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...
Jul 31, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Work
According to the bank, an AI-generated, pilot Chase promotion titled “LIMITED TIME OFFER: We’ll reward you with $5 Cash Back when you go paperless” generated nearly double the “unique clicks” compared with JPMorgan Chase copywriters’ original “Go paperless and earn $5...
Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Half a century after Neil Armstrong memorably uttered the words “one giant leap for mankind,” technological innovation has gotten smaller. Yes, we still thrill to enormous, sky-scraping buildings and the gravity-defying power of rockets, but many of the biggest...
Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here’s a job any worker would be happy to pass off to a drone: Imagine crawling down a ladder into the vast darkness of a 20-story-high storage tank filled with toxic chemical fumes to spend hours searching for corrosion. More than a thousand U.S. laborers...
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