This isn't a manifesto. Nor is it a piece of futurist speculation. It's more of brain dump, flushing out things I've been thinking about for the last few weeks (and for the past couple of decades, ...

MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ambient Photonics has completed the initial financing for its state-of-the-art U.S. solar manufacturing facility. Silicon Valley Bank and Trinity Capital have ...

What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are ...

Smartphones are the most effective attention magnets ever created. Our infrequent breaks from using them are short. And as if the lure of their endless apps wasn’t enough to draw us back in, ...

Ambient is more than a genre. It’s a blank canvas with no rules and no structures. Shaped by geography and generations, it’s open to experimentation with sound, texture and space. That’s why it traces ...

This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. Have you ever wanted to live inside a virtual ...

The concept of an “internet of things” emerged at the end of the 1990s, when Kevin Ashton, a computer scientist working at Procter & Gamble, coined the term to describe a means of tracking products by ...

In just four years, the Toronto label has rewritten the rules of ambient success in the world of streaming music Ambient music has exploded on streaming services, as listeners turn to abstract ...

The ambition of smart homes extends beyond simple automation. Homes should instinctively gather context, adapt to their occupants’ needs and interact naturally. A key enabler is ambient sensing, which ...