Microsoft and The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) unveiled the AI-powered TrialWatch app Thursday morning, a new tool in CFJ’s ongoing TrialWatch effort to shine a light on injustice in courts around the globe – which too often are simply barbaric.
| News | April 25, 2019 |
After a single weekend of racing, a Formula 1 pit crew typically pulls around 2TB of data from the car. Everything, from tire pressure to the temperature of the track, is recorded and analyzed in the name of boosting performance -- and not all drivers are happy about it.
| Car Features | March 27, 2019 |
FirstBuild's Opal nugget ice maker packs ice crystals into nuggets of crunchy ice. Here's how the company has turned the home appliance market on its ear.
| Smart Home Features | March 13, 2019 |
The new Samsung Galaxy Buds are an answer to the oddball design of the Apple AirPods: They're cheaper, better looking, and bring some neat features, including wireless charging with the Galaxy S10, S10+, and S10 e. Can Galaxy Buds snuff out the AirPods?
| News | February 21, 2019 |
Ahead of a wave of 5G smartphones to be unveiled at MWC 2019 in Barcelona next week, Qualcomm is preparing for an even faster future. On Tuesday, the silicon giant unveiled a second-generation 5G modem for the following wave of smartphones, promising blistering download speeds as high as 7Gbps.
| Business | February 19, 2019 |
Wearables are morphing from devices that send you smartphone notifications and track your fitness into gadgets that can monitor your health -- and maybe even save your life. Here's why -- and how advanced AI from companies like Microsoft and Google can make it possible.
| News | January 31, 2019 |
CES 2019 didn’t just give us a taste of the future, it offered a five-course meal. From 8K and Micro LED televisions to smart toilets, the show delivered with all the amazing gadgetry you could ask for. Here’s a look at all the big trends, and when expect they’ll arrive.
| Products | January 25, 2019 |
Some Apple iPad Pros may ship with a very slight bend in the chassis – and that’s not a defect, the company says. In fact, Apple VP of hardware engineering Dan Riccio says that little bit of bend meets Apple’s quality standards just fine, thank you very much.
| Mobile | December 22, 2018 |
Monster, which turned the headphone industry upside down with Dr. Dre, is upending its own exec board, announcing in a press release that it had fired “toxic” COO Fereidoun “Fred” Khalilian on July 27 – alleging a failed hostile takeover, death and dismemberment threats, and downright corruption.
| News | September 25, 2018 |
Modern cars have sensors that are meant to make driving safer, like detecting something or someone out in front. But current technology needs improvement. Enter radar, lidar, and cameras, but are they the solution?
| Car Features | September 21, 2018 |
Sony has unveiled the limited First Litter Edition Aibo, which goes on sale in time for the holidays for a mere $2,899. The pup is a tech tour de force, with 22 axes of movement, bright OLED screens for eyes, And a cloud-connected A.I. system to help it learn who you are and grow and adapt.
| News | August 23, 2018 |
A new study from the University of Toledo reveals the process by which blue light impacts the photoreceptors in our eyes and leads to macular degeneration, an incurable eye disease that causes blindness later in life. Cell phones emit blue light ... so should we be worried? Hardly. And here's why.
| Health & Fitness | August 15, 2018 |
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) embarked in April 2018 on a two-year mission to seek out new planets — and possibly extraterrestrial life -- and it began science operations on July 25. Here’s everything you need to know about the satellite and its mission.
| Guides | July 27, 2018 |
Seeing a steady decrease in eyeballs and attention as CES grows and sucks up everything in its path, the organizers of the Detroit Auto Show (officially called NAIAS) have moved the show's dates from January to June starting in 2020 -- and plan to rethink the show entirely.
| Car News | July 23, 2018 |
On July 17, Coast Autonomous, a new entry in the self-driving vehicle market, kicked off a day of demonstrations of its autonomous P-1 Shuttle on Broadway in New York’s crowded Times Square, a symbolic location meant to demonstrate the company’s confidence in its technology.
| Car News | July 17, 2018 |
Uber has put the brakes on its experimental autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Toronto following a deadly crash in Tempe, Arizona. We've recently learned that the crash was "entirely avoidable" as the safety driver was watching Hulu up until about 0.5 seconds prior to the crash.
| Car News | June 22, 2018 |
China wants to be a tech superpower, but a well-known reputation for shamelessly copying innovators is giving the country’s manufacturers a bad name, and obscuring their own innovations.
| Features | June 18, 2018 |
Looking to add some savvy to that aging cable box? Amazon's new Fire TV Cube may be the answer. Offering Alexa voice control and integration across all your major home theater pieces -- including the cable box -- the Cube is not your average streaming device.
| News | June 8, 2018 |
At WWDC 2018, Apple took the wraps off the latest version of the iOS operating system. iOS 12 introduces changes both visual and under the hood, but still fails to address some of the basics. Here are 5 obvious issues Apple should address in iOS 12 before it’s officially released (or maybe in iOS 13?).
| Apple | June 5, 2018 |
Toshiba isn’t the first company that might come to mind when you think of augmented reality, but the company has big plans to take over the space, beating out rivals like Microsoft and Epson.
| News | June 3, 2018 |
Premium laptops have traditionally abandoned discrete graphics to keep battery life long and weight low, but HP’s newest systems take a different approach. Most include either AMD or Nvidia graphics. The new Envy x360 13-inch tries to outrun the competition with AMD’s Ryzen and Radeon Vega.
| Features | May 15, 2018 |
Ahead of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress on Tuesday, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge penned a policy piece arguing that Congress should create privacy laws to regulate how companies like Facebook care for our personal information. And you know what? He's completely right.
| Web | April 10, 2018 |
LG Electronics broke ground in 2017 on a $250 million washing machine manufacturing facility in Clarksville, Tennessee, an hour north of Nashville. But will the business climate soil the deal?
| Smart Home News | March 10, 2018 |
Innovation powerhouse Dyson unveiled its latest cordless vacuum cleaner, the Cyclone V10, which is powered by a next-generation motor.
| Smart Home News | March 9, 2018 |
Samsung announced the opening of a manufacturing facility for home appliances in Newberry, South Carolina -- the company's first plant on U.S. soil.
| Smart Home News | March 4, 2018 |
Toyota announced a recall of 65,000 brand-new Sequoia and Tundra vehicles this week, while Hyundai separately announced the recall of roughly 43,900 Santa Fe vehicles.
| Car News | February 25, 2018 |
At Last Gadget Standing and Mobile Apps Showdown, the makers of cutting-edge gadgets and apps are given a stage, an audience, and 4 minutes to defend their creations.
| Features | February 20, 2018 |
From wireless power to electric cars and the rise of China, these are the trends you’ll see dominate CES 2018, and the tech world in the year to come.
| Smart Home Features | January 9, 2018 |
Dr. Dre sold Beats to Apple for $3.2 billion, and Monster got burned. Now the audio giant will turn retail inside out again, with help from the Florida Marlins and RocNation.
| Features | January 7, 2018 |
With a new Dashcam developer kit and open-source software called openpilot steadily improving, George Hotz wants all cars to drive themselves
| Car News | January 1, 2018 |
You may have forgotten Firefox, but Mozilla’s iconic browser is far from dead. It’s back and better than ever with Firefox Quantum.
| Features | November 22, 2017 |
Huawei President Kevin Ho used the opening keynote to the Consumer Technology Association's CES Asia 2016 event to discuss the smartphone of the future.
| News | November 22, 2017 |
At the CES Asia 2016 event, BMW president Olaf Kastner discuss Project I, a vision of the future with autonomous electric-powered i8 cars and new services.
| Car News | November 18, 2017 |