Tech News: Health tech hub planned for Michael Reese site “The group planning a huge mixed-use project just south of McCormick Place has landed an anchor tenant to kick off the first phase of the development: a medical innovation center founded by the largest hospital in Israel. The ARC Innovation Center would open in the...

Tech News: Affirm moves to Chicago “Affirm, an online consumer-lending company founded by PayPal co-founder and University of Illinois graduate Max Levchin, has opened a Chicago office that will have more than 100 people by the end of the year. The San Francisco-based company, which is a “unicorn” startup valued at more than $1 billion, says it...

Melinda Gates Names Chicago First Gender-Inclusive Tech Hub “Melinda Gates has a vision of how gender-inclusive tech hubs would function, and her new initiative is attempting to create three of them. The first stop is Chicago. Gates announced today that Pivotal Ventures, her investment and incubation company will be launching an initiative, Gender Equality in...

Tech News: Amazon developing hand-scanning technology “Amazon.com Inc. is reported to be developing point of sale terminals that would accept a scan of a user’s hand to make a payment, according to The Wall Street Journal. The POS terminals would be placed in brick-and-mortar stores and would negate the need for customers to present a...

Tech News: Transforming Cars into Smartphones “Technology companies transformed smartphones and televisions into continuous fountains of revenue. Now, big tech wants to work with automakers to do the same thing for your car.  With the widespread rollout of autonomous vehicles still years away, the two industries have converged on the idea of cars providing services...

2020 trends in tech: A new year equal new trends. 2020 already has new trends in the tech world. Check out a few tech trends that are ready to takeover. “1. The New Wave Of Video Streaming  The Streaming Wars have gone hot, and CES 2020 will be a major battlefield with the likes of...

Check out some words describing the decade in tech “Algorithm In computing terms, this means a set of rules or a step-by-step process for performing a task. As a word it’s far older than the decade we’re finishing, but it’s gained notoriety over the past few years as the influence of social media has grown...

IPhone Lighting Connector are changing “Apple could ditch the Lightning connector on the highest-end versions of the iPhone in 2021, meaning the devices will require wireless charging, according to a report on Thursday from Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at TF Securities. The removal of the Lightning cable, along with other differentiating updates, will boost shipments...

Chicago’s tech market is growing “Chicago’s tech market has continued to expand in recent years and according to a new report, some of that growth can be attributed to the increasing number of coastal tech firms relocating or expanding to the Windy City. CBRE’s annual Tech-30 Report, which measures the tech industry’s impact on office rents in...