Oct 31, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Gina Ciavarra is sitting in a dark room at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. It’s a reading room, a space for radiologists like her to examine X-ray and MRI scans. The monitors in front of her display grayscale images of a de-identified patient’s knee, and...
Oct 31, 2019 | Defense, Robots & Drones
It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of this. On Oct. 10 a small quad-rotor delivery drone, of the type used for delivering packages to your door, resupplied a U.S. Navy submarine. The honor fell to the suitably named USS Hawaii (SSN 776), one of the...
Oct 31, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
Self-driving vehicle technology company Waymo has expanded its business relationship with automotive retail company AutoNation, the companies announced today. The new extension builds on the existing partnership between Waymo...
Oct 31, 2019 | Featured, Robots & Drones
When we watched the first Transformers movie, most of us wanted our toasters and washing machines to turn into cool robots. Now, MIT has developed a set of self-assembling robot blocks that can identify each other. These robots, called M-Blocks 2.0, have a...
Oct 31, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Forget the 10 hours it can take to charge your Tesla Model X. A new battery, created by researchers at Penn State, can complete a charge in as little as 10 minutes. Described in a report published today in Joule, the new lithium-ion battery could...
Oct 23, 2019 | Healthcare, Robots & Drones
United Parcel Service Inc. is striking a series of drone-delivery agreements with health-care groups as it develops new technology pitched to the growing medical market. The plans include expanding the use of drones to deliver cargo such as medical samples...
Oct 23, 2019 | Business, Robots & Drones
Got a “kind and friendly” face? Don’t mind the idea of your mechanized doppelganger stiffly trodding the planet? You could be close to $130,000 richer. A British engineering and manufacturing firm called Geomiq has put out a call for people...
Oct 23, 2019 | Business, Internet of Things
Billions of devices are expected to be connected to the internet by 2030, according to Cisco, a chunk of which will be highly vulnerable to intrusion and data breach. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise reported in a recent study that as many as 70% of...
Oct 23, 2019 | Blockchain, Crypto Currency, Smart Cities
At the recent Blockchain LIVE 2019 hosted annually in London, I had the pleasure of giving a talk on Next Generation Infrastructure: Building a Future for Smart Cities. What exactly is a “smart city?” The term refers to an overall blueprint...
Oct 23, 2019 | Electric Vehicles
Europeans who want to buy a Honda powered exclusively by gasoline or diesel need to act quickly. The Japanese carmaker announced Wednesday that it will sell only electric and hybrid vehicles in Europe starting in 2022, three years earlier than previously...
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