Feb 20, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
Many of us interact every day with Siri, Apple’s voice-activated digital personal assistant. It can find information, give directions, send messages and is just one example of how artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a bigger part of everyday life. Machines...
Feb 20, 2020 | 5G, Featured, Government
Speaking to an audience at the Oxford Union on the eve of a meeting he was due to have with Dominic Cummings and other British senior aides at Downing Street, Mulvaney said the US was “very much concerned” about the issue. “Our governments share a tremendous amount of...
Feb 20, 2020 | Environment, Featured
A new gov tech company in Atlanta aims to sell aquatic drones to government agencies for the dual purposes of cleaning up waste and pollution as well as logging real-time water quality data. A new company in Atlanta is building a different kind of drone for a new use...
Feb 20, 2020 | Machine Learning
Japanese private rail operator Odakyu Electric Railway has partnered with Nokia to carry out artificial-intelligence-based railroad crossing safety trials. The pilot, which is underway at Tamagawa Gakuenmae No 8 railroad crossing in Machida City, Tokyo, will be...
Feb 20, 2020 | Healthcare, Venture Capital
The same sorts of detection and emergency-braking features that have helped make cars safer may soon be coming to the operating room. These could show surgeons things they can’t see with their eyes, such as real-time blood flow, and enable them to avoid tissue damage...
Feb 20, 2020 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Customers who want to buy an electric car face the dilemma of either paying more to have a big battery pack and a long range or being forced to charge up their EVs more often. Paris-based start-up EP Tender believes it has eliminated the need to choose between cost...
Feb 20, 2020 | Cyber Security, Internet of Things
Enterprise IoT, those connected devices you increasingly find on your organization’s network like printers, VoIP phones, smart boards and TVs inside your network, is growing at a massive rate and is expected to reach USD 58 billion by 2023. These devices...
Feb 20, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Regulation
If you believed the early hype about autonomous cars, we’d all be buying them by now, or at least enjoying the view from autonomously driven ride-sharing vehicles. Needless to say, that hasn’t happened. In fact, the day that becomes a reality seems to get pushed...
Feb 13, 2020 | Blockchain, Featured, Sustainability
In November 2019, The Next Web reported that Nestle and Carrefour are planning to use blockchain technology in order to track baby milk products and provide consumers with data on their origins and movements “from dairy to shelf.” In October, China’s...
Feb 13, 2020 | Cyber Security, Government
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) released a proposal to overhaul the way the US government regulates privacy. Gillibrand’s Data Protection Act would found a new independent agency called the Data Protection Agency (DPA), tasked with protecting consumer data at large....
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