Month: April 2024

Waymo testing needed? — After 48 hours we haven’t seen any sign people are using Waymo’s service. Timothy B. Lee – Dec 7, 2018 4:55 pm UTC The Wednesday rollout of Waymo One, Waymo’s commercial self-driving taxi service, falls far short of expectations the company itself set earlier in the year. In late September, a…

Gadgets Now | Aabhas Sharma | Dec 4, 2018, 07.25 AM IST1 / 27The A to Z of technology in 2018 Technology is one industry that throws up buzzwords as quickly as Honor launches smartphones. Basically, it happens so routinely that one can’t keep track of what’s actually going on. So here we take a…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Greens’ leaders hope to translate regional gains into national success The talk in Darmstadt is of the “green wave”.One in three voters in this city near Frankfurt backed the Greens in the Hesse state election last month. In the city centre, workmen are setting up a Christmas market…

California TodayImageAn automated harvesting machine at Taylor Farms in Salinas, Calif., uses a high pressure water stream to cut romaine lettuce heads. It replaces a crew of many farmworkers.CreditCreditJim Wilson/The New York TimesGood morning.(Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.)When Mark Borman, chief operating officer of Taylor Farms, surveys the expansive fields…

It’s night time, and webcam-performer Lola starts her erotic show in a moodily lit pink bedroom. She sits in front of a large TV that’s relaying the feed from her show, as well as the live-chat window that runs alongside. She giggles into the webcam and teases the audience that she’ll begin touching herself once…

This is a choose-your-own-adventure review of the brand new choose-your-own-adventure Netflix special, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.  You can choose to remain entirely spoiler-free until you experience it for yourself. In which case: this is quite simply a brilliant, groundbreaking piece of interactive television. One that has cracked the code as to how you let the viewer…

Photo: GizmodoHuawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on behalf of the U.S. last weekend and the incident grabbed the global spotlight after the arrest was revealed publicly on Wednesday night. Meng was apprehended for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, but we won’t officially hear the charges until her bail hearing…

Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo Contributor Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo is a former Google and Twitter manager and current CEO of Céntrico Digital, a Latin American-based digital agency. More posts by this contributor Eduardo Gomez started with Bitcoin in 2012, though he didn’t quite understand what he was getting himself into nor how it would change his life. Back in…

Charles Mostoller/ReutersDavid Weiner counts himself lucky. Sure, he waited an hour to vote at the Brooklyn Public Library along with, he estimates, several hundred other New Yorkers Tuesday afternoon. But, hey, at least he arrived when the last ballot scanner officially broke. That meant he could just fill out his ballot and shove it in…

Throughout 2018, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time thinking and writing about virtual reality (VR).  I’ve attended VR developer conferences, experimented with using different headsets, and have conducted research on public sentiment toward the technology. Now, with VRX — an annual VR industry conference and expo — in session this week, I’ve gotten a…

Hack Your CityEach Monday we ask you for your best tips on a city: driving tips, restaurant recs, things to do, and any other advice for visitors and locals. Then on Thursday, we present the best comments. We’re working our way around the U.S. and around the globe.  Hack Your City went to Dallas and Fort…

ImageMichael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime lawyer, leaving court in Manhattan last month. Prosecutors have been examining whether other Trump Organization executives were involved in campaign finance violations.CreditCreditAndrew Kelly/ReutersWhen federal prosecutors recommended a substantial prison term for President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, they linked Mr. Trump to the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed…

Generation X (Gen X) and Generation Z (Gen Z) are often overlooked when comparing generational financial trends.Today’s teenagers, called Gen Z, are more frugal about their spending than their Gen X parents.Gen Xers are known for being the biggest spenders across all demographics. Every generation has something that defines them. Whether it’s the historical events…

Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Hong Kong, there was a robot named Sophia. It longed for nothing, felt nothing, and was incapable of even the mildest human emotion. But, its creator Geppetto – er, creators David Hanson and Ben Goertzel, I mean – wanted to bring it to life anyway. So…

Facebook looks to be jumping on the blockchain wagon with plans to introduce its own stablecoin, according to a report from Bloomberg. The social network company — under fire for a seemingly constant stream of privacy snafus of late — created an internal blockchain division in May and, while there has been plenty of speculation,…

The 1951 British comedy The Man in the White Suit anticipated our fears about nanotechnology. The Man in the White Suit. Universal Pictures Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. This piece is adapted from Films From the Future: The Technology…

Investors and entrepreneurs are beginning to bring new diagnostic tools to market that promise better results for cancer patients through the identification of mutations in cancer cells that can create more targeted therapies. Earlier this month, research using technology developed by the startup Mission Bio helped identify cellular mutations in acute myeloid leukemia cancer cells that could…

The New York Times recently ran an article titled “How China walled off the internet.” In it, author Raymond Zhong starts by quoting former President Bill Clinton, who once described China’s aspirations to police the internet as akin to “nail[ing] Jell-o to a wall.” The prevailing attitude at the time, as exemplified by Clinton’s statement,…

Brick and Mortar Take a cue from brands like Warby Parker and Everlane. Image credit: Michael Buckner | Getty Images Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The recent news of Sears shutting down, coupled with Amazon now running over 600 retail stores, has made one thing very clear — the retail industry is…

ImageThe Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday at its final meeting of 2018 but could signal a slowdown for next year.CreditCreditBrendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The challenge confronting the Federal Reserve as it meets this week is a tale of two economies. Wall Street investors are behaving as if…

Big CityImageThere are various arguments to be made against cashless businesses — the inconvenience falling to people too scattered to leave the house with a wallet being merely one of them.CreditCreditHiroko Masuike/The New York TimesLate last month, Ritchie J. Torres, a popular city councilman from the Bronx, introduced a bill that would forbid certain businesses…

Designer, professor, and chair of the industrial design department at the Rochester Institute of Technology Josh Owen collaborated with the late iconic designer, sculptor, and educator Wendell Castle on a limited edition project setup to give back to future students of RIT’s industrial design program. The two designers worked together on a set of cast bronze…

Amazon Amazon now has over 100 physical stores. Image credit: Courtesy of Nicole Leinbach Reyhle November 16, 2018 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon recently opened two of its three Amazon 4-star stores, making its collective brick-and-mortar experiences tally up at over 100 locations between Amazon Books, Amazon Pop-Up, Amazon…

Qualcomm’s next-gen mobile chip, the Snapdragon 855, is official and will be looked back as a cornerstone to the 5G-ification of everything. The world’s largest mobile chipmaker held back on sharing extensive details during the first day of its annual Snapdragon Technology Summit in Maui, Hawaii on Monday. But now the curtain’s been fully lifted…