There’s room for growth around the world, but advertising revenue overseas is significantly lower. Social media companies aren’t growing as quickly as they used to. In some cases, they aren’t growing at all.In the United States, things are even worse for them: They’re shrinking.Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are no longer adding new users in the United States. Facebook’s daily user base ha...

Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe.Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to “life imitating art”.They believe it could be the first steps in...

Danish bicycle company biomega has designed an electric car. the SIN – named by the firm for the ‘contemporary urban sprawl of singapore’ – is a carbon-fibre EV designed primarily for urban transport.The 4-door SIN CUV (crossover utility vehicle) is ‘limited’ to 160 km on a charge, enough to cross most cities twice. it incorporates four electric motors delivering 60 kW, and four independe...

Because it can be used outdoors on strollers, Sleepytroll is water-resistant.For parents who don't wish to repeatedly get up in the night and rock their fussing infant back to sleep, there's already at least one sensor-equipped baby bed that does the job for them. Sleepytroll, however, takes a different approach – it gets attached to existing strollers or beds, rocking them when it detects a w...

This infographic from Security Baron explores the answer to questions like, “What does Google know about me?” Take a look at the types of data that big tech companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, and others have on their users. Have you ever asked yourself, “What does Google know about me?” The answer is uncomfortable. What Google knows about you includes everything from y...

Our new research finds that Chinese tourists are broadening their horizons in many ways.The myths abound. Ask any tour operator about Chinese visitors, and you’ll likely hear the same stories. Chinese tourists are mainly interested in shopping. They only want to see the main sights and are not interested in exploring a city’s byways and hidden gems. They will only eat Chinese dishes and are r...

It was the middle of the night and Ayal Lanternari was rushing to warm up refrigerated breast milk for his three-month-old baby.His son, Daniel, was hungry and there was nothing Lanternari could do to speed up the process. The only safe way to heat up cold or frozen breast milk is by putting it under running warm water or in a bowl of warm water — a process that can take 10 minutes or more."Yo...

There’s nothing quite like the bitcoin debate. In one corner, crypto evangelists insist that bitcoin will be nothing less than the next reserve currency or digital gold. In the other corner, traditionalists pour scorn on the notion that the technology will present a threat to the existing financial system.[click to enlarge]With bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.02% trading above $6,400, here are 11 of the mo...

When Luckin Coffee raised $200 million this summer, we covered the round asking “what is Luckin Coffee, and why did it raise $200 million?” It turned out that Luckin is a quickly-expanding Chinese coffee chain, with a strong mobile ordering component.And that fast growth means it consumes lots of capital. So much so that just months after that new $200 million made Luckin a unicorn, the firm...