This year's CES placed car tech front and center, leaving many to ask if it's become the world's best car show. Wired's Michael Calore joins Cheddar to wrap up the biggest trends and hottest gadgets from the Las Vegas electronics expo. The senior editor breaks down the latest advancements in autonomous driving and smart-assistant integrations.
Google took its battle with Amazon for voice supremacy to a new level at CES. The tech giant revealed a number of exciting developments in its smart assistant technology, including third-party smart displays from JBL and Lenovo. Calore reveals whether he thinks Google has closed the gap with Amazon's Alexa suite.
Finally, Peloton unveiled the newest addition to its line of smart exercise equipment. Peloton Tread is a nearly $4,000 treadmill that hopes to generate the same success as the company's interactive bikes. Calore is optimistic about people shelling out big bucks for this new device.
Instagram is ramping up its anti-bullying efforts with two new features that it hopes will protect users from hurtful and abusive content, the company announced this week.
The modern-day space race just took a major step toward maturity, with Sir Richard Branson's announcement that Virgin Galactic will go public. When it lists later this year, Virgin will become the first publicly traded space-tourism company.
The market for hemp-derived CBD is expected to hit $5.1 billion in 2019 and $23.7 billion by 2023, according to new research from CBD and cannabis-focused market research firm, Brightfield Group. Despite bullish projections from researchers, enthusiasm from the industry, and curiosity from consumers, however, legislation at the federal and local levels isn’t keeping pace.
Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Temple University reported using gene therapy to eradicate HIV in mice. Now the team is considering how to turn that into a life-saving cure for humans.
The South Korean company reports that profits are likely down more than half of what they were at the same time last year.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, these are the top stories that moved markets and had investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs talking this week on Cheddar.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Friday, July 5, 2019.
Companies like Nordsense, Ecube, and Bigbelly wager that public bins can serve as highly-efficient, environmentally-friendly, networked devices for our future smart cities, producing data on trash that has never before been available.
Tesla delivered 95,200 vehicles in the second quarter ー nearly double what it delivered in the second quarter of 2018. The production beat was a sliver of good news in an otherwise bad first half of the year for the company.
'Stranger Things' is everywhere as more brands are jumping on the supernatural trend. Coca-Cola, Tide, and Baskin-Robbins are just a few to team up with Netflix. The streaming service has avoided advertising for years, but are they ready to cash in on the opportunity? Cheddar senior reporter Michelle Castillo breaks it all down.
