Who is winning the brain chip war? Not Musk, but a company backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates

Who is winning the brain chip war? Not Musk, but a company backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been developing brain chips that can be implanted to let people with paralysis control objects using their minds. Noland Arbaugh was the company’s first human patient, a quadriplegic who received a brain implant a year ago. He recently informed the world that he has “had no negative side effects, neither physically…

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How fast fashion learned to dress like The Row

How fast fashion learned to dress like The Row

As the quiet-luxury aesthetics of luxury brands like The Row infiltrate fashion, a familiar fast-fashion brand strategy is reemerging: Reframe and rebrand, but don’t rebuild. In the last month alone, Asos launched a premium in-house brand, Debenhams pivoted to a curated marketplace, and PrettyLittleThing made its Paris Fashion Week debut — all centered on visual…

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Beyond overcapacity: Chinese-style modernization and the clash of economic models

Beyond overcapacity: Chinese-style modernization and the clash of economic models

1 | European Chamber of Commerce in China and Roland Berger, “Overcapacity in China: An Impediment to the Party’s Reform Agenda,” 2016, https://www.europeanchamber.com.cn/en/publications-overcapacity-in-china; Lu Lanqing 陆澜清, “2016年钢铁行业如何去产能 (How to Reduce the Capacity of the Steel Industry in 2016),” 2016, https://www.qianzhan.com/analyst/detail/329/160225-2671dc64.html; Chinabgao 中国报告大厅, “我国钢铁行业2016年现状:亏损惨重产能过剩 (The Status Quo of China’s Steel Industry in 2016: Heavy Losses and…

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