How to Build a Franchise ‘Money Machine’ That Cashes In While You’re Out of Office
I’m a franchise consultant, and all the most successful entrepreneurs I’ve ever worked with understood that a business is ultimately just a Money Machine.
The world’s first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises a cleaner future
As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of it were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a layer more than 13 feet thick. Making this metal produces a huge amount of carbon dioxide. Overall, steelmaking accounts for around 8% of the world’s carbon emissions—one of the largest industrial emitters and far more…
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The Download: understanding AI, and what to expect from the UN’s climate conference
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind” We don’t know exactly how AI works, or why it works so well. That’s a problem: It could lead us to…
What’s on the table at this year’s UN climate conference
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s time for a party—the Conference of the Parties, that is. Talks kicked off this week at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running for a couple of weeks each year, the global summit…
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
AI has led to breakthroughs in drug discovery and robotics and is in the process of entirely revolutionizing how we interact with machines and the web. The only problem is we don’t know exactly how it works, or why it works so well. We have a fair idea, but the details are too complex to…
Over a Million People Have Recently Joined Bluesky, the Ad-Free X Alternative and Threads Competitor
Bluesky has been seeing noticeable growth since the election, though its user numbers are nowhere close to Meta’s X competitor, Threads.
This Is How Much You Need to Earn to Buy a House in the U.S., According to a New Report
Plus, if you are in the market, these metro areas were found to be the least and most affordable to buy in.
Apple’s Next Device Will Reportedly Be Mounted on Your Wall: ‘They Feel Like They’re Going to Sell a Lot of These Things’
The device will arrive by March at the earliest, according to reports.
How This Professional Poker Player Became an AI Pioneer
Sergio Suarez Jr., founder and CEO of Tackle AI, shares how he built a successful tech company from the ground up.
These Are the Franchise Industry’s Top Suppliers Right Now
Looking for the right supplier to help your franchise? These are the industry’s favorite banks, accountants, PR agencies, and more — picked by the 1,100 franchises that love them!
These Are the Top 200 Global Franchises
Want to open a franchise outside the U.S., or just buy into a brand known around the world? This list is for you.