Aug 7, 2019 | Smart Cities
This is a tale of two cities — Toronto and Barcelona — that may hold important lessons for others around the world. Both have big ambitions to change the way they operate but reflect very different visions of how smart cities should be run. In Toronto, citizens have...
Aug 7, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
A hot trend in artificial intelligence in recent years has been the rise of impressive fakes — fake headshots, fake videos, fake text. Deep learning techniques, part of machine learning, have gotten better and better at taking real-world data and using it to...
Aug 7, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Cities
New Yorkers pride themselves on having seen it all, but if there’s one thing they have yet to set their grime-coated eyeballs on, it’s hoards of self-driving cars roaming their streets. For better or worse, New York City has remained AV-free, thanks to ambivalent...
Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
When Bill Herz wants to know how his crops are doing, he launches a drone. He has nearly a thousand acres of corn and soybeans in LaSalle, eastern Illinois. “My drone has saved me time and energy,” he says. “I don’t need to walk a whole field...
Aug 7, 2019 | Internet of Things
Of all emerging applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), we’re most excited about smart grid technology and its potential to increase cost and energy efficiency, according to a PCMag survey. In the survey of 2,000 US consumers conducted on May 10, 24...
Aug 7, 2019 | Business, Featured, Satellites
For space tech startups and other small companies doing research, one of the biggest hurdles is actually getting to space. SpaceX is looking to change that. Today, it announced a SmallSat Rideshare Program, which will allow small satellite...
Aug 7, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Wayne State University engineering students this fall can enroll in classes on autonomous driving and mobility fundamentals. The Center for Advanced Mobility is a product of the university’s college of engineering and the Michigan Mobility...
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