The One electric city car from team Uniti has spent much of its testing time indoors so far, but the company recently decided to take advantage of the glorious (northern) summer sunshine and take the electric micro car for a spin around southern Sweden.Where Renault's similarly-sized Twizy quadricycle has a maximum range of 100 km, the One is promised to roll for 300 km (186 mi) before needing...

With Dropbox, Spotify and Xiaomi, 2018 has already seen several prominent unicorns take the plunge and go public. And while Sonos never really made it into the Unicorn Club before last week’s IPO, the maker of wireless multiroom speakers is the latest example of a well-known private company deciding to become a publicly traded one, with all its pros and cons. Looking at CB Insights' current ra...

Beersheba, Israel-based Dia Imaging Analysis, an AI health care startup that develops automation tools for ultrasound scanners, today announced a $5 million funding round led by Connecticut Innovations, Defta Healthcare, and the Israeli government’s Innovation Authority.Ultrasound scanners are good for more than just in-the-womb snapshots of soon-to-be-born babies. Their high-frequency waves’...

The UK’s Starling Bank is making its cards look like they were designed for the way they’re used.Consider the ways you use your bank card on an everyday basis, whether handing it over to a cashier, swiping it to make contactless payments, or inserting it into an ATM. How are you holding the card as you do all those things? Vertically, I’m willing to bet, or in portrait orientation, to borrow...

Throwing your sneakers in the clothes washing machine can give them new life, but you also run the risk of damaging the barrel or leaving behind rubber and sidewalk grime that can make its way onto your wardrobe. If only washers were designed with a compartment just for freshening up your kicks. Well, that’s precisely the idea behind the 3 Space washing machine.It keeps fabric goods and shoes...

Just before the smartphone revolution, Nokia was by far the world’s most popular mobile handset manufacturer.However, despite selling 250 million units of its two most popular block-shaped models in the mid-2000s, the Finnish company ended up being woefully late to the smartphone party. Not only was the company ill-equipped to match the iPhone and Blackberry in terms of technology and design f...

Fees for everything from parking to vehicle registration, drivers’ licenses, and public transportation today provide critical revenue for many of the world’s governments. So what happens if that money dries up?MOST governments rely heavily on revenue generated directly and indirectly by transportation. Everything from fuel taxes to parking fees, traffic violation fines, value-added taxes from...

A research team from SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) has come up with a way to replace the use of ‘blurring’ faces in news reports when anonymity is needed. The team's method uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that aim to improve visuals while amplifying emotions tied to the story.If you really want to sense the emotion in what someone is saying, it helps if...

With both Walmart and Amazon announcing an expansion of their online grocery delivery services this week, it’s time to take a look at the current state of online grocery shopping in the United States. Over the past 20 years, e-commerce has steadily risen in size and reach. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce sales accounted for roughly 10 percent of total retail sales in the U.S. l...