As voice assistants battle to be the No. 1 digital secretary, their rates of adoption differ significantly across age groups. Siri dominates among adult Gen Zers, with 60% of US voice assistant users ages 18 to 24 using the software from Apple. Meanwhile, Alexa is most popular among the senior set, with 41% of those ages 65 and older using the Amazon service. Google Assistant does not lead in a...

Volvo Air 360 was designed as part of 2020 Volvo Design Challenge, the brief was to design future vehicle that embraces three elements of nature: land, water, or air. Nacho Alfonso chose “air” as his element for this vehicle concept. The sky is the limit, Volvo Air 360 is a concept passenger drone designed specifically to provide passengers with flying experience, making it as real as possibl...

There have been many gadgets and technological devices created through the years that could be classified as iconic.From the original Victrola phonograph of 1906 to the comically large Motorola DynaTAC 8000x cellular phone of 1984, these early technologies shaped the new tech gadgets of today, and many are still considered to be among the greatest inventions of all time.The HP research team loo...

Blending entertainment with instant purchasing, live commerce offers retailers, brands, and digital platforms a new channel with enormous scope for creating value.The arrival of Alibaba’s Taobao Live in May 2016 marked the opening of a new chapter in sales. The Chinese retail giant had pioneered a powerful new approach: linking up an online livestream broadcast with an e-commerce store to allo...

U.S. patent application, US20210255711, discloses a computer input device that has a deployable key mouse. The computer input device includes a housing, a set of key switch mechanisms positioned in the housing, and a removable key structure that is operable between a first configuration and a second configuration. The removable key structure is operable as a key-based typing input in the first...

Instead of investing billions of dollars, these $50 million plants could save companies.Electric car and van startups are looking for new ways to manufacture their products. They all learned from Tesla which experienced a manufacturing hell when first producing its vehicles."The thing that's remarkable is that Tesla didn't go bankrupt in reaching volume production," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in...

Just a handful of publicly-traded companies have managed to achieve $1 trillion or more in market capitalization—only six, to be precise.We pull data from Companies Market Cap to find out which familiar names are breaking the 13-digit barrier—and who else is waiting in the wings.Footnote: All data referenced is as of August 17, 2021.Facebook dipped in and out of the $1T+ club in July 2021, an...

An Israeli cultured meat company has announced that future offerings will include pork.Kosher pork may sound like an oxymoron, but it could soon be here, according to one Israeli startup. The company, MeaTech 3D, is a leader in the field of cultured meat technology. They are also the world’s only publicly-traded cultured meat company and have recently begun development work on the mass product...

Created by EOOS NEXT in collaboration with the new raw, ‘ZUV’ is an electric tricycle with a 3D printed chassis made from 70 kg of recycled plastic. The zero emissions mobility concept has been developed as an alternative mode of transportation that can be produced economically and locally. ZUV seats two passengers at the back while the box at the front can either hold two small children or c...