Category Tiny Snips

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #38 Kinda New Wearable OS

On May 18 2021, Google announced the merger of it’s Wear OS with Samsung’s Tizen OS. The new smart wearables operating system will be called “Wear” although this might not be the final name. This merger is huge boost for…

Emil Eapen
May 21, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #37 The Wildcard of Batteries

The future of the automotive industry are EV’s and that’s an undisputable fact. But at the present moment EV’s are still lacking when it comes to competing with ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) vehicles. This “lack” is mainly seen in the…

Emil Eapen
May 21, 2021

Tiny Snips, AI, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #36 – Monetizing Your Voice

A company called Veritone, lets high-profile celebrities to synthesize their voice and license it in order to accelerate content creation. The product, named Marvel.ai analyzes audio samples of the prospect and using AI and Machine Learning is able to replicate…

Shreesha S
May 21, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #35 – E-Scooter Franchising

Bird is a micro-mobility startup that lets customers share e-scooters parked in sidewalks, in a way becoming Uber for e-scooters. Started in 2017 by a former Uber and Lyft executive, Bird initially started by dropping electric scooters onto the sidewalks…

Shreesha S
May 20, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous

TS #34 – The Antithesis of Food Delivery

These days, there are a lot of businesses in the food delivery space. This has led to lesser delivery-time being something that these businesses strive for to get more orders on their platforms. That in turn makes the whole business…

Shreesha S
May 19, 2021

Tiny Snips, Cybersecurity, Economy, Miscellaneous

TS #33 – The Get-Rich-Quick Business Idea!

To be read in tandem with this earlier post. The perpetrators of the Colonial Pipeline hack DarkSide had sought a $5 million ransom in Bitcoins to free them from their clutches. With no other option, Colonial acquiesced. Right after that,…

Shreesha S
May 19, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance

TS #32 – An Error Margin of Just 187400%!

Last week, one of India’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange WazirX started trading in the “Doge killer” Shiba Inu token. It was listed at around Rs 3 while actually being worth about just Rs 0.0016. But why? The third party liquidity provider…

Shreesha S
May 18, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #31 – The Curse of a Verse!

Recently, the CEO of the Chinese Delivery Giant Meituan had posted a verse from a 1,100 year old poem on the Chinese microblogging site Fanfou(Weibo). Over the course of the next 2 days, his company lost $26 billion in value…

Shreesha S
May 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #30 – Flawless Lip-syncs

Flawless, a London-based startup has launched a product called TrueSync which is a tool that tries to make film translations seamless. The company claims to be “the world’s first system that uses Artificial Intelligence to create perfectly lip-synced visualisations in…

Shreesha S
May 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #29 Big Blue goes Nano

IBM on May 6th unveiled a breakthrough in semiconductors design with the announcement of their 2 nanometers(nm) chips. These were achieved with their nanosheet technology. It is projected to achieve 45% higher performance, or 75% lower energy consumption compared to…

Jerin Joseph
May 16, 2021