The NBA is experimenting with two pieces of technology in the leadup to the season, the league announced Monday.Select exhibition games will include a smart basketball that has a Bluetooth sensor in it and can collect data for future use in real-time officiating decisions. The league said the information from the Wilson-developed connected balls will be for research only and not affect calls made during those games.Officials in select games will also use wrist wearables to communicate with the replay center in designated situations, including replay reviews, scoring changes and clock malfunctions.The wearables went through what the NBA called a…
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Warren Buffett is incredibly wise—much wiser than I am. But beyond his impressive expertise in investments over the decades, the down-to-earth wisdom he shares publicly is not really that earth-shattering. The reason is that Warren Buffett is saying it. He’s explaining, in the plainest terms, things our eighth-grade teacher might have told us, but because it’s coming from Buffett, it makes all the difference and millions listen. Now 96, Buffett, who passed the CEO baton to Greg Abel but continues as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, will always be remembered for useful advice that really hits home. Here are three Buffett…
Starbucks is facing a consumer lawsuit over claims that the protein drinks labeled “sugar-free” on its cafe menus may actually contain more sugar than a Reese’s peanut butter cup.The federal lawsuit filed late Friday in Seattle alleges that eight protein beverages Starbucks sells in the U.S. contain varying amounts of sugar even though the company lists them as sugarless.On Monday, the menu on Starbucks’ U.S. website listed a 16-ounce (0.5-liter) Sugar-Free Caramel Protein Matcha with 16 grams of sugar and a 20-ounce (0.6-liter) version of the same drink with 21 grams of sugar. By comparison, one Reese’s cup has 11…
AI innovation may feel like it’s utterly dominated by a few giants, but the reality couldn’t be more different. These honorees have thrived by zeroing in on specific challenges, including teaching the technology to interpret sensor data, speeding up inference, and giving researchers better insight into how models actually work. Archetype AIFor turning sensor data into intelligenceLarge language models may know a lot, but because they have been trained on text and images, that limits their understanding of our world. By contrast, Archetype AI’s Newton foundation model can interpret data from cameras, lidar, radar, inertial measurement units, and other sensors…
You’ve heard of Mailchimp, TurboTax, Credit Karma, and Quickbooks; and chances are good you might even be able to picture their logos or recall a memorable ad. But what do you know about their parent company, Intuit? The most likely answer to that question (not much) is one of the main reasons that Intuit approached the branding agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) a year and a half ago to rethink its identity. The brand has spent nearly a decade expanding into a broad financial tech platform. It acquired Credit Karma and Mailchimp in 2020 and 2021, respectively. It’s building new…
On a sunny Friday afternoon in June, I walk down London’s affluent King’s Road to a two-block stretch that features four athleisure stores. At Alo, racks of sleek matching sets seem designed for women who post their Pilates workouts on Instagram. At Nike, posters feature life-size photos of its sponsored athletes at the World Cup and Wimbledon. At Lululemon, under a heavily sloganed gray wall (“Friends are more important than money”), there’s a giant sales rack featuring a mishmash of athletic wear in clashing colors and, bizarrely, a gold lamé midi skirt made of technical fabric. Despite their differences, all…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Great companies aren’t built by people who simply fit a job description. They’re built by people who adapt, take ownership, keep learning and find ways to add value as the company evolves. Hire people, not positions. Experience and skills matter, but I’m more interested in the characteristics that determine what they’ll become after they join the company. I’ve hired a lot of people over the years, and one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that we often approach hiring backward. We hire for a position. We create a job…
QUESTION: I just watched Genius on Albert Einstein. Beyond the fact that I can see why people compare you to him—driven by your research and curiosity rather than money, which is also why you don’t sell advertising or flood inboxes with 50 solicitation emails a day—what also struck me was how obsessed J. Edgar Hoover was with bringing Einstein down. He even carried out illegal searches and used what he found to manipulate both judges and the press against him. They manipulated the press during COVID too. Is there any way to ever get an honest government? KL ANSWER: Historians…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Inference, not training, is the real race in AI. The race to train the biggest model has one clear winner, but the far more interesting and less crowded race is inference— running trained models fast, cheaply and at scale. Inference-focused chipmakers like Cerebras, Groq, Positron, d-Matrix and Tenstorrent are where the real value sits, not the app layer above them. The application layer will keep churning through winners and losers as models commoditize, but the infrastructure underneath it compounds quietly in the background. Every founder I talk to has an…
Chile is back in the streets, and this is how it always begins. More than 20,000 students, teachers, workers and union members marched through Santiago against President José Antonio Kast’s 2027 budget. Then came the rocks, bottles, tear gas, arrests, and water cannons. Everyone will argue about who threw what first and whether the police overreacted, but they are missing the point. The government created a system of promises, the economy can no longer comfortably carry all of them, and now people are furious because politicians suddenly discovered arithmetic. Chile’s unemployment rate is already 9.6%, and Kast came into office…