The Innovation Report
How Reality Exceeds Expectations About Self-Driving Vehicles
The evolution of autonomous vehicles illustrates to what extent many people, including any number of experts, do not understand technological development cycles, and get things seriously wrong. Click on this link, read the story and watch the video. It is from...
Waymo Let a Reporter Ride in a Fully Driverless Car
It's been almost two years since Waymo first announced that it was testing fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. Not long afterwards, the company said it planned to offer a fully driverless service to the public by the end of 2018. The rollout has been...
IoT Security Startup Particle Raises $40M
Particle, a platform for Internet of Things devices, has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding. Qualcomm Ventures and Energy Impact Partners led the Series C raise, with backing from existing investors including Root Ventures, Bonfire...
Not All Smart City Efforts Working
Cities are fast becoming “smart,” and the impact on people’s lives can be immense. Singapore’s smart traffic cameras restrict traffic depending on volume and ease the commute of thousands of passengers every day. In Kaunas, Lithuania, the cost of...
Twistle Raises $16M to Automate How Healthcare Providers Talk to Patients
Health tech startup Twistle landed $16 million to fund a platform that makes it easier for hospitals to communicate with patients. The Series A funding round was led by Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF), the venture arm...
As iPhone Sales Fall, Apple Eyes 5G
Apple delivered a generally positive earnings report on Wednesday, with CEO Tim Cook telling Reuters that iPhone 11 was off to a "very, very good start," despite sales falling 9.2% in the quarter, continuing a pattern that has been in place for the past...
New Blockchain-Based System Tracks Steers From Hoof to Plate
Peruvian shoppers are weeks away blockchain answering the age-old question first posed in 1984: “Where’s the beef?” A pilot project by Wong Supermarket, a Peruvian chain owned by Chile’s major retail conglomerate Cencosud, will allow suppliers and consumers to...
Facebook Works to Speed Up MRI Scans Using AI
Gina Ciavarra is sitting in a dark room at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. It's a reading room, a space for radiologists like her to examine X-ray and MRI scans. The monitors in front of her display grayscale images of a de-identified patient's knee, and in them she...
First Navy Submarine Resupplied by Commercial Drone
It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of this. On Oct. 10 a small quad-rotor delivery drone, of the type used for delivering packages to your door, resupplied a U.S. Navy submarine. The honor fell to the suitably named USS Hawaii (SSN 776), one of the...
Waymo Expands to Include B2B Car Parts Delivery
Self-driving vehicle technology company Waymo has expanded its business relationship with automotive retail company AutoNation, the companies announced today. The new extension builds on the existing partnership between Waymo...
