We’re all doing, well, everything from home, so it makes sense that home should be a bit easier to deal with. In what might be a roadmap drawn at least in part by Big Tech — with, specifically Apple, Amazon, Google among those names —...
Avanci, which has positioned itself as the tech clearinghouse for automakers and others looking to incorporate the Internet of Things (IoT) in their products, is now rolling out a 5G automotive licensing program. The Dallas-based company, which aims to serve as a hub between IoT...
Facebook announced on Thursday (July 23) that users of its Messenger Rooms group video feature can now live-broadcast those meetings to traditional Facebook pages. The feature should make it easier to invite people to join online group video chats than has been the case with...
Utah officials estimate that new vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, technology could reduce the severity of traffic crashes by 80 percent, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. Motor vehicle crashes claimed the lives of around 36,120 people in 2019, WSJ reported, and the V2X technology has been...
Google’s bold move earlier this year to eliminate the cost for merchants to sell on its Google Shopping platform appears to be working. In a blog post on Monday (June 29), Bill Ready, Google’s commerce president, wrote that the switch has produced a “significant increase”...
GE Appliances (GEA) has introduced what it’s calling a smart technology to improve a product’s life cycle. SmartHQ Solutions, GEA said in a Thursday (June 25) announcement, is the first solution in the industry to connect these technologies. “In today’s world, we are digitizing our...
To monitor a home and to make sure all is safe and secure means you have to monitor the people and the activities inside. How to do that without destroying privacy in the age of work from home, shop from home, do-everything from home? In...
China’s Alibaba Group is putting $1.4 billion into the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for its Tmall Genie smart speaker, the company said in a statement on Wednesday (May 20) following a press conference. The upgrade and innovation centered around its flagship Tmall Genie smart...
Robots have a long track record of generating buzz, but not quite so much in the way of results. Interest in robots as a novelty remains high; there is no doubt that people think they’re neat. But in terms of actual experiences of robots in...