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To truly grasp where the technology industry is driving the future of mobility, you have to leave the spreadsheets behind and walk the factory floor. Last week, I traveled to Savannah, Ga., to attend a milestone event at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA). The facility was celebrating the start of production for the Kia Sportage Hybrid, marking its first Kia model and its first hybrid electric vehicle (HEV)...

As resale marketplaces grow, a platform's ability to process and verify visuals at the point of upload is becoming increasingly important for maintaining buyer trust and listing quality According to the AI-driven visual e-commerce platform Photoroom, the U.S. second-hand market is approaching $73 billion this year. Two-thirds of consumers bought or...

Could visual avatars flip the traditional customer experience (CX) script by providing a more human-like exchange? Research from AI-powered CX firm Cyara shows a psychological shift in consumer attitudes toward AI, making customers more comfortable interacting with AI than with chatbots. According to the report, more than one-third (36%) of consume...

Google's "new era for AI search" appears to be a boon for one of its competitors, DuckDuckGo Since Google announced last month that it would be changing its traditional search box into a conversational engine that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions rather than display pages of links, installs of DuckDuckGo have soared....

Foldable smartphones have been the next big thing for several years, and that is exactly the problem. The category has generated plenty of hype, engineering swagger, and “future of mobile” headlines. What it has not achieved is broad mainstream adoption Even after multiple product cycles from Samsung, Motorola, Google, OnePlus, and others, fold...

Since their market launch in 2024, AI PCs have received a tepid consumer response. Microsoft hopes to change that, with a helping hand from Nvidia The two companies announced Monday that they will introduce this fall some 30 laptops and 10 PCs built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark "superchip," which can deliver one petaflop of AI performance and addr...

We are watching a slow-moving trainwreck in the technology sector, and it is happening right in our own backyards. The technology industry has long operated under the assumption that if it built the infrastructure, municipalities would simply welcome it for the tax revenue. That era is officially over Major tech companies have essentially wagered o...

Early findings from Project Glasswing suggest AI could significantly change how tech companies and cybersecurity teams respond to vulnerabilities in open-source software. The initiative aims to counter AI-powered cyber threats by giving open-source maintainers access to advanced defensive tools AI research and safety company Anthropic introduced th...

Some of the biggest names in telecommunications are joining forces to bolster cybersecurity across the industry The companies — AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Zayo — are establishing the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC) to provide a trusted setting where tech...

Google used I/O 2026 to demonstrate how deeply AI is being woven into nearly every layer of its ecosystem — from search and productivity tools to commerce, development platforms, and wearable computing CEO Sundar Pichai used the keynote to mark 10 years since the company declared itself an "AI-first" organization. Today, that strategy has evolved...

Many digital catalogs still prioritize visual design over shopper behavior, limiting their ability to drive conversions Digital product catalogs have evolved far beyond static online brochures. What once mirrored print layouts can now support interactive shopping, analytics, and even in-catalog purchasing. Yet many brands still approach catalogs wi...

By the end of the year, mass adoption of public large language models (LLMs) as a replacement for traditional search will double public relations and earned media budgets, according to global research and advisory company Gartner In a report titled "Top Predictions to Inform 2026 Comms Strategies," Gartner noted public LLMs will replace traditional...

Social networking platform LinkedIn will be detailing its plans on Wednesday to combat low-value AI content — aka AI slop — in its user feeds According to a report in Engadget, the changes will target everything from outright engagement bait to recycled "thought leadership" and other "generic" content that lacks authenticity and originality....

Consumer robotics companies have spent years trying to build artificial companions that feel less like toys and more like emotionally engaging household devices. From the early experiments of Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell to today’s AI-driven robotics efforts, the category has largely struggled to move beyond novelty gadgets and awkward imitations of real companionship...

As AI agents begin handling more online transactions, many e-commerce systems still assume a human is behind every interaction. That disconnect is creating new challenges for fraud prevention, authentication, and personalization as businesses struggle to determine who — or what — is actually initiating a transaction That challenge is pushing so...

Law firms are confronting the reality that while artificial intelligence (AI) can draft a brief in seconds, it can also hallucinate legal theories convincing enough to pass traditional review filters undetected As generative AI becomes a staple in legal drafting, a new risk has emerged: fabricated legal reasoning rather than merely fabricated facts...

For the second time in two weeks, a significant privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux The vulnerability known as "Dirty Frag" enables escalation from an unprivileged user to root through vulnerable kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components, according to the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team....

Open-source security experts say the recent GitHub Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw, CVE-2026-3854, may be patched, but it exposes a much bigger problem: implicit trust in the software supply chain The vulnerability is not an isolated incident. Some security experts regard it as a warning sign for the collapse of perimeter-based trust. It serves as...

Meta is turning to artificial intelligence to enforce age restrictions across its platforms In an online post, the company explained that it will use AI to scan user profiles for contextual clues of age-restriction violations....

Digital advertising can track nearly every click, but connecting ad exposure to real-world sales remains difficult. Even in an era defined by big data, many businesses still cannot reliably measure when digital campaigns lead to store visits, appointments, or offline purchases Adtaxi is helping brands connect media exposure to real-world outcomes t...