The Innovation Report
Autonomous Stores: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
Retailers and convenience stores have increasingly invested heavily in technology, especially mobile applications, that enable customers to do much of the shopping legwork from home. Are autonomous stores the next big thing in retail tech?...
Biden Announces $900M for EV Infrastructure at Detroit Auto Show
The president announced approval of the first $900 million in infrastructure money to build EV chargers across 53,000 miles of the national highway system in 35 states. Biden traveled to the massive North American International Auto Show to plug the huge new climate,...
NASA is Planning a Permanent Moon Base. What Will It Take to Build?
The most powerful rocket ever built sits on a launchpad in Florida. Over an intercom, crowds of onlookers listen to the countdown – “4, 3, 2…” – and then the bottom of the rocket begins to rumble. The vibrations first travel through the soles of the watchers’ feet and...
Small Cities Glide Commutes with Rapid Mobility Options
Imagine busy roads packed with traffic, your important pending tasks, and a paucity of time to finish them all. As one travels amid bustling cities, noises of loud horns and roadblocks, the narrow passages between queued-up cars make us ponder a better alternative for...
Harvard Scientist: Alien Technology Sitting on Ocean Floor
In 2019, a cigar-shaped object known as 'Oumuamua was spotted zipping through the inner solar system and, peculiarly, speeding up while making its exit, seemingly in defiance of the physics of a quotidian asteroid. There are plenty of mundane hypotheses about why...
These 3 Companies Will Help NASA Build Lunar Vertical Solar Arrays
NASA has tapped three companies to help develop new solar arrays to power Artemis missions to the moon by astronauts and robots. The space agency this month awarded a total of $19.4 million to the companies Astrobotic Technology, Honeybee Robotics and Lockheed...
New CEO: VW to Speed Up EV Transition
Volkswagen will accelerate its transition towards electric vehicles, but needs to find the right "rhythm" as it makes the shift, new Chief Executive Oliver Blume said at an internal conference on Thursday, the first day of his tenure. At a gathering of global top...
What You Need to Know Before Investing in Smart City Infrastructure
A smart city is one of the buzzwords in the business environment and IT sphere. The notion of a smart city is a promising one. It offers many options and solutions for efficient organization of urban spaces and cooperation between systems within the city as well as...
Standards Body Publishes Guidelines for IoT Security Testing
A leading industry standards community has published its first guidelines for the testing of IoT security products, in a bid to drive independent benchmarking and certification efforts. The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) said its Guidelines...
Drone Delivery Picks Up in Africa as Jumia Pairs with Zipline
Africa-focused e-commerce firm Jumia Technologies has partnered with drone-delivery startup Zipline to deliver household items to remote areas of Ghana, the companies said on Thursday. The venture will combine San Francisco-based Zipline's automated, on-demand...
