China's TikTok was the most downloaded social media app in 2020 -- ahead of Facebook and three other apps the U.S. company owns.A global survey of downloads in 2020 shows TikTok, a video-sharing app developed in China, on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first conducted in 2018.According to Nikkei Asia, a global survey of downloads in 2020 showed...

The car, while only a concept so far, gives us a glimpse into the future of Audi design and engineering, and we’re seriously here for it.When we first heard about the Skysphere, Audi sounded a little cagey. They told us it was a sports car, but they also told us it was autonomous. It almost seemed like they couldn’t get their story straight. Well… now it makes sense. It’s both.The main feat...

Sometimes, it takes having the world turned upside down to understand what it should look like right-side up.After a year and a half of norm-busting events, individuals and businesses know what is essential and what is not. Having adapted to extraordinary challenges, we’ve all learned that it’s possible to pivot in ways we couldn’t have imagined before. And having lived through dizzying chan...

The fashion house is marking what would have been his 200th birthday.Louis Vuitton is kicking off a bumper celebration on what would have been its founder's 200th birthday. The fashion house – which will be hosting a series of celebratory activations over the next few months – has today launched a new game which is inspired by the journey Louis Vuitton made as a 14-year-old man.Vuitton was ju...

Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno helped create some of Apple’s biggest hits. Now their startup Humane is at work on something ambitious—and mysterious.Investors poured nearly $8 billion dollars into synthetic biology last year. This company is leading the field.In 2017, two of Apple’s top design and technology executives decided to leave the company to start their own venture with an amb...

Louis Vuitton has infused gaming into its global strategy since debuting a League of Legends collaboration in 2019. Beijing’s widening tech crackdown — spanning e-commerce, education, finance, and more — has kept companies on their toes and sparked a $1 trillion stock market selloff in July. State media criticisms of China’s red-hot gaming sector represent a source of concern for luxury bra...

Italian company Energy Dome says its "carbon dioxide batteries" offer a fast-response, cheap, grid-scale energy storage alternative to lithium batteries.Carbon dioxide may finally get its chance to become a solution in the climate crisis. Italy's Energy Dome says its CO2 batteries will store energy at less than half the cost of lithium "big batteries," while also being very responsive to load d...

With the COVID-19 pandemic curtailing earthly travel, space tourism may seem like a far-fetched dream—but some companies are betting on high demand.The space industry saw record-breaking growth in 2020 as investors, undeterred by the COVID-19 pandemic, poured almost $9 billion into private companies. While some of these businesses are simply providing parts and services to government agencies...

Honda baiku is a futuristic vehicle concept that gives us a taste of transportation’s next step. Envisioned by valencia-based designer nacho alfonso, the one-wheeled motorcycle explores the new electric mobility that has become popular in the last years, where electric vehicles — scooters or skates, occupy the streets of many cities around the world. the honda baiku concept adds a high-end se...