A Mexican retailer is selling cokes, smokes and clicks
Oxxo, a retailer with more than 17,000 locations throughout Mexico, has cracked two of the biggest barriers to online shopping in the developing world: payments and pickup.
Why is a finger sticking out of your mobile phone so creepy?
A robotic finger attached to your mobile phone let's it crawl across your desk or stroke your hand. It's really weird, but it's developer says it'll help us understand how we interact with technology. ...
Amazon scraps gender-biased recruiting tool
Amazon software engineers uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. Reuters' Jeffrey Dastin explains.
UK Dyson winners hope portable turbine blows away competition
UK winners of the James Dyson Award for inventors say their pint-sized prototype O-Wind turbine could be the answer for apartment-dwellers seeking to take advantage of green energy. Jim Drury reports. ...
Why do we exist? CERN’s neutrino detector looks for answers
The ProtoDUNE platform at CERN is 'catching' neutrino traces in a first step towards answering some of the biggest questions in theoretical physics. Matthew Stock reports.
Robotic cockroach can walk on land and swim underwater
The mini robot is being developed by researchers at Harvard University. Angela Moore reports.