Centurys

Dutch startup TheyDo has raised $34mn to solve “the biggest business problem” of the century:  scaling customer journeys. Founded in 2019, the company produces a live platform that provides actionable insights about customers. Enterprises can use the tools at every step of the journey, from discovery to purchase to after-sales. Current clients include Fortune 500 members Ford, Johnson & Johnson, and Home Depot. The software’s USP is a holistic approach that breaks down data siloes and…

Key organisms in the Southern Ocean and 21st century ocean acidification in Marine Protected Areas. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44438-x The acidity of Antarctica's coastal waters could double by the end of the century, threatening whales, penguins and hundreds of other species that inhabit the Southern Ocean, according to new research from the Univeristy of Colorado Boulder.…

via 20th Century Fox It takes a special kind of trilogy to go down in the history books as an all-time great, with countless pretenders to the throne struggling to maintain a consistently high level of quality across three features. That being said, the 21st Century has offered up plenty of candidates that can comfortably sit alongside the likes of The Godfather, Back to the Future, the Star Wars OGs, the first three Indiana Jones films and the rest, with the rebooted Planet of the Apes triptych being lauded by…

Image via A24 It wasn’t until the latter quarters of the 1900s that horror films began garnering the powerhouse of reputation we know them to have today; John Carpenter’s Halloween and The Thing, Academy Award winner The Silence of the Lambs, and other classics such as Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, and Friday the 13th have grandfathered in perhaps the most exciting horror era in history. And following in their footsteps is the wealth of great films that have come since the turn of the…

Today marks 15 years since Apple released what's arguably its flagship device: the iPhone. A decade and a half later, there are few products that have managed to reach a similar level of brand recognition. Announced to an eager audience in 2007, the iPhone has revolutionised how we communicate and even how we live day to day.The iPhone was released in the United States in June 2007, and in a further six countries in November (but notably not in Australia).From the launch of Mac computers in the 1970s to the iPod in 2001,…

via Lucasfilm Through no fault of his own, Ahemed Best’s supposed big break turned out to both define and effectively ruin his entire career in one fell swoop. The unknown actor must have been over the moon when he landed a major role in George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, only for Jar Jar Binks to go down in the history books for all the wrong reasons. It’s hard to overstate just how much fans loathed the fast-talking Gungan, with many a childhood being ruined by his mere existence, at…