Electric fleet mobility company Xos, Inc. has just introduced a mobile charging solution for electric fleet vehicles called Xos Hub that avoids waiting for infrastructural installation. Xos Hub sits alongside Xos Serve as two new services offered through Xos Energy Solutions, a new business unit within Xos, Inc.Xos, pronounced “ex-ose,” is a Southern California-based fleet manufacturer specia...

The unassuming chipmaking giant was early to the AI revolution—and remains ahead of rivals.“We’re always 30 days away from going out of business,” is a mantra of Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder of Nvidia. That may be a little hyperbolic coming from the boss of a company whose market value has increased from $31bn to $505bn in five years and which has eclipsed Intel, once the world’s mightiest c...

Undulatory swimming appears complex—though not to an eel robot. Lots of robots use bioinspiration in their design. Humanoids, quadrupeds, snake robots—if an animal has figured out a clever way of doing something, odds are there's a robot that's tried to duplicate it. But animals are often just a little too clever for the robots that we build that try to mimic them, which is why researchers at...

Antón visualized an AirPods Pro case concept that holds each AirPods Pro in vertical placement, swapping out a rectangular build for a barrel-shaped case.The new case for AirPods Pros is even wider than the previous generation of AirPods. Wedging that case into your pocket between your keys, wallet, and other EDC items is uncomfortable and makes our pockets too bulky. Iván Antón, a product a...

For years, automakers have been looking for business models beyond car sales to diversify their profit pools. While pay-per-use models—car sharing, ride hailing, and other mobility modes—have become more common, the alternatives to outright ownership have been limited to short-term rental (not always cheap) or leasing, with typically longer-term commitments and restrictive terms.With the rise...

As Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Dylan Field’s Figma is doing for design. Employees at companies like Netflix, AirBNB, Zoom and Discord are all users.In April, Dylan Field had his craziest day since he skipped out on Brown University to try his hand at startups nearly a decade ago. At the virtual conference of his design software company, Figma, popular with custo...

IPOs are having a real blockbuster year in South Korea with many prominent ventures looking to raise money through the stock market.After the long-awaited IPO of ecommerce retailer Coupang on the New York Stock Exchange in March exceeded expectations, yesterday’s initial public offering by games developer Krafton saw share prices tumble on the first day of trading.Krafton nevertheless raised t...

Given that they're such naturally proficient swimmers, the physical structure of fish is increasingly being copied in the design of underwater robots. Scientists have now discovered that by adjusting the stiffness of their tails, those bots can swim much more efficiently.In real fish, the tail muscles can be stiffened up for optimum high-speed sprinting, or loosened off for better low-speed cru...

Outcast Foods turns discarded fruit and vegetables into nutrient-dense food products.The Canadian food technology company Outcast Foods has recently announced the closing of a CAD $10 million (about €8,48) million investment round to tackle food waste. The round included a CAD $5 million (about €6.7) million from District Ventures Capital. Founded in 2017, Nova Scotia-based Outcast aims to ta...