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For six decades, I’ve worked on product design and manufacturing for companies such as Polaroid, Seiko, and Apple, as well as startups. When I worked at Polaroid and Apple, they still had their own factories and chose to go to Asia to build products.
As millions of students head back to campus this fall, colleges and universities are rightly focused on incoming freshmen, enrollment numbers, and retention rates.
In 1897, Georges Méliès made Gugusse et l’Automate, one of the earliest films to feature a robot. The machine grows, fights its maker, and is eventually destroyed. It set the tone. For much of the next 120 years, our impressions of robots came from the silver screen.
One of the biggest mistakes companies are making with AI is treating it primarily as a way to reduce talent, rather than as an opportunity to rethink how people and technology can work together.
At the EWA, we enable C-suite women to mentor each other to achieve personal and professional success. I am honored to share insights from thought leaders who are part of our peer-to-peer community.
When you are having a hard workday, it is comforting to remember that tacos fall apart and people still love them. This metaphor is particularly timely on National Taco Day, which just so happens to be today (Tuesday, October 6, 2026).
Innovation can be challenging, even for companies with a clean slate. Those who have an established track record of 15 or more years of business must navigate history, culture, product lines, and other entrenched forces that can be both assets and inhibitors.
Training data begat large language models—and ever since, they’ve been intimately bound. This year’s honorees include a database tuned for AI agents, a dataset for AI-aided diagnosis of breast tumors, and a platform that gives companies more control over how their data is acquired and used.
Advances in computing aren’t just about faster processors. As these innovations show, progress is driven by everything from the technologies used to transmit data to the systems that ensure data centers get reliable power without overwhelming the grid.
AI is poised to transform virtually everything about online and physical retail, from product exposure and recommendations to consumers even having to complete the transactions for themselves.
The metaverse hype bubble may have burst, but that doesn’t mean immersive computing is yesterday’s news. Technologies such as spatial computing and VR are changing how products are designed, where entertainment can happen, and what kind of medical care is available in remote maritime situations.
Consumer technology is at its best when it’s solving problems that exist outside of the tech world. This year’s honorees include better ways to clean your floors, put on your shoes, hear the conversation around you, and practice music effectively.
2026 may have been the year when AI stopped getting brownie points simply for being amazing. What’s impressive now is AI that performs useful tasks. All the better if it does it quietly, cleverly, and in areas that help humans focus on the work that we still do best.
Much of the discussion around AI and young people has focused on what career opportunities may exist in the future. But the technology is already changing education.
As the real estate industry struggles with rising interest rates and ballooning material costs—thanks in part to tariffs—innovation is becoming more and more important. New technologies and construction methods are boosting margins for builders and helping to compensate for labor shortages.
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Nationally aggregated inventory is up +5.6% on a year-over-year basis between September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2026.
For the past month, slowing the development of artificial intelligence has been at the forefront of AI discourse. After a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee left the industry in September citing that “neither company is acting responsibly,” AI leaders and everyday citizens alike sounded off on…
The spookiest holiday is right around the corner and seasoned trick-or-treaters know that not all streets are created equal when it comes to Halloween. As Halloween approaches, the Hershey’s-owned brand Reese’s found the country’s top 150 streets for trick-or-treating.
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