The Industry Innovation Report
NVMe: A Must-Have for Productivity
This new communications standard was developed for solid state drives and was a collaborative effort among major technology companies including Intel, Samsung, and Dell. For business owners, the bottom line of the technology is this: it allows a hard drive to act like...
Hertz to Buy 100,000 Tesla Cars in Push to Offer EVs
Car rental company Hertz has ordered 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla in a move that some analysts say further validates a growing electric vehicle movement in the U.S. Hertz said Monday that it's buying the Tesla Model 3 cars by the end of 2022,...
Watch These Autonomous Drones Zip Through The Woods
Expert human drone pilots have proven incredibly adept at piloting UAV through complex courses at high speeds which are still unmatched by autonomous systems. But researchers at the University of Zurich and Intel Labs are collaborating to change that, and...
Verizon to Use Amazon’s Low Earth Orbit Satellites to Extend 4G and 5G
Verizon has made a deal to use Amazon's low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to add capacity to the Verizon cellular network and provide fixed-wireless Internet service in rural parts of the US. Verizon said it will use Amazon satellite connectivity for both consumers and...
Robot Taxi Boats Take to the Water in Amsterdam
An autonomous boat taxi, years in the making, has now made it to the waterways of Amsterdam. The self-driving boat, dubbed Roboat III, is the creation of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Senseable City Laboratory, and...
Discovering Exoplanets Using Artificial Intelligence
By implementing artificial intelligence techniques similar to those used in autonomous cars, a team from the UNIGE and the UniBE, in partnership with the company Disaitek, has discovered a new method for detecting exoplanets. The majority of exoplanets discovered to...
Australia: Transport for NSW to Investigate Use of Driverless Rideshare Services
Transport for NSW has announced it will be taking the next steps in its autonomous vehicle trial by working with driverless technology firm Motional to investigate and develop a plan for using driverless rideshare services. Transport for NSW customer strategy and...
How to Become the World’s Smartest Press Shop by Leveraging Industry 4.0
Imagine the creation of a greenfield manufacturing facility with no IT infrastructure and after only 18 months, runs on a digital platform with completely paperless production in its core manufacturing processes. If you think this sounds unrealistic, think...
Why Extraterrestrial Intelligence is More Likely to be Artificial than Biological
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? It's a question that has been debated for centuries, if not millenia. But it is only recently that we've had an actual chance of finding out, with initiatives such as Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial...
Egypt Detains Artist Robot Ai-Da Before Historic Pyramid Show
She has been described as “a vision of the future” who is every bit as good as other abstract artists today, but Ai-Da – the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist – hit a temporary snag before her latest exhibition when Egyptian security forces detained her at...
