The Innovation Report
Cramer: EVs and Housing Are Two Investment Themes in Biden Era
Joe Biden signed more than a dozen executive orders after taking the presidential oath of office Wednesday, undoing some actions taken by his predecessor over the last four years and prompting CNBC’s Jim Cramer to dream up two new market themes for 2021. The new...
TomTom Joins Open-source Project to Accelerate AV Development
Location specialist TomTom has announced that it has joined the Autoware Foundation, a non-profit organisation supporting open-source projects that accelerate the development of autonomous driving technology. TomTom will support the Autoware Foundation by creating a...
XPeng Dives Deeper Into Autonomous Driving
The Chinese company XPeng says it has made more progress toward producing self-driving electric cars. Friday, the company unveiled a beta version of its Navigation Guided Pilot, or NGP, for highway driving. When NGP is ready for full launch,...
New Report: 5G Poses No Health Risks
Over the past year, 5G has become a talking point for all sorts of reasons. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the technology was even blamed for the spread of coronavirus across the globe, and some countries like the UK witnessed people vandalising 5G...
Microsoft Drives into AVs
Partnership with Cruise, GM aims to bring ‘new mobility services’ to customers. Self-driving carmaker Cruise and majority shareholder General Motors Co said they would work with Microsoft Corp to accelerate the commercialization of driverless vehicles. Microsoft will...
Calculations Show It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI
The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for many decades, and scientists have just delivered their verdict on whether we'd be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence. The answer? Almost definitely not. The...
Samsung’s New 5G Android Phones Compete with iPhone 12
Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S21 family of Android phones on Thursday. There are three models, each with a larger screen than the last: the Galaxy S21, the Galaxy S21+ and the Galaxy S21 Ultra. All support the range of 5G networks now available in the U.S. and are...
Take a 5G-powered Virtual Tour of The Met
Pandemic travel restrictions and shelter-in-place orders have made it difficult to access cultural experiences. But a virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City could help ease some of those stuck-at-home blues. Verizon and The Met are launching a...
LeCar Returns as Renault’s New EV
The Renault 5 will return as a pure electric supermini and the firm has given us our first look at the new EV with the Renault 5 Prototype. Described as “the rebirth of a cult car, more modern than ever,” the 100 percent electric car pays homage to the top-selling...
Robotic-assisted Surgery Reaches 10-year Milestone
Robotic-assisted surgery – while still in growing stages – shows a bright future for patients, doctors and hospitals embracing this advanced technology, say local and national experts studying this surgical evolution having roots in South County Hospital. Wakefield’s...
