The Innovation Report
Why Hackers Target Agricultural Tech
Agricultural enterprises that implement various forms of agricultural technology, or ag-tech, are especially vulnerable to potential hacking. As an industry, agriculture may be more susceptible to hackers because many new technologies lack adequate safety measures....
The Role of Drone Technology in Sustainable Agriculture
With the world supply at an all-time high and commodity prices at an all-time low as a result of increasing demands in food production and consumption, the modern farming industry is at a crossroads, writes senseFly’s Benjamin Pinguet at PrecisionAg. There...
Tech Companies Rush to Roll Out Health Screening Apps
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fuse Technology Group Inc. recognized it would need a solution for monitoring symptoms of employees, many of whom work on software products for essential companies. So the Ferndale, Mich.-based software developer made its own,...
Microsoft: Cloud for Healthcare to Reshape Industry
Microsoft revealed more about its cloud strategy this week with the rollout of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, its first industry-specific cloud offering. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is "the first of many" custom cloud offerings tailored for specific...
Waymo Using AI to Simulate AV Camera Data
Waymo says it’s beginning to leverage AI to generate camera images for simulation by using sensor data collected by its self-driving vehicles. A recent paper coauthored by company researchers including principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov describes the...
How COVID Accelerates a Future with AVs
China is using autonomous vehicles in cities and hospitals across the country to combat covid-19 and advance smart cities. Countries around the world have responded to the covid-19 coronavirus with lockdowns, restrictions, and technology solutions that...
Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial Intelligence?
Most artificial neural networks are decidedly un-brainlike, in part because they learn using mathematical tricks that would be difficult, if not impossible, for biological systems to carry out. Yet brains and AI models do share something fundamental in common:...
Worker Monitoring Tools Grow as Companies Adjust
As remote work has become the new reality for millions of people around the world, a growing number of companies are looking for ways to track employee efficiency. Recent shelter-in-place orders have allowed workers in nearly every industry to do things at home they...
Cities Best-positioned for Pandemic Recovery
A recent report from Moody's Analytics highlighted the cities that are in the best and worst positions to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Adam Kamins, a senior regional economist at Moody's Analytics, found the "most dynamic recoveries" won't be in urban...
Using Blockchain to Monetize Social Media
Just as the name implies, SaTT stands for Smart Advertising Transaction Token, and made itself known following its successful ICO (which is still in progress for a few days). It is an advertising platform that utilizes the power of the blockchain and smart contracts...
