The changing dynamic of work was in full flight before Covid-19 hit us. Belgian companies have now shifted to potentially offering a 4 day week, essentially shifting 5 days worth of work into 4 days. Many of us do the long hours - but this is a shift that will continue to get momentum globally. I think there is much to iron out on what becomes the norm, but for now, this is some progress. With a trial in London also in flux, spearheaded by Unilever, this is a clear response to "The Great Resignation". In survey after survey, Workers Care More About Flexible Hours Than Remote Work. All this while we see the rise of the anti-work movement, record numbers of jobs available, and Flippy the Fast Food Robot working non-stop in 100 Restaurants. Interesting times in the world of work and employment are ahead. NYT is calling it "The Age of Anti-Ambition".
Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. An interesting article on the organisation of knowledge, utilising Google as a tool and how Google is failing at what it does best. On the one hand, you might have usage of search on Google directed at a specific site, but on the flipside you have other use cases - like searching within your inbox to find trusted coverage of a subject that you are interested in. "Google still gives decent results for many other categories, especially when it comes to factual information. You might think that Google results are pretty good for you, and you have no idea what I’m talking about. What you don’t realize is that you’ve been self-censoring yourself from searching most of the things you would have wanted to search. You already know subconsciously that Google isn’t going to return a good result."
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You thought that Roblox was a safe younger V1 of the Metaverse? A BBC investigation has found virtual sex parties are taking place in a popular online children’s game. In addition, underneath the gaming platform worth $68 billion and used by over half of all children in America is a ballooning and highly profitable ecosystem of hackers and traders.
A patient’s transplant in New York City could help researchers who are developing gene therapies to cure HIV. "A woman in the New York City area appears to have been cured of an HIV infection, joining a small group of people whose recovery is providing researchers with road maps to beat one of nature’s most resilient viruses. The woman has shown no detectable signs of the human immunodeficiency virus in extensive testing since she stopped antiretroviral treatment in October 2020 following a transplant of stem cells with a rare genetic mutation that blocks HIV invasion, her doctors said. The doctors said they consider her HIV to be in long-term remission, suggesting a cure if it holds. That would mean she has no virus able to replicate in her body, unlike people who have HIV but stay healthy by keeping the virus at low levels with long-term drug treatment."
The company is said to be moving for ‘rapid international expansion’ despite global regulatory pressure surrounding facial recognition tech.
Nations around the world should come together now to determine how best to protect humans from biowarfare. Knowing how to synthesize viral DNA helped the United States gain new insights into how viruses mutate, how they become immune to vaccines, and how they could be developed as weapons. And although creating a virus to study how it might be used as a bioweapon may sound legally questionable, the project didn’t violate any existing dual-use treaties, not even a 1972 treaty explicitly banning germ weapons, which outlaws manufacturing disease-producing agents—such as bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins—that could be used to harm people, animals, or plants.
Francis Ford Coppola lives—as he has in one way or another since directing 1972's The Godfather—in splendor. Loosely held splendor: In the ensuing five decades, Coppola has filed for bankruptcy at least once and has been expelled from Hollywood more than once. But splendor nonetheless.
These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies. Obsolesence is one of the reasons why being bleeding edge in adopting technology can be risky - especially when we're talking about being part-cyborg. In other "eye news", several firms are working on artificial eye tech that incorporates wireless, embedded sensors - bionic eye tech helping blind people see again.
A vibe shift is the catchy but sort of too-cool term for a relatively simple idea: In the culture, sometimes things change, and a once-dominant social wavelength starts to feel dated. But not everyone survives the vibe shift.
After opening their first meditation studio in Toronto in 2018, the co-founders of Hoame were looking to expand. However, instead of calling up their real estate agent, they decided to go virtual.
Air Protein is transforming carbon emissions into delicious cuts of meat, with the helping hand of bacteria.
As opportunities in women’s health accelerate, FemTech is helping to match capital and talent to unmet needs--with promising early results. To be brutally honest, I was actually shocked at how underserved this segment is, especially post-pregnancy. Look for the white space in Exhibit 2 - it screams opportunity!
For at least a decade, a shadowy hacker group has been targeting people throughout India, sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext for the victims’ arrest.
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Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel are pouring huge sums into startups aiming to keep us all young – or even cheat death. And the science isn’t as far-fetched as you might think.
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