From the Silver Screen to the Highway: We Try Out Nissan’s New ProPilot Assist and e-Pedal Driver-Assist Technologies

– Interstellar transport, force fields, and carbonite freezing are just a few of the wild and futuristic technologies that drive the story line in the Star Wars works of fiction. Here on planet Earth, when Nissan isn’t working up tie-ins to that fictional universe, it’s busy working on solutions to real-world transportation problems. – The company’s Leaf […]

The DeanBeat: Inside Microsoft’s Inclusive Technologies Lab

EXCLUSIVE: REDMOND, Washington — Microsoft’s Inclusive Technologies Lab is full of insightful ideas about how to enable as many people as possible to enjoy video games. One of them is a game controller that is really, really heavy. It is meant to give game designers an idea of what it’s like for a person without […]

Ten technologies that might change the world: A review of Soonish

Enlarge (credit: Penguin Random House) I only read three comics regularly, and one of those is Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC). It is clever and funny—even educational on occasion. I think it is safe to call me a fan. So, I was excited to hear that SMBC creator Zach Weinersmith had decided to cowrite a […]

Airline-equipment giant United Technologies is reportedly closing in on a more than $20 billion deal (UTX, COL)

Emran Kassim Airplane-equipment giant United Technologies is closing in on a more than $ 20 billion buyout of competitor Rockwell Collins, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.  Discussions are reportedly ongoing, but negotiations have focused on a deal price of less than $ 140 per share for Rockwell, according to the Journal. The company […]

Canada's Hadwin in hunt at Dell Technologies Championship

PGA champion Justin Thomas ran off eight birdies on a long, wet TPC Boston for a tournament-best 63, giving him a share of the lead with Marc Leishman going into a Labour Day finish in the Dell Technologies filled with the game’s best players. The FedEx Cup playoff event in Boston has a history of delivering big […]

Libre Wireless Technologies Announces Their LibreSync Platform Will Work With Amazon Alexa and Support the Alexa Connected Speaker APIs

PRESS RELEASE: PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 31, 2017– Libre Wireless Technologies, Inc., a leading embedded voice enabled audio and multiprotocol IoT solution provider, today ahead of the IFA consumer electronic show in Berlin, announced their range of industry leading LibreSync wireless mic-to-cloud voice and media streaming platform solutions will work with Amazon Alexa voice service, […]

Dropped Apple supplier Imagination Technologies said there’s been ‘no progress’ in its dispute with Apple (IMG, AAPL)

Imagination Technologies LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) – British chip designer Imagination Technologies said it had made no progress in its battle with its biggest customer Apple , and the sale of the company triggered by the dispute was continuing with talks with potential buyers. Imagination said in April that Apple had decided to develop its […]

Nokia nabs Samsung North America CEO to lead its consumer-focused Technologies division

Nokia has finally filled the vacant President role for its Nokia Technologies division, nine months after Ramzi Haidamus left the role. The Finnish tech company has appointed Gregory Lee, who has been in various roles at Samsung since 2004 but most recently served as the company’s CEO and president for North America from 2014. Haidamus […]

Will These Technologies Kill Cash Once and for All?

Kyle Ferguson is president of Bristlecone Holdings, a high-growth financial technology company based in Reno, Nevada. When Lending Club fired its CEO over dodgy lending practices earlier this year, people feared the scandal would set back the world of alternative finance. But the misstep was actually a blessing: While the missteps were unfortunate, they inspired […]

Toyota sees profit sliding 20 percent, hurting its work on new technologies

TOKYO – Toyota, Japan’s biggest automaker, forecast operating profit for the current year to slide by a fifth due to increased spending to push sales in a slowing US market and the lingering impact from a stronger yen. The prediction of a second straight year of profit decline by Toyota comes at a time when […]