The Industry Innovation Report
What You Need to Know Before Investing in Smart City Infrastructure
A smart city is one of the buzzwords in the business environment and IT sphere. The notion of a smart city is a promising one. It offers many options and solutions for efficient organization of urban spaces and cooperation between systems within the city as well as...
Standards Body Publishes Guidelines for IoT Security Testing
A leading industry standards community has published its first guidelines for the testing of IoT security products, in a bid to drive independent benchmarking and certification efforts. The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) said its Guidelines...
Drone Delivery Picks Up in Africa as Jumia Pairs with Zipline
Africa-focused e-commerce firm Jumia Technologies has partnered with drone-delivery startup Zipline to deliver household items to remote areas of Ghana, the companies said on Thursday. The venture will combine San Francisco-based Zipline's automated, on-demand...
Satellites with Robot Arms Used to Pull Others Out of Orbit
An Australian space industry expert has said he has concerns about the deployment of potentially threatening technology in space amid competition from Russia and China. Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Space Industry Association of Australia CEO James Brown said...
This Military AV Could Be the Future of Warfare
Autonomous combat vehicle. Autonomous Combat Warrior Wiesel from Rheinmetall is a futuristic war machine. The German defense company developed this vehicle for “social safety.” ACW Wiesel is driven by an autonomous kit that can be fitted to Boxer, Lynx, or HX tactical...
Cruise Updates Software for AVs after Wreck
An autonomous vehicle run by Cruise LLC got into a wreck while making a left turn, causing the company to update software and recall 80 vehicles. The San Francisco-based unit of General Motors says the crash happened June 3. The company says it filed recall paperwork...
NASA Prepares Return to Lunar Glory with Artemis Test Flight
A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board. But NASA aims to take a giant...
Ford Cutting 3,000 Corporate Jobs in Shift to EVs
Ford is cutting 3,000 white collar jobs as it prepares to shift from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. Two thousand of the jobs are salaried positions and another 1,000 are contractors, Ford (F) said. Affected employees...
ISS Hosts a Surgical Robot in 2024
A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity. MIRA, or "Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant," will fly to the International Space Station thanks...
With Soaring Temperatures and Extreme Weather Events, Ocean Data Has Never Been More Important
With life-threatening heat waves experienced around the globe and the hurricane season upon the US, access to ocean data has never been more critical. The ocean environment is a key driver of weather patterns on land. Unless we understand our oceans, the insights we...
