The campaign created a drive-thru truck that brought fast food to the people.The convenient nature of McDonald’s is one of the fast food giant’s main selling points, and the drive-thru makes it so you don’t even need to leave your car. Recently, McDonald’s Brazil took it a step further, offering a way for customers to order food without having to drive to a restaurant. With help from ad age...

It’s been a rocky road to glory for Discord, a startup whose iPad battle arena game, “Fates Forever,” earned it a top spot at our 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt show, but wound up flopping with users.What a difference a few years makes. After pivoting to a voice and text chat tool for video game teams and trash talkers in 2015, Discord’s current trajectory makes it one of few consumer-facing compa...

A new non-invasive cancer test was able to detect cancer DNA in about 90 percent of blood samples, according to a recent study. This technique could help discover cancer years before actual symptoms appear.SIMPLE AND NON-INVASIVECancer research is one of the busiest fields in medical technology, and understandably so, as cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. While there a...

The vehicle doesn't have a driving column -- or even a steering wheel. National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), the company that discontinued the Saab name last June, debuted its InMotion electric level 5 autonomous car concept at CES Asia that's essentially a modular room on wheels. There aren't even any dashboard controls: Occupants adjust the seating arrangements, lighting and environmental...

Sometimes, when looking at our bank accounts at the end of the week, we clap our hands to our foreheads and wonder what we spend money on. Scrolling through to find one big purchase, we usually only find instead a long line of very small purchases. That’s the power of impulse buying: the few purchases here and there that can really add up.Infographic : https://www.titlemax.com/wp-content/uploa...

By now, most companies have big hopes for big data. They see great potential in using sophisticated analytics to preempt problems, such as customers leaving or equipment failing, or to gain an advantage, such as perceiving an industry trend. But success may prove surprisingly elusive. The big data vision of many companies is murky, and the path is fraught with obstacles.A recent survey by The B...

Carnegie Mellon University hopes the device will create ‘smart rooms’ from multiple devices by utilising the Internet of Things.A team from US-based Carnegie Mellon University has developed a device that can smarten up an entire room’s worth of regular devices. The prototype, coined as a Synthetic Sensor, plugs into a regular wall power outlet and monitors the room it is placed in with senso...

For the first time since the presentation of the Apple Watch in September 2015, Apple unveiled an entirely new product at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. Confirming earlier rumors, the new device named HomePod is indeed a voice-enabled speaker, but as opposed to Amazon’s Echo and Google Home, Apple’s new device appears to be a wireless speaker first and a virtual...

Augmented-reality startup Meta’s vision for the future of work involves midair sticky notes and plenty of hand gestures.I’ve got an embarrassingly large number of Post-it notes dotting my desk at work. And at any given moment I have too many tabs open on my Web browser while my computer has several applications running. The augmented-reality startup Meta promises I’ll manage all of that in m...