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Clarivate, an analytics company, has revealed the Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 list, ranking the world’s top hundred organizations in the field of research and innovation. According to it, Samsung Electronics is the number one research and innovation company in the world. While that’s a great achievement for the South Korean tech giant, it isn’t surprising that the brand ranks first as it has a wide portfolio of products and keeps innovating new technologies in each one of them. Samsung Electronics is followed by…

Colorado’s Front Range faces a risk of hail damage unlike any other area in the country, and it also happens to bewhere homeowners have installed solar panels on their roofs at some of the highest rates, according to a study from Roof Gnome, a platform that connects consumers with roofing and solar installation contractors. The combination can be a costly one when storms do hit and a contributor to rising home insurance premiums in the region. “Hail accumulation is an uncommon phenomenon but is most prevalent along the…

Dune: Awakening puts a major focus on surviving on the extremely hostile desert planet Arrakis from the Dune movies and books, but that's not the only thing you'll have to survive. In addition to fighting other players, you'll also have the opportunity engage in the kinds of political machinations that are central to the classic sci-fi story.In developer Funcom's first Dune: Awakening Direct video, creative director Joel Bylos explains some of how you'll deal with the different factions at war for control…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New York City ranks in the top 15% safest of more than 800 U.S. cities, according to a pioneering new analysis from researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, suggesting the effectiveness of the city's efforts to mitigate homicides there. In a paper published in Nature Cities a research team has explored the…

Financial Times: South Korea's leading display makers LG and Samsung close ranks as they cede ground to Chinese TV and smartphone screen manufacturers and face OLED competition — After taking over mass-market LCDs, Chinese manufacturers are threatening to undercut South Korean makers on premium OLED technology Financial Times: South Korea's leading display makers LG and Samsung close ranks as they cede ground to Chinese TV and smartphone screen manufacturers and face OLED competition …

Ecommerce major Flipkart, currently pruning its workforce in a push toward profitability, will see at least four senior vice presidents (SVPs) leave, adding to CXO-level exits at the company, according to multiple people in the know. Travel booking website Cleartrip’s head Ayyappan R, Amitesh Jha who leads marketplace and categories, fintech and payments head Dheeraj A, and Bharath Ram, who spearheads growth and retention at the web retailer, are among the SVPs likely to be on their way out. Jha joined Flipkart in 2010…

Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States on a promise to “Make America Great Again.” But a preeminent group of political scientists that Trump would no doubt characterize as “haters and losers” has once again ranked him as the worst commander-in-chief in the nation’s history. The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey was conducted at the end of 2023 among members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association — a group that publishes…

Consumer Reports is out with its annual owner satisfaction survey, showing Rivian to be far and away the most-loved car brand according to owners. The rating comes soon after Consumer Reports strangely listed the R1S as one of its “least favorite cars we tested in 2023.” Consumer Reports does an annual survey of its readers, with 330,000 responses from owners of all sorts of vehicles in the 2021-2024 model years. In the past, electric vehicles have ranked well in the survey, and this year is no…

Following that initial surge, users started to jump ship. After a peak of 49.3 million daily users on July 7, the numbers plummeted by 79% to 10.3 million as of Aug. 7, based on data from web analytics firm Similarweb.In the months that followed, Meta made a concerted effort to improve and enhance Threads, adding much-needed features such as full website access, a Following feed, keyword searching, and hashtags.The rollout of new features may have helped convince more people to try the app. But December was an…

Samsung, like many major Korean conglomerates that are led by the descendants of the founder, is as chaebol as they come. Chaebol refers to a diversified South Korean conglomerate that's led by an individual or family. As you'd probably expect, the people in charge of these massive companies tend to be considerably wealthy. So it's no surprise that Samsung's founding Lee family has been ranked as the 12 richest in Asia. Samsung family collectively worth $18.2 billion The conglomerate is currently led by Samsung…