The LiShield privacy system uses a flickering LED light pattern to corrupt the images or videos taken by consumer digital cameras.Rules that prohibit photos or videos can prove almost impossible to enforce when nearly everyone carries a smartphone. But a new indoor privacy system has shown how the power of smart LED lighting could prevent people from taking illegal videos of a live Broadway sho...

Combined, the 10 largest tech companies have acquired 50 AI companies in the last 5 years, targeting facial recognition startups, chatbots, chip makers, and more.Artificial intelligence is the future of big tech — and is already an integral part of the consumer and enterprise products at Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.Now network connectivity providers like Cisco and Oracle are integra...

Game of Drones.Amazon’s drone delivery system, Prime Air, is designed to get packages weighing up to five pounds to customers in 30 minutes or less, and though the company touts the service’s increased safety and convenience, critics consider a future filled with aerial data-gathering devices to be a scary invasion of privacy. That’s not stopping others from experimenting in the space, as de...

Daily headlines make it clear that the U.S. grocery landscape is in the midst of major change. With retail channels like food, drug and mass merchandise experiencing declines in the first-half of 2017, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers and retailers need to look more closely across the aisles of the store to determine how dollars are shifting, because dollars are vanishing all tog...

Hospital acquired infections continue to be a major source of patient morbidities. Hand washing guidelines, ubiquitously available alcohol sanitizers, and keeping patients away from each other has helped reduce the spread of nosocomial infections. Nevertheless, much more needs to be done to prevent hospitals themselves from being vectors that spread infections that walk through their doors.A sp...

Technology and typography unite in this series of digital letterforms designed with electronics in mind. A graphic and motion designer based in rio de janeiro, has envisioned 26 characters based on brands from apple to zenith. the initials reflect some of the best known characteristics of each company, creating a palette of letters for tech enthusiasts everywhere.vinicius araujo Araújo based t...

Construction on Under is expected to start in February 2018, with the opening planned for roughly March 2019.Snøhetta has revealed plans for a novel new underwater restaurant named Under. Hailed as Europe's first underwater restaurant by the high-profile architecture firm, the building will be installed on the southernmost point of Norway's rugged coastline and offer guests a view of the seabe...

Commercial fleets could go electric rapidly. Understanding total cost of ownership and focusing on specific cases is critical.There’s nothing new about electric trucks; they have labored on the streets of major cities across the world since the first decades of the 20th century.Fleet managers prized these trucks for their strong pulling power and greater reliability than vehicles powered by ea...

The world’s most prominent digital currency was on track to mark a fresh milestone on Friday, with bitcoin rallying and putting the cyber currency in position to hit a total market value of around $100 billion.Such a valuation would place the No. 1 cryptographic currency above or on par with blue-chip companies on the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.71% like United Technologies Corp UTX,...