Warby Parker’s app is cleverly using the iPhone X’s face mapping to recommend glasses.The iPhone X has only been out for a few days, but we’re already seeing people take advantage of the face mapping technology on the phone in numerous ways. Some, like Animoji karaoke are more entertaining than useful, but others — like Warby Parker’s new app — are a little more useful (as spotted by Joan...

Software companies dominate North America rankings.The Technology Fast 500 is the leading technology awards program. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and rapid growth, Fast 500 companies—large, small, public, and private—hail from cities far and wide across North America and are disrupting the technology industry. If you are looking for fast-growing technology companies r...

Reconstituted silk can be several times stronger than the natural fiber and made in different forms.When it comes to concocting the complex mix of molecules that makes up fibers of natural silk, nature beats human engineering hands down. Despite efforts to synthesize the material, artificial varieties still cannot match the natural fiber’s strength.But by starting with silk produced by silkwor...

The results are based on responses from a recent survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18+ conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Blockchain Capital—many of the results are quite remarkable.As Bitcoin surged from $250 just two years ago to over $7,000 today and the industry around it has boomed, the digital asset has been increasingly featured in public discussion. In light of this...

Apple market cap officially over $900 billion at Wednesday’s close. Apple Inc. is one step closer to becoming a $1 trillion company, after becoming the first public company to clear a $900 billion market cap and close there in Wednesday trading.Apple closed up 0.8% at a record $176.21 Wednesday, its fourth consecutive record close, after reaching an intraday all-time high of $176.24, passing t...

Jeff holden, chief product officer at uber, spoke to an eager audience at the web summit in lisbon about the company’s aerospace division: uber elevate. the project aims to bring uber to the air with demonstrations as early as 2020. uber first presented the urban air transportation system in the white papers, published in late october, 2016. at the web summit, holden shared new additions to th...

Gold isn’t so shiny anymore. Globally, demand for the precious metal has fallen to its lowest level since late 2009, according to the World Gold Council. In the third quarter of 2017, demand for the haven asset was 915 metric tons, 9% lower than a year earlier.Stock markets have been setting one record high after another this year, so investors have seemingly decided they don’t have much need...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,811,721) for “three-dimensional hand tracking using depth sequences.” It relates generally to the field of computer vision and machine learning.In the patent filing, Apple says that the ability to understand human gestures, and, in particular, hand gestures, as they relate to human-computer interactive (HCI), is a “very important” aspect in understa...

As ride hailing and ride sharing grow more common, a new survey offers insights into shifting attitudes and behavior.Although shared mobility is a nascent force on the automotive scene, it generates a lot of buzz. This hype can make it hard to understand what’s actually happening in the sector. To bring greater clarity to the situation, McKinsey surveyed 2,000 shared-mobility consumers across...