Technology start-up EVEN Electric and Microsoft Sweden are building a global smart trading platform for electric vehicles. Right now, the market is held ...
Crowdsourcing project uses satellite images to identify slavery sites
In the framework of a crowdsourcing project, online volunteers use machine learning algorithms to identify slavery sites such as brick kilns in South Asia ...
Toyoto tests Human Support Robot in real-life environment
Toyota’s Human Support Robot (HSR) has been in development for a long time, but has only now completed its first in-home trial. Designed to help ...
Cryptocurrency that rewards generating solar energy
An innovative solar incentive program is incorporating both solar electricity production and blockchain technology to incentivize the generation of solar ...
NTT DoCoMo chooses SAP HANA platform to improve customer service
NTT DoCoMo selected the SAP HANA platform as the foundation of its data needs to improve customer service. The company was in need of a new platform to ...
Volkswagen to make traffic safer with pWLAN technology from 2019
Volkswagen is planning to equip their first models with IEEE 802.11p (pWLAN) as a standard as a tool for vehicles to communicate with other vehicles or ...
Smart Gigabit Communities program welcomes 5 new cities
At the Smart Cities Connect Conference at the Austin Convention Center, US Ignite and the National Science Foundation announced the five cities that ...
Startup aims to plant a billion trees per year with drones
To reverse the deforestation trend of past years, startup BioCarbon has designed a platform that first maps a specific area to pinpoint arable locations ...
NVIDIA secures government funding for next-generation supercomputers
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is funding six technology companies to drive forward the development of supercomputers ...
NAM-NRI showcases AI to improve asset management decisions
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (NAM) and Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) have conducted a proof of concept study to research natural language ...
