Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speed factory
An expensive experiment in the global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta...
American Tariffs are Having a Bigger Impact on U.S.-based Amazon Vendors
The series of tariffs imposed by the United States on Chinese goods has impacted both U.S. and China-based...
Sense Photonics flashes onto the lidar scene with a new approach...
Lidar is a critical part of many autonomous
cars and robotic systems, but the technology is also evolving...
Audi proves two little screens are better than one big screen
I’m spending some time in the new Audi Q8, and the car company equipped the crossover with...
Non-invasive glucose monitor EasyGlucose takes home Microsoft’s Imagine Cup and $100K
Microsoft’s yearly Imagine Cup student startup competition crowned its latest winner today: EasyGlucose,
a non-invasive, smartphone-based method...
Japan’s “Society 5.0” initiative is a roadmap for today’s entrepreneurs
Japan, still suffering the consequences of its ‘Lost Decade’ of economic stagnation, is eyeing a transformation more radical than any...
Work on world’s first CRISPR gene-edited babies declared illegal by China
Chinese authorities have declared the work of He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific community by claiming he successfully created the world’s first gene-edited babies,...
The social layer is ironically key to Bitcoin’s security
A funny thing happened in the second half of 2018. At some moment, all the people active in crypto looked around and...
