The Innovation Report
Working from Home and Privacy
Those not used to working from home must be going through several stages of spiritual discomfort. Yes, ZDNet's more experienced hands can help you acclimatize to the new working style, now that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted modern working life. Yet...
Coronavirus Hastens Adoption of AVs and Delivery Robots
This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, which has sickened more than 250,000 people and killed over 10,000 around the world. Still some experts argue pandemics like...
5G Safe for Humans
The International Commission on Non‐Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), a German-based scientific organization that determines the impact of electromagnetic waves on people and the environment, said March 11 that there is no evidence that 5G networks...
CIOs Seeking AI Talent
New data from Gartner Inc. suggests that the recruiting, management, and retention of artificial intelligence talent (AI) will be a strategic challenge globally for the foreseeable future. For the past four years, Gartner found, the strongest demand for talent with AI...
DELAIR and BASF use Drones for Agricultural Research
This week, French drone data services company Delair announced a major contract with German agricultural solutions firm BASF. “BASF’s agricultural research stations worldwide will now use the delair.ai cloud platform to streamline the information gained through...
AI to Slash Battery Recharging Times
The battery sector is turning to artificial intelligence for clues on how to improve recharging rates without increasing the degradation of lithium-ion batteries. Last month, a team from Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Toyota...
Mobility Lessons from the Detroit Region
Since its inception at Davos in January 2017, the Seamless Integrated Mobility System (SIMSystem) project has challenged the present set of transforming technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in its promise to deliver impact for all. In June 2018, the World...
Green New Deal and Smart Cities
Any future stimulus package to reboot the economy after the worst of the coronavirus is over would likely include major infrastructure funding. The authors of this Green New Deal — taking their lead from the Congressional plan that would invest heavily to fight...
Project OWL: Disaster-relief IoT
Have you ever been in a disaster? I have, and you probably have, too. One of the worst things about them is that, when you need help, you can't get it because communication links fall apart. That's when The Linux Foundation Project OWL's IoT...
Robots & Drones Fight COVID-19
From the initially reported outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in China to the spread of it across the globe, Medtech companies are rolling out robots and drones to help fight it and provide services and care to those quarantined or practicing social distancing. This...
