May 27, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford expects 40% of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to what it’s spending to develop them. The automaker said in a presentation for investors Wednesday that it will add about $8 billion to its EV development spending from...
May 27, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
The German Federal Government believes that further steps must be taken to introduce corresponding systems into regular operation so that the potential of these technologies can be exploited and society can participate in them. This decision follows on from the...
May 27, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
The advent of self-driving cars is raising questions in the insurance sector about who should pay when the vehicles crash and how insurers will set equitable rates. When cars can operate themselves, the central question will be whether accidents are the...
May 27, 2021 | Climate, Oceanography, Robots
Microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic smaller than five millimeters across—are everywhere, from snow in the Arctic and rain in the Rocky Mountains to bottled water and beer. On the ocean floor, there may be nearly 16 million metric tons of it. In the top 200 meters of...
May 27, 2021 | 5G, Telecommunications
The 5G landscape is changing swiftly across the US, but according to recent testing from RootMetrics, T-Mobile currently has a solid lead in “Everyday 5G” availability. At the same time, according to the testing firm’s new 5G scorecard, AT&T...
May 27, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Meet Merlin Labs, a company that’s remained in the shadows until now. On Wednesday, the company emerged from “stealth mode” to introduce itself, thanks to a successful funding round for its autonomous plane technology. Merlin Labs isn’t...
May 27, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Work
Applying for jobs is hard work. We all know the drill—you polish your cover letter, spruce up an old resume and summon the courage to click send. After that, your career is in the hands of the hiring manager. Except this isn’t always the case. In many instances,...
May 27, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
The U.S. Army plans to cooperate in artificial intelligence research with teams led by the University of Maryland, College Park and in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The cooperative agreement brings together a collaborative of nearly 30...
May 27, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
There are dozens of routes that Alaska Airways Flight 1405 can take from Oklahoma City to Seattle, and dispatcher Brad Ward zeroed in on what he thought was the best one, taking into account weather, wind speeds, and other air traffic. But his new colleague at the...
May 19, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
If ever there was a time to want to be driving an electric car, it may have been last week — after the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack forced the company to take some of its systems offline. Fuel shortages resulting from the attack caused panic in parts of the country,...
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