The Innovation Report
GIG Car Share Brings 250 Vehicles to Seattle
GIG Car Share is hitting the streets of Seattle. The new free-floating car-sharing service from AAA, which announced in February that it was expanding to the city, is officially available with 250 Toyota Priuses. The move represents a return to a...
Police Drones Expanded Use: Arizona
The Tempe Police Department recently released video from its DJI Phantom Pro 4 drone that it used to surveil protesters over the weekend, but the agency isn't the only law enforcement in the state with the technology. A review of Federal Aviation...
Uphold: New Public Blockchain Network
Bitreserve, created in 2019 by CNET founder Halsey Minor and former Nike CIO Anthony Watson has been overhauled and relaunched as a platform named Uphold. The new offering built on a blockchain platform stresses low-cost transactions and will allow users to link bank...
5G COVID Conspiracy Theories Have Real-world Consequences
Conspiracy theories have driven people to burn cellular equipment. Telecom workers have had to bear the brunt of this. Over the past four months, telecom engineers across the UK have been subjected to verbal and physical abuse, or targeted online harassment and...
Apple Pushing for On-time 5G iPhone Launch
Facing production delays of four to eight weeks relative to the output it would have maintained if not for the coronavirus pandemic, Nikkei Asian Review notes that Apple and its suppliers have been steadily chipping away at this production delay by working overtime....
Robots Revolutionizing Healthcare
Laying in a hospital bed waiting for a physician, some patients in Höpital Pitié Salpétriére in Paris, France were not greeted by a doctor, but were instead met by Pepper -- the caring, humanoid robot. Pepper lent a (robotic) hand "during the...
Robots: Key to Reopening After the Pandemic
Imagine walking into a room wearing an N95 mask, unsure whether the cleaning crew has thoroughly cleaned the next piece of sensitive equipment that you are planning to use. Suddenly, you notice a robot in the room. This robot is moving around you to disinfect the...
AI Identifies & Locates Seizures in Real-time
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis' McKelvey School of Engineering have combined artificial intelligence with systems theory to develop a more efficient way to detect and accurately identify an epileptic seizure in real-time. Their results were...
Moving Forward Act Is A $1.5 Trillion Congressional Bill That Loves EVs
The Moving Forward Act is a $1.5-trillion, 2,300-page bill that would touch almost every aspect of American life, from the roads we drive on to the way rural communities get broadband internet, from improving ports and train networks to investing in schools and child...
Lyft’s Self-Driving Test Vehicles Back on the Road
Lyft’s self-driving vehicle division has restarted testing on public roads in California, several months after pausing operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyft’s Level 5 program said Tuesday some of its autonomous vehicles are back on the road in Palo...
