Innovation & Future

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user’s thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad. They envision…

Though it may seem like an unlikely figure, around 1.7 billion adults currently live with no access to financial services, known as the ‘unbanked’. Financial…

Brian Arthur defines science as the understanding of physical phenomena technology as the use of physical phenomena to implement a precise function. For…

Google said on Monday that hundreds of thousands of people who used its Google+ social network may have been affected by a security flaw that the company…

Worse Than Expected What an alarming difference a few years can make. According to a report released Sunday by the United Nations’ scientific panel on…

It’s not an idle question. Researchers at Yale University have developed “robotic skins” that can be wrapped around everyday objects to turn them into soft…

Remember Google+? Me neither. But while we were blissfully ignorant of its continuing existence something predictable (and quite commonplace in 2018) happened:…

If patent applications are anything to go by, then Walmart’s wish list apparently includes a virtual reality shopping system—complete with fulfillment…

Google has announced that it’s kicking its floundering social media platform Google+ to the curb, some seven years after it was first introduced. The decision…