Marketing technology (martech) promised real-time personalization, workflow automation, and customer insight—but after billions spent, most companies still operate at low maturity. Martech often automates old processes, lacks measurable ROI, and remains far from its growth-driving potential.AI now offers a rare “second chance” to rebuild martech as an intelligent, adaptive enterprise system...

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the world’s wealthiest people, is throwing his money and time into an artificial intelligence start-up that he will help manage as its co-chief executive.The company, Project Prometheus, is coming out of the gates with $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Mr. Bezos, making it one of the most well-financed early-stage start-ups in the world, said thr...

Meet Memo, the personal home robot by Sunday that resembles more of a playful and joyful cartoon character than a humanoid assistant. Made to complete household tasks, the roving device has a round head with two straight eyes, a head with a hat-like top piece, and a torso shaped like a cylinder. The arm connects to the torso through a circular joint, while the body and arm sections use smooth s...

Chipmakers are increasingly stacking transistor-packed layers on top of each other to cram even more computing power into any given space. However, today’s technologies for spotting buried defects that can ruin these 3-D chips are either inadequate or downright destructive. But new quantum sensors based on artificial diamonds might help foundries quickly catch these hidden defects during produ...

The cruise industry’s old cliche that “the newly wed, the overfed, and the nearly dead” fuel the business could do with a little update in 2025. A growing number of Gen Zers and millennials captivated by the idea of “seacationing” are powering cruise lines through the gloom that’s dawned in parts of the broader travel industry this year, as passenger volumes are forecast to hit ~38 millio...

KAWS’ monumental Companion lands on Abu Dhabi’s waterfront, not floating this time, but stretched across the edge of Mina Zayed as if pausing between breaths, lifting a glowing moon toward the sky. The arrival of KAWS:HOLIDAY Abu Dhabi, created in collaboration with long-time partner AllRightsReserved, marks the newest stop in the artist’s global series of large-scale public sculptures. On v...

If cars can fly and boats can surf, why shouldn’t one vehicle just do it all? Bio Shift Multipurpose Vehicle is a futuristic mashup that tries exactly that, an all-terrain, all-medium machine inspired by both biology and spaceflight. The design takes cues from bacteriophages (yes, viruses) and lunar mission modules. The phage idea gives it a three-stage approach: attach, separate, reattach. Th...

Luxury Set for 2026 Revival but Shoppers ‘Betrayed’ by Pricing, Bain Says. The global luxury goods industry is likely to sell 3 percent to 5 percent more next year after stagnating in 2025.The global luxury goods industry is likely to sell 3 percent to 5 percent more next year after stagnating in 2025, but years of aggressive price increases have alienated customers, threatening long-term gro...

Apple has set its sights on the ultimate always-with-you controller: a smart ring that you wear like jewelry but that behaves like a precise, tactile input device.In a newly published U.S. patent application, Apple details a ring input device with a rotating, touch-sensitive outer band, on-band press detection, variable and programmable rotational resistance, fine-grained position sensing, and...