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The first pillar of this new retail architecture is “social commerce”. This relies on three related technologies: live-streaming, short-form video and social-networking. The biggest live-streamer is Alibaba’s Taobao Live. In just 30 minutes of presales for Singles Day, China’s answer to Black Friday, it notched up $7.5bn-worth of sales, about as much as Amazon is thought to have sold in its “Prime Day” in October (which actually lasted 48 hours). In June Douyin set up its own shopping division, having earlier hosted many of its live-streams where the likes of Taobao teamed up with celebrity influencers to sell products. The video-app’s 600m daily users confer a valuable resource—their attention. In the autumn it made its proprietary debut on Singles Day."}}
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The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics | The Economist
May 4, 2021Secondary_appt NYTimes.com: Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China
March 29, 2021Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China
The hackers started their attack in January but escalated their efforts in recent weeks, security experts say. Business and government agencies were affected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html
How to Prepare Your Bedroom for the Cold – The New York Times
November 22, 2020https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/06/smarter-living/wirecutter/bedroom-winter-prep.html
mentions weatherstripping
in Sun. 11/22 At home section
A Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity: Virus-Proofing the New Office – The New York Times
June 24, 2020https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/business/virus-office-workplace-return.html
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Now, companies are quickly trying to reverse that trend in a low-cost and flexible way. They want to remove chairs and desks and install screens or other dividers between remaining desks, said Allan Smith, a vice president for global marketing for Steelcase.
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But companies are seeking to replace the sofas upholstered in soft, luxurious fabrics with something more durable. “One of our biggest requests for those spaces are durable, super-fast color fabrics that they can, essentially, pour straight bleach on every single night,” Mr. Smith of Steelcase said. “They’re also looking to add white boards and technology to these spaces.”
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Keeping Germs at the Front Door – WSJ
May 26, 2020useful in terms of new home building trends
https://www.wsj.com/articles/keeping-germs-at-the-front-door-11589475644
M.L.B.’s Efforts to Return to the Field Could Take the Game Back to 1994 – The New York Times
May 17, 2020Open science takes on the coronavirus pandemic
May 2, 2020https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01246-3
“Open hardware” via 3D printing + readily available plastic materials => instant #PPE for #COVID19
A radiative cooling structural material | Science
April 19, 2020QT:{{”
A stronger, cooler wood
One good way to reduce the amount of cooling a building needs is to make sure it reflects away infrared radiation. Passive radiative cooling materials are engineered to do this extremely well. Li et al. engineered a wood through delignification and re-pressing to create a mechanically strong material that also cools passively. They modeled the cooling savings of their wood for 16 different U.S. cities, which suggested savings between 20 and 50%. Cooling wood would be of particular value in hot and dry climates.
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interesting material for anti-insulation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/760.full
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/760.editor-summary
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