Last year saw breath-taking changes to the small business landscape. Businesses have ceased trading overnight; businesses have gone through desperately difficult times and found a way through; and some businesses have even started or grown in the...
Andreas Mershin visits with one of the trained disease-sniffing dogs in his office at MIT. The dogs are trained and handled in the UK by the organization Medical Detection Dogs. Photo: Medical Diagnostic DogsTrained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace...
The robot’s walking process is driven by a series of valves. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn’t need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant...
The next video game from publisher Electronic Arts started with a simple activity: playing catch.What developed is something far more intense: the dodgeball-inspired action game "Knockout City," which will launch May 21 for PC, PlayStation, Xbox and...
Image - PixabayIf you haven’t heard of it, Rust is an up-and-coming programming language that provides secure application performance for device-run code.As they build IoT applications, developers have many programming languages at their disposal.Some popular options are...
Analysts at UBS believe that biometric payment cards could capture a 15% share of the card market within the next five years.The Swiss bank says increasing penetration of fingerprint sensor cards will drive $5 billion in revenue by 2026.It points to declining production costs, the rise of the touch-free...
A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs.Earlier...
Blockchain.com said the institutional backing will power an increasingly institutional-minded business.Blockchain.com on Wednesday disclosed $120 million in fresh funding from a lineup of “macro investors” seeking to power the wallet startup’s growing institutional markets business through bitcoin’s current bull run.Moore Strategic Ventures, Kyle Bass, Access Industries, Rovida Advisors, Lightspeed...
MWC Shanghai will be one of the first major industry events with an in-person element since the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. Not only is it set to provide insight into key issues facing the industry, but it provides...
Image credit: JEFF HAYNES | Getty ImagesNavigating what lies ahead can become simpler by following guidance from some well-known motivational figures.There were few more arduous tests of mental toughness than 2020, and as 2021 poses a continuation of those challenges,...
