AI Face Swaps on TikTok Are Getting Out of Control
Kevin Abbaszadeh Technology Editor AI face-swap videos have taken over TikTok in a way that very few people anticipated. In
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Why Digital Infrastructure Is the Next Global Fragility
Within the modern digitized world, digital infrastructure serves as a backbone for the global economy as we know it. This infrastructure also provides daily life and national security, yet this system is fragile. Liabilities concerning the infrastructure include concentrated dependency, physical weak points, and geopolitical tensions, all leading to increasing risk systematically.
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$5 Trillion & Counting: NVIDIA Beats Nations
A market capitalization of five trillion, NVIDIA has achieved that once seemed unimaginable. The most valuable company in the world. Once known for powering your computer, NVIDIA has transformed itself into an artificial intelligence revolution, showing how untouchable they are and illustrating how technological innovations can rewrite global economic rankings.
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Why everything has protein now
At the beginning of October Starbucks unveiled their protein packed drink menu, charging a premium to add protein to your coffee. This trend has been sweeping the food industry for years making everything into a high protein option. This begs the question, does everything need to be high protein?
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Our Digital Revolution
Advances in the digital revolution can be dazzling. Now, data about where we are, where we’re going, how we’re feeling, what we’re saying are turning into beacons of revenue that illuminate a new commercial prospect.
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Luxury Brands Keep Increasing Prices
Luxury items are desired based on how accessible they are; the harder it is to get a luxury item then the more you want. Almost as if the brands were playing hard to get with its consumers. But when does inaccessible become too much?
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New York Fashion Week
New York City has been making substantial progress towards a return to normalcy within the past few weeks. Several city traditions such as Broadway and the Met Gala have returned after last year’s cancelations due to the pandemic. One of the most prominent events in the city includes New York Fashion Week. Organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), New York Fashion week is a biannual series of runways shows and demonstrations used by designers to present their collections for the upcoming fashion seasons. Typically, New York Fashion Week brings over 230,000 visitors to the city and generates approximately 900 million dollars for the city’s economy. With a year long hiatus, designers went all out for this year’s event using unconventional and creative ways to show off their new collections.
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The Accuracy of Astrology
The origin of astrology can be traced back 2,400 years ago in Babylon. Over time it gets modified as each region integrates astrology with their religion, culture, technology, and mathematics.
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S&P 500, Dow Soar as Retail Booms
After a year like 2020, in which nearly all stocks reached previously unprecedented lows, many investors could not flip their calendars fast enough come January 1st. While changing dates did not necessarily change stock prices or the severity of the pandemic, fortunately, many stocks have rebounded in a big way in the second quarter of 2021. That trend continued this past week, as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average continued their relentless uphill climb amidst a country undergoing large-scale economic recovery.
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J&J Asks Other Companies to Join Investigation of Blood Clotting After COVID-19 Vaccination
Recently, federal healthcare agencies have advised Johnson & Johnson to cease administering their COVID-19 vaccine temporarily. According to Reuters, this advice was given after six women under fifty developed blood clotting following the shot. Business Insider reports that the women were between the ages of eighteen and forty-eight and now suffer from a blood clot in the brain called central venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). Overall, 6.8 million Americans have had the J&J vaccine.
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