The Innovation Report
Smart City Report Shares Industry Insights
Global Smart Cities industry valued approximately USD 343 billion in 2016 is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 24.4% over the forecast period 2017-2025. The increasing demands for integrated security, safety systems improving public safety...
White House Announces Plan to Speed the Rollout of 5G
SUPERFAST 5G WIRELESS isn’t exactly spreading across the US at superfast speeds. The White House and Defense Department on Monday announced a plan to accelerate the process by making a crucial new chunk of spectrum available to the wireless industry. The...
The Robots Occupying Our Sidewalks
The robot, shaped like a large cooler on wheels, zipped along somewhere ahead of me. My left hand clasped the smooth leather harness of my German shepherd guide dog. “Mylo, forward.” The speed of his four short legs complemented the strides of my longer two — call it...
Flying Robots Inspect Indoor Spaces
Last year was a quiet turning point in the use of flying robots in an unexpected space: Indoors. Increasingly sophisticated sensor and mapping technologies, machine learning, and engineering and materials science have combined to enable drones to operate inside --...
Facebook: COVID Made It Tougher to Moderate Content
Facebook said Tuesday that the coronavirus affected how many people could review posts on the social network for violations of rules against content promoting suicide or self-injury. The COVID-19 pandemic also impacted how many workers could monitor...
Classifying Galaxies with AI
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images. This technique, in...
Firefighting AV to Protect High-rise Structures in Dense Cities
EHang, an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) development company, has unveiled what it says is the world's first large-payload firefighting aerial vehicle built to tackle fires in high-rise buildings. According to EHang, the expansion of dense cities and...
Driverless Cars Gain Speed, Despite Global Slowdown
Automakers Volkswagen, Ford, and General Motors are betting billions that autonomous driving will get us moving again. The shock of losing air travel and public transportation has proven one sector of the American workforce to be especially resilient: the road...
Motional to Begin AV Testing This Fall
Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle joint venture with Aptiv has a new name: Motional. The company, which plans to test fully driverless vehicles for ride-hailing services later this year, said the new name is meant to evoke the “motion” of transportation as well as the...
Deepfakes Closer to the Real Thing
THERE ARE MANY photos of Tom Hanks, but none like the images of the leading everyman shown at the Black Hat computer security conference Wednesday: They were made by machine-learning algorithms, not a camera. Philip Tully, a data scientist at security...
