From Faking a Business to 25,000 Stores — Here’s the Simple Strategy That Landed Her Deals With Walmart and Target

Here’s how Vanessa Phillips went from “I don’t know what I wanna to do with my life” to landing a product in thousands of stores nationwide — and what you can steal from her playbook.
IEEE

A Consumer-Centric Framework for Measuring Product Obsolescence Using User-Generated Content and Large Language Models: Evidence From IoT Devices

Abstract: Identifying product obsolescence factors is essential for guiding sustainable design and extending product longevity. Unlike prior studies, this research leverages online consumer reviews to ...
The New York Times

They Use MetroCards to Make Art. They’re Starting to Run Out.

The fare card is dead. How much longer can these New York artists stretch a finite supply? The fare card is dead. How much longer can these New York artists stretch a finite supply? Shih-Pao Lin, a ...
IEEE

A Merged CYGNSS Soil Moisture Product Using a Minimum Variance Estimator

Abstract: Data from the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission have shown promise for the retrieval of soil moisture, and many soil moisture products using CYGNSS data have ...