Fish fertilize the plants—and then become another income stream.A sprawling new building that will soon be constructed in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania—at 250,000 square feet, roughly the size of two entire city blocks in Manhattan—will be the largest vertical farm in the world when it’s completed in 2023. Inside, though, you won’t find just vegetables: Tanks full of fish will sit near vert...

This morning Rebundle, a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. M25, a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with Tec...

The luxury fashion house has teamed up with Technogym on a collection of high-end workout products.If it usually takes some nice new workout gear or some snazzy new gym equipment to inspire you to exercise more, then Dior's latest launch should do the trick for you. The luxury French fashion house has just announced a collaboration with Italian brand Technogym on a line of high-end gym equipmen...

Amazon Video or Apple TV+? Spotify or Amazon Music Unlimited? People are spending a pretty penny each month on subscription services, and there are some interesting generational divides.Key Takeaways:Overall, video streaming subscriptions were the most popular among all subscription types (96%), followed by music subscriptions (80%) and food subscriptions (57%).On average, respondents across al...

In 2019, a team of researchers published a meta-review of studies claiming a person’s emotion can be inferred from their facial movements. They concluded that there’s no evidence emotional state can be predicted from expression – regardless of whether a human or technology is making the determination.“[Facial expressions] in question are not ‘fingerprints’ or diagnostic displays that reli...

Venture-backed giants are scaling up and transforming markets as varied fintech, electric vehicles, and healthcare.Many kinds of personal financial transactions that used to be expensive, cumbersome, or downright impossible can now be completed with a few taps on our phone. Consumers the world over can ‘buy now, pay later’ with point-of-sale loans through Affirm and Klarna, make peer-to-peer...

The convergence of our physical and digital worlds through metaverse platforms is quickly becoming a meaningful opportunity for luxury brands. [The convergence of our physical and digital worlds through metaverse platforms has quickly become an opportunity for luxury — one where China leads through innovation. Photo: NIKELAND]Our time during the pandemic taught us that there are limitations to...

Zeva's tail-sitting one-person eVTOL flying saucer proposes to fling its pilot head-first through the sky at high speed, encased in a stamped-composite disc body that doubles as a lift-generating wing. It's far and away one of the strangest air taxi concepts we've seen, demanding some pretty extreme cojones of its occupants, but as we learned when we spoke to the company a couple of months ago,...

This week inflation in the US hit a number not seen for 40 years, as prices rose on average 7% from December 2020 to December 2021.Not all inflation is created equalWithin that overall measure there is of course a huge range of price changes. We've chosen some of the most important categories from the BLS data, plotting above the raw unadjusted inflation rates for each category.At the top of th...