Dec 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Testing
Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, has started testing self-driving vehicles without driver monitors in San Francisco, the company said Wednesday. The company plans to begin testing a handful of vehicles, followed by a “very methodical and...
Dec 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Rideshare
Uber has officially sold its autonomous car division to startup Aurora. Now, the private transport platform has reached an agreement for Joby Aviation to acquire Uber Elevate, its fleet of flying taxis. After years of trying to get their air taxi business off the...
Dec 10, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
The trained human eye is rather good at finding skin spots that could be cancerous, but even the best doctors can’t come close to matching the skills of artificial intelligence (AI). North Queensland, which has some of the most dangerous UV ratings in the world,...
Dec 10, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
A new study led by scientists affiliated with the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology used machine learning to examine the co-occurrence of fossil species and found that radiations and extinctions are rarely connected, and thus mass...
Dec 10, 2020 | Retail, Robots
Many people are turning to online shopping now more than ever and stores are coming up with creative ways to make those sales. It’s not just apps and websites, but also robots you can browse a store from home with. It seems “futuristic,” but one local shop is already...
Dec 10, 2020 | 5G, Communications
A total of 14,643 cities worldwide had 5G at the end of Q3 2020, a 1,671 percent increase over the same period last year. Here, the U.S. fared well, with 7,583 cities with 5G, and a big increase in number of 5G deployments. Other countries in the top 10 leaderboard in...
Dec 10, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
Hybrid cars are seeing a quiet resurgence as the boom in electric vehicles spurs automakers to give the older, cheaper technology a second look. This year has been an extraordinary one for electric-car manufacturers. Investors have embraced makers of pure-electric...
Dec 10, 2020 | Batteries, Business, Electric Vehicles
An electric vehicle battery startup backed by Bill Gates and Volkswagen is claiming a major breakthrough on a technology that it says could power the next generation of clean cars and make them as widely attractive to drivers as gas vehicles — though some experts...
Dec 10, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Featured
Drones and artificial intelligence (AI) are now being used to measure soybeans’ maturity in less time while doing so accurately. Current methods require people to spend hours in the sun every day to check the soybeans. The drones have cut the time down to just two...
Dec 10, 2020 | Climate, Featured, Smart Cities
The incoming Biden administration has been praised by some experts for its potential benefits for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure and the smart city technology market, which includes areas like artificial intelligence (AI), smart grids, and other...
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