This very cool solar-powered motorhome can travel up to 740 km (460 miles) per day. It has been created by students from Eindhoven University of Technology who hope to inspire carmakers and politicians to accelerate the transition toward #greenenergy.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. Parag Agrawal, the company’s chief technology officer, will take over the helm. Shares of both Twitter and Square were up with the news. Scott Galloway has been calling for this one for a while — there you go Scott! #wakeupimagine
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For all my packaging, branding, and naming friends — here’s a story — Fok Hing Gin, owned by Hong Kong-based company Incognito Group Ltd, has been deemed offensive in a landmark ruling by the UK’s Independent Complaints Panel. Incognito Group had claimed that the brand name is an English romanization of the traditional Chinese phrase meaning ‘fortune and prosper’ and inspired by Fuk Hing Lane, a street in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. #wakeupimagine #branding #packaging #CPG #HongKong #design
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Can AI Truly Give Us a Glimpse of L O S T M A S T E R P I E C E S? Very cool article from WIRED on recent projects that used #machinelearning to resurrect paintings by Klimt and Rembrandt. They raise questions about what computers can understand about art. #wakeupimagine #art #AI
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This #quantumcomputing startup says it’s ready to take on IBM and Google. Founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University scientists and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), QuEra Computing Inc. has built a 256-qubit quantum computer using its own unique architecture.
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“We’ve all heard about rising inflation. The price of stuff is going up. And if you read this newsletter, you’ve heard of shrinkflation. That’s when the price of stuff stays the same, but the amount you get goes down. The economywide decline in service quality that we’re now seeing is something different, and it doesn’t have a good name. It’s a situation where we’re paying the same or more for services, but they kinda suck compared with what they used to be. We propose a new word to describe this stealth-ninja kind of inflation: skimpflation. It’s when, instead of simply raising prices, companies skimp on the goods and services they provide.” — NPR’s Planet Money
#marketoonTom Fishburne#wakeupimagine#inflation#shrinkflation#skimpflation#PlanetMoney#money
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SpinLaunch: Giant vacuum e-centrifuge for slinging 200kg satellites into orbit at up to 5000 mph. 4x less fuel, 10x less cost. Threat to SpaceX?
Maiden test last month at supersonic speeds, launch vehicle recovered. #wakeupimagine
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