Oxford, England is banning all non-electric vehicles from its city centre to create what officials believe will be the first zero-emissions zone in the world. All petrol and diesel vehicles will be barred from six streets in the city centre from 2020, including cars, taxis and buses. The zone will be gradually be expanded to cover the whole of...
Dubai Land Department (DLD) has created a Blockchain system using a smart and secure database that records all real estate contracts, and links them with the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA), the telecommunications system, and various property related bills. The blockchain-powered real estate platform allows tenants to make...
Modern Meadow recently debuted its lab-grown animal-free leather materials at the ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York – which runs until January 28th 2018. The technology behind the ZOA leather material is based around DNA editing, as the biological component of leather isn’t actually animal...
Snap, the messaging app, bets it can leap into becoming a platform for discovering places and hotels. Odds are against the company but in favor of visual-first search becoming widespread. Snap will work with Bookatable, Foursquare, Lyft, Michelin Guides, OpenTable, Resy, TripAdvisor, and Uber on a new tool called “context cards.” The cards let...
Waggit, a smart collar for dogs, aims to help improve your pup’s quality of life and help humans better care for their dog companions. Like other smart dog collars — think Whistle, which sold to Mars for over $100 million — Waggit offers tracking, but its core value proposition is health. “No one has truly tackled health for dogs,” Waggit CEO...
NVIDIA HAS SHOWN OFF the 'world's first' AI computer designed to power fully-autonomous 'robotaxis'. The new system, codenamed Pegasus, marks the first time that Nvidia's Drive PX platform has been capable of driving Level 5 driverless cars, which refers to vehicles that require no human control. Rather, Level 5 vehicles have full automation...
Ada Diamonds has opened the world's first jewelry showroom exclusively dedicated to laboratory-created diamonds. The by-appointment showroom offers San Francisco residents a modern marriage of technology, craftsmanship, and sustainable luxury: bespoke, made-to-order lab diamond jewelry. Established in 2015, Silicon Valley based Ada Diamonds...
Following in the footsteps of Spring and other online fashion retailers, Net-A-Porter announced that it will soon make available an artificial intelligence tool that will be capable of choosing clothing for consumers based on their likes, dislikes and travel plans. The company’s new robot will be able to personalize the shopping experience for...
CUBIC, a San Diego-based technology company, is developing a "fastrack gateless gateline" that would enable commuters to pay for train tickets via facial recognition payment technology. The system will scan people's faces as they walk through a gate, while a paired smartphone app enables a seamlessly cashless transaction. An expected 65 to 75...
Target launches drive up service – for days when you don’t want to leave the car. Here’s how it works: After placing an order in the Target app and selecting “Drive Up,” Target will notify guests when the order is ready to be picked up. Guests hit the “I’m on My Way” button when they are en route to their store. They pull into designated...