As in just about every area of the health and fitness market, technology is increasingly infiltrating yoga, with startups and investors pushing to capitalize on the $80 billion market. Last year, Germany-based Asana Rebel raised more than $17 million from notable backers that include Greycroft to grow its virtual yoga platform, while New York’s Mirror has raised sizable funding rounds for a co...

Latest stunt from Buzzman Paris mocks the artist's Art Basel piece.Last week, artist Maurizio Cattelan unveiled his latest creation at Art Basel in Miami—a banana duct-taped to a wall with the asking price of $120,000. Later, another artist, David Datuna, walked up to it and ate it, claiming the “performance” for his own portfolio. Ever-agile marketer Burger King has now jumped into the conv...

Investment bank to launch robo adviser for clients with as little as $5,000 to invest.Goldman Sachs will offer digital wealth management services to individuals with as little as $5,000 from next year, bringing the Wall Street investment bank a step closer to Main Street under the watch of new chief executive David Solomon. Joe Duran, founder of the United Capital wealth management firm that Go...

Cool and innovative lighting designs can really pump up any living space! Introduce a well-designed lamp with some subtle mood lighting and the vibe of your room can instantly change. Always on the lookout for intriguing designs, I discovered a concept that left me wanting it at once. Povilas Danius’ ‘Power Switch Light’ is no ordinary light, in fact, it’s a ‘hidden’ one. A wall lamp with...

As US telecommunications companies and device makers plan strategies for rollouts of next-generation wireless technology, they’re looking to consumers to drive demand for faster, more reliable internet service. US consumers are ready for more when it comes to wireless connectivity, both on the go and in the home. The inaugural edition of our Connectivity and Mobile Trends Survey provides insig...

US patent application 20190371328 discloses a speech processing system that identifies a user and activates a privacy mode based on the user’s indication in his/her utterances. The privacy mode causes each of the system’s various components to delete the data associated with the user's utterance after the component has finished its processing. The figure below illustrates the system.Patent Ap...

The Hearables Market is Expected to Grow 90% in 2020 with Apple Continuing to Lead.A new analytical report claims that the size of the global market for true wireless hearables is expected to reach 120 million units this year and 230 million units in 2020, growing 90% YoY.The Counterpoint Research report on hearables further noted that they expect Apple to take more than 50% of the market share...

Chris Ballinger wants drivers to make and receive crypto payments while they go.Chris Ballinger came away from a year of crunching numbers at Toyota Motor Corp.’s Silicon Valley skunkworks convinced that his dream of automotive automation was no more fanciful than his bosses’ ambition to make a vehicle that can drive itself.So the former derivatives trader who spent 14 months as finance chief...

Meatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine flu epidemic ravages one quarter of the world’s pork supply — and has raised $10 million in financing to support its new direction.When the company unveiled its technology last year, it was one of several companies working on the production of meat derive...