While the most obvious upgrade to a fridge is a fridge that connects to your phone and allows you to run Buzzfeed tasty videos customized to your liking, it isn’t truly the wisest upgrade. The Smart Touch refrigerator may seem like it’s a long shot, but in philosophy, it captures what a smart fridge is required to be like. Aesthetically, the fridge is definitely a class apart, with its half-s...

The rise of technology has altered how we live and the speed with which we engage with one another. But how does this impact wealth management – a proposition predicated on personal service, where clients pay for solutions and advice tailored to their individual investment goals, day-to-day financial needs and attitudes to risk? PwC has surveyed over 1000 high net worth individuals and intervi...

MIT is developing an intuitive and visual aid to help students master the piano.People at the MIT Media Lab has created another interesting invention: Andante, a teaching piano. Andante uses human figures that dance on piano keys as they are played according to the piece.This simple hack can help students learn playing the piano more effectively.A typical coaching piano system uses blinking lig...

While self-driving tech receives the lion's share of media attention, a host of less-heralded startups are targeting specific pieces of automotive infrastructure or components.[click to enlarge]As startups focused on autonomous driving grab headlines, corporations are jockeying for a competitive edge in auto tech through startup acquisitions and investments, as well as partnerships and internal...

3-D printing has become a powerful tool for engineers and designers, allowing them to do “rapid prototyping” by creating a physical copy of a proposed design.But what if you decide to make changes? You may have to go back, change the design and print the whole thing again, perhaps more than once. So Cornell researchers have come up with an interactive prototyping system that prints what you a...

Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway set new records.Tech is booming, oil is tanking, and the banks are back—for now, anyway. Earlier this week, Fortune published the Fortune 500, its annual list of the best in U.S. business. The 10 most profitable of the 500 largest companies form an exceptional cross-section of the economy. Despite a tempestuous 2015 for American business, these re...

VR is definitely the future of media. It’s a given. We’ve already begun developing VR content, and VR devices are a dime a dozen, but just like the first ever car, or first ever plane, or phone, the VR Devices of today are rudimentary in a way. They mostly just house mobile phones, and the biggies, like the Vive or Rift, still have a long way to in terms of design and functionality. The Oculu...

Dutch firm MVRDV recently completed an unusual project in Hong Kong that involved the gutting of an existing factory interior and its replacement with all-glass office spaces. Featuring glass walls, glass floors, and glass tables, 133 Wai Yip Street is conceived as a new working space for the business with nothing to hide.The project is located in East Kowloon, Hong Kong 133 Wai Yip Street rise...

Companies across all industries are experiencing major cyber attacks every year. There's been 53 million online security-related events in 2015 alone, according to a report by IBM.The bigger problem is that most of these attacks are initiated by "insiders," such as employees, business partners, or third party contractors. This chart from Statista, based on data from the IBM report, shows that 6...