Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...

Data shows that America’s oldest brick-and-mortar department store chain is at risk of filing bankruptcy, which the company denies. A retailer surviving for 158 years requires constant adaptation.

Behavioral data isn’t just for e-commerce anymore. Thanks to advances in in-store technology, physical retailers can now capture the same kind of insights into how shoppers move, pause, browse and ...

Not only low-income shoppers are hunting for deals these days. Better off consumers are also flocking to discount stores to save a few bucks. Since 2021, budget retailers have seen a large influx of ...

Imagine you’re tasked with analyzing two datasets—one containing a list of products and another with customer segments. How do you uncover every possible pairing to identify untapped opportunities?

UK retailer Co-op has confirmed that personal data of 6.5 million members was stolen in the massive cyberattack in April that shut down systems and caused food shortages in its grocery stores. Co-op ...

From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has “on” and “off” states, it can be used to store information. In a laptop computer, the ones and zeroes that make up ...

To keep my personal data safe, I use a mix of secure local drives, encrypted cloud storage like ProtonDrive, and password managers like Bitwarden. I avoid oversharing online, enable two-factor ...

Germany says DeepSeek illegally transfers user data to China Apple and Google must now review Germany's request Italy blocked DeepSeek app earlier this year Commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement ...