Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Privacy, Smart Cities
Imagine if the ground could know if you’re walking on it. Imagine if that patch of sidewalk could tell how much you weigh, how fast you’re going, and where you’re headed. Imagine that road could determine exactly how many people are walking or running or biking or...
Apr 16, 2020 | Cyber Security
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would offer free cybersecurity protection tools to health care, humanitarian and human rights groups around the world following a spike in attempted hacking attempts due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company will offer groups...
Apr 16, 2020 | Privacy, Smart Cities
Smart cities can help us combat the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, in a growing number of countries, smart cities are doing just that. Governments and local authorities are using smart city technology, sensors and data to trace the contacts of people infected with the...
Apr 16, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Investment
Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla got a big boost of confidence from Wall Street Wednesday. Goldman Sachs says buy shares now. “We expect 2020 [industry] fundamentals to be very challenging cyclically,” wrote analyst Mark Delaney in a Wednesday research report....
Apr 16, 2020 | Robots & Drones
What looks like a rolling picnic cooler stops at the crosswalk, waits for a car to pass and then navigates its way at a leisurely pace down the sidewalk in suburban Washington. Three blocks away, Jake Williams and his three-year-old daughter Emilia wait for the...
Apr 16, 2020 | Robots & Drones
Drone delivery is one of the business ideas that suddenly makes a lot more sense in the age of the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean you can get pizza airlifted to your home yet. In a few limited ways, operators are stepping in to help businesses limit human-to-human...
Apr 16, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Machine Learning
Computer scientists working for a high-tech division of Google are testing how machine learning algorithms can be created from scratch, then evolve naturally, based on simple math. Experts behind Google’s AutoML suite of artificial intelligence tools have now...
Apr 16, 2020 | Blockchain, Detroit, Featured, Mapping
General Motors has filed a patent application for a system that continuously updates a vehicle’s on-board maps and navigation guidance. GM said its patent application covers, “A system for updating a distributed navigation map for a motor vehicle includes one or more...
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