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The big news today is that — finally — we have Amazon’s selection of cities for its dual second headquarters (Northern Virginia and NYC). Then some notes on China. But first, semiconductors and open sourcing analysis. We are experimenting with new content forms at TechCrunch. This is a rough draft of something new — provide…

If the expected Galaxy S10 has superfast 5G connectivity and an in-screen fingerprint reader, you can thank Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 processor. Qualcomm is the world’s largest supplier of chipsets for mobile phones, and its latest will drive major Android devices in 2019, likely including flagship handsets from Samsung, Google and LG.At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Technology…

The average consumer probably doesn’t know a whole lot about self-driving car technology. But, when exposed to it, most people seem to react with a mixture of caution and optimism. Not everyone likes change though. Nobody understands that more than Waymo’s human drivers. Waymo, a Google sister-company, found the perfect testing ground for its self-driving…

When an experiment with existing open source technology does a “good enough” jobThe Victoria Police are the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. With over 16,000 vehicles stolen in Victoria this past year — at a cost of about $170 million — the police department is experimenting with a variety of technology-driven solutions to crackdown on car theft. They…

The latest IPCC report  does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historical precedent” in order to avoid the climate catastrophe that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average global temperature. Climate change already disproportionately…

Security flaws threaten our privacy and bank accounts. So why aren’t we fixing them?By Cooper QuintinMr. Quintin is a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Dec. 26, 2018ImageCreditCreditAndrew DegraffAmerica’s cellular network is as vital to society as the highway system and power grids. Vulnerabilities in the mobile phone infrastructure threaten not only personal privacy…

Emily Blunt makes Mary Poppins all her own in Mary Poppins Returns.Photo: Disneyio9 ReviewsReviews and critical analyses of fan-favorite movies, TV shows, comics, books, and more.  You’d be hard pressed to go into Mary Poppins Returns wanting to love it and not walk out that way. Director Rob Marshall, along with his stellar cast and crew,…

The IoT technology is not only taking over the industry, but it’s taking over our households, too. The number of IoT devices is rapidly increasing everyday — all with the intent for us be able to control everything at the touch of a button. No problems this far in the IoT home device plan. Everything…

Aaron Mooy’s first goals of the season lifted Huddersfield off the bottom of the Premier League and up to 14th in the tableNuno Espirito Santo says Wolves’ defeat by Huddersfield was one of their “worst performances” since he joined the club as head coach in May 2017.While Aaron Mooy’s double lifted David Wagner’s side off…

Humanitarian crises, natural disasters, disease outbreaks — the needs today as pressing as ever, but the way we give is evolving. Thanks to tax law and technology, along with changing consciousness and shifting social mores, philanthropy experts say there are notable shifts afoot in where, when and how Americans open their wallets to charitable causes.…

Notes on the CultureWashi is to the Japanese something like what wine is to the French — a national obsession and point of pride.ImageJapan’s centuries-long fascination with traditional papermaking means there’s still a robust analog culture in a country known for its embrace of the modern.CreditCreditPhotograph by Kyoko Hamada. Set Design by Arielle Casale and…

When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup, you know there’s something special going on under the hood. Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane saved YouTube from a scalability nightmare by inventing and open-sourcing Vitess, a brilliant relational data storage system. But in the decade since working there, the pair have…

Even after a few minutes behind the wheel, it’s easy to forget the Audi e-tron is electric. The SUV is not outrageous or radical, but rather pedestrian and effortless. Audi didn’t invent something new with the e-tron. The German car company stuck a competent electric powertrain in an SUV, and, in the process, created a…

Photo: GettyIf you think things are messed up right now, you’re not alone: For years, polls have shown that trust in U.S. political institutions is either at rock-bottom levels or damn near close to it. And while elections are supposed to be the way Americans can push through actual, sustainable change, a lagging voting infrastructure…

When the Boston public school system announced new start times last December, some parents found the schedules unacceptable and pushed back. The algorithm used to set these times had been designed by MIT researchers, and about a week later, Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, emailed asking…

Technology can become a battleground at home. YouTube may house endless nursery rhymes and clips of Peppa Pig but it’s also blighted by disturbing content disguised as kid-friendly. On mobile game storefronts, “free” games aimed at children are often laden with artificial barriers, advertisements and optional purchases designed to keep kids logging in every day…

New iPads, Alexa laughing at us, and the FBI trying to get backdoors into iPhones —all of these things, and more, happened to Apple and technology in March 2018Apple invites the press to its education launch It’s peculiar how well the events and talking points of one year will usually divide into months but there…

One of Beijing’s top goals is transforming China into a technology powerhouse, so what happens to Huawei matters beyond China’s own borders. Michael Schuman Dec 18, 2018 Visitors walk past a Huawei stand at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Eric Gaillard / Reuters As Ken Hu, the “rotating” chairman at Huawei Technologies, made…

Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.Nov. 16, 2018ImageMark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington in April.CreditCreditChip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIn ancient Egypt there lived a wise king named Thamus. One day he was visited by a clever god called Theuth.Theuth was an inventor…

Blockchain Entrepreneurs in the developing world seeking capital and investors looking for opportunity. Blockchain is the solution for them both. Image credit: SlavkoSereda | Getty Images December 11, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We live in a world that is increasingly borderless, with the unprecedented growth of technology…

Home Biology Plants & Animals / Ecology December 7, 2018 December 7, 2018 by Lewis Barnett, The Conversation Do you know this downy woodpecker? Credit: Lewis Barnett, CC BY-SA As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers that visited your bird feeders, you…

Disruption Impending disruption is a reality that no company can ignore. Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images Matt Garratt Guest Writer Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures December 14, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The rate of disruption is escalating across every industry, thanks to an increase in computing power,…

News AnalysisThe death of a young American missionary on a tropical island at the hands of an indigenous group has left us to wonder: Are they better off with us or without us?ImageA tribesman aims an arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter flying over North Sentinel Island in December 2004, two days after an…

Every year, NYU’s nonprofit, critical activist group AI Now releases a report on the state of AI, with ten recommendations for making machine learning systems equitable, transparent and fail-safe (2016, 2017); this year’s report just published, written by a fantastic panel, including Meredith Whittaker (previously — one of the leaders of the successful googler uprising…

experience greater happiness that even shows up in your brain activity. Whether you’d like to support fire victims and domestic violence survivors, or you want to be an effective ally to trans people, donating money to nonprofit and crowdfunding campaigns is an effective and tangible way to make a difference. Money helps fund critical programs…

Blockchain Blockchain’s immutable and decentralized ledger is the perfect framework for the wide range of companies looking to take asset management to the next level. Image credit: D-Keine | Getty Images November 15, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Asset” may have a clinical ring to it, but it…

This past January, a woman was walking along a road in Tumwater, Washington when a man pulled her into the woods and raped her. This rape might not have happened had police quickly processed evidence from the sexual assault exam — or “rape kit”— from another Tumwater rape the previous summer. But because it took…

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, app developer Leo Sussan was unhappy and looking for a way to become more politically active. So he volunteered for a long-shot congressional candidate, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in New York City.  Since he was a full-time employee at a real estate startup, Sussan offered his programming skills…

One of the most interesting features Google showed off at the New York launch for this year’s Pixel smartphones was one the phones didn’t actually ship with. Night Sight appeared to quite literally challenge the limits of low light imagery. Looking back, it is quite obvious why people were very sceptical of Google pulling it…

The conversationAnger can be power. But maybe it shouldn’t be. ImageTrees made from red berries line the East Colonnade during the 2018 Christmas Press Preview at the White House on Nov. 26, 2018.CreditCreditLeah Millis/ReutersBret Stephens: Gail, I was all set for us to converse about Michael Cohen and the Russians. And then the death of…

BUENOS AIRES — The trade talks that President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping launched this weekend have raised hopes for a peaceful resolution of the trans-Pacific tariff war — but the economic relationship between the U.S. and China has been permanently altered. Over dinner following the Group of 20 summit Saturday, Trump agreed to…

ImageCreditPete GamlenThe biggest roadblock to your productivity is the smartphone on your desk.Dec. 2, 2018Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emails readers with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. As I type this, my iPhone is…

Advertising We are witnessing a moment in video marketing history where human editors are becoming obsolete. Image credit: Petri Oeschger | Getty Images December 12, 2018 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Imagine you’re a video editor in 2019. You’re handed a script and given thousands of shots to craft…

When the initial buzz of Portal finally dies down, it’s the timing that will be remembered most. There’s never a great time for a company like Facebook to launch a product like Portal, but as far as optics go, the whole of 2018 probably should have been a write-off. Our followup headline, “Facebook, are you…

Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a mobile phone or use a computer. But as we eat the food grown in his garden outside the window, he confesses that he did once see a film. He refuses to disclose what, brushing…

We’ve all got one of *those* stories.ImageCreditCreditGreg KletselPretty much everybody who’s ever held down a job has at least one bad interview story. For me, it’s showing up soaking wet in the middle of a downpour for an interview at a major publishing company.“This weather is terrible, isn’t it?” my interviewer asked as I stashed…

BONNINSTUDIO / ShutterstockBONNINSTUDIO / Shutterstock It’s always risky to make broad assertions about history, but one of the few things that seems to hold true is that technological advances drive the course of civilization. Bronze and iron were so crucial to the spread of ancient societies that they have entire epochs named after them. With…

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which brought the Great War to an end. The Great War, of course, would later come to be known as the First World War because an even greater war would follow within twenty years. Although it has been eclipsed in the public imagination by the Second World…

Millennials Millennials, the first generation expected to be less prosperous than their parents, may also be less healthy. Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images November 9, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Believe it or not, millennials are getting older (and sadly, so are the rest of us). With…

Virtual Reality (VR) holds a huge potential to transform how people and businesses interact with each other as well as the surroundings. Previously VR was generally associated only with the gaming industry. Now it’s on fire with new opportunities for use. Although this innovative technology has been traditionally associated with the gaming industry, it is…

ImageCreditCreditAna Brigida for The New York TimesHONG KONG — Artificial intelligence bots. 3-D printed human organs. Genomic sequencing.These might seem to be natural topics of interest in a country determined to be the world’s leader in science and technology. But in China, where censors are known to take a heavy hand, several artworks that look…

Artificial Intelligence Siri and Alexa are going to become a lot more useful to you in the near future. Image credit: Amazon Syed Balkhi Guest Writer Entrepreneur, Growth Hacker and Marketer November 27, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Consumers have been skittish about the notion of artificial intelligence…

In pursuit of a decent night’s sleep, I have tried various methods, among them warm baths, long walks, hot drinks, giving up caffeine, yoga, acupuncture, nightcaps, sobriety, open windows, closed windows and Advil PM, bought in bulk from American pharmacies. Some help, but few succeed entirely; still sleep eludes me, for weeks at a time.…

Dan Genduso spent nearly a decade working in consulting before landing on the Disrupt Berlin stage to launch his first startup, Apoll01 — a small company with a big idea about how to solve America’s expanding education crisis.  First at Accenture and then at Slalom Consulting in San Francisco, Genduso focused on building out customer…

For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect people against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. **Trigger warning** The following article describes graphic scenes of sexual violence in video games. In Custer’s Revenge, Civil War commander General Custer needs to get from…

Mosquitoes are the focus of much of the research on gene drives.Credit: Solvin Zankl/Naurepl.com Government representatives from nearly 170 countries will this month consider whether to temporarily ban the release of organisms carrying gene drives — a controversial technology that can quickly propagate a chosen gene throughout a population. The technique has the potential to…

OnePlus rolled out Dash Charge back in 2016 with the OnePlus 3 and 3T, with the 22.5W charging standard allowing devices like the OnePlus 6T to go from zero to 60% charge in just 35 minutes. With the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition, however, OnePlus is introducing a new fast charging standard called Warp Charge that…

Photos: Rivian With a not-so-dreamy starting price of $69,000 After spending the better part of the last decade operating completely out of the spotlight, US-based automotive startup Rivian has finally debuted its first electric vehicle: a five-passenger pickup truck called the R1T. Announced on Monday at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the R1T is positioned…

Home decor brand Parachute makes $150 bed sheets and is backed by more than $44 million from venture capital firms. But when it comes to marketing, the startup wants to make sure that every dollar of its advertising spend is working as effectively as possible. Parachute is one of a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands…

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. Google’s Pixelbook is my favorite Chromebook ever. It’s thin, light, really fast, and converts into a tablet. It’s the best Chromebook there is, in my opinion. But I secretly prefer a really cheap and crappier Chromebook, like the $150 Hisense…

Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead.ImageCreditAl Drago for The New York Times1. A damning turn for President Trump and his associates:Federal prosecutors say he directed illegal payments during the presidential campaign to help prevent a possible sex scandal.The president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said Mr. Trump, above, directed payments to…

How will the venerable Nokia fare against the Verve IMO S2? Composite: Getty Images/Louisa Parry As the new millennium dawned on January 1, 2000, I remember the novelty of using a mobile to exchange greetings with family. My Nokia 3210, unveiled the previous year, was state of the art. Competitively priced, lightweight (we thought) ……

When it comes to foldable devices like the the Royole FlexPai and Samsung’s unnamed foldable phone, this major question inevitably comes up: Is that screen made plastic or glass? Plastic looks cheap, but today’s glass screen are more likely to break than flex when you bend them. Maybe not for long. CNET got an exclusive…

Year In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year.   No matter how jaded we become, each year the fine gadget purveyors of the world manage to find new ways to delight and surprise us with gear that’s inventive, exciting, and just plain…

5G phones and networks are almost here, promising amazing feats like downloading entire TV seasons in minutes, and enabling cities full of driverless cars that talk to each other in real time. But the reality is that early 5G phones and networks won’t transform the way we use our phones and other devices overnight. Your carrier’s…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105293752 story UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) 128 Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:02AM from the once-bitten-twice-shy dept. Detection systems are now able to be deployed throughout the UK to combat the threat of drones, ministers say. It follows three days of disruption…

Most connected devices are a black box. When you buy a smart toaster, you don’t know how much of your data it’s beaming up to cloud or whether its lax security has allowed it to become part of a bot network (which happened in 2016). How are you supposed to know which smart lightbulb you can…

Closing the gap between technology leaders and policy makers will require a radically different approach from the defense establishment. Dec 13, 2018 Contributing editor at The Atlantic Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Personnel work at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations and Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.Rick…

5G is coming. We’ve heard that phrase for years now; but it’s no longer a concept, it’s reality. Carriers around the world are committing to consumer-ready 5G network launches in 2019 (in some cases, early 2019), with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855-powered smartphones that you can actually go buy and use on the network. But that’s still…

Six years later, it’s still fun to make fun of Google Glass. A reference to Google Glass is shorthand for hubris, foolishness, a tech company completely missing the mark on what regular human beings like. Glass represents everything we love to mock about Silicon Valley — a bunch of nerds making ugly products that nobody…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 104780226 story Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays (cnet.com) 47 Posted by msmash on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:30AM from the up-next dept. Get ready for lots of 5G phones in time for the holidays next year. From a report: The first devices for the…

Chinese researcher He Jiankui claims he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies using a tool called CRISPR, the Associated Press reported. He claims the babies— a pair of twin girls — were born this month. In a presentation at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, He raised the…

There isn’t a single sector that has not been revolutionized by Technology in the past decade. Everyday conversation, commute and companionships have changed. Nevertheless, the Healthcare industry has come a long way than any other industry could have imagined. To say that technology has transformed the healthcare industry would be an understatement in many levels.…

Scientus Pharma claims weed oils are wildly inconsistent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris YoungThis article originally appeared on VICE Canada.A biopharmaceutical company hoping to disrupt the cannabis extraction market is claiming some Canadian licensed producers are selling cannabis oils that are tantamount to placebos. Cannabis oils have surged in popularity over the last couple years, but for medical…

I’m sitting on the floor of Fast Company‘s conference room, watching Little Red Riding Hood face off with a leather-jacket-wearing Big Bad Wolf. The wolf convinces her to tell him where her grandma’s house is, and then dashes off into the forest. Instantly, Little Red is horrified.“What’s wrong?” I ask her.“I don’t know, but something…

In many ways, AI and machine learning are already becoming apparent in our day-to-day lives, especially in commerce. Specifically, retailers are turning to facial recognition systems to help them better target, market and sell their products to an increasingly harried and distracted shopping public.”I see the recent advances such as deep learning technology for vision…

Where are you? That’s not just a metaphysical question, but increasingly a geopolitical challenge that is putting tech giants like Apple and Alphabet in a tough position. Countries around the world, including China, Japan, India and the United Kingdom plus the European Union are exploring, testing and deploying satellites to build out their own positioning…

Many parts of rural America lack access to broadband internet speeds.  Shara Tibken/CNET A year and a half ago Microsoft launched an initiative to bridge the digital divide for rural Americans, promising to connect 2 million people in remote parts of the country within five years. On Tuesday, it expanded that program and said it…

Last year Southend-on-Sea became the first UK council to employ a humanoid robot to help older people with certain activities. Pepper the robot can play memory games and show videos, and will help with reminiscence activities or exercise sessions. It is, perhaps, a glimpse of things to come. Technology has a growing role in the…

Home Chemistry Analytical Chemistry November 27, 2018 November 27, 2018, US Department of Energy Fusing microfluidics and robotics, scientists have developed a new sampling platform that is providing never-before-possible insights into proteins in human, animal, and plant cells. Credit: US Department of Energy When working to unlock a cell’s secrets, collecting and delivering the samples…

Bitcoin We need to recognize that the true value of the entire crypto market is in its underlying technology Image credit: Jetta Productions Inc | Getty Images December 4, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The spike in the price of Bitcoin at the end of 2017 caused a…

Only a few years ago, OpenStack was the hottest open-source project around, with a bustling startup ecosystem to boot. The project, which gives enterprises the tools to run the equivalent of AWS in their own private data centers, ran into trouble as it tried to tackle too many individual projects at the same time and…

How do we govern in the age that will begin with the 2020 election? Dec. 4, 2018ImageCreditCreditSteven Senne/Associated PressI have this feeling that the 2020 presidential election in the United States will be unlike any in my lifetime — and not only because it will likely involve Donald Trump running as an incumbent — he…

What can be achieved with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is evolving on a daily basis – from photography to ecology, humanitarian relief to surveying – but, despite technological developments, the industry itself looks a little like the past. While the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) doesn’t keep track of the gender of those applying for permission…

With his spiky hair and Adidas sweatshirt, Shay Murray looks like a typical 11-year-old. He’s cute, he’s boisterous, he’s into everything. But he also has Pearson syndrome, an incredibly rare mitochondrial disease that affects multiple body organs. His eyesight, hearing and memory are deteriorating, his kidneys are operating at barely 60%. There is no cure.…

This piece was originally published on the Retool blog.A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. It ain’t all bad, though — flying is also more safe, affordable and accessible than ever before.Through…

ImageHarold O. Levy at Public School 189 in Washington Heights, his former school, on his first day as interim schools chancellor in 2000.CreditCreditLibrado Romero/The New York TimesHarold O. Levy, who as the chancellor of New York City’s vast public school system from 2000 to 2002 waged war on its bureaucracy, created specialized high schools and…

The BMW Vision iNEXT autonomous electric car is previewed at a special event ahead of the LA Auto Show on Nov. 27. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images The BMW Vision iNEXT autonomous electric car is previewed at a special event ahead of the LA Auto Show on Nov. 27. Robyn…

Technology Congress is speaking out too. December 21, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. ­For the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the U.S. has Las Vegas. For blockchain technology and sweet new startups, Malta, aka “Blockchain Island,” has the DELTA Summit. So in a sense, the DELTA Summit has become…

PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesn’t receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software companies receive. In fact, though it counts as customers heavyweight companies like Capital One, Spotify and Netflix; it employs 500 employees; and it has five offices around the world, it…

Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer questions about your interactions with technology.Q: How Do Self-Driving Cars See?A: It’s a sunny day, and you’re biking along one of Mountain View’s tree-lined esplanades. You head into a left turn, and before you change lanes, you crane your head around for a quick look back. That’s when you see it.…

Predictions Innovation, evolution and regulation, this contributor predicts, will be the three major themes to carry small businesses and startups forward into 2019. Image credit: aklionka | Getty Images Ed Cowle CEO and Founder, Sports Engineering Inc. December 21, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This past year, 2018,…

Over the last year or so, wireless providers all over the world have put plans in motion to begin phased rollouts of the next-generation of wireless connectivity known as 5G. The technology, offers vast gains in throughput, data latency, and capacity compared to current wireless networks. It is expected to finally unleash the true potential…

Now that solar energy is competitive with fossil fuels for making low-cost electricity, has it peaked in the United States? Nope. We’re probably still looking at only the beginning. The options for developing new solar businesses are substantial, according to a road map for technology-prone U.S. companies released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).…

From Car and DriverThe first Range Rover Evoque wasn’t a huge hit on this side of the Atlantic, but it was a significant car for its parent company. Land Rover had a miserable time in the most recent recession, and it was this baby Range Rover, launched in 2011, that helped to transform the brand’s…

Many companies launch Internet of Things initiatives but few are successfully implemented. November 29, 2018 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It typically takes careful planning and execution to be successful when adopting any new technology. Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are no different. The problem is that some of us typically…

Surprise! Apple decided to go with USB-C charging for its latest batch of iPad Pros, which means… well, what exactly does it mean? Whether you’re putting down some cash for one of the new Apple slates or you’ve already got a USB-C device in your life, here’s how the emerging technology works and exactly what…

For a CEO who insists his electric vehicle startup doesn’t want to be Tesla, Rivian founder RJ Scaringe can sound a lot like Elon Musk. Just weeks before unveiling Rivian’s first vehicles — an all-electric pickup and a seven-seater SUV — at the LA Auto Show last month, Scaringe promised an impressive new battery technology…

Timelines presented by auto and tech companies have positioned 2018 and 2019 as milestones in the development of autonomous-driving technology. But delays, reported development issues, and a fatal crash have raised questions about the near-term potential of self-driving vehicles. Experts told Business Insider that the media and autonomous-driving industry have created unrealistic expectations about the…

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105377728 story NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year’s Party (bloomberg.com) 47 Posted by msmash on Sunday December 30, 2018 @02:02PM from the up-next dept. New York City police will deploy…

Driverless Cars Driverless cars are the future. From software to support production to algorithms to battery technology, companies like yours will be needed. Image credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images Per Bylund Guest Writer Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University December 3, 2018…

Image copyright Getty Images A violent storm on the Sun could cripple communications on Earth and cause huge economic damage, scientists have warned. Why are solar storms such a threat? In 1972, dozens of sea mines off the coast of Vietnam mysteriously exploded.It was recently confirmed the cause was solar storms, which can significantly disrupt…

VR is a polarizing technology in its current iteration. On the one hand, for some people it’s an uncomfortable, discombobulating experience. But, on the other, for those of us who thrill in the abyss it’s the closest we can get to living inside our dreams. If you’ve played the gorgeous little puzzle game Gnog or…

Smartwatches, fitness trackers, and even jewelry—if it’s technology you can wear, we’ve reviewed it. Whether you’re an Apple diehard or you stan for Android, these are the wearables you should bother with.The best all-around smartwatchPhoto: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Who are you?You want the best of the best and don’t mind paying for it.Our pick: Apple Watch…

From mechanical comics to riffing robots, the integration of artificial intelligence and comedy have been attempted before, with varying degrees of success. The New York Times reported earlier this year about Piotr Mirowski, a senior research scientist who built an AI system called A.L.Ex (short for Artificial Intelligence Experiment) to help him do improv skits.…