of their layouts increases, inspecting and repairing computing equipment in this manner becomes more difficult for technicians,” Nvidia said in th...
(PDF) Mckinsey - True Customer-Centricity : An Operating Model for Competitive Advantage
[Business]
2024/12/17 09:09
A pragmatic, customer-centric business model can help companies achieve profitable growth by reimagining business processes end to end with the aid of digital technologies.The emergence of new technologies and geopolitical changes are disrupting industries around the world. Corporations are rethinking how to create value for their customers—whether they are serving other businesses (B2B), cons...
Super-Spicy Noodles Make Former Stay-at-Home Mom a Billionaire
[Business]
2024/12/17 09:08
Famously hot Buldak noodles drive Korean food giant’s growth. Kim Jung-soo was asked by father-in-law to join family firm.It all started from a YouTube video in which a British man attempted to eat Buldak — fire chicken — noodles ten years ago.That quickly turned viral, with a flood of people posting short videos of themselves daring the notoriously spicy ramen. Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B...
Weight Loss Drug Sales Soar and America’s Obesity Rate Shrinks
[Business]
2024/12/17 09:07
The obesity rate in the US fell in 2023 as GLP-1s go mainstream. Ozempic sales are booming, obesity rates are shrinking, and weight-loss drugs are more culturally relevant than ever.Research published in the last week revealed that for the first time in more than a decade, obesity rates among US adults fell slightly last year, decreasing from 46% in 2022 to 45.6% in 2023. While we might need a...
(Video) Amazon’s AWS Helps NFL Players and Fans Use AI to Customize Shoes
[Business]
2024/12/17 09:06
For its eighth annual campaign, the NFL’s My Cause My Cleats initiative — which sees players express charitable interests through custom footwear designs — is embracing generative AI. Three NFL stars used a tool developed by Amazon’s AWS to create their custom cleats. Using Amazon Bedrock, the technology combines Anthropic’s Claude with Stability AI’s image generation capabilities to tran...
(Paper) 3D-Printed “Metamaterial” is Stronger Than Anything in Nature
[Tech]
2024/12/17 09:05
It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace. A person holding a complex, 3d-printed metamaterial with a lattice structure.Using lasers and metal powder, Australian scientists have created a super strong, super lightweight new “metamaterial” — but they got the idea for this sci fi-sounding creation from plants.The challenge: Materials that are strong yet lightweight, such a...
