The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to replacing today's smart connector on an iPad with a wireless power transfer system to power accessories like the Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil 2. Apple notes in their patent background that an iPad accessory like a Magic Keyboard provides exposed electrical contacts that provide an avenue within which dust...

The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars. Can the auto industry cope?Predictions of lost global vehicle production caused by the ongoing semiconductor shortage continue to rise. In January, analysts forecast that 1.5 million fewer vehicles would be produced as a result of the shortage; by April that number had steadily climbed to...

Move over, Museum of Ice Cream: A former Esquire publisher, an Oscars set designer, and the filmmaker behind ‘Hamilton’ join forces on the edutainment of the future.A $30 million spectacle is opening in Atlanta next month that proposes a new kind of post-pandemic experience. Blurring elements of film, immersive environments, and theatrical design, the space, called Illuminarium, hopes to brin...

The traits that nurtured your main growth engine can bring new success beyond the core.Having a strong core business is still the best growth strategy. Yet executive teams are increasingly hunting for new growth engines because their main one has weakened or is under threat.Companies in this position can successfully extend beyond their existing core by exploiting their parenting advantages: tr...

Veri has raised $4 million in funding to start shipping its glucose sensor that monitors your blood sugar for preventative health.The Helsinki, Finland-based company views itself as a food intelligence company, as its sensor and the accompanying app can help people understand their optimal diet to improve the state of their metabolic health. The idea is to make blood sugar readings as commonpla...

As Apple is kicking off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, the company is dealing with a little trouble on the home front. Following the company’s internal announcement of its post-pandemic remote work policy, a group of employees has pushed back against the planned return to offices. In an email published by The Verge, Tim Cook had asked employees to come in to the o...

A single Windcatcher floating offshore grid could power 80,000 European homes at grid-parity pricesWind Catching Systems.Norway's Wind Catching Systems (WCS) has made a spectacular debut with a colossal floating wind turbine array it says can generate five times the annual energy of the world's biggest single turbines – while reducing costs enough to be immediately competitive with grid prices...

Gadgets like fitness trackers and smartwatches are the most popular among US wearable owners, 63% of whom own these sorts of devices. By contrast, more specialized wearables, such as sleep trackers or posture correctors, are not as widely adopted.[emarketer]

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