Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Chicken Meat ‘Cultured’ from Chicken Cells
November 4th, 2018Via: Engadget: You may know Just (formerly Hampton Creek) for its vegan cookie dough and mayo, but the company has also been working on cultured meat — real meat that’s made from animal cells rather than taken from an animal itself. While it’s not the only company doing so — there are actually quite a […]
GM Electric Bicycles Unveiled
November 2nd, 2018Tesla might also do an electric bike. Via: Electrek: Today is a big day for car companies jumping on the electric bicycle bandwagon. First Elon Musk dropped a bombshell saying Tesla might build an electric bike, and now GM electric bicycles are on the horizon too. GM gave a surprise announcement this morning where they […]
Chinese-Style ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Grows Globally
November 2nd, 2018Via: AFP: Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid […]
Cummins and Hyundai Building All-Electric Excavator
October 31st, 2018Via: Electrek: Electric propulsion is taking over almost every segment of transportation and now it’s even getting into heavy machinery. Cummins and Hyundai partnered up to make a new small all-electric excavator. They unveiled the prototype this week. D. S. Kim, Senior Executive Vice President & CTO at Hyundai Construction Equipment (HCE) announced the new […]
VW and Ford in Talks on Self-Driving and Electric Vehicles
October 31st, 2018Via: Reuters: Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co are in “exploratory talks” to jointly develop self-driving and electric vehicles in a far-reaching strategic alliance meant to save the companies billions of dollars, according to a person familiar with the matter.
More Robots to Hit the Aisles at Schnucks Grocery Stores in St. Louis Area
October 30th, 2018Via: St. Louis Post Dispatch: In at least 15 Schnuck Markets stores, the future is now. Aisle-scanning retail inventory robots, known as Tally, will soon be wheeling around in a growing number of locations as the St. Louis area’s leading grocer expands its partnership with San Francisco firm Simbe Robotics. The robot, which moves around […]
Waymo Autonomous Cars Coming to California
October 30th, 2018Via: Wired: The driverless cars cometh. Waymo just became the first company allowed to test fully self-driving cars—the kind with no carbon-based beings behind the wheel—in the state of California. The outfit that started life as Google’s self-driving car project has been running driver-free cars in Arizona for almost a year, where the state testing […]
Rise of the Machines: Automation Reshapes Job Market
October 27th, 2018Via: Daily Republic: Looking at a map of California on a projector screen, Johannes Moenius, an economics professor at the University of Redlands, hovered his mouse over the Inland Empire, which glowed with a splotch of red pixels. The colored dots signified how susceptible an area would be to job losses caused by automation. And […]
TSA Announces “Biometrics Vision for All Commercial Aviation Travelers”
October 27th, 2018Via: Papers, Please: Today the US Transportation Security Administration released a detailed TSA Biometric Roadmap for Aviation Security & the Passenger Experience, making explicit the goal of requiring mug shots (to be used for automated facial recognition and image-based surveillance and control) as a condition of all domestic or international air travel. … It’s a […]
Robots to Make Robots at ABB’s New $150 Million Factory in China
October 27th, 2018Via: Reuters: Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country’s largest maker of industrial robots. The factory, located near ABB’s China robotics campus, is due to be […]
