Sep 26, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities
Smart cities will be a major driver of the expansion with APAC expected to register the highest incremental growth due to increasing technology awareness by governments. The global connected streetlight market is expected to post a compound annual growth rate of more...
Sep 26, 2019 | Blockchain, Crypto Currency
Square Crypto has hired Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz and Arik Sosman to its inaugural developer team. The crypto-focused branch of Jack Dorsey’s payment company announced the appointments in a series of tweets on Sept. 19. Wallace joined the company...
Sep 26, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Ford is bringing its autonomous vehicles to Austin, Texas, the company announced on Wednesday. Ford will start by mapping the streets of downtown Austin this November. Eventually, the size of the fleet and the geographic area will grow until Ford is ready to launch an...
Sep 26, 2019 | Detroit, Featured, Robots & Drones
The gym at Pasteur Elementary School was bursting with energy as fifth- and sixth-graders raced to the tables set up in the center of the room to sort through a pile of Legos. A group of kids were reaching over each other, talking excitedly while searching for...
Sep 26, 2019 | Detroit, Featured, Mobility
Spend time in an American city on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle research, and you might stumble upon certain cutting-edge devices in action. You could spot a driverless shuttle developed by startup May Mobility doing test runs to and from parking...
Sep 19, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Government
The University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) received a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to study the safe deployment of automated vehicles in rural areas. The grant will be used for the Automated Driving Systems...
Sep 19, 2019 | Blockchain, Business
Lately there’s been a lot of discussion about a potential new financial recession being at our doors. All the signs are already present, from the stock market being shaky and the US economy being sluggish, the European banks on a downtrend, the China and US trade war...
Sep 19, 2019 | Industrial Automation, Internet of Things
With the rise of cloud computing, the question of where to store and process data has, for many companies, become more abstract. But data volumes are exploding, adding to the cost of using the cloud for storage. A single autonomous vehicle could quickly generate...
Sep 19, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business
Uber has made autonomous vehicles (AVs) a key part of its strategy for future growth and has ramped up investment and testing in emerging technology. That effort took a step back after a fatal crash while testing in Tempe, AZ in 2018, causing Uber...
Sep 19, 2019 | Cyber Security, Smart Cities
Smart cities are coming. And you can be sure that hackers won’t be very far behind. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of that future, as cities across the globe start to use technology to connect their services and residents in ways that were science fiction just a few...
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