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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.

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 ...

Climate change is making food harder to produce, even as agriculture remains a major source of emissions. At the same time, farmers are contending with labor shortages, rising costs, and pressure to get more out of every acre. New technologies are ...

The next big things in media and entertainment remove friction for both creators and consumers. From deploying AI to handle the tedious aspects of animation to leveraging new technology to make the experience of viewing sports more dynamic, these ...

The emblem for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane, Australia, is updating a well-known Olympic and Paralympic symbol to give it new meaning. Organizers accidentally leaked their own branding after inadvertently posting a video explaining the 2032 ...

You've heard of Mailchimp, TurboTax, Credit Karma, and Quickbooks; and chances are good you might even be able to picture their logos or recall a memorable ad. But what do you know about their parent company, Intuit? The most likely answer to that ...

Eighteen months after the deal closed, the new chief executive of a midmarket software business told me about his real problem. His executive team were listening to someone else. The founder had stayed on as chair and was exerting what the CEO saw as ...

On a sunny Friday afternoon in June, I walk down London's affluent King's Road to a two-block stretch that features four athleisure stores. At Alo, racks of sleek matching sets seem designed for women who post their Pilates workouts on Instagram. At ...

In 1987, the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow famously observed, "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." Nearly four decades later, AI has produced a version of its own. Call it the abundance paradox. At the ...

When Brian Daniel, the founder of a Los Angeles-based staffing agency, recently posted what he describes as a "high-paying remote job," he saw firsthand just how tough the labor market had become for job seekers. "We get between 500 and 1,000 ...