Imagine a player who has just downloaded a new game that you spent months developing. They got past the initial set-up and tutorial, only to find that every time they make an in-game purchase for new skins or content, they will need to input their card details and wait for the transaction to process. Will the player still feel motivated to continue investing time in the game?
Fashion is one of the many ways with which you can express yourself. From vintage trends comebacks to the emergence of more inclusive clothing brands, like SKIMS, and fashion tech, the fashion industry continues to evolve and makes shopping for garments fun—but not for the environment. The apparel industry accounts for 10% of the world’s carbon emissions and consumes 1.5 trillion liters of water (about 400,000 Olympic swimming pool) each year.
Humanoid robots are common in sci-fi movies. If you are sci-fi fans, you must have seen many humanoid robots in different movies, such as Optimus Prime from Transformers and C-3PO from Star Wars. Optimus Prime, in particular, is a mighty robot that led the Autobots in fighting against the Decepticons.
Governments, teachers and environmentalists consistently tell us to recycle plastic and the importance of 3Rs (i.e. reduce, reuse and recycle). However, have you ever pondered whether these strategies are effective in saving our environment? Have you ever had the chance to witness how the workers manage the so-called “recyclable plastic”? If not, don’t worry; we’ve got you.
Back in 79 A.D., the lost city in Southern Italy, Pompeii, had been buried by the Vesuvius volcano. The ruins of this ancient Roman city have inspired designers to reimagine the interiors of ancient households in virtual reality (VR).
On May 17, 2021, Gucci launched Gucci Garden—a two-week pop-up store on metaverse platform Roblox. The luxury brand displayed some of its most coveted items and invited users to drop their avatars and reapproach their sartorial sensibilities from a blank slate. The pop-up was an ode to the brand’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele, and over 20 million users visited it.
Tech startups and the innovation they bring to various industries have been the center of attention in the business world. However, one sector often goes overlooked: menstrual hygiene products.
In India, many of those who menstruate don’t have access to proper period hygiene products. This has led to a number of problems,
For the girls out there, do you have to hide your tampons under your sleeves when you have to be excused? We understand. Sure, menstruation is not our favorite dinner table topic, but why do women have to be embarrassed or discreet about it?
“After I had my first child, I was struck by how uninformed I was about my body for this postpartum period. A few things kind of made me think, how is it that (the) information is not accessible? To me? Even somebody who, I would say, is an informed consumer?” says Anca Griffiths, the CEO and founder of online health and wellness platform OM Experts.
Whether you read the book or watched the film, all of us were fascinated by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We wanted to tour around the factory just like the kids with the golden tickets did and get a taste of that chocolate river. But alas, it was all fiction. Much like we’ll never get our own letter to Hogwarts, we’ll also never get a golden ticket, no matter how many bars of chocolate we eat.
Whether you are working from the office or in the comfort of your home, no one likes being constantly nagged about the progress of a task. The easiest way to solve this problem, for both managers and employees, is to use project management tools.
Although there are still six months left in 2022, it is safe to say that it has been a year since cryptocurrency boomed and exploded in value, in large part thanks to e-commerce. While some big names are considering accepting crypto payments, some other major companies, such as Tesla, PayPal, Home Depot and the U.S. telecommunication giant AT&T, pioneered and began adopting cryptocurrency this year.
Remote work is nothing new, but some of us might have got to experience it for the first time during the pandemic, when companies retreated employees from offices to avoid interpersonal contact. Since then, WFH (work from home) has become a buzzword summarizing the new normal in the global workplace.
While many see the metaverse as a place for entertainment and escapism, recent years have seen the rise of sports leagues that exist entirely within it. These leagues have taken advantage of the metaverse’s ability to create realistic and immersive environments to provide their players with a new and unique sports experience.
2021 was a good year for IPOs. IPOs in the United States raised US$156 billion, recording an 81 percent increase over the prior year. With such an outburst, tech stocks raised US$69 billion alone significantly. Shares of Bumble, a dating app created for women’s interests, closed up 63.5 percent in their IPO in January 2021.
By 2027, businesses and people alike are expected to lose US$40.62 billion in payment fraud. The solution to this problem? Tokenization. It refers to the replacement of sensitive data with unique identifiers that retain the length and format of the original data without having any relationship with it.
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