The Innovation Report
Tesla Stock Rise on Expected Surge in EV Sales
Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla got a big boost of confidence from Wall Street Wednesday. Goldman Sachs says buy shares now. “We expect 2020 [industry] fundamentals to be very challenging cyclically,” wrote analyst Mark Delaney in a Wednesday research report....
Google Testing Self-evolving AI
Computer scientists working for a high-tech division of Google are testing how machine learning algorithms can be created from scratch, then evolve naturally, based on simple math. Experts behind Google's AutoML suite of artificial intelligence tools have now...
GM Applies for Patent on Mapping Technology
General Motors has filed a patent application for a system that continuously updates a vehicle’s on-board maps and navigation guidance. GM said its patent application covers, “A system for updating a distributed navigation map for a motor vehicle includes one or more...
Could Social Distancing Reignite Autonomous Driving?
For years, auto and tech companies have been been promising that technology will change how we get around. The future, they say, is self-driving. So far, consumers haven’t been so sure. In a J.D. Power survey from late last year, consumers reported a “low level of...
5G Conspiracy Theories Go Mainstream
Unfounded claims about a supposed link between 5G and Covid-19 began circulating on the fringes of the internet, where New Agers and QAnon followers perpetuated the hoax that global elites were using 5G to spread the virus. Unsophisticated algorithms amplified those...
Robots Changing Healthcare for the Better
With an already overworked healthcare service, robots could bring a new dynamic to the team. Robotics is a new advanced branch of technology, covering engineering, AI, ML, mechatronics, Computer science and nanotechnology. So what can a robot do that a human...
Virtual Campaigning: New Ways to Attack 2020 Election
Experts say campaigns need to pay more attention to the digital risks posed by increased document-sharing and video conferencing — and the onslaught of coronavirus-themed email and phone scams that could also try to trick voters. “Voter contact has shifted to...
Google to Publish Coronavirus Mobility Reports
As the COVID-19 pandemic is scaling rapidly, global communities have started to take action to give a response like getting the social distancing into the practice. In this respect, Google has recently announced the COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to...
Rivian to Push First EVs into 2021
Rivian was expected to make the first customer deliveries of its electric truck later this year. The company slowed down work at its factory in Normal, Illinois, in mid-March, and then shut down operations there on March 20. The Pantagraph, a local newspaper in the...
Zoom Data Scandal and Blockchain
As people around the world started following shelter-in-place orders, popular video conferencing platform Zoom quickly gained new users, noting in a recent blog post that it had reached more than 200 million daily users last month, up from 10 million in December. From...
