The Industry Innovation Report
Mercedes Reveals Electric Car Made of Mushroom Fibers
Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz revealed a highly anticipated concept of its Vision EQXX, an electric car that’s capable of going more than 620 miles on a single charge. Mercedes unveiled the Vision EQXX virtually during the Consumer Electronics...
Ford F-150 Lightning, PowerBoost Hybrid Can Charge Other EVs
Ford's new F-150s don't have to keep their power all to themselves. They can share it. The two variants of America's best-selling truck have the capability to supply electric vehicles (EVs) with a charge when they run low. The Ford F-150 Powerboost Hybrid...
Progress on a Technical Solution for Aviation Safety and 5G
The plan was for Verizon and AT&T to rollout 5G in the C-band on December 5, in time for the holiday broadband binging period. But the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a cryptic advisory on November 2 saying that while there was no evidence...
Uber-Backed Robotics Startup Predicts Autonomous Food Delivery Will Be in All Major Cities Within Five Years
Consumers want food delivery faster and more frequently than ever, but the economics still do not work. With leading services raising prices from their initial venture capital-subsidized rates and yet still typically failing to make a profit, with customers growing...
Underwater Drones? DARPA’s Manta-Ray Project Just Moved to Phase 2
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Phase 2 contracts for its unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) program called Manta-Ray, the agency said in a press release. When it comes to drones, usually aerial vehicles come to our...
U.S. Faces Tough Choices in 2022 on Mines for EV Metals
The United States has enough reserves of lithium, copper and other metals to build millions of its own electric vehicles (EVs), but rising opposition to new mines may force the country to rely on imports and delay efforts to electrify the nation's automobiles. The...
NASA to Kick Off Holidays with Christmas Day Telescope Launch
NASA is scheduled to deliver a big, shiny present to the astronomy community on Christmas Day. The space agency, along with its counterparts in Europe and Canada, will launch the James Webb space telescope 25 years after it was first announced. The new instrument will...
NASA is Tracking Two Explorers across Antarctica to Prepare Humans for Mars
NASA is tracking two explorers on a 2,268-mile (3,650 kilometers) journey across Antarctica to learn more about humanity's ability to survive on Mars. British explorers Justin Packshaw and Jamie Facer Childs are on the 32nd day of an 80-day trek...
Is AI about to Transform the Mammogram?
It's a marriage of tech and health care that could alter millions of lives without a single drop of medicine. "If the data is validated, I think this is very exciting," said Janine T. Katzen, a radiologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who specializes in breast imaging....
How Smart Cities Cut Emissions
Internet, software, applications, and datasets are some of the many contributions that technological progress and innovation has made to sustainable development. As a support mechanism to local governments and stakeholders and to foster innovation as a way to drive...
