Cities like Orlando, FL, and Singapore are using digital twins to generate virtual models of themselves, in order to simulate the effects of potential new policies...Bloomberg CityLab From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2022
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
Bloomberg Quint From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2022
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, VA, has ruled that only an actual human can be listed as an inventor on patents under U.S. law.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2021
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin said the blockchain survived a flaw from outdated software that divided the digital ledger last week, thanks to a quick program...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2021
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to use artificial intelligence algorithms to determine a patient's race as a means of improving health...Bloomberg Law From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2021
The European Commission has proposed new rules constraining the use of facial recognition and other artificial intelligence applications.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2021
India's Ministry of Statistics is accelerating artificial intelligence usage for collecting, analyzing, and disclosing data to better monitor the economy.
Bloomberg Quint From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2021
The Interspecies I/O forum last week announced the $1-million Coller Prize for Interspecies Conversation, whose backers include rock artist Peter Gabriel and former...Bloomberg Quint From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2020
The European Commission is mounting an antitrust investigation into the Internet of Things, targeting voice assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa.
...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2020
Google, Amazon, and Johnson & Johnson have joined the World Health Organization effort to combat the global Covid-19 pandemic's threat to smokers, partly with artificial...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 17, 2020
Kobold Metals, a startup backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and others, aims to search for cobalt near a nickel mine in northern Quebec using data analytics.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2020
Japanese companies are developing next-generation logistics technology to deliver goods untouched by humans, driven by worker shortages and the Covid-19 pandemic...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2020
France is set to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to provide its citizens secure digital identities.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2019
A new study predicts 44% of the $135 billion projected to be spent in 2024 to secure critical city infrastructure against hackers will be invested in data safeguards...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2019
Some of the world's biggest casino operators in the Chinese territory of Macao are using technology to identify which of their customers are likely to lose the...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 3, 2019