Nov 7, 2019 | Blockchain, Electric Vehicles
The dark side of electric vehicle production is that the lithium ion batteries most EVs run on require raw materials like cobalt, and cobalt mines have become notorious for using child labor. Now that Volvo has revealed its first fully-electric car, the XC40...
Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Internet of Things, Smart Cities
Traffic engineers in New York City will soon be able to reboot malfunctioning stoplights without leaving their desks, thanks to a new IoT project. The city’s Department of Transportation is working with Transition Networks to deploy...
Nov 7, 2019 | Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Scientists have developed a “paper bird” robot that is small enough to fit inside the human body to perform operations. Built by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich, the microscopic robots use tiny, programmable magnets for it to be...
Nov 7, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
A Pentagon advisory board has published a set of guidelines on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) during warfare. In “AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Department of Defense,”...
Nov 7, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
The evolution of autonomous vehicles illustrates to what extent many people, including any number of experts, do not understand technological development cycles, and get things seriously wrong. Click on this link, read the story and watch the video. It is from...
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