The Innovation Report
U.S. Funds AI Project to Enable Millisecond-level 5G Spectrum Sharing
Artificial intelligence promises to rapidly solve puzzles that would stump the most agile human brains, so the U.S. government is funding a project that will put AI’s potential to the test. Today, the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) announced that it...
AI Threat Intelligence: The Future is Now
The next progression in organizations using threat intelligence is adding AI threat intelligence capabilities, in the form of machine learning technologies, to improve attack detection. Machine learning is a form of AI that enables computers to analyze data and learn...
Lawmakers: Invest $100B in Science, Tech Research
A group of bipartisan lawmakers led by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation Wednesday to boost research into emerging technology including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. The Endless Frontiers...
Drones added to Local Law Enforcement Toolkit
A new joint effort announced between Pennington County Search and Rescue, the Sheriff’s Office and the Rapid City police. One drone flier from each department will help in trying to locate missing people, as well as investigate fires and traffic accidents. Drones are...
Medical-Delivery Drone Service Gets FAA Approval Amid Coronavirus
A medical-delivery firm has received special permission to fly its drones farther than previously allowed in the United States, a COVID-prompted decision that advances the nascent drone-delivery industry here. ZipLine, which says its drones have...
AV Company Aurora Increases Hiring
Autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Aurora today announced it has roughly doubled its workforce to 500 people (up from 250 as of May 2019) and committed to hiring workers across the company as it welcomes 22 remote interns and a trio of executives. Aurora’s hiring spree —...
COVID Mobility Innovations Receive Michigan Grants
PlanetM, the State of Michigan's mobility initiative, said Tuesday it was awarding more than $280,000 in grants to five companies to tackle mobility difficulties in the state caused by the coronavirus crisis. The companies will receive the grants in...
Windsor-Detroit Partnership to Grow Regional Mobility Investment
Economic development leaders from both Windsor and Detroit joined together Wednesday to announce a new partnership to better promote the region as the perfect two-nation destination for existing and startup mobility companies to invest, locate and conduct business....
Rural Mobility: 5G Fund
The Rural 5G Fund would repurpose money from the failed Mobility Fund II program, which was supposed to help expand LTE to areas of the U.S. that do not yet have it, and fund 5G deployments instead. “The rapid pace of deployment of 5G networks in many parts of the...
Singapore: All In on 5G
While the news was likely buried beneath coronavirus across the globe, one development may go some way to ensuring that, when Singapore emerges from its lockdown, its status as a business and technology hotspot will have been elevated even further. Late last month (29...
