Location has been at the center of important business decisions for a century. Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, famously had a pilot’s license, and he used to spend Saturday afternoons flying over towns where he wanted to open new stores, with a colleague in the co-pilot’s seat, scouting for good Wal-Mart sites by watching […]

Photo 35345885 / Contactless Payments © Ldprod | Dreamstime.com Earlier this month the National Retail Federation (NRF) held its annual Big Show in New York City. What used to be an old-guard show featuring some innovations in point-of-sale (POS) systems and displays has turned into a pageant of IoT, robotics, biometrics, payments, cloud and AI/ML […]

Google’s Pixel range of hardware is expected to launch a folding smartphone at some point during 2023. The presumptively named Pixel Fold will join the likes of the Honor Magic Vs and Samsung Galaxy Fold 4 will cement the relatively new form factor as part of the establishment’s Android landscape. Now we have a closer […]

A coal or gas power plant is the last place an electric self-driving car wants to buy power from Getty Images A study by MIT grad-student Soumya Sudhakar published by IEEE got some press recently for claiming that a large self-driving car fleet in the distant future could cause as much greenhouse-gas emissions as the […]