A new update to Samsung’s Gear S3 smartwatch aims to improve its battery life on a day-to-day basis when you’re wearing the watch. Rolling out now in the US, Canada and South Korea (with more markets to follow, but we don’t know when) the latest […]
Category: Food
A well-fed workforce is a happy workforce — City Pantry raises £4M for its catering marketplace
City Pantry, the office catering marketplace to make it easy to order in food for staff, company events and meetings, has restocked its funding. The London-based startup has raised a new £4 million round led by Octopus Investments with participation from existing investors and Newable […]
Irrigation robots could help grow wine grapes in California
The researchers have been working to advance and refine the system since 2016, and RAPID is actually the second version of the project. In a new report, IEEE talks about where the researchers are with it, a bit over a year after it received a […]
Tencent and education startup Age of Learning bring popular English-learning app ABCmouse to China
Tencent is teaming up with Los Angeles-based education company Age of Learning to launch an English education program for kids in China. ABCmouse, Age of Learning’s flagship product, has been localized and will be available as a website and an iOS and Android app in […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’ revival feels surprisingly heartfelt
Netflix’s revival of Queer Eye transports five gay men around Georgia, where they remake the lives of individuals in sore need of their assistance. Each member of the “Fab Five” has their own specialty — food, fashion, grooming, design and culture. This might sound like […]
When Will Self-Driving Cars Be ‘Ready’?
For the people who develop self-driving cars—the software engineers, the hardware tinkerers, the welders and the bumper-affixers, the C-Suite execs and the marketing folks paid to sell it all—the rest of the world is bit like like a kid-crowded backseat. Are we there yet? the […]
The experience and vision behind the Jaguar I-Pace
Announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2016, the journey of the first electric vehicle from Jaguar started four years ago when CEO Ralf Speth made the decision for the British company to get into the electrified market. “It was not the process to […]
China’s ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing recruits drivers in Mexico
According to Dalia Research reports from August of last year, Uber held 87 percent of Mexico’s ride-hailing market share at the time. Easy, Cabify and Yaxi shared the other 13 percent. Though this is Didi’s first foray outside of Asia, it has butted heads with […]
Tim Cook outlines Apple’s view on privacy, encryption in MSNBC interview
Cook: The only way to protect your data is to encrypt it. There is no other way known today. And so, if I were you, I would do business with no one that wasn’t doing that. Now, it is a thorny issue from a law […]
Glamour, excellent food, and the great outdoors in Italy’s Lake Garda
Pack designer sunglasses, walking shoes, and a fondness for divine food for your trip to Italy's Lake Garda, says Gráinne McGuinness. Before I went there for the first time I associated the lakes in Northern Italy with old-school glamour, stunning scenery and stars like George […]