A coalition of organizations – including the World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross – is partnering with tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in an effort […]
Renault plans to transition the French island of Belle-Île-en-Mer – which lies off the coast of southern Brittany – into a smart island. Working with its partners – the Belle-Île-en-Mer Community of Communes, Morbihan Energies, […]
A new research project focusing on technology to develop lightweight vehicles will be led by Professor Ken Kendall from the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), a department at the University of Warwick, UK. The project – […]
Researchers from the psychology departments at the universities of Lincoln and York, UK, and the University of New South Wales in Australia are investigating combining multiple poor-quality CCTV images into a single, computer-enhanced composite to […]
The US Army has awarded Harris Corp. and Thales Defense a contract for a two-channel leader software-defined radio that will allow commanders on the ground to switch frequencies if one is being jammed by adversaries. […]
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the New York University, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a gaze-driven method of controlling unmanned aerial vehicles. The deep learning system uses NVIDIA GPUs to facilitate […]
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) – a Washington, DC-based think tank and advocacy group focused on issues of data privacy – recently published resources to help businesses and policymakers understand and evaluate consumer-targeted facial-recognition […]
Researchers at the University of San Diego and The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy are seeking to better understand the way some birds – such as albatross, hawks, or eagles […]
The City of Ashland, Oregon has started the Empower EV Incentive Program as part of its Climate and Energy Action Plan . The program will pay Ashland Electric Utility customers for the first year of […]
Lockheed Martin, the Drone Racing League and NVIDIA have partnered to design a challenge called AlphaPilot – which calls for the creation of artificial intelligence technology that allows autonomous drones to out-race human-piloted drones. “Put […]
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