The Innovation Report
AI to Improve Shipping Industry Efficiency
Efforts are progressing to harness emerging technologies to improve the efficiency of shipping operations. Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines announced that it is expanding its efforts with artificial intelligence to achieve greater efficiency with routing which will also...
Toyota-Aurora Partnership to Bring AVs to Masses
Aurora Innovation Inc., a Silicon Valley-based autonomous-driving startup with at least a $10 billion valuation, has agreed to a long-term strategic partnership with Toyota and its supplier Denso Corp. that aims to mass produce autonomous vehicles and launch them on...
Hyundai AV Walks Across Remote Terrain
Korean car manufacturer Hyundai has unveiled its latest vehicle. But instead of being a family-friendly hatchback or a school-run SUV, the brand has revealed an autonomous vehicle that sprout legs and walk. Called TIGER - short for Transforming Intelligent Ground...
This Robot Could Plant 1 Trillion Trees
Robots help us in many ways – from assembly lines to looking after the elderly. Now they’re turning their attention to combating climate change by helping to plant trees. Milrem Robotics, an Estonian company which started off building autonomous tanks, has developed...
Spotify Subscribers Surge Past 150M
Spotify now boasts 155 million premium subscribers and 345 million monthly active users, according to its latest earnings report released today. Those numbers represent a 24 percent and 27 percent year-over year increase. Its biggest increase was in ad-supported...
VW to Handle AV Development In-house
Not only is developing self-driving car technology incredibly difficult, but it's also expensive. That has led many car companies to partner up with smaller, self-driving car-specific startups. Ford and Argo or Honda and Cruise, for example. But, according to a report...
Comcast Delays 12-state Data Cap Expansion to July
Comcast customers in more than a dozen Northeastern states won’t have to worry about broadband data overages just yet. In November, the company announced it would implement a 1.2TB data cap at the start of 2021 on broadband users in Connecticut, Delaware,...
Google Launches Transatlantic Dunant Subsea Cable as Cloud Sales Soar
Google’s second fully privately owned subsea cable is now open for business. The announcement comes shortly after the company recorded record quarterly revenues, with soaring cloud sales playing a major role. In 2018, the internet giant revealed plans for its...
Apple to Invest $3.6B Hyundai’s Kia and Develop EV
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shed some details on Apple’s partnership with Hyundai for developing its highly anticipated electric car that will be based on the Korean automobile giant’s E-GMP platform for EVs. Now, as per a report from...
Amazon’s Rivian-built Electric Delivery Van Hits the Road
It's a big day for Amazon and electric vehicle startup Rivian. On Wednesday, the online retailer and tech giant said the first of its new, Rivian-built electric delivery vans hit the road in Los Angeles, which marks the first of 100,000 to come. The time frame is...
