[caption id="attachment_138642" align="aligncenter" width="2178"] Amazon Go[/caption] Amazon has created a new-look convenience store that lets you buy goods without ever going through a checkout. Dubbed ‘Go,’…
[caption id="attachment_11462" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Big Blue's working on brains.[/caption] IBM thinks silicon chips should look more like the human brain. Big Blue has announced the development of…
[caption id="attachment_9795" align="aligncenter" width="494"] If you're attending I/O, chances are good this hardware is recording at least some of your movements.[/caption] When the Google I/O 2013 conference…
On the surface, the so-called “Internet of Things” holds a lot of appeal to businesses. Think about it: Millions of sensors and mobile devices feeding data to complex-yet-efficient analytics platforms, which pr…
How Ford’s Technical Specialists Manage a Globalized Workforce The automotive industry is in a state of rapid change. In addition to the expedient move to electrification, auto manufacturers around the world ar…
The Vulcan mind-meld, that longtime staple of science fiction, could be a few big steps closer to becoming a reality: researchers have enabled a real-time transfer of “behaviorally meaningful sensorimotor infor…
Earlier this month, a very public argument erupted between Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and New York Times reporter John Broder, who claimed in a Feb. 8 column that his electric-powered Model S sedan had ground t…
The automobile, once the most analog of technologies, is rapidly becoming a smartphone on wheels: Amazon announced Feb. 13 that Ford SYNC Applink-equipped vehicles will include the Amazon Cloud Player, allowing…
The police called the other day to let me know they had recovered a package I didn’t know was lost. UPS had left it on my doorstep, where a thief nabbed it. When he found the package contained a new doorbell, h…
Following reports of battery failures onboard Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an “emergency airworthiness directive” temporarily grounding the airliners. That’s sup…
IBM has offered a prediction for how computers will evolve over the next five years: they’re going to become more like you. They’ll increasingly adopt facsimiles of human senses—including taste and hearing—and…
We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success. I personally be…