The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44% during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying and aged from 18 to 24.If you aren’t one of those millions, here’s a primer: On IMVU, users create personal avatars and dress them in clothes designed by fellow users—creators, in site parlance—bought with credits pai...

Synchron’s Stentrode device is implanted into the jugular vein, through which it measures neurological signals to control wirelessly connected devices, allowing paralysis patients to communicate and perform daily tasks.After years of focusing on all things artificial intelligence, the buzziest buzz in medtech now centers not on robots and algorithms, but on the distinctly non-artificial abilit...

Incumbents gained a four-year reprieve in the pandemic. Here’s how to use it.Grocery sales in Western Europe have risen to a level we only expected in 2025 after Covid-19 obliged many consumers to eat three meals a day at home.Grocers now have breathing space to reposition themselves strategically and retain their recent momentum, averting what could otherwise be a decade of profit erosion.Hyp...

While offshore wind farms continue to play a growing part in the renewable energy mix, particularly in the US which recently approved its first major facility off the coast of Massachusetts, there remains a lot of untapped potential in the winds blowing across the world's oceans. GE is looking to unlock this potential through the development of massive wind turbines that can operate in deeper w...

Cochlear implants help people with profound single-sided or bilateral hearing loss get the sense of sound but come with an impending downside. The implanted user is unable to enjoy any music since the implant distorts the musical signature. Any audio frequency will sound very different/distorted and, at times, even horrible. The distortion leads to a “sense of loss,” as per Dr. Ben Oliver, As...

Brands need to listen to the non-binary thinking of consumers in their teens and early twenties, according to a report by Depop and Bain & Company.Growing up in an era of ubiquitous digital technology and an unmatched rate of change, Generation Z has developed an interconnected and fluid way of processing the world, rather than digesting it through a binary framework. The impact of this min...

With 150 species going extinct every day, the human-caused ongoing sixth mass extinction could see as much as 10% loss every decade.To get its customers engaged with the fact one million animal and plant species are presently at risk of extinction, Mastercard has partnered with Conservation International, to create 'The Wildlife Impact Card' program.Created by McCann, the awareness campaign uti...

A London-based start-up has revealed an innovative electric car design solution that, it says, could allow for 30% more range per charge. Page-Roberts, founded in 2019, aims to "dramatically upscale EV efficiencies with cutting-edge engineering solutions that deliver design elegance."The firm's patented design concept rethinks the position of the battery pack in a conventional passenger-carryin...

Tesla has filed a trademark under restaurant services, which suggests the automaker may be finally working to realize its dream of combining its charging stations with an old-school drive-in restaurant concept. The application is currently waiting to be reviewed. This isn’t a new idea. As far back as 2018, CEO Elon Musk has said he wants a “retro carhop” where a menu would automatically pop...