Global cruise travel is continuing to grow at a steady pace around the world. The Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) predicts that over the course of this year 25.8 million passengers will board cruise ships for ocean bound vacations, 1.1 million more than last year. By far the most passengers hail from the United States, which makes it less astounding that most cruise capacity is all...

There’s plenty in the ground to meet the needs of an electric car future, but not enough mines.[The Tesla Model S includes more than 7,000 individual batteries, which are similar in size to the AA batteries used in TV remotes.]Starting about two years ago, fears of a lithium shortage almost tripled prices for the metal, to more than $20,000 a ton, in just 10 months. The cause was a spike in th...

Medical techniques for looking inside our bodies have come a long way, but in the future it looks like doctors may be able to see absolutely everything going on under our skin.Researchers have invented a new kind of camera that can actually see through structures inside the human body, detecting light sources behind as much as 20 centimetres (7.9 inches) of bodily tissue.The current prototype,...

Innoviz, a company making LiDAR sensors to support the development and deployment of autonomous driving, has raised a new $65 million in Series B funding, from strategic partners and leading auto industry suppliers Delphi Automotive and Magna International, along with other investors. The vote of confidence from Magna and Delphi is especially noteworthy, however, because both stand ready to sup...

Jaguar’s future combines autonomy with a driver-based approach to give you the Jaguar Future-Type. Their vision, much like their contemporaries, is of a future where cars are shared (like MINI’s Vision Next 100)… except in Jaguar’s iteration of the future your key to the car is a personalized steering wheel. Jaguar says that the steering wheel (code-named Sayer after Malcolm Sayer, the desi...

KFC's K Pro fast food restaurant allows customers to purchase their menu items with a facial recognition kiosk.Too busy to take cash out of your wallet? Don’t worry, KFC’s healthy store called K Pro in China allows customers to purchase items by using facial recognition software called Smile to Pay. The technology was developed by Chinese technology company, Ant Financial.The payment feature...

Kanga is a Newborn Resuscitation Kit, designed specially for developing countries who usually don’t have access the standard kit. There are more than a million babies die due to the lack of oxygen at birth, simple interventions can help these babies’ lives.Kanga by Darja Wendel is designed to guide caregiver during resuscitation, it helps to reduce time to ventilation yet allowing to keep mot...

As technology becomes more and more integrated into our lives, our clothes, accessories and bodies are reflecting our new reality.What comes next and where will it lead ? Infographic : https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Wearable-Technology-edit.png[futurism]

Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest technological developments in business in recent years, but the field is still largely shrouded in uncertainty. While expectations run sky-high, what are businesses actually doing now? [click to enlarge]A new report by BCG and MIT’s Sloan Management Review aims to demystify AI in business and take stock of current industry adoption. The rep...