It was a fight of the common investor against hedge-fund cronies. A collision of the real and virtual world, blurred...
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Eye of the Storm: Fraunhofer’s New H.266 VVC Compression Codec
Fraunhofer, the German company that invented the uber-popular MP3 file compression protocol has announced a new H.266...
The Retail Apocalypse Is Turning Shopping Malls into “Grayfields”
The list is long: Brooks Brothers, GNC, J. Crew, J.C. Penney, Lucky Brand, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Pier 1 Imports...
How Voyeurgasm Is Handcuffing America’s Police State
This post is based on an excerpt from Michael Tchong’s book, Ubertrends. The slow and agonizing...
The Collapse of Business Ethics
The CARES Act proves once again that unscrupulous corporate executives will not let any crisis go to waste. The $349...
Eight Reasons Why Worker Wages Are Stagnant
As unbelievable as it may seem, the typical, non-management private-sector worker makes about the same as in January...
Rich Americans Have Grown Their Share of U.S. Wealth by $19 Trillion Since 1989
To kill time in quarantine, bored rich people are shopping online for $500,000 bracelets. Why not? The richest 1% now...
Yoga Culture
Propelled by life’s mounting stresses, a by-product of the Time Compression Ubertrend — the acceleration of life, the...
Coffee Market
Between 1996 and 2016, the global coffee market more than doubled from $30 billion to $81 billion. Here are some...
Globesity: As The World Fattens
An obesity epidemic is threatening to tip scales all over the globe, propelling a trend dubbed “globesity.” The U.S.,...
High Definition Makeup
Revlon founder Charles Revson’s once said: “In the factories we make cosmetics, in the stores we sell hope.” Revson...
CES 2014 Trends
CES has become U.S.’ default technology show where marketers from all walks of life preview new technology trends for...
Facial Rejuvenation
The Dow may be over 16,000 but worrying about poor-performing hedge funds is wreaking havoc on your investment...
Innovation
In 1939, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter offered a new twist on innovation, defining invention as an expression...
NFTs
NFTs have taken digital art and collectibles by storm. NFTs are tokens used to represent ownership of unique items,...
Memory Protection
The incidences are becoming numerous. You’re about to mention a name and suddenly realize you can’t recall it. “It’s...
Smiley Talk
Conversing via electronic means has exploded in the past decades. In 2008, 11 billion text messages were sent each day...
GPS Navigation
Earlier this year, a British man nearly plunged off a cliff when the GPS navigation device he was following told him...
Electronica
Next week, some 40,000 people will trek to Miami Beach to attend the Winter Music Conference — a gathering for DJs,...
Botox
When the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved Botox for cosmetic use in 2002, it helped launch a cultural...
A New Political Science
Last week’s victory by President Elect Barack Obama unleashed a global groundswell of positive vibes. Most of the...
Sexing Up Water
The news must have hit the water industry like a neutron bomb. Two University of Pennsylvania professors, Dr. Stanley...