It's Time for a New C-Suite Position : Chief AI Officer. A survey of 260 large organizations suggests enterprise adoption of AI is growing at a remarkable pace. That's a huge opportunity for savvy IT employees.AI is spreading to the enterprise at a phenomenal rate. Let's get this out of the way: What is AI?Like "Big Data," it's a buzz phrase and technology category that's at once alluring and e...

Smartwatches may be handy, but their small touchscreens can make them awkward to use with our big ol' fingers. It was with this in mind that computer scientists at Germany's Saarland University created a system known as DeformWear. It lets users control a linked smartwatch by using their fingertips to finely press, push or pinch a wearable sensor that's about the size of a pea.So far, DeformWea...

Global banking-industry performance has been lackluster. Now comes the hard part: the rise of nonbanking platform companies targeting the most profitable parts of the banking value chain.The global banking industry shows many signs of renewed health. The recovery from the financial crisis is—at long last—complete, capital stocks have been replenished, and banks have taken an ax to costs. Yet...

After years of false starts and broken promises, electric vehicles are finally hitting the road. But for all the hoopla around companies like Tesla, the electric car market has barely put a dent in the sales of gas-powered cars and trucks. Of the 17.5 million cars sold in the US each year, less than 1% are fully electric.It will not stay that way for long: Britain, France, Germany, India, and N...

Would you trust a courier with access to your home ?Amazon's gone to a lot of effort to make its services as convenient as possible -- free delivery, lightning fast delivery, delivery from the sky (well, soon, probably). Now it's eliminating the need for you to even be at home to receive your packages (or to have a designated safe place), because its couriers can now simply let themselves into...

Move over, Masayoshi Son. Pony Ma of Tencent Holdings Ltd. is emerging as the true Warren Buffett of Asia's tech scene.As many technology firms grow, they start to suffer what's known as a conglomerate discount. SoftBank Group Corp. and South Africa's Naspers Ltd. are prime examples. How can SoftBank be a "tech-focused Berkshire Hathaway," as Bernstein Research calls it, if the technology-compa...

Fashion trends change from season to season, it’s hard to keep up with what’s cool and what’s definitely not. I’m by no means a ‘fashionista’ but I can tell you that the Lalabu Dad Shirt will never be going out of style. The Lalabu began with Brian and Keri — the husband and wife team behind Lalabu. Inspired by a trip to Africa, the Lalabu was conceived while noticing how soothing the pr...

The nine colorful blocks that make up the nine-meter-tall (30 ft) Wego installation are stacked together in a Tetris meets Snakes and Ladders kinda way.Growing urban populations pose all manner of challenges, one of which is how designers can come up with more efficient ways to cram people in. The new Wego installation on show at Dutch Design Week takes this to the extreme, aiming to provoke id...

The world is waking up to the impressive capabilities of the blockchain.As a foundational technology that things can be “built on top” of, the potential applications of the blockchain go way beyond just payments or cryptocurrencies. In fact, the blockchain could revolutionize how we interact with intellectual property, capital markets, insurance, healthcare, government, and many other sectors...