6 Ways California’s New Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers Will Hurt Franchises — And Consumers
Discover how California’s new minimum wage law is transforming the fast food industry, impacting franchise owners, employees, and the broader economy.
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The Download: automating warehouse tasks, and problems with recycling plastics
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. AI is poised to automate today’s most mundane manual warehouse task Before almost any item reaches your door, it traverses the global supply chain on a pallet. More than 2 billion pallets are…
After Starting 5 Businesses, This Entrepreneur Found Unprecedented Success with Goodr. Here’s What He Did Differently When Starting the Eyewear Brand.
Stephen Lease, co-founder of Goodr, was a guest on a recent episode of ‘How Success Happens.’
AI is poised to automate today’s most mundane manual warehouse task
Before almost any item reaches your door, it traverses the global supply chain on a pallet. More than 2 billion pallets are in circulation in the United States alone, and $400 billion worth of goods are exported on them annually. However, loading boxes onto these pallets is a task stuck in the past: Heavy loads…
Here’s the problem with new plastic recycling methods
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Look on the bottom of a plastic water bottle or takeout container, and you might find a logo there made up of three arrows forming a closed loop shaped like a triangle.…
Nvidia Is ‘Slowly Becoming the IBM of the AI Era,’ According to the Leader of a $2 Billion AI Startup
Jim Keller, a former engineer at Apple and Tesla, compared Nvidia’s AI chips to IBM’s dominance over PCs in the 1980s.
Lauren Sánchez Says This Is the One Thing ‘People Don’t Really Know’ About Her Fiancé Jeff Bezos
Sánchez was interviewed by her longtime friend, actor and producer Eva Longoria.
5 Lessons Learned From a 7-Figure Founder
Five key lessons I wish someone had given me when I first started out on my entrepreneurial journey.
3 Metrics That Matter When Measuring the Success of Your PR Campaigns
ROI is always the goal in public relations. But did you know there are ways to measure it quantitatively rather than just assess it qualitatively? Here are some options to consider to automate and calculate the impact of your PR efforts.
How to Repurpose Your Content for SEO Success
Stay informed with expert insights on optimizing content lifecycle efficiency through strategic repurposing methods.