A transformative technological wave is about to hit your home, your business and our everyday life. In 1950, science fiction writer Ray Bradbury penned the prescient short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, about a house whose autonomous appliances go on working long after the human homeowners are obliterated in a nuclear war. Right now, everyday appliances and devices, with...

As more hybrids and electric cars take to the roads, we’ll need fewer gas stations. But what will become of all those little empty buildings that dot our streets? Reebok, the sport shoe maker and Boston design firm Gensler want to reclaim these abandoned sites as “fitness hubs” where you can take a spin class, do yoga, or down a...

With honeybees dying and immigrants being turned back at the border, who’s going to pollinate and pick our peppers and tote our tomatoes? No sweat. A research team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel is working on a fleet of robots that won’t need green cards and can’t complain about low-wage farm labor. The group is working on...

If you are disgusted with the “identity news” propaganda you get from cable and TV networks that keep promoting their own agendas, be sure to tune into Gerald Celente’s nightly Trends In The News broadcasts that provide insights and observations that you’ll benefit from and won’t get from any other source.

Thanks to researchers at the University of Glasgow, you could someday whip up your own pharmaceuticals at home. The scientists have created a device similar to a 3D printer for chemicals. Small containers of chemical raw materials, called reagents, are placed in a dispenser in the device. Then software carries out the necessary mechanical steps to blend them into a...

Sequencing a person’s genome has until now required a well-equipped specialty lab. Now, the English company Oxford Nanopore has made a device the size of a cell phone that can do the same job. The gadget draws a sample of DNA through a small pore in its surface. DNA is made up of a sequence of four protein biochemicals. As...

OK, so it’s only a two-seater and can barely top 40 mph. But there’s room for groceries and it carries a price tag of only $7,500. And, according to the manufacturer, making one will take only three days. The LSEV, as it’s called, is a child of the union of XEV, a Chinese car maker, and Polymaker, a young company...

Investors are betting it won’t be the traditional automakers who profit from tomorrow’s cars. Their margins will shrink as they expensively retool in the years ahead, evolving toward electric and and more autmoted vehciles. So, who will profit in the years ahead? Much of the new technology will come from specialty providers, particularly those who make computer systems for vehicles...

Brent crude hit $80 a barrel. Prices at the gas pump are hitting four-year highs. And now, with the U.S. exiting the Iranian nuclear deal, putting heavier sanctions on that nation, with Venezuela oil output at 30-year lows and tensions escalating in the Middle East, the prospects for $100-a-barrel oil in the near future are greatly enhanced. It is estimated...

On March 18 2018, Elaine Herzberg joined Bridget Driscoll in history.   Driscoll was the world’s first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile: in August 1896 she walked into the path of a motor car, rocketing along at 4 mph as it was giving free rides on the grounds of London’s Crystal Palace.   This year, Ms. Herzberg became...