Dedication, attention to detail and an instinct to do the opposite of what Steve Jobs might have done earn him that accolade.THE TECHNOLOGY industry is littered with managers who have tried and failed to emulate successful founders. Think of Steve Ballmer, who succeeded Bill Gates at Microsoft, and Kevin Rollins, who took over from Michael Dell at Dell Technologies, who returned a few years lat...

Unity has acquired Oto, an AI-based audio chat analysis platform that figures out if humans need to intercede in a toxic multiplayer gaming environment. The companies did not disclose terms.We all know that online gamers can be toxic, trash-talking each other. Some of that is OK and can be chalked up to the culture around a game. But some of it also crosses the line, and that’s where Oto comes...

Sydney, Australia-based Fable Food is the latest plant-based food startup to announce funding. The company, which uses mushrooms in its meat alternatives, has raised $6.5 million AUD (about $4.8 million USD) in a seed round led by Blackbird Ventures.Other participants included agriculture and food tech venture firm AgFunder, sustainability-focused Aera VC and Better Bite Ventures, along with Si...

This autonomous robot acts as a passenger guide while disinfecting the public transport system.An autonomous fleet of AI robots that disinfects precarious surfaces of public transport systems like metro coaches, and also guides passengers in and out of the station through the least crowded pathways.The ongoing pandemic has radically shifted our perspectives when it comes to cleanliness and pers...

Who Were the Highest-Paid Athletes in 2021? The financial figures in sport are enormous. The highest-paid athletes in the world make tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions per year.The global pandemic put a significant dent in the commercial aspect of many sports. Even though the teams and their owners earned significantly less during this period, individual athletes actually thrived.Ac...

As US vaccination rates swelled in early summer, the US seemed to have the pandemic in the rear-view mirror, but now COVID-19 is on the move again, with the spread of the Delta variant. And with that movement we have seen a retrenchment of the previous gains in consumer confidence, as consumers once again express greater worry and frustration as well as heightened concern that the worst may be...

Alethea AI, creator of the “intelligent NFTs,” or iNFTs, has raised $16 million in a private and restricted token sale to a group of game and crypto investors.The company is creating what it considers to be the underlying AI infrastructure for iNTFs, or intelligent nonfungible tokens, on the path to the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such...

Envision Group eyes potential in mobility, hydrogen and weather forecasting. Envision Group's Mochi robot charges electric vehicles while drivers are away. One of China's biggest wind turbine makers plans to tackle the country's chronic shortage of electric vehicle charging points: mobile robots that bring the juice to the car.Envision Group plans to start testing its Mochi robot -- so named be...

After suffering heavy losses in 2020, SoftBank Group has seen record profits in 2021 and is on pace to triple its investment volume this year. We take a look at where the investor is placing its bets on the future of technology.SoftBank Group, headed up by Masayoshi Son, has made enormous and varied bets on the future. It has ratcheted up its investment activity since 2017, when it launched its...