Coronavirus (COVID-19) has infected over 90,000 people, killed 3,000, and essentially put entire countries on lockdown. As those numbers rise, the growing impact on global business is staggering: 94% of Fortune 1000 companies have seen a…
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The shortest path between two points is a straight line—but figuring out the shortest path between multiple points in a crowded warehouse is a little more complex. Thankfully, Katalyst’s own Senior Software Engineer Wayne Ma…
Anthony Cusumano | 4 min read On Monday, February 3, 2020, Iowa residents assembled for the famed caucus that officially kickstarts the presidential primary voting process. That night, Americans waited...
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Prajakta Gandhi | 4 min read “Ok, I will destroy humans.” So sayeth Sophia, a humanoid robot who has appeared on The Tonight Show, modeled for the cover of the Brazilian iteration of Elle magazine,...
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Listeners tuning in to CBS Radio on October 30, 1938, were in for some alarming news: Martians were attacking New Jersey and New York City. As the story developed, panic ensued before CBS and narrator…
When Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz agreed to a “grass is always greener” role swap with their husbands in a 1952 episode of the seminal I Love Lucy, the pair…
In our series of supply chain predictions for 2020, we explored how an unpredictable global economy will present challenges to manufacturers. In the weeks since that piece was published, the United States and China teamed up…
While Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia may be more renowned, Star Wars fans know that the truest hero of the franchise is astromech droid R2-D2. If not for this diminutive galactic stalwart, countless spaceships would have remained…
“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” – astronomer Simon Newcomb, 1902…one year before the Wright Brothers successfully launched the world’s first sustained flight “The cinema…
Congratulations! Your company has amassed a collection of data. That’s what organizations are supposed to be doing, right? Well, yes, but there’s a lot more to it than that. What…
