May 6, 2021 | Drones, Oceanography
Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash. Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to...
May 6, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Cloud Computing, Detroit
In Detroit, Wayne State University computer scientists Weisong Shi and Sidi Lu, have published a paper introducing a vision of vehicle computing in the autonomous driving era and highlighting the CAV as the perfect computation platform. The article’s assertions are...
May 6, 2021 | Climate, Environment
Gov. Tony Evers on April 22 — Earth Day — pledged that the state would plant 75 million new trees by Dec. 31, 2030, in addition to conserving 125,000 acres across the state. Evers said he believes trees are important not only to the economy and...
May 6, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
U.S. lawmakers are pushing for tens of billions of dollars in funding to shift to electric vehicles and away from gas-powered vehicles and build hundreds of thousands of charging stations. Representatives Andy Levin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday are...
May 6, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
You’re probably already subscribed to numerous service that touch so many elements of daily life, but are you ready for in-car subscriptions? They’re already happening in some ways to unlock features you may not need all the time,...
Apr 29, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors (GM.N) on Wednesday announced deals with major electric vehicle charging networks to offer its customers access to nearly 60,000 charging points across the United States and Canada. The No. 1 U.S. automaker said it had signed agreements with...
Apr 29, 2021 | Investment, Mobility
Wunder Mobility built its business selling software to shared scooter, e-bike and even short-term car rental startups. Now, it’s banking on a new — and once secret — lending division to bring in more revenue that’ll give micromobility operators another option to...
Apr 29, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business
Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet and ride sharing company Lyft have signed a $550 million acquisition deal that will see the former purchase the latter’s autonomous vehicle division, Level 5. Under the deal, Level 5 will be folded into Woven Planet, ending...
Apr 29, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Space
An AI-driven space debris-dodging system could soon replace expert teams dealing with growing numbers of orbital collision threats in the increasingly cluttered near-Earth environment. Every two weeks, spacecraft controllers at the European Space Operations Centre...
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