Horizons

Customer experience (CX) is a leading driver of brand loyalty and organizational performance. According to NTT’s State of CX 2023 report, 92% of CEOs believe improvements in CX directly impact their improved productivity, and customer brand advocacy. They also recognize that the quality of their employee experience (EX) is critical to success. The real potential for transforming business, according to 95% of CEOs, is bringing customer and employee experience improvements together into one end-to-end strategy. This, they…

Today, during its panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, The Pokémon Company revealed an all-new trailer for Pokémon Horizons: The Series as well as an 11-minute-long video featuring basically half of the first episode of the series, which introduces Liko, a young student from the Paldea region who becomes partners with an ornery Sprigatito.Along with the new looks at Pokemon Horizons, The Pokémon Company also announced that Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series — the anime currently chronicling Ash’s life in the time…

Saudi Arabia's ministry of investment has signed a $5.6-billion deal with Chinese electric car maker Human Horizons to collaborate on the development, manufacture and sale of vehicles, the Saudi state news agency said in a statement.The agreement accounts for more than half of the more than $10 billion in investments signed on the first day of an Arab-China business conference in Riyadh on Sunday, in sectors spanning technology, renewable energy, agriculture, real estate, metals, tourism and healthcare among others. While…

Big Eyes Coin (BIG), a new meme coin project, has captured the attention of crypto enthusiasts as its presale comes to an end. The project has raised over $36 million with the help of a strong crypto community. Coinbase is one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world and in the light of a stricter regulatory environment in the US, Coinbase’s CEO has shown interest in the UAE as a potential expansion market. While Coinbase explores a clearer regulatory environment in the UAE, Big Eyes Coin offers investors a new…

Human Horizons’ automotive brand HiPhi announced its flagship X EV has completed TÜV SÜD testing overseas to allow for the sale of the electric SUV in Europe. With a second model already making digitized waves in China and a third to be announced at the Shanghai Auto Show next week, Human Horizons will look to bring more of its HiPhi EVs to European markets in the future. Human Horizons Technology is a Chinese start-up based in Shanghai that develops autonomous driving technology and…

Nearly a century has passed since scientists broke the Universe.Through a complex mix of experiment and theory, physicists discovered an engine built on the mathematics of probability ticks away below the façade of reality.Referred to in vague terms as the Copenhagen interpretation, this take on the theory underpinning quantum mechanics says everything can be described as a possibility – until we're forced to describe it as an actuality.But what does that even mean?In spite of decades of experimentation and…

Image via The Pokémon Company/Nintendo Well, Pokémon fans, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here — Pokémon Horizons has arrived. In a surprise Twitter announcement earlier this morning, the official franchise account posted a mind-melting trailer for the new series. If you listen hard enough, you can hear millions of people squealing out in joy, all at once. This announcement came directly on the heels of Ash and Pikachu’s final tear-jerking episode. After 25 years, that dynamic duo’s journey…

If there was any doubt about the upcoming Pokémon anime’s new incoming protagonists being a very different kind of unit than Ash Ketchum and all his various companions, the series’ newest trailer makes it crystal clear that Liko and Roy are going to be breaths of fresh air.Just hours after the Japanese airing of Ash’s last episode as the Pokémon anime’s main character, The Pokémon Company today announced that the upcoming series will be titled Pokémon Horizons here in the West and debuted a full-length trailer detailing…

NASA has just revealed an amazing photo of Pluto with a blue halo glowing all around it. The image was captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft back on July 14, 2015. When this photo was taken, New Horizons was approximately 120000 miles or 200,000 kilometers from Pluto. What caused it? "The smog present in Pluto's atmosphere is thought to be a result of the reaction between sunlight and methane and other molecules," NASA said in a blog.The space agency further explained that this process creates a complicated blend…

Welcome to the 100th edition of the Variable!We usually devote each edition of our newsletter to a specific topic or set of questions; to mark this special occasion, though, we opted for a different approach. Every week, we leave fantastic TDS posts out of the Variable simply because they don’t quite fit within our theme; this week, We’re presenting the best of our recent Editors’ Picks that we haven’t yet highlighted.In case you’re worried we might be leading you down a dangerous path to chaos and curatorial…