Aeva says its high-performance lidar will sell for less than US $500; VW is buying it. There are scores of lidar startups. Why read about another one? It wouldn’t be enough to have the backing of a big car company, though Aeva has that. In April the company announced a partnership with Audi, and today it’s doing so with Porsche—the two upscale realms of the Volkswagen auto empire. Nor is it...

“Do I think Apple and Google and Amazon can do a better job? A thousandfold.” Amazon and Apple will be our doctors in the future, says tech guru Peter Diamandis.“Healthcare is the biggest business in the world, and it is phenomenally broken,” says Peter Diamandis, cofounder of the X-Prize, Singularity University, and Health Longevity Inc. “So, do I think Apple and Google and Amazon can do...

Market headlines, globally, have been dominated by the storied performance of a select few transformational, winner-take-all business models. These securities are now household names, even for the kids. At the end of the last decade, this wonder-basket (including companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft) already commanded a whopping market cap of over $700 billion. Today, with less than four...

Twelve South has released a Bluetooth adapter called the AirFly Pro that can be plugged into old school audio sources with a 3.5 mm headphone jack to stream audio to wireless headphones and earphones.The device essentially allows you to pop in your new AirPods Pro earphones and listen to audio streamed from old car stereos, in-flight entertainment systems, or even stream music from the headphon...

Over the past decade, the smartphone market has seen unprecedented growth, resulting in hundreds of billions in sales annually. Smartphones have turned Apple into the trillion-dollar company it is today and put companies such as Huawei and Xiaomi on the map internationally. But there’s more to the smartphone’s success story than “just” hardware sales.As Deloitte points out in its TMT Predic...

I think something that everyone is bound to be a sucker for is animal-inspired stationery and equipment! Whether it comes to accessorizing your work desk, decorating your home space, or adding a nifty tool to your kitchen, any item shaped like a cute little animal has got my heart for sure. They have a magical ability to brighten up any space, adding a punch of fun and raising a subtle smile on...

Now that Jony Ive is no longer running Apple’s design team (he’s off their website too), a folding iPhone may just be a possibility. Here’s what Seong Jun Park believes it should look like. Park’s flexible iPhone manifests itself as an intersection between a phone and a tablet (like most folding phones), but the advantage Apple has over its competition is its complete dominance in the table...

While organizations are often tempted to use automation to eliminate work, looking at the customer experience for growth opportunities can maximize returns on automation investments.Although corporate adoption of automation technology is becoming more widespread, success remains elusive. Three-quarters of respondents in a 2018 McKinsey global survey say their companies have begun to automate so...

The team behind Misadventure in Little Lon researched the story in detail, even working with the descendants of some of the people who appear in-game.It seems like a no-brainer to combine the phenomenon that is Pokémon Go with the trendy popularity of true crime, and that’s exactly what Misadventure in Little Lon does. This location-based, augmented reality (AR) mobile game asks players to he...