Drone Delivery Is One Step Closer To Reality
By: David Schaper October 18, 2019 Sounding like a huge swarm of angry bees or maybe a hedge trimmer on steroids, a small quadcopter lifts up off of a landing pad in front of the main hospital building on the WakeMed campus in Raleigh, N.C. Underneath it is a metal box — smaller than a […]
VR At Work Employers Embrace Virtual Reality For Workplace Training
By: Yuki Noguchi October 8, 2019 Virtual reality — long touted as the next big thing in tech — hasn’t taken off as a consumer product, but employers are embracing it as a more efficient and effective tool for on-the-job training. This year, Walmart is training more than 1 million employees using virtual reality. And […]
‘We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology
Email Us! Twitter Linkedin By: Hannah Devlin October 5, 2019 It can pick out shoplifters, international criminals and lost children in seconds. But as the cameras proliferate, who’s watching the watchers? Gordon’s wine bar is reached through a discreet side-door, a few paces from the slipstream of London theatregoers and suited professionals powering towards their […]
Met police admits it lacks records of King’s Cross face matches
By: Leo Kelion October 4, 2019 London’s Metropolitan Police Service says it does not have any records of the outcomes of a facial recognition tie-up with a private firm in the city. Last month, it acknowledged it had shared people’s pictures with the managers of the city’s King’s Cross Estate development. It had previously denied […]
‘Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang’: China’s Hui Muslims Face Crackdown
By: Emily Feng September 26, 2019 Gold-domed mosques and gleaming minarets once broke the monotony of the Ningxia region’s vast scrubland every few miles. This countryside here is home to some of China’s 10.5 million Hui Muslims, who have practiced Sunni or Sufi forms of Islam within tight-knit communities for centuries, mainly in the northwest […]
Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
By: Schrödinger’s cheetah September 26, 2019 IN AN ARTICLE published in 2012 John Preskill, a theoretical physicist, posed a question: “Is controlling large-scale quantum systems merely really, really hard, or is it ridiculously hard?” Seven years later the answer is in: it is merely really, really hard. Last week a paper on the matter was—briefly […]
The “internet of things”: a trillion connected devices—each a tempting target for hackers
By: The Economist September 23, 2019 International sanctions have crimped the regime, and the country’s people. Yet President Nicolás Maduro is still in charge. The only way out is for him to share power, not relinquish it. The “internet of things” will eventually comprise perhaps a trillion connected devices—each a tempting target for hackers. And, […]
Amazon Makes ‘Climate Pledge’ As Workers Plan Walkout
By: Alina Selyukh September 19, 2019 Amazon is “done being in the middle of the herd” when it comes to climate-focused company policies, CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday. The company is pledging to power its global infrastructure with 100% renewable energy by 2030 and to be carbon-neutral by 2040. To help get there, it plans […]
UK economy has ‘too few robots’, warn MPs
By: Sean Farrell September 18, 2019 The UK is lagging behind the world’s other advanced economies in the shift to robots and automation in the workplace – putting jobs, businesses and the prosperity of whole regions at risk, according to an influential group of MPs. MPs on the business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) committee […]