The Innovation Report
Michigan: the Silicon Valley Of Mobility Tech
Spend time in an American city on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle research, and you might stumble upon certain cutting-edge devices in action. You could spot a driverless shuttle developed by startup May Mobility doing test runs to and from parking...
Federal Grant to Help NADS Study Automated Vehicles on Rural Roads
The University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) received a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to study the safe deployment of automated vehicles in rural areas. The grant will be used for the Automated Driving Systems...
Blockchain Mortgages Could Help the Impending Recession
Lately there’s been a lot of discussion about a potential new financial recession being at our doors. All the signs are already present, from the stock market being shaky and the US economy being sluggish, the European banks on a downtrend, the China and US trade war...
Western Digital Debuts New 3D NAND Products for IIoT
With the rise of cloud computing, the question of where to store and process data has, for many companies, become more abstract. But data volumes are exploding, adding to the cost of using the cloud for storage. A single autonomous vehicle could quickly generate...
Uber Bringing AV Testing to Dallas
Uber has made autonomous vehicles (AVs) a key part of its strategy for future growth and has ramped up investment and testing in emerging technology. That effort took a step back after a fatal crash while testing in Tempe, AZ in 2018, causing Uber...
How Hackers Could Break Into the Smart City
Smart cities are coming. And you can be sure that hackers won’t be very far behind. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of that future, as cities across the globe start to use technology to connect their services and residents in ways that were science fiction just a few...
UK Economy Has ‘Too Few Robots’
The UK is lagging behind the world’s other advanced economies in the shift to robots and automation in the workplace – putting jobs, businesses and the prosperity of whole regions at risk, according to an influential group of MPs. MPs on the business, energy and...
Facial Recognition Ban Coming to the US
San Francisco and Oakland, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts, have outlawed certain uses of facial recognition technology, with Portland, Oregon, potentially soon to follow. That’s just the beginning, according...
Daimler Stops Developing Internal Combustion Engines to Focus on Electric Cars
After reigning in the auto industry as the powertrain of choice for a century, the internal combustion engine is finally dying. Now even Daimler says that it is stopping development of new internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars. The German automaker...
Warner Music to Build Token on Blockchain
According to a Forbes report on Sept. 12, Warner Music has joined an $11.2 million investment in CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs in order to collaborate on the deployment of the company’s new blockchain network called Flow as well as building tokens on top...
