Mar 4, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Aeronautics, Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration this week named Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as one of five airports nationwide to help it develop drone detection and mitigation equipment. Drones can pose a danger to planes, both in the air and on the ground. It is an...
Mar 4, 2021 | Cyber Security, Defense, Government
The Biden administration is calling cybersecurity a “top priority” that requires both a diplomatic and military response from the federal government. Following the SolarWinds breach that has impacted nine agencies so far, the White House, in its Interim National...
Mar 4, 2021 | 5G, Featured, Telecommunications, Work
With the work-from-home phenomenon becoming more of a long-term reality, T-Mobile is looking to capitalize on its 5G wireless network — expanded thanks in large part to its Sprint merger last year — to drum up more business from large companies. The Bellevue, Wash.,...
Mar 4, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Volvo had already announced plans to convert its entire lineup into electric vehicles or hybrids. But this decision goes a step further, eliminating hybrids, which use more fuel-efficient gasoline powertrains than traditional internal combustion engines. General...
Mar 4, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Despite what some prognosticators and auto manufacturers say, self-driving cars aren’t a thing. But they are getting closer to reality every year. Pushing forward to this autonomous future, on Thursday, Honda announced that in Japan it will offer a...
Mar 4, 2021 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
Doctors take a microscopic craft loaded with cancer-killing chemicals, inject it into the human body, and drive it to a malignant tumor to deliver its payload before making a quick exit. For most of the 55 years since “Fantastic Voyage” shrank Raquel Welch...
Mar 4, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence
It’s hard to explain the mix of emotions that spark upon seeing a photo of Frederick Douglass come alive with the click of a button. And yet, there he is, blinking and nodding as if he were just alive yesterday, as if he hadn’t died in 1895, years before...
Feb 25, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured, Robots
Researchers at Wayne State University have released a new version of the HydraOne Autonomous Mobile Robot. Developed as a research and education platform for connected and autonomous driving, the robot facilitates the work of researchers focused on such projects as...
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