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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Editor's note: In these self-quarantining times, we’d do well to understand how a certain co-passenger travels. This co-passenger is discerning to a fault, sifting through opportunities, threats, habitats, hosts, and experiences. Traditional belief holds that it is barbaric, hijacking and proliferating in its chosen dominion. But Geoffrey Smith found otherwise. In 2010, he and his team at Imperial College, London, watched as a well-coordinated attack unfolded before their eyes. There were millions of co-passengers—and yes, they were ruthless. But they also displayed mutual understanding. If one was in the midst of plundering, the others stayed away and marched ahead to claim what hadn’t been taken yet. These were vaccinia viruses. And they, as the Imperial College team discovered through their video microscopes, had a hive mentality. Viruses are intelligent. These co-passengers are seasoned travellers, having hitched rides for billions of years. But we take them for granted. This underestimation has led to a proliferation of zoonotic diseases (i.e. diseases that spread from animals to humans) over the last 30-odd years. At the time of writing this, there are 207,615 confirmed cases of …
Editor's note: In these self-quarantining times, we’d do well to understand how a certain co-passenger travels. This co-passenger is discerning to a fault, sifting through opportunities, threats, habitats, hosts, and experiences. Traditional belief holds that it is barbaric, hijacking and proliferating in its chosen dominion. But Geoffrey Smith found otherwise. In 2010, he and his team at Imperial College, London, watched as a well-coordinated attack unfolded before their eyes. There were millions of co-passengers—and yes, they were ruthless. But they also displayed mutual understanding. If one was in the midst of plundering, the others stayed away and marched ahead to claim what hadn’t been taken yet. These were vaccinia viruses. And they, as the Imperial College team discovered through their video microscopes, had a hive mentality. Viruses are intelligent. These co-passengers are seasoned travellers, having hitched rides for billions of years. But we take them for granted. This underestimation has led to a proliferation of zoonotic diseases (i.e. diseases that spread from animals to humans) over the last 30-odd years. At the time of writing this, there are 207,615 confirmed cases of …
The screenless fitness band has turned into a Gulf-wide phenomenon—powered by regional capital, health culture and a tech-savvy consumer base.
Magnesium supplements have been around for centuries but they have become increasingly popular in recent years.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The screenless fitness band has turned into a Gulf-wide phenomenon—powered by regional capital, health culture and a tech-savvy consumer base.
Magnesium supplements have been around for centuries but they have become increasingly popular in recent years.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
