The Swedish master of flat-pack furniture teams up with the tech company that facilitates delivery and assembly. Great move to reduce friction for the DIFM (do it for me) customer segment. |learn more
Bloomberg published some interesting data and analysis about what clothing brands actually make up Amazon’s sales in the category. Maybe not surprisingly, fashion brands end up falling short. | learn more
Investors in VC funds (and other private equity funds) have to lock up their cash for a long time, trading liquidity for potentially higher returns than public markets. Spice VC is purported to be the first to address this by […]
Secureworks, a cybersecurity firm, went to the darkweb to find out. Spoiler: not as much as you’d have hoped… | learn more
The 180 year old company had trouble getting AI talent to Iowa, so they set up shop in the valley instead. They are focusing on technology for precision agriculture, managing crops at the plant level for increased yields and lower costs. |learn […]
With a training dataset of only 67 MRI scans, “The AI was able to diagnose Alzheimer’s 86 percent of the time. More importantly, it was able to detect mild cognitive impairment 84 percent of the time, making it a potentially […]
Microwave-assisted thermal sterilization (MATS) is a new process developed by Washington State University researcher Juming Tang. It enables reheating food for less time, maintaining nutritional value, as well as requiring fewer preservatives in ingredient lines. | learn more
VC Tom Tunguz details his strategy for answering the pitfall-ridden question “What do you think?” Instead of presuming to lecture someone who probably has better insight into the problem, he instead probes their decision-making process to help them find their […]
Willem van Eelen was a Japanese POW during WWII, often struggling with a lack of calories. “[O]ne day during [his] first year [in medical school], he came across a group of researchers in the laboratory using stem cell technology to […]