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East Asian beauty standards
YouTuber aini does good videos that analyse sociological and cultural subjects, so a video on East Asian beauty standards was inevitable. East Asian beauty standards are even more important now due to the cultural impact that they have:
- Korean and Japanese beauty products that have become popular from BB cream to SK-II
- Filter / camera effects mobile apps – you can see their influence looking at how Cardi B does her make-up
- Soft power assets: Hallyu and anime popularity – it affects the aesthetics of this content
China
Huawei building automotive ecosystem without making its own cars – Huawei will not build cars on its own, but will continue to strengthen its automotive ecosystem alliance and platform, integrating R&D efforts of related carmakers to provide diverse resources of smart systems, software, chips and other aspects – interesting profile by Taiwanese technology news outlet DigiTimes
Consumer behaviour
Interesting insight into 1960s and beyond consumer behaviour.
Design
People only want their technology to do three things – Terence Eden’s Blog
Economics
Post Post Corona | No Mercy / No Malice
Millenials just as rich as their parents | Quartz – claims about unequal distribution of that wealth though
Innovation
GM Patents Self-Cleaning Touch Screen That Erases Fingerprints | Extreme Tech
Japan
China no longer viable as world’s factory, says Kyocera | Financial Times – Japanese manufacturing benefits
Interesting that proposes that cyberpunk owes as much to Japanese psyche during late bubble Japanese miracle culture as opposed to the writings of American authors Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. It reflects angst, consumerism and accelerated technology.
Marketing
Chairs, towels and GPS devices: where’s the line for analyst event swag? – GigaOm – swag has been a lot harder to get into budgets over the years
Media
Matty Healy: Check Your Privilege on ‘Gross’ Meet-and-Greets (Opinion) – Variety – ignore the title its an interesting exploration in the economics of music
Guide to magazines doing advertising behind a paywall – Baekdal Plus
Online
A Unique Identification Number for Every European Citizen – Verfassungsblog
John Battelle’s Search Blog Is Google Truly F*cked?
Retailing
Joyconomy retail | WundermanThompson Intelligence
Security
Cybersecurity Label for U.S. Coming as Early as April – EE Times – 600-plus companies that have joined the ioXt Alliance to help it build confidence in Internet of Things products will be among the first to experience the national cybersecurity label NIST is developing for consumer Internet of Things (IoT) products and consumer software products—as soon as April
Why The Chinese Balloon Was a Necessary Wake-Up Call – Recent events have shown that terrorism is not the only threat to the U.S. homeland. Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine shattered not only the 75-year peace in Europe but also Americans’ sense of security, particularly when the Kremlin has threatened nuclear escalation. Relations with Beijing have also deteriorated to a 40-year low, punctuated by the threat of Chinese aggression against Taiwan and other regional allies and covert activities within the United States
ASML admits Chinese data theft may have broken export controls | EE Times
Style
Li Ning in China: leveraging national confidence to win young Chinese consumers
Technology
Chinese chip companies cement IP defence by aggressive patent filings | DigiTimes and China dominates semiconductor patent activity | EE Times
Paragraf opens second UK graphene electronics manufacturing site | EE Times