The Innovation Report
Waymo Shares Autonomous Vehicle Dataset for Machine Learning
Waymo, the self-driving technology company owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, released a dataset containing sensor data collected by their autonomous vehicles during more than five hours of driving. The set contains...
US Energy Department Funds Trial of Factom Blockchain to Secure Power Grid
Factom, one of the earliest companies to pitch blockchains to enterprises, is participating in a U.S. government-funded trial of the technology to protect the national power grid. Announced Thursday, TFA Labs, an internet-of-things (IoT) security startup, is...
TomTom Maps Out Revamp With Bet on Self-Driving Cars
Once a household name for its satellite navigation for cars, TomTom NV has taken a backseat in recent years as smartphones, loaded with apps like Google maps, surged in popularity. Now the Dutch digital mapping company is betting that your car needs...
Mobility as a Service Converts Car Drivers to Bus Riders
The selling point for ride hailing apps is convenience: no cash, maps, or transit schedules required. Mobility-as-a-service providers want to make all transportation options as convenient as calling an Uber. The crucial element in doing that is creating one service...
What Will It Take To Build Smart Cities?
The core idea around smart cities is to use technology to improve efficiency. That means taking all of the technology advances that have been applied towards things like video streaming, photo sharing, and advertising and bringing them to bear on things like city...
A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test
Four years ago, more than 700 computer scientists competed in a contest to build artificial intelligence that could pass an eighth-grade science test. There was $80,000 in prize money on the line. They all flunked. Even the most sophisticated system couldn’t do better...
5G: New Approaches to Cybersecurity
The race to 5G is on and America must win,” President Donald Trump said in April. For political purposes, that “race” has been defined as which nation gets 5G built first. It is the wrong measurement. We must “fire first effectively” in our deployment of 5G....
Electric Car Charge Posts To Be Installed In Every New Home In England
What comes to your mind when buying a new home? Or even renting a new home? Location is definitely important. Do you want to be in the city or in the country? Near airports where there is constantly noise from air traffic? Maybe just off the Interstate so you can have...
Fleet Space Technologies Raises $7.35M for Space-based IoT Tech
Australian satellite startup Fleet Space Technologies has raised a $7.35 million round of funding to help launch its next generation of nanosatellites, extremely small satellites it employs to deliver Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to customers...
Why Robots will Pick Soft Fruits and Salad
It takes a certain nimbleness to pick a strawberry or a salad. While crops like wheat and potatoes have been harvested mechanically for decades, many fruits and vegetables have proved resistant to automation. They are too easily bruised, or too hard for heavy farm...
