It sounds like the worst kind of fear dream – a public restroom that seems to offer the promise of blissful relief, but which, on closer inspection, is fully visible. However, that is the design feature behind several toilets that have recently opened in public parks in Tokyo. The “transparent” …
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Three of the most prominent businesses in the U.S. are taking steps to change their services to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act. Google Parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, + 2.60% GOOG, + 2.67% , Facebook Inc. FB, + 0.45% , and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, + 4.08% are the top …
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Here are some cannabis vegetables near Santa Barbara, California on August 6, 2019. Imagine a future where all your weeds are grown in tandem with generation of solar energy.Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) In a future world, love vegetables may not are grown in rows grown below the sun. Instead, …
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Text size The Canoo is aimed at young professionals interested in a subscription model. Courtesy Canoo Yet another company with electric cars is publicly traded through a purchase through a special purpose purchase company, or SPAC. This time it’s the Hennessy Capital Acquisition that buys Canoo. Canoo is a self-described …
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Larry Ellison, Chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld 2016 conference in San Francisco, on Sunday, September 18, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle’s bid to acquire TikTok’s US company may not be as bizarre as it may sound at first, analysts told CNBC …
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