Category: Technology

The weekly Retail Tech Roundup compiles technology news across the supply chain, manufacturing, retail, e-commerce, logistics and fulfillment sectors. Returns Hibbett/Happy Returns Happy Returns’ Return Bars are now inside more than 1,100 Hibbett Sports and City Gear specialty stores nationwide. Online shoppers can use the Return Bars to make returns from hundreds of digital retailers in-person, box-free […]

The internet lit up the day ChatGPT was launched. Almost everyone across every social media platform plugged in to assess just how intelligent it was. Undoubtedly, it beat the people’s imagination and had their mouths agape with ghostly stupefaction. Like jeez, it did not only write computer programs, poems, essays, and everything in between and […]

When I talk to founders of service firms, many of them express the same desire to me: They want to become software companies. They see SaaS companies taking the world by storm, and they wonder if they haven’t made a giant mistake not choosing that path. They see the valuations of SaaS firms and get […]

More than almost any other industry, concrete and cement drive jobs and infrastructure. About 7.7 million people were employed in construction as of September 2022. That number is only growing: On a year-over-year basis, industry employment increased by 4.2% (or 311,000 jobs) in July 2022, according to an analysis from the Associated Builders and Contractors. The housing, transportation, and manufacturing […]

Before 2020, when my friends and acquaintances asked me what I study as a molecular biologist, their eyes would inevitably glaze over as soon as I said “RNA.” Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the power and promise of this molecule to the world at large, their eyes widen. Despite growing recognition of the […]

Ford Motor Co. has established Latitude AI, a wholly-owned subsidiary focused on developing a hands-free, eyes-off-the-road automated driving system for millions of vehicles. Meanwhile, Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise just recently reached 1 million driverless miles. To form Latitude, Ford put together a team devoted to machine learning, robotics, software, sensors, systems engineering, and operations. […]

See the world in a whole new way with Xiaomi‘s Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition. It’s not just a lens, it’s a whole new sense. Xiaomi announced its brand new Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, at Mobile World Congress 2023 (MWC 2023). This cutting-edge tech innovation is Xiaomi’s first wireless AR glasses to utilize distributed […]

Vector of Moving Forward getty Every year I peruse emerging statistics and trends in cybersecurity and provide some perspective and analysis on the potential implications for industry and government from the data. While cybersecurity capabilities and awareness seem to be improving, unfortunately the threat and sophistication of cyber-attacks are matching that progress. The 2023 Digital […]

Nigerians voted to elect a new president on 25 February and he will be sworn in on 29 May 2023. One of his responsibilities must be to lead the country in taking science more seriously. Science should be the fulcrum of Nigeria’s development. As a fellow and past president of the Nigerian Academy of Science, […]

Funding activity for Indian startups remained muted in the second month of 2023, as new-age businesses raised $809 million in venture funding, a significant drop of about 84% from the $5.2 billion they raised in February last year, data from market intelligence firm Tracxn showed. ETtech February 2023 was the driest month in at least […]