Citing what it said were years of customer requests, audio streaming platform Spotify said it is adding audiobooks to its offerings. Beginning Tuesday (Sept. 20), Spotify listeners in the U.S. can buy and listen to more than 300,000 audiobook titles, in a new interface designed...
Technology and making food go hand in hand, from gadgets and utensils for the home chef to factory-level industrial food production. But where FoodTech may once have been all about making the process quicker and easier and developing new techniques, the innovations at the frontier...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are reshaping the urban environment for the better, helping city dwellers breathe cleaner air and reduce their carbon emissions. Across Europe, city councils have been implementing measures to boost EV adoption as part of efforts to reduce the number of combustion engines...
The Linux Foundation wants to do for digital wallets what it did for the private enterprise blockchains used by the likes of Walmart, IBM and Maersk. Working with companies such as Accenture and CVS Health, as well as digital identity providers including Spherity and the...
There is little doubt that the digital economy has transformative potential for emerging markets like the ones on the African continent. It can create jobs, stimulate economic growth and provide a range of development opportunities, just to name a few benefits. But without the fundamentals...
For the first time in decades, food security is at the top of the political agenda in Europe. The BBC recently reported that about 20 million tonnes of grain meant for export have been trapped in Ukraine since February, along with other foodstuffs such as...
According to Wendell Weeks, chief executive of tech company Corning, the EU is lacking a supply chain to deliver fiber optic cable needed for 5G networks. Weeks said the EU doesn’t “really have a robust supply chain,” according to Financial Times (FT). Corning recently opened...
YouTube is rolling out a new tool to offer options for education, which it says is a crucial reason some users visit the site, according to a company blog. The point of the update is to offer more accessible learning tools for users, and it...
FinTech Figure Technologies is launching a new banking and payment business called Figure Payments Corp., the company announced Wednesday (Sept. 7). According to the announcement, Figure Pay, a subsidiary of Figure Payments Corp., will deliver Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings through a highly scalable, quickly deployable application...
