Square, a tech company that helps businesses process credit card payments, crunched data from sellers around the U.S. and found that Americans are spending nearly $900,000 per month on crusty bread topped with mashed green fruit. That's a huge increase from what the company was seeing in 2014, when Square's sellers were only moving $17,000 worth of avocado toast per month.An Australian milliona...

Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos. Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.If you've ever been served a delicious dish but were too shy to ask for the recipe, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) may have the answer. Working with the Qatar Computing Resear...

The Boston Consulting Group has been tracking value creation among large-cap companies on a global basis for 19 years. Not surprisingly, a cursory look back reveals substantial turnover among the top companies each year. But a deeper look uncovers an elite group of consistent outperformers—companies that have delivered outstanding value creation over a sustained period of two full decades. The...

Drones are a threat to both military and public safety, whether flown by a terrorist or just a reckless pilot.SkySafe’s radio wave technology can detect and stop rogue drones from entering unauthorized areas like military bases, stadiums, prisons and airports. SkySafe’s radio frequency signals are projected from a perimeter of nodes or even a Jeep, and force unapproved drones to leave or land...

According to a study published by PwC, some products are preferably bought online while others are better purchased in-store. The latter is especially true for groceries, which 70 percent of consumers surveyed get from brick-and-mortar stores and only 23 percent online. While it is convenient for consumers to buy household appliances (56 percent) or furniture and homeware (59 percent) in-store,...

Delta will also start testing a service that allows members to check in their baggage using their fingerprint.Boarding joins Delta Sky Club as touch point where fingerprints replace boarding passDelta customers now can use fingerprints instead of their boarding pass to board any Delta aircraft at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).Delta’s biometric boarding pass experience that launched...

Circumventing your eyes entirely, this chip beams images from the world onto the brain to help restore sight. A team of university engineers has turned to science and electronics to help restore sight and hearing. Instead of building bionic eyes or digital cochleas, a team at Rice University has built a flat microscope – dubbed FlatScope – that sits on the brain, beaming the world around you...

Beyoncé sings about it, Hillary Clinton talks about it, and people are increasingly scooping it off US grocery-store shelves. Hot sauce is enjoying an uninterrupted five-year sales streak.Just how impressive is the US hot sauce market? Since 2012, it has experienced at least 5% growth in sales every year, according to data provided by Euromonitor. That leaves other condiments—think mustard, m...

The concept was awarded a Red Dot design award in July 2017 for the smart concept category.We challenged ourselves to solve some of the issues with current tracking devices in an internal design-sprint.Rapid realisation of early concept thinking resulted in a lightweight and versatile system for use in urban areas.Its use of state-of-the-art Google technology allows it to piggy-back off nearby...