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☆ Global brands look to boost media investment in women's sports through a new partnership, The Women's Sports Club
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Jessica Golden | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

For four-time Olympian and gold medal-winning ice hockey star Angela Ruggiero, pushing for more media attention and sponsorship dollars for women's sports comes naturally. Today, through her company, the Sports Innovation Lab, she's dedicated to changing that. Ruggiero's Sports Innovation Lab on Tuesday announced a partnership with banking giant Ally to create the Women's Sports Club, a coalition of major brands and media that will work to tackle some of the challenges in buying women's sports inventory and to elevating investment in women's sports. More than 20 global brands that buy and sell sports media and sponsorships are coming together to drive media spending to women's sports. The Women's Sports Club will meet at significant media and sporting events throughout the year, beginning with the South by Southwest event next week in Austin, Texas.

☆ ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has hired tons of former Google and Meta employees, new data shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last year, the company hired several Google staff to do "instrumental" work on ChatGPT. Data from LeadGenius and Punks & Pinstripes shows that a number of the company's 200-plus employees came from Alphabet, the parent company of Google and AI research lab DeepMind. OpenAI currently employs about 59 ex-Google employees and about 34 former Meta staff, according to the data. Data from Lead Genius and Punks & Pinstripes shows ex-Google staff make up a large portion of the company's staff. The Information previously reported that OpenAI hired several Google employees to do "instrumental" work on ChatGPT in the months leading up to its November launch.

☆ 7 of the most popular online businesses to start right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Many online businesses are easy to start because they require low overhead and are simple to set up. Insider compiled a list of the most popular online businesses to start in 2023. Online businesses can be an accessible way to earn extra income since most have low overhead costs and are simple to run from home. Some people run their online businesses with as little as four hours a week, while others run full-time operations clocking 45 hours a week. Insider compiled a list of the most popular online businesses to start in 2023, based on our previous reporting.

Bored Ape Yacht Club was not the biggest crypto phenomenon, but it was one of the top beneficiaries of celebrity hype. The Bored Apes — a computer-generated collection of 10,000 cartoons — were being presented as a status symbol, membership in an exclusive club. Yuga sued Ripps for trademark infringement, and argues that his maligning of the Yuga apes is nothing more than a profiteering tactic. Hickman, who is Black, thought the Bored Apes looked like stereotypical portrayals of Black people as stupid or lazy. He said he thought this would be obvious to most people the second they saw an image of a Bored Ape.

☆ Here's why it's always a good time to start a business, despite inflation, layoffs, and a possible recession
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That momentum is expected to continue in 2023, despite inflation, layoffs, and recession fears. Experts say that momentum could continue in 2023, despite inflation, layoffs, and fears of a possible recession. "We're in a period of a relatively strong economy," said Lawrence White, an economics professor at New York University. White expects to see a return of the service industries this year, from pent up demand during the pandemic. "It's usually easier to start a services business than to start a goods business," he said.

☆ Google Cloud Introduces Shelf Inventory AI Tool for Retailers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

Google Cloud said it has developed a new artificial intelligence tool designed to help big-box retailers better track the inventory on their shelves, aiming to improve a technology that has struggled to work well in the past. Google Cloud said Friday its algorithm can recognize and analyze the availability of consumer packaged goods products on shelves from videos and images provided by the retailer’s own ceiling-mounted cameras, camera-equipped self-driving robots or store associates. Google Cloud said its product is trained on a database of over a billion products, including images that are publicly available, licensed and provided directly by manufacturers. He said the Google Cloud product has shown above 90% accuracy during early tests in a Giant Eagle innovation lab, which is designed to replicate store conditions. For now Giant Eagle provides continuous feedback to Google Cloud about where the tool isn’t working so that it can fine-tune, he said.

☆ Lowe's to sell power tools that won't work if they're stolen, as retailers take increasingly desperate measures to prevent theft
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lowe's is combining RFID and blockchain technologies to ensure stolen products are rendered inoperable. In other words, if a power tool is stolen from Lowe's, it isn't going to work. Additionally, Project Unlock focuses on transparent purchase records. In 2021, Home Depot began selling power tools that won't work unless they're properly scanned and activated at the register via Bluetooth technology. Lowe's didn't immediately respond to Insider's inquiries about when it plans a full rollout of Project Unlock.

☆ Here's how the US government is developing 5G for underwater Navy sensors and bomb disposal on land
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Clara Mcmichael | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The US government is working to integrate 5G into technology that addresses environmental hazards. The Navy is working with an Energy Department subsidiary on 5G tech meant to detect marine life. This article is part of "How 5G Is Changing Everything," a series about transformational 5G tech across industries. The lab collaborates with other government agencies to weave the latest 5G technology into their operations and has worked on projects ranging from underwater sensors to land-based bomb-disposal robots. The Navy is particularly interested in working on 5G underwater, where it could enable faster data collection and analysis, more efficient environmental monitoring, and better communication with the Navy's underwater assets.

☆ An ex-Adidas designer who helped launch Yeezy's is trying to make it easy for anyone to start a sneaker brand
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Fctry Lab also will help smaller brands get products to market through consulting and possibly investments. Industry experts said Fctry Lab will give young sneaker companies easier access to the tools and expertise needed to get sneakers to market. "The alternative (to Fctry Lab) is get on a plane, go to China, and figure it out." Eventually, Fctry Lab could be turning out small batches of shoes and serving as a sort of music studio for sneaker-makers. The $6 million, which Fctry Lab considers a seed round, will be used to grow the business.

☆ It's not just Elon Musk. Tech CEOs everywhere are quietly asking their employees to step it up or risk getting fired.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tech CEOs are turning up the heat, even if it's not as blatantly "hardcore" as Elon Musk's verbiage. Major tech CEOs have been asking employees to step up throughout this year's stingier economy. Employees at Google, Amazon and others have all been asked to work harder or risk their jobs. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. In October, Meta told managers to mark 15% of its employees as "needs support" in what workers dubbed "quiet layoffs," Insider previously reported.

☆ Amidst the layoffs at Amazon, the company's ultra-secretive research lab is at risk of being shut. It's a sign things are changing 'dramatically' at the company.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Early last month, members of Amazon's secretive in-house research lab, Grand Challenge, were called into an unexpected video meeting. Weibel announced 3 of the 5 projects Grand Challenge was working on would shut down, effective immediately. When other team employees wanted to collaborate with the team, they needed additional approvals from its leadership. Amazon Glow was among the Grand Challenge projects to be discontinued at the end of this year. Getting support promoting Grand Challenge projects was a challenge too.

☆ JPMorgan to expand in Greece with new office, payments team
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

ATHENS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - U.S. bank JPMorgan (JPM.N) said on Friday it will open a new office in Athens to support the growth of its business in the country. The office will house a new Payments Innovation Lab for which the firm will hire around a 50-strong payments research and development team locally - including product and engineering specialists. The Payments Innovation Lab will provide research and development to the bank's global payments business, including working with Onyx, JP Morgan's business unit that leverages cutting-edge technologies like blockchain. "We want to stay at the apex of payments innovation, and our new location in Athens will be a key nerve centre for our cutting edge payments innovation work," said Takis Georgakopoulos, Global Head of JPMorgan Payments. Recruitment for the Payments Innovation Lab will begin immediately, including for a head of the division.

☆ 5G-enabled farms could ward off food insecurity and unlock $100 billion in global profits by 2030
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Clara Mcmichael | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There lies Swans Trail Farms, a family-owned operation that focuses on agritourism and events with apple orchards, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and strawberry fields. Swans Trail FarmsSnohomish County and the 5G Open Innovation Lab launched sites to pilot 5G-enabled agricultural tech on two farms— Swans Trail and Andrew's Hay. CARES Act funding for the initiative dried up last year, but the 5G Open Innovation Lab continues to fund the project. The 5G Open Innovation Lab and Innov8.ag are working to expand to eastern Washington, an area of the state that's more agricultural. We've had our hiccups," Jim Brisimitzis, the head of the 5G Open Innovation Lab, said.

☆ Women athletes now have their own sports network
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Kaitlin Balasaygun | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The first-ever network to focus on female athletes, the Women's Sports Network, launched Wednesday, offering 24/7 streaming of original programming, competitions, documentaries and a daily studio show "Game On." The Women's Sports Network is a free, ad-supported network featured on streaming services including Amazon.com 's Freevee, Fox Corp .'s FuboTV and Tubi, along with smart TVs. The Women's Sports Network has partnerships with the Women's National Basketball Association, Women's Football Alliance, Ladies Professional Golf Association, U.S. Female athletes at the collegiate level are also proving to be winners in the NIL era, garnering deals with brands including Nike now that college athletes can be paid for their name, image and likeness. "The Women's Sports Network is exactly what athletes, fans and sponsors have been asking for," Mollie Marcoux Samaan, commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, said in a release announcing the network launch.

☆ Technologies like virtual reality and robotics could reduce the energy industry's carbon footprint and advance workers' skill sets
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-11 | by ( Chris Daniels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Governments have also taken actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from the oil-and-gas sector to meet their net-zero goals. "This has created a ripe opportunity for technology to play an even greater role in the energy sector." However, to realize the full value of technology investments, energy leaders will need to upgrade workers' skill sets and attract higher-skilled labor in areas like robotics, software engineering, and data analytics. 'Digital twins' optimize energy projectsOil-and-gas leaders are using virtual reality and augmented reality to create "digital twins" of current energy projects for training and simulation-based learning. A path to highly skilled job creationMortlock said these kinds of developments will help the energy sector combat market instability and stakeholder pressure to improve their carbon footprint.

☆ Streetfighters, Hooligans and Nazis: Inside Sweden's Most Notorious Underground Fight Club
▼ + stars: | 2019-11-24 | by ( Karim Zidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Few outsiders have ever attended a KOTS fight in person. "The most notorious fight club, the one and only place for the unwanted ones, delivering the most stressed out and fucked up environment you can find. Back in 2019, the fight club started live streaming its events and charging around $14 per fight. In the exchange, a fan asked why the fight club allows anti-fascists to compete. "This is the most raw form of fighting," Hooi, who is not affiliated with any far-right groups, wrote during our interview.

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