Talking to a human financial adviser at your local bank may be a thing of the past. A bank in China has launched the world's first personless branch run entirely by technology. Customers are greeted by humanoids who answers inquiries via voice recognition. These banking humanoids are able to do most things a human assistant could, including...
CRISPR is well known for its gene-editing capabilities, but at its core, it’s really “biology’s search engine.” It’s able to make precise genetic edits because it’s really good at finding the exact spot in a gene that it needs to slice. Now, CRISPR is moving out of the lab and into your home.
Mammoth Biosciences, a new biotech company co-...
Scaffolding is a major and unavoidable cost on most construction projects. In 2015, the on-site logistics market for scaffolding assembly accounted for more than EUR 20 billion worldwide. A large part of this cost is the time it takes to assemble scaffolding. Up to 80 percent of assembly time is spent on on-site logistics – ferrying bits of...
Last year, Amazon asked for permission to unlock your front door so it could leave packages inside your home, and a certain number of extremely trusting Amazon Prime subscribers (Amazon won’t say how many) said okay. Now, the tech giant wants to do the same thing with your car. Amazon announced a new service that gives its couriers access to a...
In 2009, the last year of the Great Recession, 17 percent of Americans lived in households that were multigenerational. This translates to 51.5 million people living in homes with either grandparents and grandchildren, or with two or more adult generations. Estimates are based on census data. In 2016, the most recent numbers, 20 percent of...
Sainsbury’s has partnered with e-cargobikes.com to trial zero-emission deliveries from its South London store in Streatham. Five cargo bikes will deliver up to 100 online orders a day to customers across South London and will be able to avoid heavy traffic during peak delivery hours and park closer to customers homes. When a delivery is made,...
In the USA, the plus-size women’s clothing industry is valued at $17 billion, according to an industry trade group. And the category is growing. With the average American woman being a size 16 to 18, there’s plenty of need for more plus-size options. More recently, mainstream brands such as Target, Forever 21, American Eagle’s underwear label...
One way for businesses to optimize their products and performance is knowing exactly who their customers are and how they spend their money. We have already seen software to help businesses know more about their customers. These include geo-targeted pricing and a B2B marketing platform. But collecting this type of data is easier for online...
Startup Lydian Dental aims to disrupt the dental industry by offering a mobile office that comes to you and lets customers pay a monthly subscription fee for its service. Founded in 2014, Lydian hopes to offer a cooler, more user-friendly program that will appeal to millennials, many of whom may neglect dental upkeep due to factors like...
Genetic tests that were once only available through doctors are now sent right to your mailbox. PerkinElmer and its consumer genomics marketplace, Helix, have announced that they will soon start selling tests for serious genetic diseases. Helix’s new offerings could make it a strong competitor against genetic testing giant 23andMe, which...