The 5 most innovative tech products that surprised us this year (including a first for robot vacs)

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Welcome to ZDNET’s “Breakthrough” Awards for 2025, our latest tradition that celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking technologies to cross our editors’ desks this year. Over the past 12 months, we’ve spent countless hours challenging the utility of foldable phones that dominated the mobile conversation, lived entire…

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COP11 delivers incremental wins, but remains weak on new nicotine products

Shorouk Express The FCTC (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) secretariat says that the week-long discussions resulted in decisions on: tobacco control and the environment; increasing resources for tobacco control; forward-looking tobacco control measures; and issues relating to the liability of the tobacco industry for the damage it causes.”These important decisions made by Parties to the…

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Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes | TechCrunch

Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March. Intel announced Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart the company after more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus was most recently chief executive officer of Intel products and will remain a strategic adviser. The company…

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