Jan 21, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) will begin testing in Japan soon.The move is made possible by the fact that Honda agreed back in 2018 to pump $2 billion over the next 12 years in Cruise, the GM offshoot company tasked with making AVs. The announced plan at the...
Jan 21, 2021 | Featured, Smart Cities
A coalition of Dutch governments and companies acting under the banner of the Hyperloop Development Programme (HDP) is exploring the use of the high-speed transportation system hyperloop for busy freight corridors. A pilot route that would constitute a first step in...
Jan 21, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Conservation, Featured, Space
An international team of scientists from the University of Bath, the University of Oxford and the University of Twente in the Netherlands have successfully used satellite cameras coupled with deep learning algorithms to track the movements of African elephants. The...
Jan 21, 2021 | Drones, Featured, Space
Scientists from the University of Arizona are set to test their Mars drones in Iceland after receiving a $3 million grant from NASA. The grant was given as a part of a project that combines rovers and drones to explore more of the red planet. The team is one of...
Jan 21, 2021 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Government
Joe Biden signed more than a dozen executive orders after taking the presidential oath of office Wednesday, undoing some actions taken by his predecessor over the last four years and prompting CNBC’s Jim Cramer to dream up two new market themes for 2021. The new...
Jan 21, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
Location specialist TomTom has announced that it has joined the Autoware Foundation, a non-profit organisation supporting open-source projects that accelerate the development of autonomous driving technology. TomTom will support the Autoware Foundation by creating a...
Jan 21, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
The Chinese company XPeng says it has made more progress toward producing self-driving electric cars. Friday, the company unveiled a beta version of its Navigation Guided Pilot, or NGP, for highway driving. When NGP is ready for full launch,...
Jan 21, 2021 | 5G, Healthcare
Over the past year, 5G has become a talking point for all sorts of reasons. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the technology was even blamed for the spread of coronavirus across the globe, and some countries like the UK witnessed people vandalising 5G...
Jan 21, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
Partnership with Cruise, GM aims to bring ‘new mobility services’ to customers. Self-driving carmaker Cruise and majority shareholder General Motors Co said they would work with Microsoft Corp to accelerate the commercialization of driverless vehicles. Microsoft will...
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