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Navigation App Shows Nocturnal Walkers the Best-Lit Route Home
Rudder is a new app developed by two graduates from the University of Michigan, which helps users find their best-lit route. The startup behind...Read More
Verizon Roadside Service Makes for Happier Cars and Drivers
Verizon Vehicle’s core is an OBD (On Board Diagnostics) reader that communicates with your car’s computers. The Verizon reader can be set...Read More
Audi Using Virtual Reality to Let Customers Configure Dream Cars
Audi is the first automotive manufacturer to develop a dedicated retail software solution for VR headsets. It enables customers to experience their...Read More
How Artificial Intelligence Could Put More Electric Cars on the Road
GE is equipping charging stations with AI to get more electric cars driving. A pilot project in New York City has worked to develop a method for...Read More
Healthy Eating Platform Provides One-to-One Nutrition Coaching Via Video
With an abundance of healthy eating advice and a seemingly endless stream of diet fads to choose from, consumers can be forgiven for finding...Read More
Kenyan Farmers Can Subscribe to Text Service for Localized Agricultural Advice
In developing countries, where phone ownership and signal coverage is continuing to expand rapidly, SMS messages are an excellent means of...Read More
Video Platform Connects Home-Cooks With Pro Chefs for Live Culinary Tips
Everybody has a friend or family member they turn to for cooking advice, but now a new platform called Talk to Chef wants to help enthusiastic home...Read More
Live Smartphone Tours From Locals
Turkish startup Lopeca enables users to “see” the world via remote smartphone video tours from locals. The tourism industry has been...Read More
App Offers Travel Recommendations Based on Time of Year
What’s It Like is an app that aims to let users simply choose the time they’re looking to get away in order to receive a suggestion...Read More
Travel Agency Offsets CO2 Emissions of its Customers’ Hotel Stays For Free
One percent of the world’s carbon emissions are created by the hotel industry, and while many individual hotels are making concerted efforts to...Read More
Toyota’s New Driving Simulator Distracts Teens On Purpose
We can warn kids not to text and drive, but Toyota has taken the driving safety PSA to the next level with their “TeenDrive365”...Read More
Eye-Tracking Car Tech Will Help Drivers Remain Focused
While Google is certain of the future with driverless vehicles, a trend of improving the driver is emerging. Soon, cars will come with a built-in...Read More
Co-pilot Device Helps New Drivers Improve Their Road Safety
CarVi is an affordable smart device that enables new or nervous drivers to monitor and improve their driving habits. Users attach the device to their...Read More
Platform Helps Startups Offer Retirement Plans
Honest Dollar helps startups create retirement plans for employees by reducing many of the associated fees and hurdles. Over 70 million people in the...Read More
Corporate Social Responsibility For Startups
Startups Give Back is a philanthropy movement helping startups lend a hand to nearby non-profits and causes. Startups Give Back partners with...Read More
Businesses Offer Their Employees Big Perks
AnyPerk is a service which enables businesses of any size to offer their employees rewarding perks. It can then send reminders to those employees...Read More
E-Commerce Platform Adds Social Good Outcome to Every Purchase
Favoire turns everyday items into charitable actions . . empowers customers through shopping and fashion. The business allows users to purchase...Read More
Ethical Wedding Rings Fund Water for Life, for Two People
Do Amore wedding rings are made from conflict free diamonds and recycled metal, and the profits from their sales are used to finance clean water in...Read More
Charitable Techies Donate Their Skills to Nonprofits in Need
The platform #charity enables IT professionals to donate their time and tech skills to nonprofits, saving those organizations much needed funds....Read More
Design Project Trains Young People to Improve Their Local Area
The Building Hero Project is a design leadership scheme which gives young people access to cutting edge equipment so they can run community...Read More
Promising Students Are Paid to Become Remote Software Developers
Andela is a global talent accelerator which provides paid training to young people in Africa, before linking them up with remote developer jobs....Read More
A Theme Park for Playing Grown-up
KidZania, the global chain of theme parks where children take on adult work roles, allows kids between the ages of four to twelve to do what comes...Read More
Carpooling For Your Cargo
Roadie is a peer-to-peer shipping network which enables drivers to fill their empty back seats with their neighbor’s cargo. The platform plans...Read More
User Owned Carpool Platform Runs on Bitcoin Style Digital Tokens
La’Zooz is a decentralized, real time, lift-share platform, owned by its users and run on digital Zooz tokens. Its founders are hoping it is...Read More
App Finds the Right Transportation in Five Minutes
Shift is making urban transit straightforward, using an algorithm which knows the best vehicle for the user’s journey. For many, urban car...Read More
High-Tech Pen Enables Visitors to ‘Collect’ Design Objects
The recently reopened Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York will be offering its patrons a delayed interactive experience –...Read More
Interactive “Coming Soon” Signs Let Users Shop from Unbuilt Stores
Kate Spade teamed up with The Science Project at the site of their upcoming store, making a shopable barricade to engage future customers. The...Read More
Unbridled Selection From Interactive Tables
The Neiman Marcus Innovation Lab (known as iLab) has launched their interactive retail table project in three of its major locations in Austin,...Read More
Turbines in Water Pipes Harvest Green Energy for the City
LucidPipes harvest renewable low-cost energy from the water flowing through gravity-fed pipes. The most effective way to harvest renewable energy is...Read More
Platform Lets Homeowners Donate Energy to Those Who Need It
In every community, there are those who can’t afford to heat their home in the winter, or even turn their lights on at night. Gridmates is a...Read More
Solar-Powered Biofuel Stove for Africa Could Save Lives
African Clean Energy has developed a biofuel stove to help combat the global problem of indoor cook-smoke, which is estimated to kill 4 million...Read More
Solar-Powered EV Charging Made Easy For Apartment Buildings
In San Francisco, Powertree Services enable apartments to offer EV charging and solar power at no extra cost to building owners. Previously, these...Read More
Swappable Electric Batteries Can Recharge Smartscooter in 6 Seconds
The Smartscooter is far from the first electric scooter on the market, but Taiwanese startup Gogoro is hoping to get the edge in the urban mobility...Read More
Retrofitted Lampposts Can Charge Electric Vehicles
Ubitricity’s mobile charging device will enable electricity providers to supply plug-in EV drivers with charging stations exactly where they...Read More
Temporary Tattoo Could Replace Pin-Prick Blood Tests For Diabetics
A simple, miniature tech device embedded on a temporary tattoo could provide a non-invasive alternative to diabetics’ daily blood tests. The...Read More
Gadget Library Rents Out Wearables
Lumoid is a US photographic equipment rental service which has recently expanded its ‘library’ to include wearables and drones –...Read More
Wearable Sensors Gamify Physical Therapy
The Valedo is the latest wearable healthcare offering to gamify exercise – this time, for back-pain sufferers. It is a Swiss invention,...Read More
Service Offers Luggage-Free Travel to Frequent Fliers
Singapore-based Packnada enables passengers to travel with only a passport, through a wardrobe storage service that delivers to their hotel every...Read More
Travel Without The Baggage
LugLess aims to alleviate many of travelers’ frequent frustrations, including overpriced baggage fees and lost bags, by providing secure...Read More
Regulars At Melbourne Hyatt Can Leave Belongings Behind
The Grand Hyatt Melbourne’s “Leave it at Hyatt” scheme enables visitors to safely store their belongings on site, ready for their...Read More
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- The exchanges, said to date back to Daniels seeking representation, raise the possibility Trump's attorney could be sidelined from the hush money case March 22, 2023Communications between adult-film star Stormy Daniels and an attorney who is now representing former President Donald Trump have been turned over to the Manhattan district attorney's office, Daniels' lawyer told CNN.
- Trump and his advisers await potential indictment March 22, 2023Behind the gilded doors of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump has toyed with the idea of creating a media spectacle around his potential indictment, both celebrated how it will help him politically and complained about how "unfair" it is, and at times ignored the prospect of criminal charges altogether, sources close to him told CNN.
- Trump is allegedly anticipating this element of possibly being arrested March 22, 2023New York Times reporter and CNN political contributor Maggie Haberman and CNN's Kaitlan Collins discuss what we could see if former President Donald Trump is indicted.