Wasteless is a startup that wants groceries to change price based on demand.The success of Uber, online flight booking websites and other on-demand services rely on one crucial feature: the ability to change prices instantly. Startup Wasteless is planning to bring the same technology to supermarkets.Using an organized band of RFID chips, digital shelf labeling, and 43 pricing variables, Wastele...

This far-out food truck concept is a fresh take on everyone’s favorite mobile culinary craze! It’s all about autonomy and designed around Pizza Huts’ conceptual UI. Customers can actually enter the food trucks and witness their food being prepared robotically in a safe, sanitary enclosure. To create their perfect pizza, they use a gestural interface to literally swipe ingredients on to their...

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The modern world has been shaped by the technological revolutions of the past, like the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution. The former redefined the way the world values both human and material resources; the latter redefined value in terms of resources while democratizing information. Today, as technology progresses even further, value is certain to shift again, with a focus...

Private markets investment into auto and logistics tech is hitting record highs as investors and startup entrepreneurs probe for opportunities in staid, multi-billion-dollar transportation industries. Corporations of all stripes are heavily engaged in their own research here as well, with a range of insurers linked to autonomous vehicle patents and Amazon detailing plans for an airborne warehou...

Berkeley-based quantum computing firm Rigetti will allow 40 machine learning startups from 11 countries to make use of its devices to help crunch their AI problems.Rigetti is small compared to its main rivals—the likes of Google, IBM, and Intel. But as we’ve reported in the past, the firm is working on a complex chip architecture that promises to scale up well, and should be particularly suit...

In 2013, the co-founders of the Netherlands-based software company Doodle3D, Nico van Dijk and Rick Companje, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Doodle3D WiFi-Box, a small device that lets users draw on a tablet and wirelessly send the artwork to a 3D printer. Three years later, the company introduced a new app, called Doodle3D Transform, a splitscreen 2D-to-3D design platform t...

Whether the goal is to organize the world’s information or to build an algorithm that makes millions of lives easier, pretty much every tech company in existence aims to leverage software in some way to do the types of jobs that would otherwise be impossible or uneconomical for humans to do.[click to enlarge]Tapping into the properties of the digital world allows these companies to do more wit...

Japan is aiming to set global standards for automated ships. Japan’s largest container line plans to test a remote-controlled vessel across the Pacific Ocean in 2019 as it pursues fully autonomous technology that could disrupt the global shipping industry.Nippon Yusen K.K. is considering using a large container ship for the test from Japan to North America and a crew will be on standby for saf...