The decline of religion is most striking in the United States. Between 1940 and 2000, church membership hovered around 70%, according to Gallup. By 2020, church membership had cratered to 47%. Between 2007 and 2020, the proportion of Americans not…
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Small changes in how a person talks could reveal Alzheimer’s earlier Bu Sarah Philip
21 September 2023Views: 7O’Connell and Adams specialize in the complex ways that Alzheimer’s effects how people speak. Using AI, their mathematical model analyzes 15 million data points every minute, focusing on certain features of speech such as pitch, pauses and elongation of words.…
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By 2025, the number of gamers is estimated to reach 3.6 billion and generate a whopping $211 billion in revenue. The video game industry’s success is fueled by enthusiasts who engage with gaming by playing, viewing, creating, and making gaming…
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Energy transition faces metals shortage unless investment rises By Roberto Bocca
19 September 2023Views: 13Annual capital investment in energy transition metals has averaged $45 billion over the last two decades, compared with the $70 billion required each year until 2030 to expand supply.Up to 6.5 billion tonnes of materials will be needed between 2022…
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits. In the attached map, you can see the most air-polluted major cities in the world. Read more in Visual…
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40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI by Sabrina Ortiz
16 September 2023Views: 16The executives surveyed estimated that 40% of their workforce will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI implementation, totaling up to a whopping 1.4 billion of the 3.4 billion people in the global workforce, Read more…
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Strategies to win in the new ecosystem economy By By Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz
11 September 2023Views: 21The total revenue pool of these ecosystems to be between $70 to $100 trillion by 2030. That would represent around 30 percent of the global economy, but more than 40 percent of total profits and more than half of the…
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Robotics is one of the key aspects of AI that’s impacting our daily lives, as it’s a combination of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science and engineering. Robots have a great deal of similarity with humans as they can…
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Direct-to-consumer e-commerce in appliances By Dave Fedewa, Nicolas Jabs, Ramji Sundararajan, Kevin Wei Wang, and Stephan Zimmermann
8 September 2023Views: 51Recent analysis reveals that while 32 percent of customers visit manufacturers’ websites during their purchase journey, only 1.6 percent make an e-commerce purchase from them. As a result, it is no surprise that 80 percent of companies in the appliance…
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The Fastest Growing and Declining Industries in the U.S. (2021-2031)By Pallavi Rao
7 September 2023Views: 21The labor force is always shifting, responding to technological or societal changes.For that reason, keeping an eye on the fastest growing industries can help workers and businesses stay on top of the crucial trends driving employment. Read more in Visual…