Technology
CES 2026 – Bosch Showcases How AI Is Transforming Homes and Mobility
At the press conference Bosch executives: Tanja Rückert, board member and Paul Thomas, president of Bosch in North America unveiled a sweeping vision of how artificial intelligence and software are reshaping everyday life—from verifying product authenticity to redefining cooking, mobility, and industrial productivity. Drawing on its deep expertise across both the physical and digital worlds, Bosch demonstrated how intelligent technology can reduce complexity, eliminate stress, and empower people across skill levels. Fighting...
CES 2026 – LEGO Unveils “Smart Play” Platform, Bringing Digital Intelligence to Physical Bricks
The LEGO Group introduced a major new initiative at CES with the launch of LEGO Smart Play, a platform designed to merge physical LEGO bricks with embedded digital intelligence—without screens, apps, or traditional digital interfaces. The company described the announcement as its most significant innovation in decades, marking a new chapter in LEGO’s 70-year history of physical play. Executives positioned Smart Play as a foundational platform rather than a single product, signaling a long-term strategy to integrate technology into...
CES 2026 – Three Megatrends Shaping Our Intelligent Future
CES 2026 kicked off Sunday, January 4th, with the annual “CTA Tech Trends to Watch” presentation for members of media, hosted by Melissa Harrison, VP communication & marketing, CTA, and Brian Comiskey, senior director, Innovation & Trends, CTA. Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. Breakthroughs rarely stay confined to a single sidewalk, industry, or discipline. Instead, progress emerges where technologies intersect—where advances in one field accelerate transformation in another. Because of this interdependence, the most...
Imec Caps 2025 With Major Advances in AI Datacenter Modeling and Semiconductor Research
Imec closed out 2025 with significant announcements that underscore its growing influence in semiconductor R&D and AI systems design. Between a high-profile debut at Super Computing 2025 and a strong showing at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), the Belgium-based research center marked the end of the year with momentum across multiple technology fronts. In November at Super Computing 2025, one of the world’s largest gatherings for high-performance computing, imec unveiled imec.kelis, an analytical performance...
15th Anniversary of “Heavy Rain” – Art of Gaming
Guillaume de Fondaumiere is the Co-CEO of the Quantic Dream Studio based in France, which developed games such as, "Fahrenheit" (2005), "Heavy Rain" (2010), and in collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment, the PS3 exclusive title, "Beyond: Two Souls", starring actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe (2013). Today, on the 15th anniversary of “Heavy Rain,” he finds himself reminiscing: “In the mid-2000s when we started production on “Heavy Rain” I was executive producer on the project. I was also responsible for managing...