The Tech Guy Building Wearables for America’s Olympians

As 2017 passes, and we look forward to the year ahead, here is my fifth annual list of the ten best long-form stories about technology from the last year. (Also check out the ten most read Forbes Technovation articles of 2017, and my Top Ten Technology Books of 2017. To follow my column in 2018, please …

Mounir Zok, the biomedical engineer in charge of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s techand innovation, brainstorms products and training aids from his home in Cupertino, Calif. Together with his team of engineers and specialists, he’s produced, among other training gear, a set of connected glasses for the …

China Online Quiz Craze Lures Prize Seekers, Tech Giants. Jan. … BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – It seems like a game everyone wins: some of China’s biggest tech companies, looking to hook in new consumers, are using cash prizes to draw millions of contenders to mobile-based online quiz shows.

Philip Morris International Inc. wants to shift to a “smoke-free future,” but U.S. regulators are concerned that they will need more data to fully assess potential health risks from the company’s new electronic cigarettes. While the company’s iQos product reduced exposure to some harmful chemicals compared …

If have taken the new year as an opportunity for a new you, chances are you are struggling within the rigid confines of your resolutions. While there isn’t a technologyto automatically alter your waistline (yet, anyway), there are a fair number of futuristic devices designed to ease the burden of strict diet and …

The agency’s report, released on 18 January, documents the United States’ increasing competition from China and other developing countries that are stepping up their investments in science and technology. Nonetheless, the report suggests that the United States remains a scientific powerhouse, pumping …

“I see no evidence to suggest that this trend will not continue,” said Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C. “Other nations have responded with smart, well-funded innovation policies like better R&D tax incentives, more government funding …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Roadster 2 during a presentation in Hawthorne, California, U.S., November 16, 2017. Tesla/Handout via REUTERS Reuters. By Subrat Patnaik. (Reuters) – Silicon valley billionaire Elon Musk will get no salary or cash bonuses from Tesla Inc and all his compensation as …

France recently appointed a tech ambassador to the Silicon Valley. French President Emmanuel Macron named David Martinon as “ambassador for digital affairs”, with jurisdiction over the digital issues that the foreign affairs ministry deals with. This includes digital governance, international negotiations …