The Innovation Report
Where Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt Next
If you want to know where a technology is going, follow the patents. That’s what researchers from Stanford University and Brookings Institution recently did with artificial intelligence-related patents submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, and they have...
Waymo: AV Safety
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo took a big step forward last fall when it began ferrying riders around the Phoenix area in robotaxis without human safety drivers. Humans have been behind the wheel for almost all of the 20 million miles of testing the company says it’s...
Bing Maps Make the Revived Flight Simulator Eerily Realistic
“Hey, I can see my house from up here!” It’s a joke so tired you’ll hear it from someone jumping on a trampoline, but that’s what came into my head as I banked a small turboprop airplane above my neighborhood in the new version of a revived classic, Microsoft Flight...
5G in 2020
Imagine if there were a new kind of road that let cars go 20 times faster than ever before. Imagine if aeronautical engineers discovered new jet streams that didn’t just let planes travel faster, but let them carry more passengers to more places—opening up new,...
CES: Sony Electric Car
To answer your question: no, you won’t be able to buy the Sony car. Not any time soon, at least. The company has no plans to mass-produce the Vision-S, the car it surprise-announced at the end of its press conference at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, nor does...
Agriculture 4.0: Transform Food Production
A drone flies over a potato field in Sinaloa, Mexico and informs a farmer 30 kilometres away that the humidity of the air around his crops is low. Meanwhile, a computer in San Diego, California, processes the data and calculates how much water the potatoes need. In...
White House Proposes ‘Light-Touch Regulatory Approach’ for AI
Federal agencies will soon have to demonstrate that any proposed regulations for artificial intelligence technologies in the private sector abide by a new, “first-of-its-kind” series of 10 principles set forth by the Trump administration this week. In a preview...
Oregon: New Office of Urban Mobility and Mega Project Delivery
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is reportedly developing a new focus on comprehensive solutions to congestion, access and mobility issues, which affect quality of life and economic health beyond the Portland metro area. ODOT’s newly formed Office...
Open Connectivity Foundation at CES: First Open IoT Standard Devices
There's about 26 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices today. All too many of` them have no compatibility with each other. The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) wants to fix that with its OCF's 2.1 specification. This is more than just another standard. At...
Robot Tax Debate Heats Up
In all likelihood, your co-workers pay taxes. But what happens if your boss replaces them with sophisticated software or dexterous machines—ones that perform the same tasks for less money (at least over the long run) and contribute nothing in payroll taxes? One...
