The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mo...

Overworld, the developer partnered with blockchain games publisher Xterio, announced today that it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round. The studio is working on its first game, also temporarily named Overworld, a web3 free-to-play action-RPG with anime-inspired artwork that runs on the Xterio ecosystem.Jeremy Horn, Xterio’s COO, spoke to GamesBeat in an interview about what kind of...

Ford wants its cars to not just be bound to the road. The automaker wants to patent a “ stair climbing robotic vehicle.”Patent Application : https://bit.ly/42FWUpS[USPTO]

Family-owned businesses that combine four critical mindsets with five strategic actions have a chance to quadruple their value in the next decade—while maintaining resilience.These days, organizations across industries and geographies are doing everything they can to bounce forward from recent economic, geopolitical, and technological disruptions.For them, resilience may be a relatively new co...

These new smart glasses can teach people about the world thanks to generative AI.It was only a matter of time before someone added generative AI to an AR headset and taking the plunge is start-up company Brilliant Labs with their recently revealed Frame smart glasses.Looking like a pair of Where’s Waldo glasses (or Where’s Wally to our UK readers), the Frame houses a multimodal digital assist...

P&G and Kimberly-Clark are trying to lure shoppers with premium features, while expanding products for older children and adults.Disposable diapers came to be in the US around the same time that large numbers of women joined the workforce during World War II and no longer had time to wash the cloth versions. These tiny work savers soon became a staple and for decades were a reliable source...

Roam, an EV startup based in Kenya, has raised $24 million in a Series A round, including up to $10 million debt commitment from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), to scale the production of electric motorcycles and buses.Equator, an Africa-focused climate tech VC fund, led the round, which also had the participation of several investors, including At One Ventures, TE...

In early February, Mark Zuckerberg added $28 billion to his wealth in a matter of hours as Meta’s shares soared after the company announced its first dividend payout.This follows a banner year for the Facebook founder, who saw his wealth surge 173% in 2023. Like Zuckerberg, many tech billionaires added huge sums to their wealth as the stock market rebounded.This graphic, from Preyash Shah, sho...

Assoc. Prof. Suranga Nanayakkara (left) and visually impaired student Mark Myres put AiSee to the test.There are many situations in which blind people don't necessarily have to see what they're holding, they just need it described to them. An experimental new wearable device, known as AiSee, is designed to do that very thing.Developed over the past five years by a team of scientists at the Nati...