An entrepreneur is an individual who, rather than working as an employee, founds and runs a small business, assuming all the risks and rewards of the venture. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services and business/or procedures.
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8/21/2018
Which outfit looks best? AI set to give shoppers smart styling tips
AI (artificial intelligence) is reshaping the fashion industry, and in a crossover to retail, it’s set to change the shopping experience soon.
Hongkongers were privy to what this will mean in the fitting room when Alibaba Group – the owner of South China Morning Post – and US fashion brand Guess launched a pilot FashionAI concept shop at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in July. The initiative taps technologies ranging from machine learning to computer vision to “learn” from consumers, designers and fashion aficionados within the e-commerce ecosystem, which is also set up to spot fashion trends.
Apple may launch glasses in 2020, car in 2023, says analyst
Augmented reality, combining the digital and physical worlds through smartglasses, is going to become Apple’s next major user interface, he predicts, like how the iPhone introduced multi-touch touch screens.
https://www.scmp.com/author/business-insider
Can you avoid the crowds on the 4,004-passenger luxury ‘resort’ cruise ship Norwegian Bliss?
Is it possible to get away from a crowd of 4,004 passengers and 1,716 crew aboard a 994-foot (300 metres) cruise ship?
A cruise ship that boasts the longest (at 1,000 feet) electric go-kart racetrack at sea?
A veritable seagoing resort with an open-air laser tag course, themed as an abandoned space station.
An Aqua Park with two pools and two multi-storey water slides (one of which includes a free-fall followed by a loop overboard that will leave you – assuming your heart did not faint back there at the free-fall part – grinning uncontrollably for a good 90 minutes thereafter).
Ritz-Carlton’s luxury cruise liners are perfect for the ‘1 per centers’
No fewer than 33 places to eat, drink and dessert (yes, it is worth using as a verb here), including, perhaps most pleasantly unexpected for a high-seagoing vessel, a high-plains Texas smokehouse, called Q, where you can pass the sauces and listen to country music each night.
Rio Tinto’s 3.14-ct Argyle Alpha vivid pink diamond dazzles in 2018 Tender
British-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has unveiled the largest Vivid Pink diamond in the history of its Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender, launched in 1984.
The 3.14-ct polished emerald cut pink diamond, named Argyle Alpha, is the largest diamond of the 2018 Tender, which has been named “Magnificent Argyle”.
Got US$1.3m to splurge? This ultra-rare Rolex 'Paul Newman' Daytona could be yours
It’s not every day that a “lemon dial” Rolex Paul Newman Daytona comes on the market.
This particular Daytona 6264 is being sold by Xupes and has an estimated value of £1 million (US$1.3 million).
Xupes says this is just the fifth known example of its kind to come to market.https://www.scmp.com/author/business-insider
Luxury Apartment Sales Plummet in New York City..
Sales of such properties costing $5 million or more fell 31% in the first half of the year, pushing sellers to cut asking prices
Sales of the most expensive New York apartments fell sharply in the first half of the year, but many sellers have adjusted by cutting asking prices to make deals, brokers said.
“This is simply a market that is adjusting itself to chronic overpricing relative to buyers’ perception of value,” said Kirk Henckels, a broker and vice chairman of Stribling & Associates, a New York-based brokerage.
Worst Floods in a Century Lash Southern India...
More than 350 people have died and hundreds of thousands have lost their homes, according to the Associated Press, as weeks of torrential rain have caused massive flooding in the popular tourist state of Kerala.
EPA Head Signs Proposal to Undo Restrictions on Coal Plants
The Trump administration moved to overturn Obama-era environmental rules on power-plant emissions, a long-telegraphed action designed to help coal-burning plants compete with natural gas and other cleaner alternatives as a national energy source.
Tesla...
JPMorgan cuts Tesla target over lack of buyout funding
Analyst drops valuation to $195 a share on conclusion financing was not ‘secured’
Will Sony mirrorless cameras end Canon, Nikon’s digital duopoly?
The Alpha’s mirrorless design lets image sensors grab light faster and stay in focus using sophisticated software.
It is potentially a tectonic shift that gives Sony a chance to break the professional photography duopoly that Canon and Nikon have enjoyed since the days of 35mm(1.37-inch) film.
How to get a table at the world’s 5 best restaurants?
By the time you actually eat at one of the restaurants that were named in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards this year, it would be time for a new list. Some of these fine dining restaurants take bookings months in advance, but tables are snapped up faster than you can pronounce the restaurant’s name when they are released.
Top restaurant Osteria Francescana is booked out through September. Runner-up El Celler De Can Roca is fully booked for the next 11 months. We’re serious.
We break down the reservation terms for the top five restaurants for your convenience, because life is better spent poring over the menu months ahead of the actual meal.
Louis Vuitton x adidas ‘Eclipse’ NMD Hu puts other trainers in the shade
Luxury spin by customiser Ceeze bears the classic LV monogram design to create a one-of-a-kind sneaker, costing US$2,850
Galaxy Note 9’s camera is closest to world’s best – Google’s Pixel 2. Which do you Leica?
Test of image quality shows they are similar so it may depend on taste – and whether you favour Samsung’s variable aperture and 2x optical zoom lens
20 AUG 2018
Taylor Swift is worth over US$300 million – so how does she spend it?
The business savvy star, tipped to be a billionaire by the age of 30, has coastal mansions, splurges on lavish holidays, and is generous to her fans and friends
Ernest Becker...
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.
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