Google has no plans to expand its partnership with Fiat Chrysler to create a self-driving car, the program chief at the Alphabet unit said on Thursday, affirming that the technology company was still in talks with other potential partners.
Earlier this month, Google and Fiat Chrysler agreed to work together to build a fleet of 100 self-driving minivans in the most advanced collaboration to date between Silicon Valley and a traditional carmaker. Google said it was not sharing proprietary self-driving vehicle technology with Fiat Chrysler, and that the vehicles would not be offered for sale.
A Los Altos startup called Afero raised $20.3 million in a new round of venture funding to secure connected devices, from toys and arcade games to medical equipment. The company’s technology works even when WiFi isn’t, employing 4GLTE and other radio sensors.
Afero works with large hardware makers who install the startup’s proprietary chip in their IoT devices or components.
Oakland, Calif.-based Edyn started selling a new, smart gardening device this week: an Internet-connected water valve that lets users irrigate their gardens or lawns automatically.
The Edyn Water Valve uses data from the company’s Edyn Garden Sensor, a soil sensor, along with local weather systems, to adjust the moisture levels in the soil. If a user wants, they can adjust their irrigation systems via the Edyn smartphone app.
A power pole collapses at 8 p.m. on a hot night in the remote outback of Australia. This is a problem for William and Olivia Munroe, who raise sheep and cattle 100 miles outside an old gold mining town on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert. In the summer, the temperature frequently soars close to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Their children attend school via satellite link, the family’s only means of accessing health services in case of illness or emergency. Although the Munroes have a backup generator, it can’t power the water pumps, communications, and air-conditioning for long. In short, their lives depend entirely upon reliable energy.
Intel just laid off 12,000 workers in face of declining PC revenues, and the move has all of us asking “what’s next?” for the company that launched the microprocessor revolution.
The booming smartphone market is almost exclusively based on microprocessor technology from tiny ARM, a British chip design company with no manufacturing capability and a market cap that, for most of the pre-iPhone era, was smaller than Intel’s advertising budget.
Intel, then, is left clinging to the top of a palm tree while the technological tsunami that it started with the 1971 launch of the Intel 4004 sweeps across humanity.
La Bestia de Bentonville está herida. Después de haber dominado el panorama de las ventas al por menor de Estados Unidos, de haber sido el centro de infinitas polémicas, de ser considerada el reflejo de lo mejor o de lo peor del libre mercado, Walmart, la mayor empresa de ventas minoristas del mundo y protagonista de uno de los mayores éxitos empresariales del sector de la historia -con permiso de Inditex-, corre el riesgo de caer en lo que nunca pareció que fuera a ser su problema: la irrelevancia.
The elderly population is a growing market. The global population of people aged 60 and above will swell more than double from 900 million today, to more than 2.1 billion by 2050, according to the Global AgeWatch Index.
Startups are known to target “tech-savvy” populations, and for many of them that means overlooking older demographics. However, many companies are bucking that trend and focusing on some of the issues that are faced by older members of the population who want to preserve well-being, quality of life, and connectivity as they age.
The U.S. government wants to speed up development of wearable alcohol sensors; in that vein, today it announced the winners of a contest intended to stimulate innovation. The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $200,000 first prize to San Francisco–based BACtrack, and a $100,000 second prize to Santa Barbara, California–based Milo Sensors. Both groups submitted prototypes of wrist wearables that detect traces of alcohol diffusing through the skin.
La empresa navarra Davalorha desarrollado un Evaluador de la Visión Automatizado (EVA) capaz de medir hasta 75 parámetros clínicos de la visión en apenas 5 minutos mientras el paciente juega a un videojuego en 3D real.
South San Francisco, CA-based Genentech, a division of international health giant Roche, announced today the U.S. approval of its drug atezolizumab (Tecentriq) for the most common form of bladder cancer.
Nearly 77,000 new cases of the cancer, called urothelial carcinoma, will occur in the U.S. this year, and it will cause more than 16,000 deaths, according to the National Cancer Institute. The FDA approved atezolizumab for patients with advanced disease or who have not been helped by platinum chemotherapy or surgery.
