7 Innovative Marketing Approaches to Boost Your Sales in 2024
The year 2024 looks promising for marketers who are willing to embrace technology without sacrificing community.
Inside India’s scramble for AI independence
In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a mix of excitement and validation as he watched DeepSeek unleash its disruptive language model on the world earlier this year. The Chinese technology rivaled the best of the West in terms of benchmarks, but it had been built with far less capital in far less time. “I thought:…
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The Download: super-efficient solar cells, and helpful robots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Super-efficient solar cells: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 In November 2023, a buzzy solar technology broke yet another world record for efficiency. The previous record had existed for only about five months—and it likely…
The FTC’s unprecedented move against data brokers, explained
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review‘s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. We’re only a few weeks into 2024, and violations of people’s privacy are already making some big headlines! First we had the continued drama with…
Watch this robot cook shrimp and clean autonomously
Sophisticated robots don’t have to cost a fortune. Even relatively cheap robots can do complex manipulation tasks and learn new skills quickly using AI, a new study has shown. With just $32,000, researchers from Stanford University managed to build a wheeled robot that can cook a three-course Cantonese meal with human supervision. Then they used…
The race to get next-generation solar technology on the market
In Swift Solar’s lab, more than a dozen pairs of elbow-length rubber gloves hover horizontally in midair, inflated like arms. The gloves are animated by gaseous nitrogen and jut out of waist-high, glass-walled enclosures, designed to keep the workspaces dry and airtight to protect the delicate solar materials inside. In a corner, technician Roger Thompson…
CES has almost fully succeeded in chasing sex-tech off its show floors
CES has long been a launchpad for innovation and cutting-edge technology. However, at this year’s event, there was a conspicuous void: the near-absence of sex tech. Despite being an industry that caters to a universal human experience, sex tech has always had an uneasy association with CES. This year, its conspicuous absence begs the question: […]
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Sam’s Club Will Stop Checking Receipts at the Door — and Instead Use AI to Snap Photos of Your Shopping Cart
The company introduced the technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
How to pick a name for your AI startup
in this world of exploding innovation in the AI industry, a great name paired with a great product will make your technology rise above.
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2024 Auto Stock Buy or Sell: Nikola (NKLA) vs. Toyota Motor (TM)
With sustained demand for new vehicles, rapid shift to electric vehicles (EVs) globally, and ongoing technology trends, the automotive industry is expected to maintain solid momentum in 2024 and beyond….
The Download: heat pumps, and getting drugs to the brain
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Heat pumps: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 We’ve entered the era of the heat pump. Heat pumps are appliances that can cool and heat spaces using electricity. Many buildings today are still heated with…