The Innovation Report
Apple to Spend $450M on Satellite Services for iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS
To support the Emergency SOS feature for the iPhone 14, Apple plans on spending $450 million to help expand the satellite networking infrastructure across the US. A majority of the funding will go to Globalstar, the satellite communications provider...
5G-enabled Farms Could Ward Off Food Insecurity
Thirty miles north of Seattle, the urban landscape thins out into agricultural lowlands. There lies Swans Trail Farms, a family-owned operation that focuses on agritourism and events with apple orchards, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and strawberry fields. But Swans...
Mexico: Feds Can’t Mandate Biometric SIM Registration
AT&T Mexico is offering customers biometric authentication to open and secure their accounts. The identity authentication and digital contract holds the same legal authority as a paper contract and enrolment process, according to the telecommunications company....
NB 5G-IoT: Next Big Thing in Space Industry
For the past decade, we’ve been witnessing a revolution in the space industry. Significant technological advancements, such as the rapid adoption of cubesat technology, reusable rockets and the rapid evolution of microprocessors have lowered the barrier to entry,...
California: Voters Say No to Prop. 30 and Taxing Rich for EVs
California Proposition 30 would impose a 1.75% personal income tax increase on the top-earning Californians — for the share of their income above $2 million — per year to fund a suite of climate programs. But returns showed voters defeating the...
This Crazy Hacker Drone Uses Wi-Fi to ‘See Through Walls’
A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have turned a $20 drone into a terrifying implication about the future of surveillance. The drone hack, which is being called “Wi-Peep” by the researchers, was presented at the 28th Annual International Conference...
Amazon’s New Warehouse Robot Could One Day Replace Humans
Amazon on Thursday showed off a new robot that could one day assist warehouse workers with some of the more tedious aspects of the job. The company unveiled “Sparrow,” a robotic arm that can pluck millions of items of varying shapes and sizes, on stage at the...
BALLU, the Bipedal Balloon Robot Can Walk on Water or a Tightrope
BALLU is a bipedal balloon robot that cannot fall down, according to its inventor, however it is not suitable for outdoor use because of wind. Watch Video at USA Today
First AV Demonstration in Luxembourg Traffic
The University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) demonstrated its autonomous car in live traffic on Kirchberg today, Thursday, November 3, 2022. This represents the first time a single-family autonomous car has joined...
How AI Drives Gains in Healthcare, AVs – and Beyond
G42 is a technology holding company with multiple vertical businesses under sectors including smart cities, oil and gas and healthcare. Xiao has a vision for how AI will become truly transformative: “Today we live in the age of artificial narrow intelligence. Many of...
