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Alibaba's online shopping platforms Taobao and Tmall cancelled their annual December 12 shopping festival and will instead host another shopping spree called 'year-end good price' in December, according to notices on the platforms' websites on Friday.The dates of the new festival were not included in the notice, which was posted in a help section for platform merchants. Alibaba did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the change.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

While GPS can be used to determine one's geographical coordinates on land, such is not the case underwater. Scientists have developed a possible alternative, however, in the form of a system that analyzes the manner in which sunlight is polarized by water.GPS functions by calculating the user's position relative to four or more satellites, all of which are orbiting the Earth at known locations. The system only works if it can receive radio signals from those satellites, though, and those signals don't travel well through…

Credit: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s11747-022-00917-z Sad face news for heavy emoji users. If you want to sell something online—say some nights at your Airbnb, or your old couch on Facebook Marketplace—you might assume a heavy sprinkling of emojis will help you stand out from the pack. You may…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article What are Substitute Goods?The goods which can be used in place of one another to satisfy a specific want, like tea and coffee are known as Substitute Goods. The price of substitute goods directly affects the demand for a given commodity. For example, if the price of a substitute good (say, coffee) increases, then demand for the given commodity (say, tea) will increase as compared to coffee. In the above graph, the price of the substitute good…

What are Substitute Goods?The goods which can be used in place of one another to satisfy a specific want, like tea and coffee are known as Substitute Goods. The price of substitute goods directly affects the demand for a given commodity. For example, if the price of a substitute good (say, coffee) increases, then demand for the given commodity (say, tea) will increase as compared to coffee. In the above graph, the price of the substitute good (coffee) is shown on the Y-axis, and demand for the given commodity (tea) is…

For all that it’s tremendously shot and vehemently acted, this movie from Argentinian director Diego Lerman – about a substitute teacher – is weirdly unsatisfying in terms of the story it has to tell: contrived, cliched, with secondary characters sketched in and a perfunctory and somewhat truncated car-chase climax.Lucio (Juan Minujín) is a divorced poet and critic in Buenos Aires who winds up having to take a substitute teaching job in a tough inner-city school teaching literature to glowering kids (one of whom,…

When Douglas Adams’s U.S. publisher asked him to substitute something less offensive for the f-word in in his novel  Life, the Universe, and Everything (one of the sequels to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Adams made a cheeky decision to swap in the name of an entire country with a reputation for maintaining a diplomatic middle ground. A new linguistic analysis suggests that the choice Adams made—substituting in the word “Belgium” at every instance—may unconsciously have reflected a cross-language pattern of using…

Millennia have passed since humans discovered silk and began harvesting it from silkworm cocoons, but scientists are still finding new uses for this remarkable material. Now researchers say it could help tackle a growing environmental and health concern: microplastics, the minuscule plastic fragments that have been found everywhere from mountaintops to the seafloor—and even in the human bloodstream. Most environmental microplastics form when larger items degrade. But a smaller yet notable portion of the polluting…

Beyond Meat is rolling out a steak substitute. Photo: Beyond Meat Oct. 24, 2022 10:54…

Beyond SteakSource: Beyond MeatBeyond Meat is launching a steak substitute in grocery stores on Monday.The new product will roll out nationwide at more than 5,000 Kroger and Walmart stores, as well as Albertsons, Ahold Delhaize, Jewel-Osco, Sprouts and other local grocers.The announcement concludes a rocky month for the maker of meat alternatives. Beyond ousted Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey after he was arrested for allegedly biting another man's nose. The company also announced plans to cut 19% of its workforce, or…