No crystal ball is needed to know that mobile data traffic—already burgeoning—is set to explode. Smartphones, streaming video, and connected devices (even vehicles) aren’t just whetting consumers’ appetite for data. They are stimulating a voracious hunger. Expert corroboration is in ample supply: the networking giant Cisco, for example, estimates that mobile data traffic will increase at a...

An Apple invention published on Thursday points to work on water resistant portable devices capable of expelling water from speaker and microphone cavities using varied electric charges and acoustics. As published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple's patent application for "Liquid expulsion from an orifice" describes a novel method by which water, or any other liquid, is transported...

Marriott International will buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwidefor $12.2 billion to create the world's largest hotel chain with top brands including Sheraton, Ritz Carlton and the Autograph Collection.The combined company will own or franchise more than 5,500 hotels with 1.1 million rooms worldwide and give Marriott greater presence in markets such as Europe, Latin America and Asia incl...

What is your favourite workplace perk? Many people love working hard for a cash bonus while others prefer flexible hours or familial benefits. A survey conducted by PWC and recently republished in KPCB's 2015 Internet Trends Report reveals that millennials actually desire training and development more than other working benefits. 22 percent of global millennials placed it top of their wish list...

Using a soup of molecules that replicates the primordial goo found at the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, scientists have created a coating that may significantly improve the body's acceptance of medical implants.Prebiotic compounds that promote the growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, can be traced back billions of years to their origins in the primordial go...

Danish architecture firm Konrad Wójcik is the author of an architectural project, called Primeval Symbiosis, which re-thinks the sustainable and eco-friendly houses, outside the city, in the heart of the forest. Inspired by the tree-house concept, these suspended homes, thought to host two people, are topped by solar panels which generate energy and a heat pump located in the ground. The goal...

Ninety-three percent of millennials plan on shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, marketers and retailers are gearing up for the year's biggest shopping onslaught: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Per usual, millennials are the most coveted demo. When product-discovery platform Influenster surveyed 6,000 millennials to get insights into their plans th...

In the future, Uber or Google will take you to work in an autonomously-driven car. Soylent (or something like it) will replace eating meals with other people. A gigantic robot arm will eliminate the workers in an Amazon warehouse.This is the extremist position, of course; Soylent tastes terrible.But Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England (the United Kingdom’s central bank), yeste...

The electrostatic speakers emit music and landscapes of differing tempo, timbre and pitch also intended to bring down the user's heart rate.A solid night's sleep isn't always achievable for everyone – the estimated 50 to 70 million American adults with sleep disorder will vouch for that. And research has suggested that our increasing tendency to stare into LED screens isn't helping our cause,...