Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several bespoke hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia's most respected architects.The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of out-of-the-box designs, but the firm's latest project is one of its most unusual in some time. Looking a bit like a large round pinecone among the trees, the Biosphere...

Americans’ Openness Is Tempered by a Range of Concerns. Public views are tied to how these technologies would be used, what constraints would be in place.Developments in artificial intelligence and human enhancement technologies have the potential to remake American society in the coming decades. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans see promise in the ways these technologies c...

Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using ‘holobricks’ that can be stacked together to generate large-scale holograms.The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Disney Research, developed a holobrick proof-of-concept, which can tile holograms together to form a large seamless 3D image. This is the first time this technology has bee...

35 years ago Howard Schultz took the top job at Starbucks, a small chain serving coffee in 11 locations. Over the next 3 decades, across two different stints as CEO, Schultz would reshape Starbucks into a US, and then a global, coffee empire — with more than 25,000 locations by the time he stepped down in 2017.Now, he's back (again). Schultz is once again stepping up to the top job, this time...

Liberland Metaverse is a "cyber-urban" city in the metaverse designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a "cyber-urban" city in the metaverse where people can buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar.Named Liberland Metaverse, the virtual city is a based on the Free Republic of Liberland – a micronation...

As e-commerce continues to fuel cross-border package deliveries around the world, what should logistics providers pay attention to?“Deliver the letter, the sooner the better,” crooned the Marvelettes, the Beatles, and the Carpenters in the hit song “Please Mr. Postman,” capturing the familiar sentiment of not receiving a letter quickly enough. But today, with email largely replacing snail m...

Hotel payment software provider Selfbook has completed a $15 million extension of its Series A financing that values the company at $300 million.Tiger Global Management led the extension, as well as the company’s $25 million Series A in October. At that time, New York-based Selfbook was valued at $125 million — so it has essentially seen a 2.4x increase in valuation from the fourth quarter of...

In 2019 not long after founding LeapX, this design company received an ambitious and forward-thinking project to reimagine the possibility of unmanned delivery. The project focused on the delivery of takeaway food and so was internally nicknamed “Lunchbox“.Thy began an in-depth study into the current delivery landscape, including a stint working as delivery drivers themselves. In contrast to...

After 2 pandemic years, people are ready to see the world again, but it won't be exactly the sameillustration of different ways to travel.Hybrid work may be here to stay, but people are ready to say goodbye to their home offices and sofas to see the world again.According to a survey by consumer insights firm GlobalWebIndex, travel intent for 2022 is up across every category surveyed, with road...