By the time Mingma G reached the next camp on K2, his team had not heard from the Broad Peak climbers. They didn’t panic because climbers often turn off the radio to save battery life. But something was bothering him. One of the Broad Peak climbers, Wang Zhong, was a close friend and a client.
The Telluride Film Festival casts a wide net, as almost all festivals of its ilk do, but if it has had any speciality that stands out among many, it might be the well-earned tearjerker. There is as much crying at Telluride every year as there isn’t in baseball, but with the festival’s emphasis on top-line
After months of delays, fast fashion behemoth Shein went public on Tuesday at a fraction of its peak valuation. On Monday, the Singapore-headquartered retailer priced its IPO at 48.56 Hong Kong dollars, or $6.19, per share, offering about 280 million shares. It raised more than HK$13.2 billion in the IPO. Its valuation at the IPO
More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller. Since voice is still consumers’ preferred way to communicate, that leaves a big opportunity to automate support and outreach calls using voice AI in the country. Voice AI startup Ringg, which already processes
The AI tool was trained on scientific publication-patent pairs.Credit: IB Photography/Alamy Investors and technology-transfer offices expend enormous effort trying to spot commercially promising research before it reaches the point of patenting. Now, a machine-learning tool is aiming to speed up this process by scoring how ‘patent-like’ a scientific paper is — months or years before
Ryan McPherson fought hard for his piece of Austin. Back in the spring of 2022, when it seemed like everyone was angling for homes in the Texas capital, he and his wife set their sights on a tidy four-bedroom in a sprawling new development on the east side of town. They bid $20,000 above the
