Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation once settled a trademark question with a CEO-to-CEO arm wrestling match. It resulted in a ton of free PR for both. “While most companies would settle the dispute the conventional way—by calling in the lawyers […]
“Lantern Bioworks says they have a cure for tooth decay. Their product is a genetically modified bacterium which infects your mouth, outcompetes all the tooth-decay-causing bacteria, and doesn’t cause tooth decay itself. If it works, it could make cavities a […]
At least that’s what this robot makes me believe. In autonomous mode it can cook and serve shrimp, call and take an elevator, and store a large pot in a two-door cabinet. With a teleoperator, it can do laundry, vacuum, […]
The story is about the startup accelerator TechStars shutting down its Austin program after the person who was running it stepped down. The implication that extrapolates to the city is funny. This paragraph is excellent fodder for eyerolling: “One venture […]
“The limited-edition pastry, a collab between Daisies and The Wieners Circle, launched Tuesday after a series of video teasers starring Daisies’ pastry chef and some famously foul-mouthed Wieners Circle staffers.” ~ learn more
There are 10 countries, mostly in central Africa, that still have a literacy rate below 50%. Chad ranks the lowest at 27%. The female literacy rate in Chad is even worse at 18.2%. But on the bright side, remember that […]
You might remember VERTU, the first luxury phone brand. “Vertu is the brainchild of the Italian Frank Nuovo, former chief designer at Nokia. He proposed and presented the luxury concept to Nokia’s board, who eventually accepted it in late 1998.” […]
“Advances in AI and satellite imagery allowed researchers to create the clearest picture yet of human activity at sea, revealing clandestine fishing activity and a boom in offshore energy development.” ~ learn more
This was published shortly before the famous investor’s recent passing. One excerpt: “Berkshire is pretty extreme in culture. We are deeply aware of how bureaucracies tend to create their own internal dynamics so that everybody protects everybody else and nobody […]
“The quantum computer revolution may be further off and more limited than many have been led to believe. That’s the message coming from a small but vocal set of prominent skeptics in and around the emerging quantum computing industry.” ~ learn more