Category: IoT

Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials […]

The multimedia hearables have arrived. Hearables were formerly considered to be ear-worn devices that purely provided app-enabled audio adjustments. That’s changing, as voice assistants and […]

By Chuck Martin Companies are finding other uses for self-driving cars during the COVID-19 pandemic. The autonomous driving company Pony.ai just announced it’s starting a […]

By Chuck Martin The pandemic is causing changes in numerous industries and at least retailers are tapping some customer-facing technology to help them out. Walmart […]

By Chuck Martin It’s been taking forever to move contactless or mobile payments to mass adoption, but COVID-19 may be changing that. Walmart recently enabled […]

Self-driving vehicles may not be ready for consumers for a number of reasons, but new uses are being found for them because of COVID-19. At […]

By Chuck Martin Unintended consequences can come along with innovations, including those around the Internet of Things. Now it turns out there may be unexpected […]

Toyota wants to figure out how to help people perform better. A new initiative to develop artificial intelligence tools is being launched by the Toyota […]

By Chuck Martin Using a smartphone to talk is back, at least for now. For the longest time, consumers have been migrating to texting and […]

By Chuck Martin The market of connected things is taking at least a short-term hit due to COVID-19. Global smartphone shipments dropped 38% annually in […]

By Chuck Martin Creating a successful self-driving vehicle business can be tougher than it looks. Since its founding in 2015, Starsky Robotics raised more than […]

By Chuck Martin There’s a race between the Internet of Things and the hype around it. As with any emerging technological innovation, the hype typically […]

By Chuck Martin Virtual and augmented reality live in a state of future potential. After cardboard VR viewers and failed consumer AR glasses, the technologies […]