May 21, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
Most artificial neural networks are decidedly un-brainlike, in part because they learn using mathematical tricks that would be difficult, if not impossible, for biological systems to carry out. Yet brains and AI models do share something fundamental in common:...
May 14, 2020 | Business, Work
As remote work has become the new reality for millions of people around the world, a growing number of companies are looking for ways to track employee efficiency. Recent shelter-in-place orders have allowed workers in nearly every industry to do things at home they...
May 14, 2020 | Smart Cities
A recent report from Moody’s Analytics highlighted the cities that are in the best and worst positions to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Adam Kamins, a senior regional economist at Moody’s Analytics, found the “most dynamic recoveries”...
May 14, 2020 | Blockchain, Crypto Currency, Media
Just as the name implies, SaTT stands for Smart Advertising Transaction Token, and made itself known following its successful ICO (which is still in progress for a few days). It is an advertising platform that utilizes the power of the blockchain and smart contracts...
May 14, 2020 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors is steadfast that its next-generation electric vehicle program, revealed in March, is moving ahead as planned despite the pandemic slowdown and corresponding budget cuts elsewhere in the company. “We haven’t changed our plans at all, and we’re...
May 14, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Investment, Mobility
Even before the extra $750 million, Waymo’s funding round was among the largest, if not the largest, in multibillion-dollar investments around self-driving cars. General Motors’ Cruise unit raised $1.15 billion in May 2019, while Uber closed $1 billion from...
May 14, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
A drone service for delivering urgent medical supplies is being trialled on the Isle of Wight in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. The trial, which is funded by the Department for Transport and led by Solent Transport, is the first of its kind and aims to benefit...
May 14, 2020 | Featured, Robots & Drones
Thomas Roszak was working as a maintenance technician at Ocado’s giant warehouse in Hatfield when he received a very unusual assignment. His regular job involved repairing and maintaining the online supermarket’s automated sorting and packing system, which...
May 14, 2020 | Cyber Security, Featured
Cyber attacks have increased exponentially since the start of the pandemic, with AT&T Alien Labs Open Threat Exchange (OTX) finding 419,643 indicators of compromise (IOC) related to COVID-19 from January to March, with a 2,000% month-over-month increase from...
May 14, 2020 | Accessibility, Healthcare, Mobility, Robots & Drones
Axel Gerlich took his very first steps thanks to the robotics team at Avondale Middle School. When the COVID-19 outbreak threatened the project, two people stepped up to finish the project. Eileen Hohner, Axel’s therapist, said his new mobility kicks his progress into...
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