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...
The smart cameras of 2018 are getting smarter still. Startup Horizon Robotics has debuted a new HD smart camera that boasts serious artificial intelligence capabilities and can identify faces with an accuracy of up to 99.7 percent, the company claims. That’s probably better than most humans. The company claims the new HR-IPC2143 smart camera is...
Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to launch a subscription service that gives customers access to a variety of cars for a single monthly fee. Multiple subscription tiers are available, with a broad array of Mercedes-Benz offerings including SUV, sedan, coupe, cabriolet, roadster, and wagon models, as well as high-performance AMG models....
German low-cost company FlixBus is beginning daily service of a new green bus. The service will link the French capital to the northern city of Amiens, a 160 kilometres journey which will take a little over two hours. The bus, which seats 49, has all the advantages of an electric vehicle: zero emissions, quiet, and drives more smoothly than its...