Caution ahead: Transformation and disruption for automotive suppliers.​Disruptive trends are changing the global automotive supplier landscape. To thrive and remain in business, suppliers need to shift gears and decide on which part of their business they want to expand, defend, and pivot.FOR automakers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and suppliers alike, the last decade has been fra...

It turns out creating an ultra-customized, sustainably-minded skincare product is just as complicated as it sounds.After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2018, Atolla—a customized skincare company born and bred at MIT—has launched its first product. The Atolla Skin Health System is a monthly subscription model that costs $45 a month. The Atolla subscription includes a skin analysis kit, a...

South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face.Many anime and cartoon fans use anime profile pictures to represent themselves in a virtual world of social media, games and online forums. Now, such avatars can be personalized. Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classi...

The family behind Walmart tops the Bloomberg list of the world’s wealthiest families. In the hour that it takes a new Walmart employee to earn the $11 starting wage, the family that owns the retail giant has banked $4 million.In fact, the third-generation heirs of Walmart WMT, +2.18% founder Sam Walton have amassed a $191 billion fortune to top Bloomberg’s list of the richest families in the...

Americans inordinately drive to work. In point of fact, 76.4% of U.S. workers report commuting to the office alone, compared with the just 5.2% who say they take mass transit. Even in New York City, with its extensive transit and rail system and high levels of congestion, more than half of people get to their workplace by car.Brothers Rob and Jon Sadow cofounded Scoop four years ago to shift th...

At Stanford University, SkyCool’s co-founders Shanhui Fan, Eli Goldstein and Aaswath Raman invented a film-like material that facilitates the radiative cooling process. The development of radiative cooling systems could eventually have a major impact on global energy consumptionSpotted: California-based company SkyCool is developing a cooling system with roots going back hundreds of years to t...

The “sober curious” movement is turning the tables on what a typical night out looks like for many Americans—as well as what the next morning feels like.Alcohol consumption has been relatively flat over the past year, which has urged many establishments to get creative in their efforts to attract consumers—and keep them coming back. Now, as a growing percentage of consumers cut back on thei...

We all engage with technology in multiple ways in our daily lives. But do we really want to get engaged through technology ?Whether human guests will pop the big question via a robot is the question being asked by Hotel Interurban, a boutique hotel south of Seattle in Tukwila, Wash. The hotel employs Hazel, a droid-like helper that makes deliveries to rooms.But forget the aspirin or a toothbrus...

YouTuber and software engineer Amie DD published a video last week in which she has a small RFID tag that doubles as her Model 3 keycard implanted into her forearm.As a result, she’ll never technically be locked out of her Tesla — even if she leaves both her smartphone and backup keycard at home.Rather then electronically transferring the data, she dissolved the physical keycard — about the...