Pixie

• NEW YORK and TOKYO, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PXDT) (the "Company"), a Japanese technology company focused on commercializing innovative products and materials utilizing proprietary wave technology, today announced that it will exhibit at the Eureka Park Japan Pavilion at CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from January 9 to 12, 2024.
• In addition to attending CES 2024, Pixie's transparent sound-absorbing panel iwasemi™ RC-α will be receiving the coveted Innovation Award, which is given to products that are recognized as leaders in the "Home Appliances" category.
• iwasemi™ RC-α, which uses acoustic metamaterial technology, is a transparent sound absorbing material that can be attached to glass.
• By using plant-derived bioplastic as the material, the Company has reduced its environmental impact and increased transparency.

• They manage their children as social media “kidfluencers” – allowing them to work with brands to market products to other children (and adults).
• There is a clear need for regulation in this space – and achieving it will require a considered, collective effort.

Is YouTube the world’s most popular babysitter?

• Speaking to Forbes in 2019, Eyal Baumel, the chief executive of Yoola (a management company which also manages digital child stars), described YouTube as “the most popular babysitter in the world”.
• It’s now common to see YouTube kidfluencers marketing toys to other kids through toy “reviews”.
• The most popular toy review channels have millions of subscribers, and their hosts are some of YouTube’s top earners.

Instakids are on the rise

• According to a 2021 report by child protection organisation Thorn, about 40% of children under age 13 (out of some 750 interviewed) said they’d used Instagram.
• This is despite the platform ostensibly only being for people aged 13 and older.
• Pixie Curtis, age 11, started her online toy store Pixie’s Pix during COVID, when toy sales rose globally.




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Regulation is needed now

• Under French law, children below age 16 can only work limited hours, and their earnings must be safeguarded in an account made accessible when they turn 16.
• France is also considering legislation to regulate “sharenting” – a portmanteau of sharing and parenting that describes the practice of consistently posting content about one’s children on social media.
• As a result, the UK’s Department for Education is now “open to exploring legislative ways of improving employment protection for child influencers”.

The unintended consequences of regulation

• It might be trying to get on the front foot as regulators continue to scrutinise platforms on issues relevant to young people’s social media use.
• In March, Utah introduced laws to stop children under 18 having access to social media without parents’ explicit consent – but critics have pointed out the potential negative consequences.
• More work is needed to determine what effective regulation would look like.
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• Flora has dramatically outperformed all leading observability platforms as Datadog, OpenTelemetry and New Relic's modern eBPF solution - Pixie Labs.
• Additionally Flora consumed 74%, 77% and 96% less memory than Datadog, OpenTelemetry and the Pixie agent, respectively.
• The first, is the use of new, unorthodox eBPF concepts that unlock extremely low overhead data transferring mechanisms.
• The Flora eBPF observability agent was developed by groundcover and is generally available as part of groundcover's product where private users and organizations can experience it for free.

• is a pop rock album that combines the sounds of 80's progressive pop behemoths like YES, Genesis and XTC with 90's alternative rock greats like Jane's Addiction, The Pixies & Sonic Youth.
• Sunflower isalso streaming on all digital platforms but vinyl takes precedence in all promotional efforts.
• Ulliman mentions "Vinyl is beautiful and fun for the fans but also creates real revenue for artists that streaming generally ignores.
• That sense of ownership and pride in my music is something I've always valued and is something I'm trying to give my fans".