While details of COVID-19 vaccine administration are still pending, healthcare stakeholders may want to consider their long-term plans for consumer engagement in immunization.Here, we discuss the latest insights on US consumers’ reported acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and considerations for healthcare leaders.The proverbial light at the end of the dark tunnel of the COVID-19 pandemic is be...

Parallel Domain, a startup developing a synthetic data generation platform for AI and machine learning applications, today emerged from stealth with $11 million in funding. The company, which has over 25 employees and customers in auto manufacturing and drone delivery, plans to use the capital to accelerate its go-to-market efforts as it expands its product footprint.Self-driving vehicle compan...

Mobile game and app spending will grow 25% to $112 billion in 2020, according to year-end estimates from mobile data and analytics researcher App Annie.This shows that big companies, brands, and game makers have to focus on mobile in order to ensure their future growth. It’s no surprise that mobile grew in a year when COVID-19 gripped the world and transformed our lives. But it’s enlightening...

Imagine being able to run your old, gas-guzzling car on a new, electric platform. It could be a vintage, a discontinued model, hell, it could be a Humvee, and all you’d need would be to pick up the old car’s body and interiors and place them on the mechanical base of an electric car. That’s sort of the promise Zero Labs is making with its electric platform. Designed to be universal and custo...

The 'Glask' smart reusable face mask is a high-tech take on the humble face covering that will provide wearers with a way to enjoy enhanced connectivity and more when going about their daily routine in the new normal. The mask comes in the Basic, Pro and Pro Plus models, and each offer a five-later filtration functionality as well as foam sealing and an anti-fog front glass section. The Pro mod...

McKinsey & Co. surveyed over 3,500 shoppers for its 2020 Holiday Season report, which shows some surprising shifts in this year’s consumer behavior.More than 60 percent of global consumers have changed their shopping behavior this year.37 percent of the interviewees plan to increase their online shopping this year, as compared to 2019. But omnichannel strategies are still very important du...

There’s a renaissance underway in structural battery research, which aims to build energy storage into the very devices and vehicles they power.ELON MUSK MADE a lot of promises during Tesla’s Battery Day last September. Soon, he said, the company would have a car that runs on batteries with pure silicon anodes to boost their performance and reduced cobalt in the cathodes to lower their price....

The need to improve the digital resiliency of the workforce during and after the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically accelerated trends in digital workplace technology.[click to enlarge]When employees were sent home from their offices en masse amid the global onset of COVID-19, many businesses scrambled to adopt technology solutions to enable their teams to work remotely. IT leaders have now real...

A team of researchers has developed a flexible, rechargeable silver oxide-zinc battery with a five to 10 times greater areal energy density than state of the art. The battery also is easier to manufacture; while most flexible batteries need to be manufactured in sterile conditions, under vacuum, this one can be screen printed in normal lab conditions. The device can be used in flexible, stretch...