Month: January 2025

I argued in my recent post What’s Next for Podcasting? that we’re at a pivot point where podcasting is becoming a mainstream content format for all types of shows and creators as Hollywood enters the fray. There’s a surge of interest by both creatives and businesspeople in podcasts right now, so I’ve compiled a reading…

Enlarge / The Uber vehicle after it struck Elaine Herzberg.As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high: Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area. Uber was racking up millions of test miles for its own cars. Tesla was selling a “full self-driving” upgrade…

Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.Nov. 16, 2018ImageMark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington in April.CreditCreditChip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIn ancient Egypt there lived a wise king named Thamus. One day he was visited by a clever god called Theuth.Theuth was an inventor…

5G is coming. We’ve heard that phrase for years now; but it’s no longer a concept, it’s reality. Carriers around the world are committing to consumer-ready 5G network launches in 2019 (in some cases, early 2019), with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855-powered smartphones that you can actually go buy and use on the network. But that’s still…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo)Since its introduction in 2012, Dolby Atmos has been a dazzling new audio technology that you could basically only experience in fancy movie theaters. But recently, high-end soundbars have started supporting the standard, which was cool if you wanted to spend north of $1,000 on a system. Vizio did what Vizio…

From UNIVAC to the will.i.am hologram. Every election night, news networks are forced to contend with two seemingly contradictory problems: more information than they can possibly report and more time than they can possibly fill. For the last 70 years, anchors, reporters, and producers from rival TV networks have competed to air the best, most…

Have you ever been to a fast-moving square dance? Partners dance together, spin around a time or two, and then move onto new partners. As the dance progresses, some people return to their original partners, while others will dance once and leave the floor. If you pay attention, this resembles a fast-emerging business strategy that…

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Photo: GizmodoHuawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on behalf of the U.S. last weekend and the incident grabbed the global spotlight after the arrest was revealed publicly on Wednesday night. Meng was apprehended for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, but we won’t officially hear the charges until her bail hearing…

Moralizing and giggling about the topic today won’t stop the technology from changing society tomorrow. sarah5/iStock/Getty Images Plus Why Queen Elizabeth Wore Such Wild Makeup—and How It May Have Led to Her Decline The Weirdest Part of This New Meat Allergy Is That We Know What’s Causing It Congressman Says a “WallCoin” Could Fund Trump’s…

Julia Freeland Fisher, Opinion contributor Published 7:00 a.m. ET Nov. 28, 2018 Healthy development and access to opportunity both hinge on relationships — and it turns out technology can help.At Willis Junior High school in Chandler, Ariz. on Dec. 19, 2012.(Photo: Michael Schennum/USA TODAY Network)In 2018, screen time and bad parenting are practically becoming synonyms.…

Every morning throughout New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC, a fleet of black vans emblazoned with bright blue logos take to the streets. If it weren’t for the Via logo, they’d blend right in to the fabric of other ride-hail vehicles, personal cars, and taxis. But under the surface, Via is hoping it can…

Although it’s obvious that you should recycle your water bottles, it’s less obvious eyeglasses and other obscure items are recyclable.Toothbrushes and lightly used bras can be recycled.You can recycle your phone, laptop, and most other electronic devices. When the word “recycling” comes to mind, most people think of soda cans, water bottles, and cardboard boxes.…

Going on a coffee run with Waymo One It is late afternoon in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, and I’m getting jittery waiting for my self-driving car to make a left turn before arriving at the coffee shop. Seconds tick by, and the vehicle — an autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivan owned by Waymo —…

U.S. stocks closed mostly higher Friday after comments from President Donald Trump once again sparked hopes that a trade dispute with China could be resolved in the near term. But the Nasdaq bucked the trend to finish lower as a decline in chip maker shares, led by Nvidia Corp., dented sentiment in the technology sector.…

ImageConcrete blocks made by Solidia Technologies in Leighton Buzzard, England, which aims to tweak the formula for making cement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.CreditCreditAndrew Testa for The New York TimesLEIGHTON BUZZARD, England — Just after sunrise, a concrete plant located in a muddy industrial zone north of London stirs to life. Workers in orange suits…

How will the venerable Nokia fare against the Verve IMO S2? Composite: Getty Images/Louisa Parry As the new millennium dawned on January 1, 2000, I remember the novelty of using a mobile to exchange greetings with family. My Nokia 3210, unveiled the previous year, was state of the art. Competitively priced, lightweight (we thought) ……

Credit: Zephyr/Science Photo Library A day after news broke of a Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make the world’s first genome-edited babies, researchers fear the startling announcement will hinder their efforts to safely translate gene-editing technology into treatments. As scientists gathered for the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong…

Vaping is a popular activity, one that has a real a 21st-century twist to it. The technology behind vaping is relatively new. The consequences of doing it are mysterious and potentially very dangerous. And yet, vaping seems better than what people in the 20th century did to their bodies—namely smoking cigarettes. If you’re doing that…

Artificial Intelligence If you’re an entrepreneur in the healthcare field, you need to prepare: AI is coming to your segment soon. Image credit: metamorworks | Getty Images Toby Nwazor Contributor Consumer Goods Entrepreneur, Freelance Writer December 18, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Technology is changing fast, and the…

Welcome to Dispensed: A weekly dose of pharma, biotech, and healthcare news Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Hello! Welcome to Dispensed, your weekly dose of the biotech, pharma, and healthcare stories that kept Business Insider’s healthcare team busy this week. I just got back from Seattle — stay tuned next week for some stories gathered from my…

Aaron Mooy’s first goals of the season lifted Huddersfield off the bottom of the Premier League and up to 14th in the tableNuno Espirito Santo says Wolves’ defeat by Huddersfield was one of their “worst performances” since he joined the club as head coach in May 2017.While Aaron Mooy’s double lifted David Wagner’s side off…

Thanks to an influx of exciting new technologies and partnerships, patient experience and the healthcare industry as a whole are rapidly changing. The impact of additional research, new data developments, and cutting-edge treatments on the healthcare industry is truly impressive. Major medical providers around the world must now embrace the future of medicine so they don’t fall behind…

ImageMeng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei and a daughter of the company’s founder, was arrested in Canada on Saturday.CreditCreditAlexander Bibik/ReutersWASHINGTON — At dinner with China’s president, Xi Jinping, on Saturday night in Buenos Aires, President Trump celebrated their “special” relationship and all but predicted they would emerge with a truce in the trade…

NBC NBCUniversal is trying to stave off the shift of TV dollars to digital platforms. The TV company is expanding its use of its cross-measurement system, CFlight, in 2019. It’s also continuing to cut ad clutter and make ads more relevant. Linda Yaccarino, chairman of NBCUniversal’s advertising sales and partnerships, took some bold steps in…

Security flaws threaten our privacy and bank accounts. So why aren’t we fixing them?By Cooper QuintinMr. Quintin is a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Dec. 26, 2018ImageCreditCreditAndrew DegraffAmerica’s cellular network is as vital to society as the highway system and power grids. Vulnerabilities in the mobile phone infrastructure threaten not only personal privacy…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 104149546 story China’s Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI ‘Killer Bots’ (scmp.com) 73 Posted by msmash on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:40AM from the how-about-that dept. A group of some of China’s smartest students have been recruited straight from high school to begin training as the world’s…

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With his spiky hair and Adidas sweatshirt, Shay Murray looks like a typical 11-year-old. He’s cute, he’s boisterous, he’s into everything. But he also has Pearson syndrome, an incredibly rare mitochondrial disease that affects multiple body organs. His eyesight, hearing and memory are deteriorating, his kidneys are operating at barely 60%. There is no cure.…

The subject of a recent Netflix original movie called Outlaw King, Robert the Bruce is one of Scotland’s great national heroes. Get to know King Bob a little better. 1. Robert the Bruce was a polyglot who loved telling stories. He likely spoke Scots, Gaelic, Latin, and Norman French, and was an avid reader who…

For a CEO who insists his electric vehicle startup doesn’t want to be Tesla, Rivian founder RJ Scaringe can sound a lot like Elon Musk. Just weeks before unveiling Rivian’s first vehicles — an all-electric pickup and a seven-seater SUV — at the LA Auto Show last month, Scaringe promised an impressive new battery technology…

Mergers and Acquisitions The technology and talent acquired — especially in high tech — are the most valuable assets secured from an integration. Image credit: Rawpixel Ltd | Getty Images Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Merging teams, products and processes is one of the most challenging efforts a company can undertake. Yet, M&A…

The latest IPCC report  does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historical precedent” in order to avoid the climate catastrophe that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average global temperature. Climate change already disproportionately…

Eeyore is one of the many Disney characters to appear in the reference-heavy film. Disney “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the sequel to Disney’s 2012 hit, “Wreck-It Ralph,” which hits theaters Wednesday, is worthy of the original according to critics. Critics are impressed with its clever examination of internet culture, saying that it “connects to our…

Sean Burns, Opinion contributor Published 3:15 a.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018 | Updated 9:34 a.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018We have the power to cripple the oil states and build US technological superiority. A dramatic shift to renewables will help us, not other countries.Near Palm Springs, California, on April 22, 3016.(Photo: David McNew/AFP/Getty images)As a new U.S.…

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. Image: Amazon / Mashable CompositeBy Genevieve ScaranoMashable Deals2018-11-13 15:34:44 UTC The smart home concept is increasingly becoming the norm. Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in voice recognition assistants and connected devices to make our…