Tux seems like it was designed solely to enhance your Netflix and chill sesh! The hybrid appliance combine heating and cooling elements in one compact unit that you can easily store in any studio apartment or micro-living space.The top section features a hot plate for keeping your pizza, noodles or other food warm. Directly underneath, a drawer opens to reveal a refrigeration space for beverage...

The 100 startups on our list have raised $11.7B in aggregate funding across 367 deals since 2012.[click to enlarge]Today, CB Insights unveiled the second annual AI 100 — a list of 100 of the most promising private companies applying artificial intelligence algorithms across 25+ industries, from healthcare to cybersecurity — at the A-Ha! conference in San Francisco.The companies were selected...

TetraVue's flash lidar collects 60 million bits of data per second through a series of flashes that last for just 40 nanoseconds each.Standard automotive lidars scan objects with moving laser beams, but flash lidar illuminates the entire scene in an instant in order to take a snapshot. This method combines a camera’s high-resolution imaging with a lidar’s range finding, but so far it has been...

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016. Set in a dystopian world with mass unemployment, the movie attracted many fans, with one viewer describing it as amusing but strange. But the most notable aspect of the film involves its creation: an artificial-intelligence (AI) bot wrote Sunspring’s screenplay....

Could the future of smartphone biometrics look a lot like a shinier version of the past? The answer is most definitely yes — that is, if Synaptics Incorporated has anything to say about it. The San Jose-based hardware manufacturer announced plans on Monday to mass produce an optical in-display fingerprint sensor, and, according to the company, it has a very big partner involved. SEE ALSO: No o...

A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has developed an entirely textile-based, bacteria-powered biobattery that could one day be integrated into wearable electronics.The team, led by Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, created an entirely textile-based biobattery that can produce maximum pow...

A new service called Try pays the upfront cost for customers so they only pay for what they want to keep.Try is a service that lets customers try on clothes before they buy them from an online store, enabling them to order items they fancy for free so they can see what they’re like before they actually pay for them. Users are charged a subscription fee and Try pays the upfront cost of the item...

The “Ultra Violet” craze has officially begun.Following Pantone’s announcement made earlier this week that 2018’s Color of the Year would be “Ultra Violet,” the purple craze seems to be infiltrating ever corner of the Internet. Jumping head-first into the madness, adidas has now unveiled its latest colorway of the AlphaBOUNCE silhouette and you guessed it – it’s “Ultra Violet.” Entire...

If you want to equip multiple rooms in your home with high quality audio, the most popular home speaker systems out there require you to purchase multiple units in their product range. Things can quickly get pricey and complicated when trying to sync. Designed with this in mind, the One Piece speaker system simplifies things to exactly how they should be so you can do more listening and less se...