Author: Vidya Saras
Digital Product Passports: An Emerging Expectation in Luxury In recent years, digital product passports (DPPs) have become an essential feature in the fashion industry, especially in the European Union, where they will soon be mandatory. These digital identifiers provide comprehensive information about a product’s origin, materials, environmental footprint, and more. A new survey by Authentique, part of The Ordre Group, reveals that luxury consumers not only welcome DPPs but desire even more detailed and interactive features. This trend presents a golden opportunity for brands to strengthen customer loyalty and engagement. What Consumers Want from DPPs The survey, conducted in April,…
Ever wondered what you can buy with crypto? Believe it or not, there’s a whole world of things out there that a lot of people don’t know about. You can buy pretty much everything with digital currency: from clothes to tickets, from fancy cars to your own penthouses. It’s crazy how mobile our world has become with technology and the internet, right? You can even take something real and own it with non-material money. Loads of services, companies, and retailers are now accepting crypto payments, and their product lists are endless. So, if you’re into crypto and have some earnings,…
What do you do after you’ve won the Oscar for Best Picture? If you’re Bong Joon-ho, you get right back to work to make another banger, and choose to make it potentially weirder and more studded with Hollywood stars than anything you’ve made before. The first full trailer for Bong’s “Parasite” follow-up “Mickey 17” is finally here, and his adaptation of Edward Ashton’s trippy sci-fi novel, “Mickey7,” looks great — darkly funny, unnerving, and, yes, trippy. The first sneak peek of the new movie came over a year ago, in December 2022. At that…
With the new rugby union season starting this weekend, BBC Sport NI assesses how the four Irish sides are shaping up for the campaign.
A fresh wave of anxiety about children and technology is cresting, with parents and pundits increasingly interrogating how kids use smartphones, social media, and screens. It hasn’t stopped teenagers from embracing generative AI. New research reveals what AI tools teenagers in the United States are using, and how often—as well as how little their parents know about it.Seven in 10 teenagers in the United States have used generative AI tools, according to a report published today by Common Sense Media. The nonprofit analyzed survey answers from US parents and high schoolers between March and May 2024 to assess the scale…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon plans to travel to Africa in mid-October in a push by the biggest US lender to expand on the continent, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, his first trip there in seven years. Dimon is expected to visit Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Cote d’Ivoire during the trip next month, two of the sources said. JPMorgan already has offices in South Africa and Nigeria where it offers asset and wealth management and well as commercial and investment banking services. Overseas markets have been a key focus area to generate growth for JPMorgan — which…
Reviewed by Helen Kollias, PhD and Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD At some point in my mid-40s, the scale started climbing. A pound or two turned into five, then 10, then 20. It seemed as if I was doing all the right things: Eating less, moving more, rinse, repeat. Yet, the harder I worked, the less the scale seemed to respond. Had perimenopause destroyed my metabolism? It sure felt like it. However, after asking my doctor to run a series of tests, I learned that my metabolism was, in fact, fine. Instead, like the vast majority of midlife women, the…
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If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, as some researchers suspect, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational distortions that scientists can detect, a new study finds.These findings suggest that if astronomers can discover and confirm the existence of such gravitational disruptions, they may be able to solve the mystery behind the nature of dark matter, the unseen material that many researchers suspect makes up about five-sixths of all matter in the cosmos.Many researchers suggest that dark matter may be composed of unknown particles,…
AI Control assesses the safety of deployment protocols for untrusted AIs through red-teaming exercises involving a protocol designer and an adversary. AI systems, like chatbots with access to tools such as code interpreters, become increasingly integrated into various tasks, ensuring their safe deployment becomes more complex. While prior research has focused on building robustly safe models or detecting harmful behavior through interpretability tools, the study introduces a complementary approach. It evaluates strategies for safely deploying untrusted AI systems, especially when there is significant uncertainty about their behavior across diverse and complex use cases. Researchers from the University of Oxford and…