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CTA Report: CE Industry Growth Is ‘Exceeding Expectations’
The Consumer Technology Association forecasts 3.2 percent growth for the U.S. CE industry this year, for a total estimated $321 billion in retail revenue. For the first time, drones, OLED TV and...
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Qualcomm Releases SDK Designed to Upgrade Apps for AI
Qualcomm, whose chips are in 40 percent of all smartphones, has revealed its strategy for streamlining AI tasks, by developing a software development kit (SDK) dubbed Neural Processing Engine. The SDK...
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Gartner Forecasts Timeline for Adoption of New Technologies
Gartner Research reported on emerging workflows for new technologies. In the Gartner Emerging Tech Hype Cycle, the company studied 2,000 emerging technologies and identified 32 that could create...
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First Autonomous Drone Delivery Service Debuts in Iceland
In Reykjavik, Iceland, e-marketplace Aha is using Israel’s Flytrex for the first-ever fully autonomous drone delivery service. Aha, a digital hub for grocery stores, retailers and restaurants, has...
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New Intel Chip Can Handle 4 Trillion Operations Per Second
One year after its acquisition of Movidius, Intel is introducing a new chip called the Myriad X, which TechCrunch describes as “a ‘Pro’ version of the Myriad 2, bringing a major redesign to the...
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Facebook Uses Mapping Tech in Effort to Connect the World
Facebook developed mapping technology that has allowed it to create a data map of the human population in 23 countries so far. The map can zero in on any man-made structure as close as five meters, in...
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UN Civil Aviation Group Brainstorms Global Drone Standards
The United Nations’ 191-member state International Civil Aviation Organization held its first-ever symposium to solicit industry ideas on global operating standards for drones. Held at the ICAO’s...
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FAA Panel Fails to Reach Consensus on Drone Regulations
A federal advisory panel of 70+ industry, labor and law enforcement experts failed to come to agreement on a proposal on how to track and identify drones. More specifically, the panel could not find...
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CTA: 170 Million to Purchase Tech Gifts This Holiday Season
According to the Consumer Technology Association, 170 million people (68 percent of U.S. adults) plan to purchase tech gifts this holiday shopping season. While the CTA’s annual report indicates tech...
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Sony to Introduce 3D ‘Time-of-Flight’ Sensors for AR Devices
At Sony’s Atsugi Technology Center outside Tokyo, engineers are developing a new kind of 3D sensor aimed for use first in smartphones and augmented reality devices. The sensors will be able to detect...
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Google Hopeful for Chinese Re-Entry With TensorFlow for AI
Google exited China in 2010, but is now making another pitch to re-enter by promoting its TensorFlow software for building artificial intelligence solutions. Sources say that parent company Alphabet...
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CES Keynote: Intel Introduces New Studio for Immersive Media
At CES 2018, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich gave a keynote address that ranged on topics from cybersecurity to immersive media and both neuromorphic and quantum computing. He also introduced...
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Investigation Opens into Possible Drone-Linked Copter Crash
The first-ever drone-related crash of an aircraft in the U.S. may have taken place last week in South Carolina. According to two helicopter pilots, a student and an instructor, a drone appeared...
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Google, Government Partner on AI to Analyze Drone Footage
Google and the Department of Defense are exploring the use of artificial intelligence to identify objects in drone footage. The tech giant has been working with the Pentagon’s Project Maven, an...
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FAA: Number of Commercial Drones Will Quadruple by 2022
In positive news for the drone industry, recently updated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) numbers project significant growth in commercial drone use by 2022, at which point the current numbers...
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Zipline’s Fixed Wing UAV Becomes Fastest Commercial Drone
Zipline, the California-based startup that uses drones to deliver blood and drugs to remote Rwandan medical centers, is now using a fixed-wing aerial robot to make commercial deliveries at nearly 80...
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Skydio R1 Drone Touts Advanced Visual Tracking, 4K Camera
Several companies have offered drones that can, more or less, follow a target and avoid obstacles. But now a new company, Skydio, has introduced the $2,499 R1 drone that shows significant promise. The...
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JPEG Debuts Streaming Video Format for 5G, Wi-Fi Networks
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), known for its photo standard, released a new video compression standard, JPEG XS, designed to work on next-gen 5G cellular or Wi-Fi networks. The new standard,...
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Microsoft Reaches Out to Developers at its Build Conference
Microsoft revealed interesting news during this week’s Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington. Among the key announcements: a pair of mixed reality enterprise apps for the HoloLens; a...
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Microsoft Builds on Existing Tech, Voices Moral Conscience
At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft is showing products that highlight its changed direction under the aegis of chief executive Satya Nadella. Among them is a DJI drone loaded with...
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