This AI Uses Echolocation to Survey Your Every Move. Would you consent to a surveillance system that watches without video and listens without sound? If your knee-jerk reaction is “no!”, then “huh?” Im with you. In a new paper in Applied Physics Letters..

New Season of Black Mirror Review. This week, the widely-anticipated fifth season of the dystopian series Black Mirror was released on Netflix. The storylines this season are less focused on far-out scenarios and increasingly aligned wi...

Exponential China - Something You Can't Ignore. The rise of China as an epicenter of rapid-fire innovation and technological disruption is more important than ever before in transforming each and every one of our businesses. Soon to surpass the U.S....

Twisted-angle Graphene. Graphene is a highly unconventional substance. After all, how many other Nobel-Prize-winning breakthroughs are made by scientists messing around on a Friday night with some sticky tape? Since then, gra...

This Cool Artificial Reef Was Just Deployed in Sydney Harbor. Earth’s oceans have seen better days. They’re inundated with plastic waste, both whole single-use plastics and tons of plastic microparticles that find their way back into our food and drinking

Why Big Organizations Need to Hack Their Cultures to Become More Innovative. Big established companies know they must innovate to survive, but often fail to do so. Startups, meanwhile, are born innovating. While it’s tempting to apply the startup model to

How to Deploy Tech Solutions to the World’s Greatest Challenges at Scale. “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” argued Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th century US lecturer, philosopher, and essayist. In other words, if scie

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 8). ROBOTICS Inside the Amazon Warehouse Where Humans and Machines Become One Matt Simon | Wired “Seen from above, the scale of the system is dizzying. My robot, a little orange slab known as a

This Lab-Grown Patch Could Repair Your Heart After a Heart Attack. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US for both men and women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 735,00 Americans have a heart attack each year, a