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This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major sixth assessment report on the physical science of climate change. The details are grim, if getting more precise, as better and more comprehensive data becomes available. As my colleague Mike Butcher summarized yesterday, its stern and blunt in its conclusions.

While many of the themes of the report will be familiar to any person not living under (an ever increasingly hot) rock, one part jumped out at me as I was perusing the documents. The working group assessed that regardless of mitigation and adaptation strategies, many of the negative changes happening to Earth will continue unabated in all future scenarios. From the summary report:

Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level. [] Mountain and polar glaciers are committed to continue melting for decades or centuries (very high confidence). Loss of permafrost carbon following permafrost thaw is irreversible at centennial timescales (high confidence)

In short, there is already momentum toward a warmer and more chaotic world, and we have limited tools to stop many of these trends.

There has been a rush of initiatives, investments and startups bubbling around the theme of climate tech, with projects focused on everything from improving the yields and decreasing the emissions of agriculture and food production, to improving the power grid, and to reducing the emissions from air conditioning in buildings. Those initiatives are fine and important, but they dont get at one of the toughest challenges facing us this century: that disasters are here, they are coming and they are going to continue to get more intense as the century rolls on.

Just this past week, we have seen the second-largest fire in Californias state history with the Dixie Fire, currently blazing across hundreds of thousands of acres in the northern reaches of the state. Meanwhile in Greece, hundreds of wildfires are causing an unprecedented crisis in that country. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, typhoons and more are intensifying and ravaging ever more billions of people across every continent.

One response to solving this problem is improving resilience building up cities and structures as well as food and water systems that are fortified against these natural calamities. Many of those projects though are costly and also time-consuming, measured over the course of decades rather than months.

Instead, we need a more immediate push to develop better disaster response technology today. Ive covered a wide segment of these companies over the past few months. Theres RapidSOS, which is adding more data into emergency calls to make responses faster and more efficient. Theres Qwake, which raised $5.5 million to build hardware and cloud services to allow firefighters to visualize their environments in smoky conditions. Meanwhile, YC-backed Gridware has also raised more than $5 million to create sensors to identify failures in the power grid faster.

In short, there are a growing crop of disaster tech startups but more are going to be needed to fight the panoply of disasters that will strike in the years ahead.

Theres so much to do: better mental health resources for victims and first responders, easier access to recovery funds to heal lives, higher-quality sensors and data analyses to identify disasters earlier, faster logistics to evacuate people out of harms way. In fact, there are quite literally dozens of fields that need more investment and founder attention.

Its not an easy market, as I pointed out in an analysis of sales cycles. Budgets are tight, disasters are random, and technology is often an afterthought. In some ways though, that friction is a font of creativity how to build these next-generation of services and how to sell them is the risk that leads to the potential high return.

As the IPCCs report made clear this week, the chaotic weather and intense disasters weve seen the past few decades arent going to abate any time soon. But with ingenuity, we can respond better to the disasters that are already on their way, and save lives and treasure in the process.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Leaching Tank Global Market Insights 2021, Analysis and Forecast to 2026, by Manufacturers, Regions, Technology, Application, Product Type" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report describes the global market size of Leaching Tank from 2016 to 2020 and its CAGR from 2016 to 2020, and also forecasts its market size to the end of 2026 and its CAGR from 2021 to 2026.

For the geography segment, regional supply, demand, major players, price is presented from 2016 to 2026.

This report covers the following regions:

The key countries for each region are also included such as the United States, China, Japan, India, Korea, ASEAN, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, CIS, and Brazil etc.

Companies Covered:

For the competitor segment, the report includes global key players of Leaching Tank as well as some small players.

The information for each competitor includes:

Applications Segment:

Types Segment:

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1 Executive Summary

Chapter 2 Abbreviation and Acronyms

Chapter 3 Preface

3.1 Research Scope

3.2 Research Sources

3.2.1 Data Sources

3.2.2 Assumptions

3.3 Research Method

Chapter 4 Market Landscape

4.1 Market Overview

4.2 Classification/Types

4.3 Application/End Users

Chapter 5 Market Trend Analysis

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Drivers

5.3 Restraints

5.4 Opportunities

5.5 Threats

5.6 Covid-19 Impact

Chapter 6 Industry Chain Analysis

6.1 Upstream/Suppliers Analysis

6.2 Leaching Tank Analysis

6.2.1 Technology Analysis

6.2.2 Cost Analysis

6.2.3 Market Channel Analysis

6.3 Downstream Buyers/End Users

Chapter 7 Latest Market Dynamics

7.1 Latest News

7.2 Merger and Acquisition

7.3 Planned/Future Project

7.4 Policy Dynamics

Chapter 8 Trading Analysis

8.1 Export of Leaching Tank by Region

8.2 Import of Leaching Tank by Region

8.3 Balance of Trade

Chapter 9 Historical and Forecast Leaching Tank Market in North America (2016-2026)

9.1 Leaching Tank Market Size

9.2 Leaching Tank Demand by End Use

9.3 Competition by Players/Suppliers

9.4 Type Segmentation and Price

9.5 Key Countries Analysis

9.5.1 United States

9.5.2 Canada

9.5.3 Mexico

Chapter 10 Historical and Forecast Leaching Tank Market in South America (2016-2026)

10.1 Leaching Tank Market Size

10.2 Leaching Tank Demand by End Use

10.3 Competition by Players/Suppliers

10.4 Type Segmentation and Price

10.5 Key Countries Analysis

10.5.1 Brazil

10.5.2 Argentina

10.5.3 Chile

10.5.4 Peru

Chapter 11 Historical and Forecast Leaching Tank Market in Asia & Pacific (2016-2026)

11.1 Leaching Tank Market Size

11.2 Leaching Tank Demand by End Use

11.3 Competition by Players/Suppliers

11.4 Type Segmentation and Price

11.5 Key Countries Analysis

11.5.1 China

11.5.2 India

11.5.3 Japan

11.5.4 South Korea

11.5.5 Southest Asia

11.5.6 Australia

Chapter 12 Historical and Forecast Leaching Tank Market in Europe (2016-2026)

12.1 Leaching Tank Market Size

12.2 Leaching Tank Demand by End Use

12.3 Competition by Players/Suppliers

12.4 Type Segmentation and Price

12.5 Key Countries Analysis

12.5.1 Germany

12.5.2 France

12.5.3 United Kingdom

12.5.4 Italy

12.5.5 Spain

12.5.6 Belgium

12.5.7 Netherlands

12.5.8 Austria

12.5.9 Poland

12.5.10 Russia

Chapter 13 Historical and Forecast Leaching Tank Market in MEA (2016-2026)

13.1 Leaching Tank Market Size

13.2 Leaching Tank Demand by End Use

13.3 Competition by Players/Suppliers

13.4 Type Segmentation and Price

13.5 Key Countries Analysis

13.5.1 Egypt

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Peptide Therapeutics Market (by Type, Synthesis Technology, Manufacturing Type, Application & Region): Insights & Forecast with Potential Impact of COVID-19 (2021-2025)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global peptide therapeutics market is expected to record a value of US$42.22 billion in 2025, witnessing growth at a CAGR of 6.95%, for the duration spanning 2021-2025.

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The factors such as surging prevalence of cancer, rising healthcare expenditure, growing incidence of metabolic disorders, increasing geriatric population and accelerating number of approved peptide-based therapeutic drugs. However, the market growth would be challenged by availability of generic or biosimilar peptide therapeutic drugs, high cost of developing drugs and stringent regulatory requirements and production complexity of peptides. The market is anticipated to experience certain trends like expanding volume of peptides driven by generics, rapid adoption of outsourced peptide API and rising investments in research and development of novel drugs.

The global peptide therapeutics market can be segmented on the basis of type, synthesis technology, manufacturing type and application. Based on type, the market can be bifurcated into innovative and generic. According to synthesis technology, the market can be categorized into Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis (SPPS), Liquid Phase Peptide Synthesis (LPPS) and Hybrid Technology. Whereas, on the basis of manufacturing type, the market can be divided outsourced and in-house. In terms of application, the global peptide therapeutics market can be split into chemotherapy, gastroenterology, analgesia, diabetes, paediatric & neonatology and other applications.

The fastest growing regional market is North America due to increasing research and development activities for the development of innovative peptide therapeutics and improvements in healthcare infrastructure coupled with growing prescription of peptide therapeutics on account of high presence of a large number of patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

Scope of the report

Key Topics Covered:

1. Market Overview

2. Impact of COVID-19

2.1 Adoption of Peptides in COVID-19 Related Research

2.2 Disruptions in Clinical Trials

3. Market Analysis

3.1 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market by Value

3.2 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market Forecast by Value

3.3 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market by Type

3.4 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market by Synthesis Technology

3.5 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market by Manufacturing Type

3.6 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market by Application

3.7 Global Peptide Therapeutics Market by Region

4. Regional Market

5. Market Dynamics

5.1 Growth Drivers

5.1.1 Surging Prevalence of Cancer

5.1.2 Rising Healthcare Expenditure

5.1.3 Growing Incidence of Metabolic Disorders

5.1.4 Increasing Geriatric Population

5.1.5 Accelerating Number of Approved Peptide-based Therapeutic Drugs

5.2 Key Trends and Developments

5.2.1 Expanding Volume of Peptides driven by Generics

5.2.2 Rapid Adoption of Outsourced Peptide API

5.2.3 Rising Investments in Research and Development of Novel Drugs

5.3 Challenges

5.3.1 Availability of Generic or Biosimilar Peptide Therapeutic Drugs

5.3.2 High Cost of Developing Drugs and Stringent Regulatory Requirements

5.3.3 Production Complexity of Peptides

6. Competitive Landscape

6.1 Global Market

6.1.1 Revenue Comparison of Key Players

6.1.2 Market Capitalization Comparison of Key Players

6.1.3 R&D Comparison of Key Players

7. Company Profiles

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/ovgfsb

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Steven Mizell, the executive vice president and chief human resources officer at pharmaceutical leader Merck, has been a CHRO for nearly two and a half decades in industries including energy and manufacturing. Most recently, he spent 14 years at agriculture giant Monsanto.

But Mizell's decision to join Merck in 2018, with its long history of breakthrough medicines and vaccines, was "an opportunity to be in the center of what I think will be a major transformation in the pharmaceutical industry," he told Insider, at a time where there are huge, unmet medical needs for a global population that is growing and aging.

"Building on Merck's history and tremendous legacy to support the needs of humanity and the planet was very attractive to me," he said.

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which Mizell said accelerated what was already a significant digital transformation of the HR organization, including implementing virtual communication, training, development, and assessment tools.

"Technology is no longer simply nice to do at a leisurely pace," he said. "It's a real imperative to attract and retain talent in a global workforce, so the HR function has to think a lot differently."

Historically, he explains, human resources efforts have been driven by intuition and anecdotal information. But now, data and analytics can help develop programs that are responsive to employee needs in a more precise way.

For example, during the pandemic Merck used online tools to survey its employees, which the company now does every quarter and sometimes on demand. They found that there was a huge need for daycare and other support for employees and their families.

"We now have the data to quickly analyze comments, sort people in different groups, functions and geographies, and uncover insights," Mizell said. "We were able to take action to put things in place a lot faster."

Technology can also help with the recruitment of highly skilled workers: For example, Merck leverages tools by companies such as LinkedIn, which use AI to make sure job descriptions are as broad and gender-neutral as possible. "We want to make sure that we're able to attract a broad range of people from what have historically been underrepresented groups in pharma," he said. The company also wants to boost its ability to secure candidates with sought-after technology skills including data science and coding that go beyond traditional industry skills like chemistry and biology.

In addition, today's workforce is very diverse and has high expectations of their employers, said Mizell. "So it's extremely important for us to use all the tools and technology that we have to create a great place where people want to come to work and make the highest contributions that they possibly can," he said.

Over the past year, innovative digital technology was essential for one of Merck's biggest HR challenges: hiring nearly 11,000 people through a virtual process during the pandemic. "These are people who have never been on a Merck site before," Mizell said.

The biggest obstacle to remote hiring, he explained, was getting people comfortable with remote interviews and making decisions without being able to see candidates in person. "From an HR perspective, I've been really pleased with the team to be able to essentially turn on a dime and do something we had never done before," he said.

When it comes to technology innovation, one important success factor has been a strong partnership between the HR and the IT organization, Mizell said. "It's a deep partnership where there are technology people embedded within the HR function," he said. "The CIO and I have a cross-functional agreement where I've got people from his organization that support my team directly in the innovation of HR capabilities." For example, that partnership was essential as Merck implemented Workday, a cloud-based HR solution. "It has helped us innovate, upgrade, and use technology much more efficiently," he said.

Over the next 2 to 3 years, Mizell said applying technology to employee engagement and satisfaction is going to be one of his team's biggest priorities. In addition, building an increasingly seamless technology experience in a hybrid workplace will be essential.

Equally important, he added, will be continuing to build speed across the organization. "Going forward, we have to figure out how to make decisions more quickly and use technology to support that," he said. "It's all about keeping our employees satisfied and excited to be at Merck."

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NIBS virtual meeting will feature more than 30 sessions. The meeting takes place September 27-29.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Building Sciences has finalized its keynotes lineup for Building Innovation 2021: Virtual Edition. The meeting takes place September 27-29, 2021.

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Keynote speakers will include Renee Cheng, Dean, University of Washington College of Built Environments; Edward Mazria, FAIA, Founder & CEO, Architecture 2030; Daniel Kaniewski, Managing Director, Public Sector, Marsh McLennan Advantage; Jamie Gentoso, P.E., MBA, Global Head of Solutions & Products Business Unit, Holcim; and Thomas W. Smith, Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers.

BI2021 is the NIBS annual meeting and place where everyone who impacts the built environment comes together to find solutions. This year, BI2021 will be even bigger, with more than 30 sessions covering a spectrum of developments along three tracks: workplace, technology, and resilience.

"Building Innovation puts the nation's top experts from across the built environment before an audience looking for solutions," said Lakisha A. Woods, CAE, President and CEO of NIBS. "This is more than a meeting. BI2021 ensures that Americans live, work, learn and play in buildings and communities that will support, sustain and promote healthy living."

Highlights from the BI2021 schedule include:

Resiliency Challenges for Our Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Robert Knoedler, Immediate-Past President, Energy Management Association

The Story of BIM and the New World of Digital Construction Andrew Butterfield and Anne-Marie Pizzitelli, BSI Group Inc.

Building Codes Save: FEMA's Nationwide Building Code Losses Avoided Study Panel Jonathan Westcott, Civil Engineeer, FEMA and panel

Resilience, Functional Recovery, Sustainability What Are They & What Do They Mean to the Structural Engineering Profession? Don Scott, Senior Principal, PCS Structural Solutions

Cybercrime Vulnerability in Buildings and Critical Infrastructure Dana Smith, DKS Information Consulting, LLC/Chinook Systems Inc./Building Cyber Security/Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor to SECDEF and panel

Delivering Value: How a Collaborative and Strategic Approach to Off-Site Construction Supports Better Building Laurie Robert, Modular Building Professional, and panel

ESG & DEI: Best Practices for Building Industry Applications Vicki Worden, President & CEO, Green Building Initiative

The Drive for the Rural Youth Technopreneurs Development Model Through Innovative Sanitation System Implemented at Qweqwe Village in the Eastern Cape Province Tshiphiri Tshivhasa, Department of Human Settlements

Advantages of Using 3D Printed Forms for a Precast Concrete Project Mo Wright, Marketing Director, Gate Precast Co., and panel

Systems Change to Create and Transform Healthy Buildings Elena Bondareva, CEO, Vivit Group

Conference registration includes access to all keynotes and educational programming. Registration is free for members of the National Institute of Building Sciences. View more information about Building Innovation 2021.

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The pace of technology adoption and innovation has been phenomenal since the beginning of 2020. Organisations across different sectors, which faced an unprecedented crisis due to several disruptions, capitalised on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Cloud, Advanced Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., with speed and scale to address challenges at hand.

Besides working on problems of today, businesses also built tech-backed systems and re-strategised their plans for a sustainable and competitive future. Now, the spotlight is on innovating for today and tomorrow, productizing innovation to create business and social impact, and expand to newer markets.

To discuss how technologies can make it possible, Moneycontrol and CNBC-TV18 held a round-table discussion on Driving Innovation to Build a World that Works presented by GE.

During the engaging discussion, experts Dr. Sapna Poti, Program Director, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India; Mohit Kapoor, Group Technology Officer, Mahindra Group; Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; and Alok Nanda, CEO, GE India Technology Centre& CTO, GE South Asia discussed the importance innovation, being future-ready now and how we can work together to solve challenges for 20+ years.

Elaborating on what kind of technologies are important for India, Dr Poti said, There are two large clusters that one can make for the technological development. One is of the emerging technologies which are artificial intelligence, machine learning, it could also have semi-conductors, defence, and quantum is also picking up in the country. Most importantly, all of them dovetail into something call social impact technology which finally needs to make some impact socially for urban and rural poor and pandemics of the nature that we are facing.

Giving insights into how industries across different sectors are adopting technologies, panellists said the pace of innovation is revolutionising operations for building a sustainable tomorrow and the transformation entails responsibility on organisations to stay ahead of their game - for serving their customers while adapting to the changes themselves.

Technology has got accelerated especially in the last two years, pre and post-COVID-19. Changes have been made which will never go back to the old normal. I see four areas- one is customer journeys, they are getting more and more digital. Anything that helps digitise a customers journey is a high priority for us. Equally high-priority is employee journey. We are trying to use data science to make the right decisions. Third is modernising our technology and fourth is data security and privacy, said Kapoor.

Our purpose at GE is to build a world that works, a healthier, cleaner, and a more connected world, which leads to a more sustainable future for mankind and thats what our purpose is and innovation is how we get there. Innovation is the North Star for us to get to our purpose. We have a legacy of finding what the world needs and going ahead and invent it. Whats changing in the current times is that the pace at which disruption is happening is far different because the boundaries between industrial and digital world are disappearing, said Nanda.

Meanwhile, the discussion also delved into designing models that can serve over 20 years.

We have to also move from an urban-centric view of innovation and think of the rest of the country. Most of the country is not living in the urban centre. The kind of healthcare that you get, desire, is available to you and where a lot of innovation is happening is in the urban centres. Now, how can we use AI and all the digital power that we have to make sure similar kind of healthcare and expert advice is available to somebody who is in a village, miles away from a hospital. Those are the kind of projects, thinking, innovation will see us through the next 20 years, said Bali.

The virtual session had insightful conversations on research, collaboration, profitability, disruption and much more.

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Pico Projector Market Research Report by Product (Embedded Pico Projector, Stand-alone Pico Projector, and USB Pico Projector), by Technology (Digital Light Processing, Laser Beam Steering, and Liquid Crystal-on-silicon), by End User, by Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2026 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19

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The Global Pico Projector Market size was estimated at USD 2,257.99 Million in 2020 and expected to reach USD 2,546.07 Million in 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) 13.09% from 2020 to 2026 to reach USD 4,725.24 Million by 2026.

Market Statistics:The report provides market sizing and forecast across five major currencies - USD, EUR GBP, JPY, and AUD. It helps organization leaders make better decisions when currency exchange data is readily available. In this report, the years 2018 and 2019 are considered historical years, 2020 as the base year, 2021 as the estimated year, and years from 2022 to 2026 are considered the forecast period.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the Pico Projector to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

Based on Product, the Pico Projector Market was studied across Embedded Pico Projector, Stand-alone Pico Projector, and USB Pico Projector.

Based on Technology, the Pico Projector Market was studied across Digital Light Processing, Laser Beam Steering, and Liquid Crystal-on-silicon.

Based on End User, the Pico Projector Market was studied across Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, and Retail.

Based on Geography, the Pico Projector Market was studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, and the long-term effects are projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report delivers insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecasts, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.

Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies to help the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. It describes the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth during a forecast period.

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Pico Projector Market based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Market Share Analysis:The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market. It provides the idea of its revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. It provides insights into how vendors are performing in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. Knowing market share offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. It reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.

Company Usability Profiles:The report profoundly explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Pico Projector Market, including Aaxa Technologies, Inc., Acer, Inc., Aiptek International, Inc., Celluon, Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Microvision, Inc., Miroir USA, Optoma, Optoma Technology Corp., Philips, Samsung, Sony Corporation, Syndiant Inc., Syndiant, Inc., Texas Instruments, Inc., and ZTE Corporation.

The report provides insights on the following pointers:1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyze penetration across mature segments of the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments

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Technology is always changing, and the stock market's performance over the past decade has shown that tech stocks are must-own for almost any kind of investing style.

So-called FAAMNG stocks have been big winners and now make up the five most valuable companies in the United States. The tech sector's share of the overall stock market, meanwhile, is only going to grow in the coming years as technology more deeply penetrates business and everyday life.

With that in mind, we asked three of our contributors for their picks for stocks that are determining the way technology evolves. Keep reading to see why Shopify(NYSE:SHOP),Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA), andFacebook(NASDAQ:FB) all made the list.

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Eric Volkman (Shopify): The coronavirus pandemic has forced many consumers to replace in-person shopping with the online variety. The ease and convenience becomes a hard habit to break. This, combined with other positive trends, is why e-commerce is in front of a long-tail growth story where it'll get much, much bigger.

As it does, one obvious beneficiary will be leading online retailing platform operator Shopify. The company is the one-stop shop (sorry) for a great many businesses building out an online presence, and it draws revenue by charging either flat subscription fees or (in the case of its Shopify Plus service aimed at larger enterprises) by a percentage of the client's sales.

It's a clean, straightforward and effective way of getting a piece of the e-commerce windfall. As a result, Shopify -- hardly a young company -- is continuing to grow like gangbusters.

In fact, Shopify's 86% year-over-year revenue growth in 2020 to $2.9 billion was its fastest revenue growth over the past four years. Many hot new companies in the tech industry can crank out double-digit growth in their early years, but this typically slows before long. It's a rare and special operator that can actually increase that rate, and do so after it's been on the scene for some time.

As for profitability, Shopify aped other tech up-and-comers by landing in the red on the bottom line for years. The costs for developing its offerings were considerable, after all. That changed in Q4 2019, when it eked out a roughly $800,000 net profit. Since then, those numbers have improved dramatically -- in its two most recently reported quarters it netted $879 million and nearly $1.26 billion, respectively.

Skeptics are quick to point out that Shopify stock has a sky-high valuation, thanks in no small measure to its monster popularity with investors during the pandemic. Its trailing 12-month price-to-sales ratio has climbed to nearly 51, and its forward price-to-earnings ratio is an astounding 244. By comparison, fellow e-commerce favorite Amazonboasts a P/S of 3.9 and a P/E of 58.

Yet Amazon, while indisputably a retail juggernaut, is a more mature business than Shopify. And the latter company is still in the middle of a gold rush that's only going to get more crowded. In many respects, Shopify isn't merely going to be a beneficiary of the future of e-commerce -- it is the future of e-commerce.

Trevor Jennewine (Tesla): Tesla may not be the first company that comes to mind when you think about tech stocks, but maybe it should be. Recently, CEO Elon Musk expressed his belief that, over the long term, people would think of Tesla as an artificial-intelligence and robotics company, not just an electric-vehicle (EV) manufacturer.

To that point, since October 2016, all Tesla vehicles have shipped with autopilot hardware, involving eight external cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors, and an onboard supercomputer. Today, with over 1 million cars on the road, the company has collected over 3 billion miles' worth of real-world driving data, far more than any other automaker. That gives Tesla a significant advantage in the race to build a fully autonomous EV.

In 2019, the company reinforced that advantage with the launch of Autopilot Hardware 3.0, featuring an upgraded version of the in-car supercomputer. At the time, Musk called it "[objectively] the best chip in the world," and a report from Nikkei came to the same conclusion, stating that Tesla's technology was six yearsahead of its rivals.

More recently, Musk made a bold announcement at Tesla's Battery Day event, saying the company would produce a fully autonomous $25,000 EV within the next three years. You read that correctly -- Tesla plans to have an affordable, self-driving electric car in the near term.

If the company realizes that goal, it could radically change Tesla's business model. Rather than compete on low-margin vehicle sales, Tesla could license its self-driving platform to other automakers, transitioning into the higher-margin software industry. The company could also launch an autonomous-ride-hailing network, a market that Cathie Wood's Ark Invest values at $1.2 trillionby 2030. And given Tesla's advantage -- better tech and more data -- the company could capture a good chunk of that figure.

As a final thought, Tesla stock currently trades at an outrageous 19 times sales, while Toyotatrades even with sales. But a decade from now, if Tesla does indeed shift gears and disrupt the mobility industry, that number may not seem so absurd in hindsight. That's why now looks like a good time to pick up a few shares of this tech stock.

Jeremy Bowman (Facebook): Traditionally, Facebook hasn't been known as a pioneer of new technology. The company dominates social media and makes its money from advertising, and while social media as a concept is new, enabled by the internet, selling advertising next to content is a centuries-old business model.

However, Facebook's next phase could look a lot different. The company is investing heavily in its virtual-reality platform, Oculus, and similar projects at Facebook Reality Labs, its research division devoted to augmented and virtual reality. On Facebook's second-quarter earnings report, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced investors to the term "metaverse," which he explained on the earnings call was a virtual environment where people can be present with one another inside digital spaces. Zuckerberg described it as a place where anyone can hang out with friends, work, create, or play games.

So far, Oculus is only generating a small fraction of Facebook's total revenue, but it could get a lot bigger as virtual and augmented reality (AR and VR) go mainstream. Zuckerberg has predicted that VR would be the next big computing platform, noting that historically computing platforms have shifted approximately every 15 years, from mainframes, to PCs, to the internet, to mobile. Considering the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the transition to VR should be emerging in the next few years, based on that pattern.

Monetization of the metaverse will come later, but it's easy to see how a new experience VR and AR lends to itself to a wide range of possibilities, including advertising, subscription content, an Apple-like app store, gaming, and others. Zuckerberg is only 37 years old and could very well be running Facebook in 2050, giving him plenty of time to execute on his vision. Wherever the future of technology goes, it's a good bet that he will be there.

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The Apple Inc logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Aug 13 (Reuters) - After a week of criticism over a its planned new system for detecting images of child sex abuse, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Friday that it will hunt only for pictures that have been flagged by clearinghouses in multiple countries.

That shift and others intended to reassure privacy advocates were detailed to reporters in an unprecedented fourth background briefing since the initial announcement eight days prior of a plan to monitor customer devices.

After previously declining to say how many matched images on a phone or computer it would take before the operating system notifies Apple for a human review and possible reporting to authorities, executives said on Friday it would start with 30, though the number could become lower over time as the system improves.

Apple also said it would be easy for researchers to make sure that the list of image identifiers being sought on one iPhone was the same as the lists on all other phones, seeking to blunt concerns that the new mechanism could be used to target individuals. The company published a long paper explaining how it had reasoned through potential attacks on the system and defended against them.

Apple acknowledged that it had handled communications around the program poorly, triggering backlash from influential technology policy groups and even its own employees concerned that the company was jeopardizing its reputation for protecting consumer privacy.

It declined to say whether that criticism had changed any of the policies or software, but said that the project was still in development and changes were to be expected.

Asked why it had only announced that the U.S.-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children would be a supplier of flagged image identifiers when at least one other clearinghouse would need to have separately flagged the same picture, an Apple executive said that the company had only finalized its deal with NCMEC.

The rolling series of explanations, each giving more details that make the plan seem less hostile to privacy, convinced some of the company's critics that their voices were forcing real change.

"Our pushing is having an effect," tweeted Riana Pfefferkorn, an encryption and surveillance researcher at Stanford University.

Apple said last week that it will check photos if they are about to be stored on the iCloud online service, adding later that it would begin with just the United States.

Other technology companies perform similar checks once photos are uploaded to their servers. Apple's decision to put key aspects of the system on the phone itself prompted concerns that governments could force Apple to expand the system for other uses, such as scanning for prohibited political imagery.

The controversy has even moved into Apple's ranks, with employees debating the move in hundreds of posts on an internal chat channel, Reuters reported this week.

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The UN report found that greenhouse gases are likely to drive worldwide temperatures at least 1.5 C above preindustrial conditions within the next 20 years, fueling more common and more severe heat waves, floods, and droughts. Once that happens, carbon removal is essentially the only way to bring the climate back to a safer zone, because the greenhouse gas persists for hundreds to thousands of years in the atmosphere. (A last alternative is, perhaps, some form of geoengineering that reflects heat back into space, but that controversial idea presents all sorts of concerns.)

The model used to create the most optimistic scenario in the report, which limits warming to 1.5 C, assumes the world will figure out ways to remove about 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year by midcentury and 17 billion by 2100. (The scenario is known as SSP1-1.9, and those figures are based on an analysis of earlier data by Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute and contributing author on the UN assessment.)

That requires ramping up technologies and techniques capable of pulling as much CO2 out of the atmosphere every year as the US economy emitted in 2020. In other words, the world would need tostand up a brand-new carbon-sucking sector operating on the emissions scales of all Americas cars, power plants, planes, and factories, in the next 30 years or so.

We could remove less than that, but only if we cut emissions even faster, resign ourselves to greater climate risks or both.

In the model above, nearly all the carbon removal is achieved through an artificial approach known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS. Basically, it requires growing crops that consume CO2 and then using the harvested biomass to produce heat, electricity, or fuels, while capturing and storing any resulting emissions. But despite the billions and billions of tons of carbon removal that climate models are banking on through BECCS, its only been done in small-scale projects to date.

The smaller remaining amount of removal in the model is done through natural solutions like reforestation and tree planting (see the the illustration below).

ZEKE HAUSFATHER, THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE

We know forests, soil, peatlands and other natural systems absorb significant levels of carbon dioxide, but it has proved challenging to develop markets and systems that reliably incentivize, measure and verify it. Meanwhile, other technical approaches are also immature, including carbon-sucking machines and various ways of accelerating the processes by which minerals and the oceans take up and store away CO2.

The IPCC assessment noted numerous other limitations and difficulties.

For one thing, while carbon removal does reduce the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the report notes that this effect may be offset to some degree. Modeling studies have found that the oceans and land start releasing more CO2 in response to that shifting atmospheric chemistry over certain time periods, undermining the benefits.

In addition, while carbon removal could gradually ease temperature increases and ocean acidification, it doesnt magically reverse all climate impacts. Notably, it would still take centuries to bring oceans back to the levels around which weve built our coastal cities, the report stresses. There could be all but irreversible damage to ice sheets, coral reefs, rain forests, and certain species as well, depending on how much warmer the world gets before we deeply cut emissions and scale up carbon removal.

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