Category Tech

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, 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, 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

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #28 Let’s go on a ro’ad’ trip

On May 6 2021, Ford patented a new technology which enables the camera system on vehicles to scan billboards as you drive along, interpret that information and deliver targeted ads to the vehicle’s infotainment system. But as with all patented…

Emil Eapen
May 14, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #27 – Colonial and the DarkSide

On May 7, Colonial Pipeline, the largest pipeline system for refined oil products in the U.S, was shut down. It met roughly 45% of the East Coast’s fuel needs, transporting 100 million gallons per day. It was said to be…

Shreesha S
May 14, 2021
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Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #26 – ByteDance: Some Metrics

ByteDance is the world’s most Valuable private company and the parent of the infamous short-video app Tik-Tok. It is rumored to go for a public issue for its Chinese Assets in the Hong Kong bourses. Let’s look at some of…

Shreesha S
May 13, 2021