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Is Space Tourism your Chance to Work from Space during Covid-19?
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Is Space Tourism your Chance to Work from Space during Covid-19?

Another niche of the aviation industry is space tourism. It aims to provide visitors with the opportunity to become astronauts and fly to space for recreational, leisure, or business purposes. Almost every aspect of current space tourism and vehicle production is focused on extensions of current rocket launch vehicles and rocket plane development. Space tourism is incredibly expensive; only a small portion of the population can pay for a space experience. View of Earth from space, weightlessness, high-speed, extraordinary experience and scientific contribution are some of the primary motivations behind space tourism.  Deflower your Virgin Galactic Thoughts for Space Tourism On May 22, 2021, Virgin Galactic completed its first spaceflight. VSS Unity, the company's spacecraft, was brought t...
NewNew Courtne Smith and Filip Diarra got you a Human Stock Market
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NewNew Courtne Smith and Filip Diarra got you a Human Stock Market

Many years ago, at the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), I watched a movie (I don't recall the name) about three Asian school dropouts and how to eke a living; they sold themselves. The most intelligent of the three sold his soul to enjoy maximum luxury. A similar video on Nas Daily about a man who converted himself into a currency more enjoyable than the cryptocurrency grabbed my attention two days ago. Today, it is NewNew by Courtne Smith and Filip Diarra, a dystopian prototype of the future when we all are on sale. So, if you ever fancied controlling someone or being controlled as an asset in the human stock market, you have got  CEO Courtne Smith and Co-Founder Filip Diarra of NewNew to deliver it. Bizarre? Well, the ancestry of this idea to me is very Japanese or East Asian....
CEO Masaru Tange Gains 5,300% Stock value with 70% Pay Hike.
Business, MEA & Japan

CEO Masaru Tange Gains 5,300% Stock value with 70% Pay Hike.

Japan has always rocked the charts for something bizarre, and this time, it is Masaru Tange, the CEO of Shift Inc. Tange is in the news for whipping up a strategy that skyrocketed his company's stocks. No, he did not do it by underpaying his staff. As per the media, hehe has achieved a 5,300% gain in stock by increasing his staff's salary. Let's dig deeper. Are you feeling guilty for underpaying your staff? Do you think increasing your staff's salary can bolster your market value? Well, you should certainly calibrate your underpaid staff to the market rate, but not expect that to motivate the market to shower you with contracts—Masaru Tange's case is enterprise publicity. So here we are trying something untenable—not separating water from milk but iron filings from a stack of sawdust. ...
Maximize Covid-19 Work from Home (WFH) Productivity
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Maximize Covid-19 Work from Home (WFH) Productivity

And here's the second wave of work-from-home (WFH) spurred by the pandemic. Most organizations are now convinced that WFH is here to stay. While it seems convenient and easy to adopt, one can become distracted, hence default to productivity. For a productive and happy work-from-home experience, check out the six WFH productivity tips. 1. Follow a Defined Working Window Just like how you would organize your day and time in your office environment, organize your work from home routine in the same fashion. Clearly state your working hours, take a lunch, walk around, or recharge break in between. Stick to this routine daily, and you'll be surprised at how productive you can be even while working from home. Consider the series of distractions you might encounter during your work hours and find...
Facebook Warned for Breaching  EU WhatsApp Data Privacy
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Facebook Warned for Breaching EU WhatsApp Data Privacy

Germany has warned Facebook of breaching EU WhatsApp data privacy. Facebook explains the "fundamental misunderstanding." Data privacy at Facebook has always been an issue. Several revelations disclose that big organizations harvest users' data for targeted advertisements, especially political advertising from Facebook. The social media platform has over a ten-year track record of events exposing ineffective data privacy protection policies. The most recent incident stands out because of the large number of accounts that were hacked. Personal information from over half a billion Facebook users in 106 countries was leaked online. Over 32 million accounts were compromised in the United States, 11.5 million accounts in the United Kingdom, and 6 million in India.  The leaked data is used to sen...
Mobile Advertisement Industry: Apple is a Threat to Facebook & others
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Mobile Advertisement Industry: Apple is a Threat to Facebook & others

Apple is looking to expand its mobile advertising platform alongside its implementation of the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy. Both the initiatives pose significant commercial barriers to other mobile ad platforms and are likely to reduce their business performance. Apple, with ATT and expanding its advertising business, is severely undermining other advertising platforms, particularly Facebook. Apple's implementation of a privacy policy effectively breaks the mechanism that those platforms use to target ads. In simple terms, Apple broke into Facebook's bank in broad daylight, stole its most valuable resource, and left the scene, all while claiming the righteous goal of giving consumers privacy controls.  In this case, Apple used its power to its advantage. ATT enables user...
Leadership Communication Failure? Shopify, Amazon, Google, Tesla…
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Leadership Communication Failure? Shopify, Amazon, Google, Tesla…

Enterprise leadership communication failure is not a myth perpetuated by disgruntled employees terminated for underperformance or behavioral misconduct. Leadership communication failure is real, and no organization is free from this gluten. Some organizations lean on managed servers of reputation management, and hence they don't stick in public knowledge. Here's the trigger: I read the email that the CEO of Shopify, Tobi Lütke, sent to his managers. It was an immediate flight to an incident wherein a senior manager at Byju's miserably abused their sales executive. Of course, for ramification, the CEO terminated the manager, but how does it occur in the first place? I query for more. A quick study informs us of how big enterprises manifest toxic work culture; how sometimes their CEOs, Human...
Pharmaceutical Companies on Covid-19: Profit, Patent, & Population Health
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Pharmaceutical Companies on Covid-19: Profit, Patent, & Population Health

Why did pharmaceutical companies choose to research, produce, & distribute multiple Covid-19 vaccines instead of a singular non-patented drug? Why, now, are these pharmaceutical companies eventually partnering with their peers only for regional warehousing or local end-to-end supply chain? Why again Bill Gates disapproves of patent access to "poor countries" and Ron Klain acts smart? In the beginning, the biopharmaceutical and biotechnological companies took it as a challenge to produce their first Covid-19 vaccination instead of considering a singular, non-patented drug that helps build a global immunity shield against all strains of the novel coronavirus. Of course, that helped diversify the market, and consumers chose to pick their brand of the vaccine shot. But somewhere, did it al...
6 Food-Tech Startups on Lab-Grown Meat for Vegetarians to Consider!
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6 Food-Tech Startups on Lab-Grown Meat for Vegetarians to Consider!

Cell-cultured or lab-grown meat and fish are meat and fish produced in-vitro in laboratories than in the slaughterhouse. It is a form of tissue engineering through which a single cell is cultured to a full-grown loaf of meat. The cell culture methodology for meat was designed with clinical applications in mind. Professor at Maastricht University and founder of Mosa Meat, Dr. Mark Post, was the first to demonstrate the principle of cultured meat in 2013. He created the first burger patty from culturing animal cells. In the early 2000s, academicians tried testing the same processes for fish as a possible sustainable source of protein for astronauts leaving on a four-year mission to Mars. Benefits of Lab-Grown Meat and Fish Lab-grown meat and fish are a great respite for the animal kin...
Top 5 Big Tech Lawsuits in 2021 on Data Dominance & Abuse
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Top 5 Big Tech Lawsuits in 2021 on Data Dominance & Abuse

While lawsuits against large tech companies are not a new phenomenon, their increased frequency indicates a shift in government attitudes and the general regard of people toward data usage, privacy, and security. Learn about the top five big tech lawsuits in 2021 on data dominance & abuse. Learn how data is controlled, compromised, and concealed! The following are five major technology companies that comprise the list of the top five big tech lawsuits in 2021. Facebook In 2019, Facebook was sued in Europe for a massive data breach. Recent investigation reveals that the data breach let out information of 533 million users for free download. Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has announced a "mass action" against Facebook. Based on European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), D...
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