Mar 26, 2020 | Business, Investment, Smart Cities
Toyota Motor Corp and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp have agreed to work together on developing smart cities and will invest 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in each other to cement the relationship, the two companies said on Tuesday. The two companies will develop...
Mar 26, 2020 | Cyber Security, Internet of Things
Those not used to working from home must be going through several stages of spiritual discomfort. Yes, ZDNet’s more experienced hands can help you acclimatize to the new working style, now that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted modern working life....
Mar 26, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, which has sickened more than 250,000 people and killed over 10,000 around the world. Still some experts argue pandemics like...
Mar 19, 2020 | 5G, Healthcare
The International Commission on Non‐Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), a German-based scientific organization that determines the impact of electromagnetic waves on people and the environment, said March 11 that there is no evidence that 5G networks...
Mar 19, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Jobs
New data from Gartner Inc. suggests that the recruiting, management, and retention of artificial intelligence talent (AI) will be a strategic challenge globally for the foreseeable future. For the past four years, Gartner found, the strongest demand for talent with AI...
Mar 19, 2020 | Agriculture
This week, French drone data services company Delair announced a major contract with German agricultural solutions firm BASF. “BASF’s agricultural research stations worldwide will now use the delair.ai cloud platform to streamline the information gained through...
Mar 19, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Batteries, Electric Vehicles
The battery sector is turning to artificial intelligence for clues on how to improve recharging rates without increasing the degradation of lithium-ion batteries. Last month, a team from Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Toyota...
Mar 19, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Mobility
Since its inception at Davos in January 2017, the Seamless Integrated Mobility System (SIMSystem) project has challenged the present set of transforming technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in its promise to deliver impact for all. In June 2018, the World...
Mar 19, 2020 | Government, Smart Cities
Any future stimulus package to reboot the economy after the worst of the coronavirus is over would likely include major infrastructure funding. The authors of this Green New Deal — taking their lead from the Congressional plan that would invest heavily to fight...
Mar 19, 2020 | Internet of Things
Have you ever been in a disaster? I have, and you probably have, too. One of the worst things about them is that, when you need help, you can’t get it because communication links fall apart. That’s when The Linux Foundation Project...
Recent Comments