The Galaxy Fold 2 won't be able to fight Apple's foldable iPhone battery design. The Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 is rumored to be a big upgrade over the original, but it might have some serious competition from Apple's future foldable iPhones, thanks to Apple's latest battery patent.The patent is titled Flexible Battery Structure, and features a series of potential designs for how Apple could make a...

COVID-19 is changing how B2B buyers and sellers interact. Savvy sales leaders are learning how to adapt to the next normal.COVID-19 has destroyed lives and livelihoods and continues to do so in many communities around the world. Although the full implications of the pandemic are far from certain, it is already clear that its economic consequences are dire.For sales leaders contemplating how to...

Virtual reality technology is here; however, there are some reasons why it hasn't completely caught on by the people yet.One reason is that while today's systems can create immersive visual experiences, they don't appeal to all of our five senses — in this case, specifically, we cannot touch and feel objects. However, that seems to be changing soon. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University...

Prior to COVID-19, there were some new technologies poised to completely reshape their markets, but they were hindered by resistance to change.Prior to COVID-19, there were exciting new technologies in the early stages of adoption. Most of these were proven and demonstrated extraordinary benefits, but they were encountering significant resistance from entrenched ways of doing things. That's typ...

Israeli startup Sonarax is ready for a touchless new world with its ready-to-install ultrasonic data-transmission technology.The Covid-19 crisis will pass, but some things will never go back to normal. We will remain wary of elevator buttons, ATM touchpads, intercoms, fingerprint scanners, employee timeclocks and all other surfaces touched by countless hands.The Israeli startup Sonarax is ready...

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has designed a concept for a battery-powered wardrobe purifier that uses ozone to remove bacteria and viruses from the user's clothes.The portable case can be placed in a hallway or inside a closet and will be made from recycled fibres, which will be coated to keep the ozone inside the case during the sanitisation process.According to the studio, the case us...

Gaining access to natural resources can influence a nation’s ability to grow and defend itself. China’s growth strategy took this into account, and the country sourced massive amounts of raw materials to position the country as the number one producer and consumer of commodities.By the end of the second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, China’s mining industry was largely in ruins. After the war, v...

US patent application 20200135208 discloses a method for establishing calls between speech-controlled devices. A server receives speech data from a sender speech-controlled device, processes the data to determine recipient and topic, and sends the data to the recipient’s speech-controlled device. The recipient device outputs audio to the recipient for deciding whether to communicate with the s...

In the last year, the wealth controlled by the world’s top 10 billionaires has jumped by over $76B.Even in the teeth of jittery markets, many of the world’s richest people have seen their wealth surge to new heights as COVID-19 unfolds.Today’s infographic draws data from Forbes Billionaire’s List and shows a broad cross-section of the world’s billionaires – highlighting their stratospheri...