The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! The cashierless technology revolution continues apace with news today that Zippin has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. The San Francisco-based company is one of several players in the space to... Read more

The research group at Cleveland Clinic’s Laboratory for Bionic Integration looks at the inside of the touch robot system. Each small black box provides individual finger sensation to the user through a neural-machine interface. Cleveland Clinic Dreaming of a future where Luke Skywalker’s replacement hand is more than a... Read more

(This is not to say that fire agencies like Calfire aren’t supremely good at what they do. The successful evacuation of South Lake Tahoe is a testament to that: Over 20,000 people made it out, long before the fire reached the edge of town.) The WIRED Guide to Climate... Read more

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Last of the Nintendogs is back, and you can tell because GamesBeat editor Mike Minotti is grumpy once again. This time, he’s yelling about how the Game Boy and Game Boy Color are separate platforms.... Read more

The upheaval brought on by COVID-19 makes previous shifts seem glacial in comparison. Yet, perhaps no change was as sudden as the need to minimize human contact. Consumer and business behaviors changed virtually overnight, remote work was preferred (if not required), and digital spending became the new normal. Customers today aren’t... Read more

God of War is in the PlayStation Plus Collection for PS5 owners.  Sony September’s free collection of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers are in. From Sept. 7, subscribers can get Hitman 2, Overcooked All You Can Eat and Predator Hunting Grounds for free. You should be excited about two... Read more

The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd performance and a given fact checker. Once the groups got up to 22 people, they actually started significantly outperforming the fact checkers. (These numbers describe the results when the... Read more

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) this week updated an open source Apache Drill tool that enables end users to query multiple data sources using... Read more

The growth of technology and innovation expands opportunities for making profits. According to Alex O’Byrne of We Make Websites, the pandemic has caused websites to “become the primary purchase path for many brands—rather than a secondary or alternative method to in-store.” The alternative method to in-store methods means merchants... Read more

Dr. Rudolf Weigl developed the first effective vaccine typhus, and along the way, saved thousands of Jews from execution. Google Dr. Rudolf Weigl’s work on a vaccine for typhus during World War II saved countless lives, but his life-saving skills stretched beyond the reaches of the disease. Weigl was... Read more