Last autumn, South Korean chain GS Retail introduced vending machines in its stores on a trial basis, where gold bars can be bought. They have met with unexpected interest from customers, who have already spent CZK 420 million in them. Small shops, which in our terms could be described as something between a convenience store, a convenience s...
Ordinary spectators will not be able to buy alcoholic beverages at the sports venues at next year's Summer Olympics in Paris. They will only be available to VIP guests backstage. Organisers of the Paris Olympics have announced that fans will only be able to buy non-alcoholic drinks at stadiums and other sports venues. They are referring to a ...
Upside Foods and Good Meat USA have been granted permission to sell meat that has been grown from animal cells. California, known for pushing the boundaries of what is possible, is once again becoming the center of a new technology trend: lab-grown meat. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the sale of meat that has been der...
It is beginning to seem that time is the new currency of our time. Companies like IKEA are using innovative marketing techniques to encourage customers to spend more time in the store. One example is the "Shop with Time" campaign at IKEA Dubai, where customers can pay for their purchases with the time they spend on the way to the store. This ...
The number of cases where the Apple Watch smartwatch has proven to be not only a movement and health tracker, but also a life saver, continues to grow. One of these cases occurred recently with a user in Cincinnati, USA. Twenty-nine-year-old Kimmie Watkins from Cincinnati owes her Apple Watch for saving her life after doctors discovered a lif...
Amazon is facing allegations that it improperly signed up millions of users to the paid Amazon Prime program and made it harder for them to cancel the premium service. The internet giant is being taken to court by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This was pointed out by CNN. The commission announced the filing of the lawsuit on its webs...
In the context of the search for the lost submarine Titan, which went to the wreck of the Titanic with five people on board, the American media brought information that the wife of the head of the company OceanGate, which organizes these cruises, has among her ancestors great-great-grandparents who died in 1912 in the sinking of the seemingly un...
Australian journalist Jacqueline Felgate shared a video of a rare round egg on social media. It was among the standard eggs in a box that one of her followers brought from the supermarket. The almost perfectly round egg was in a pack in a supermarket in the central area of Melbourne, Australia, and Jacqueline immediately began searching onlin...
Two of the world's most prominent tech billionaires, Twitter chief Elon Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have agreed to a cage match. Their communication has quickly spread across the internet and social network users are now debating who will win. Musk came up with the challenge when he tweeted that he was "ready for a cage match" wit...
