“A digital fiat currency—one backed by the central bank and with the same legal status as a banknote—would lower the cost of financial transactions, thereby helping to make financial services more widely available. This could be especially significant in China, […]
In Brooklyn, startup LO3 Energy is rolling out an interesting model that connects neighbors in a microgrid that’s segregated from (but connected to) the main power grid, where multiple members can buy/sell renewable energy, all supported by blockchain technlogy for capturing the […]
As part of its digital industrial strategy, GE is training hundreds of its scientists in machine learning and artificial intelligence. One interesting thing they’re doing: creating digital twins of machines they have in the field. | learn more
There’s a rumor that if a couple’s first two or three children are the same sex, the odds of the next child being the same sex are much higher. Is it true? This study of 6,000 families tells us what’s […]
Forbes offers an interesting list of startups working in the agriculture technology space. These types of businesses may not get much mainstream media coverage, but impact many lives. | learn more
Matthew Ball of REDEF offers a really comprehensive analysis of how the music industry has evolved through the major sea changes of digitization, piracy, streaming, and more. He also lays out what the future might look like, and what it’ll […]
She’s credible: “Jepsen is a former engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] (now called X) and Intel. She’s also been a professor at MIT and is an inventor on over 100 patents. And that’s the abbreviated version of her resume.” […]
In news that’s stranger than fiction, the Pakistani Prime Minister and his daughter are in the middle of a scandal called #fontgate because a document she released is dated 2006, but the font wasn’t commercially available until 2007. | learn more
“I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the […]
Sometimes it’s easy to get myopic, forgetting that there are many great retailers outside of the US market. This Bloomberg article highlights A.S. Watson Group, which plans to open 1,400 stores this year – a third of them in China. […]