Bentley's New App Uses Facial Recognition to Point You to the Ideal SUV. In what it's billing as a "luxury commissioning experience," Bentley has launched its Inspirator app with a compelling promise: To use your emotions to recommend you the perfect Bentayga SUV.VML London powered the app, available on iPad and iPhone, with emotion metric algorithms and data from 3.4 million faces across 75 co...

Activision Blizzard announced it was buying King, the maker of Candy Crush, for $5.9 billion in cash, a 20% premium over King's share price at close yesterday.Why? As this chart from Statista shows, 79% of Activision's revenue today comes from selling PC, online, and console games. King, on the other hand, makes 80% of its revenue from mobile games. The combined company will be much more divers...

Men aged 65 and older spent more on Apple devices than any other demographic group in the United States last year, according to Slice Intelligence, which tracks online shopping data.That group, though not even one-quarter of all Apple customers, spent $976 online on average per person on iGadgets.They outspent the young female demographic by more than $400. (Women 25 to 34 spent the least out o...

To make your Newsfeed better, Facebook is working on artificial intelligence that can understand what’s going on in your photos.Speaking at Web Summit, Facebook’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, detailed a new system the company has been developing to understand what’s happening in photos and translate that into natural language elements.One demonstration showed a photo in Newsfeed of a man skateboard...

Like WiFi before it, could wireless charging be the next value-add for coffee shops and other public venues? One startup banking on that being the case is London-headquartered Chargifi, which is building out a wireless charging network.Today the company is announcing a $2.7 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, who can also be seen as a strategic investor given that the chipmaker is on t...

Fingernails2Go uses an inkjet printer to paint users' nails.While many women enjoy a relaxing visit to the nail salon, it's an indulgence that not everyone has time for. Additionally, skilled though they may be, most manicurists aren't able to paint photos of kids or pets onto clients' nails. By contrast, Tensator Technology Centre's new Fingernails2Go Digital Nail Art Kiosk can create user-sup...

Asia is now the top regional destination for R&D spending, followed by North America and Europe. See also Interactive: Where Companies Spend Their R&D Money.The geographic footprint of innovation is changing dramatically as research and development programs become more global. An overwhelming 94 percent of the world’s largest innovators now conduct elements of their R&D programs ab...

Lucimed, a Belgian company, is releasing the new Luminette head-worn light therapy device. Bright light, particularly in the blue spectrum, is well known to control our circadian rhythms. Long winters and indoor living can severely limit how much light enters our eyes, causing all sorts of emotional issues, worsening the quality of sleep, and bringing on the dreaded Seasonal Affective Disorder....

From the "Opening" of Palazzo Italia to the international market: biodynamic cement is now a global product. A beautiful cement to see and touch. A sustainable, durable, resistant material which has great visual quality and is ready to be used in architecturally prestigious works such as Palazzo Italia at Expo 2015. Italcementi’s research and innovation skills have led to conceive a new materi...