Enterprise Explores

Uber’s meal-delivery service UberEats envisions dropping off its first drone-delivered dinners as early as 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Swiping right isn’t just for hookups anymore. On the DoNotPay app, the gesture means you’re ready to sue someone and claim awards from class-action lawsuits. Is the disruption of the legal system finally here? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Smart marketplaces are coming , and they’re about to broker previously impossible transactions.  But not without its hiccups, though. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most cell phone manufacturers spend a lot of time and money trying to get their customers to upgrade before it’s necessary. They do this with upgrade programs, gluing-down batteries, lobbying against repair legislation and making spare parts difficult or impossible to find. One company, wants to change this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A device that can pull drinking water from the air just won the latest Water Abundance XPrize. It creates enough water for 100 people every day by making an artificial cloud inside a shipping container.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yep, you read it right. There is probably plastic in your poop! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a race to become the first transport provider to launch autonomous taxis to mainstream customers, Addison Lee has announced their plans to kickstart their fleet of self-driving cars as early as 2021 . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 Million metric tons of plastic ends up in the oceans everyday. Now some companies are taking that plastic and turning into something useful. Both HP and Ikea for example now have products that are made from plastic that was intercepted before it hit the ocean. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nowadays, there’s a big emphasis on having a fun workplace culture. But is that sustainable in the long run - and more importantly, is a fun workplace culture actually healthy ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the worst-kept secrets in Silicon Valley is that it takes a whole lot of human labour to make artificial intelligence...intelligent. Enter Hive, a Silicon Valley-based startup that's embracing this human element to provide AI-powered image recognition that's "orders of magnitude better than Google," as cofounder Kevin Guo puts it . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are many financial literacy programs out there, but are they actually proven to work? Or do their participants slip back into financial illiteracy out of habit and/or lifestyle? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why would anyone invest in your company you work for? What’s the ROI investing in you? Will you have added value in the future? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Canada’s first day of legal pot, an enterprising Canadian girl scout sold all her cookies in 45 minutes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bankruptcy is a powerful tool for fighting predatory bills. The problem is that filing for bankruptcy can be prohibitively expensive. But this app helps you do it for free . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isn’t it nice to walk outside and navigate by the glow of the moon? But often, it’s not quite bright enough to read a street sign - well a Chinese space company  aims to fix that.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine this: You wake up in the morning and get dressed, for work, not in the clothes that you own, but in the ones that you rent - the ones that arrived last night. You head out to your office, which isn’t your office, because you’re likely a freelancer, and drop off some of the other clothes that you’d rented earlier in the week. There’s a possibility that this is going...

For those of you who are lucky enough to have an electric car, finding a charging spot might now have become a little easier thanks to Google Maps. They’ve now added support for EV chargers  to the iOS and Android versions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carrie Fisher and Paul Walker both appeared in Hollywood movies even after their sudden passing. This improvements in CGI mean neither age nor death will stop some performers from working. Actors are now digitally preserving themselves , so even in year 3018, Steven Seagal will save you from world-ending disasters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Baidu president Ya-Qin Zhang has raised concerns about designing AI with societal values in mind, and during the AI Now’s 2018 symposium, a point was made of algorithms potentially amplifying the problems and biases of society instead of minimising them. When it comes down to it, are algorithms and AI actually bad for society? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When has “innovation” gone too far? A tequila from Elon Musk ? The Nasi Lemak burger? A pickle flavoured ice cream? The Durian flavoured condom? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robots have been doing the jobs of humans in some industries for years now, but Uniqlo have just unveiled a warehouse in Tokyo that’s almost entirely powered by robot technology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Parents are often guilty of “sharenting” - posting about their kids without their kids’ permission, often in compromising or embarrassing contexts. But is this practice straining the real-life parent-child relationship as well ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entrepreneurship is a journey that demands untold quantities of time, commitment, and personal courage. But it’s also a road that can bring great rewards. Unfortunately, these rewards also come with a high risk of failure. So here are three tips to help you see things through.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Will you work harder if you found out your boss makes more money than you thought? Science says Yes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Just two months after it opened its first store in India, IKEA is now devising new strategies to get Indians to actually buy its furniture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.