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Specifically, we found that small and medium-sized family companies in legal environments with strong property rights are the most innovative in the world. Close your eyes and imagine a world where the most innovative companies aren’t big tech giants but family-run businesses. Now open your eyes, because you don’t have to imagine it: It’s reality.

Our systematic review of data from eight developed nations around the world shows that despite the surge in sales of fitness trackers, physical activity declined from 1995 to 2017. Worldwide sales of fitness trackers increased from $14 billion in 2017 to over $36 billion in 2020. The skyrocketing success of these gadgets suggests that more people than ever see some value in keeping tabs on the number of steps they take, flights of stairs they climb, time they spend sitting and calories they burn.

Residents in the small town of Granbury are raising alarms over noise from a local Bitcoin mine, while state lawmakers warn about the risks to the grid. GRANBURY, TEXAS — Cheryl Shadden cannot sleep. The 61-year-old nurse, who works at hospitals giving patients anesthesia, says she’s kept up at night by the nonstop mechanical whir of fans spinning to cool tens of thousands of computers.

Feel that concern that you might not have enough? Name it—and put it to work for you. In recent years, scarcity has become a common phenomenon. The pandemic had people in a panic over getting everything from toilet paper to patio heaters, causing some to pay exorbitant prices or tolerate long waiting periods for mundane items.

On a sunny Wednesday morning, a loud horn sounds before a large crane hoists a 25-ton box skyward in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood. It then swings it into position and as gently as possible, places it on the third floor of what will soon be a six-story apartment building. The box has windows, insulation, painted drywall, flooring, plumbing and electrical wiring, almost everything needed.

Current advances in AI technologies are marking a new era for intimate romantic and sexual relationships. Over the past decade, virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence, like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have become integral to technologies such as smartphones and social media.