comScore last week released our annual Cross-Platform Future in Focus report to provide an examination of recent history in the worlds of TV and digital media with an eye toward what’s to come. One of the threads that immediately jumped out to us in our analysis of the digital media landscape is that there are now clear signs that the mobile media era – which has seen an explosion in incremen...

As automation in the workplace rapidly becomes a force to be reckoned with, millennials are taking notice, according to a recent Deloitte Global study.In work environments that are increasingly shaped by technology, automation has the potential to both limit job availability and improve workforce productivity and flexibility. Millennial employees are already feeling the impact. Given their grow...

U.S. consumers spent $21 billion on bottled water last year. Americans now drink more bottled water than soda.Bottled-water consumption in the U.S. hit 39.3 gallons per capita last year, while carbonated soft drinks fell to 38.5 gallons, marking the first time that soda was knocked off the top spot, according to data from industry tracker Beverage Marketing Corp. But Soda is still more expensiv...

As a sufferer of extreme carsickness, I’d do just about anything to make it stop… including zapping myself with electricity! This is essentially how the wearable antiemetic CinvStop device works, only the shock is entirely unnoticeable. In fact, it’s about manipulating your nerve signals rather than distract from the feeling.By releasing a specific low-frequency pulse, it can adjust the vagu...

Digitalization and a host of societal and technological trends are transforming the automotive industry. Advances in autonomous driving, the Internet of Things, and big data analytics are redefining how drivers interact with vehicles and creating opportunities for innovative products, services, and business models. Urbanization, ubiquitous connectivity, and the embrace of mobile devices and soc...

The Disciplines of User Experience Design is a mega Venn diagram that attempts to tackle the relationships of UX within design.We toss around the term “user experience” (UX) a lot, mostly as a shorthand for something like “where industrial design meets interface design.” But to be perfectly honest, that tendency does this branch of design very little justice.The Disciplines of User Experien...

Apple is reportedly working on a “super secret” medical project: building sensors to monitor blood sugar levels without piercing the skin.According to CNBC, the iPhone maker has been working on this for at least five years, quietly hiring dozens of biomedical engineers and sequestering them in a nondescript Palo Alto office.It may be intended to connect to the Apple Watch, which Apple CEO Tim...

Part of being a global superpower is having some money to throw around. Want to fund a giant 80 million person megacity in the Pearl River Delta for $322 billion? Piece of cake. Re-build the Silk Road for up to $1 trillion? Not an issue.But China doesn’t only show off its deep pockets domestically. The country has also been extremely active on the global market, buying up everything from natur...

Chatbots have never been able to empathize. That looks set to change, thanks to a Chinese team that has built a chatbot capable of conveying specific emotions. Chatbots have a long and venerable history dating back to the 1960s and the famous Eliza bot that fooled some people into thinking they were chatting with a real human. Since then, computer programs capable of conducting conversations ha...