A few decades ago, AI was the stuff of science fiction novels, movies, and television shows. A fantasy. A figment of an overactive imagination. Isaac Asimov. Star Trek. The Terminator.But now? AI is already here or has been for quite…
Some 1.7 billion people around the world lack access to basic financial services such as a bank or mobile money account. Digital financial services have the potential to bring this population, concentrated in developing countries, into the financial system—giving them…
After years of phone sales stagnating, manufacturers are starting to experiment with new design elements, user experiences, and even new phone shapes. This experimentation got underway at the end of 2018 and is about to bloom in full force on…
Traditional approaches to solving mobility problems—adding roads and transit lines—are not sustainable, primarily because of concerns related to climate change, public health, and funding. Hence the interest in new technology-powered forms of mobility: ride sharing, free-floating bikes, autonomous electric vehicles,…
If you attach a new, postage-stamp-size wearable to your forehead before you sleep at night, the device can help tell you if you have sleep apnea–the disorder that can make you stop breathing repeatedly as you sleep, making you tired…
Mobile commerce, or m-commerce, revenue worldwide has increased from $184 billion in 2014 to a projected $669 billion by the end of this year. Combine that with the fact that as of 2016, according to Actinic, 86% of UK digital…
Have you ever wondered how often you check your phone? thirty times? fifty? even more? Dr. Sally Andrews, a psychologist at Nottingham Trent University, states that we use our phones twice as often as we think we do which indicates…
There’s no question that smartphones and the apps we use can get us to spend more time, and interrupt Real Life more often, than we’d like. The question is, what’s the best way to curb smartphone addiction? There are five…
Children’s development is being harmed because their parents are constantly distracted by technology..One of the key charges levelled at distracted parenting is that it harms a young child’s language development, and language is the single best predictor of school achievement.…
Ultimately, the idea is to steal time from the smartphone. The smartphone will probably never go away completely, but the combination of voice commands and hearing could become the primary interface for anything spontaneous. Read more in Fast Company The…
