Partner content Laser attack can blind self-driving cars 7th November 2022 Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are vulnerable to a laser attack that could potentially “blind” them, putting pedestrians at risk. That’s the alarming conclusion arrived at by a team of researchers from the United States and Japan. Researchers from the University of Florida, the University of Michigan and the University of Electro-Communications in Chofu, Japan conducted a series of […]
Partner content Eliminating the grey areas of CAV insurance 3rd November 2022 The UK government is taking some positive steps forward with regard to addressing some of the great areas of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) liability and insurance. That’s the view of the global law firm Clyde and Co. These include government support for a clear bright line test between human driver control and true self-driving, […]
Partner content IoT World Austin 2022: Chunghwa Telecom on the future of smart cities 3rd November 2022 What is a smart city? While it’s a term many of us have heard countless times, in reality few people actually know what it entails, and what a city needs to have to be classified as “smart.” So what will the cities of our future look like? IoT tech guru Jeff Mo from Chunghwa Telecom […]
Partner content Where are all of the container breaches? 3rd November 2022 How will threat actors attack and utilize containers? This is a question I constantly think about. I’ve been working in this area for more than two decades now, and I feel like I should have an answer. But I don’t. Instead, I have a lot of different ideas, none of which I can really pinpoint […]
News Xcel Energy agrees to $80 million contract with Anterix 2nd November 2022 Xcel Energy—an electric and natural-gas utility that operates in eight states—has agreed to pay $80 million for the right to operate a private broadband network supporting smart-grid applications for at least 20 years on 900 MHz broadband spectrum licensed to Anterix, the companies announced this week. Anterix CEO Rob Schwartz said that the deal gives […]
Partner content Wastewater monitoring is an important tool for administrators, but not without ethical considerations 1st November 2022 In this pandemic-marked era, public health officials are looking everywhere for signs that could point to disease spread, including through wastewater monitoring at local sewer systems. Wastewater surveillance is a practice that’s long been used in many countries for various different reasons—Australia, for example, has a program that tracks illicit drugs in sewage—and it’s increasingly been tapped […]
Partner content Evergy details its private LTE network buildout plans 1st November 2022 Evergy, an investor-owned utility covering around 1.6 million customers across Kansas and Missouri, is moving forward with a major private wireless LTE network buildout. The company did not answer questions from Light Reading about the cost of the project. But Evergy’s Andrew Baker wrote that the network could eventually span just over 100 cell towers […]
Partner content New defense system simultaneously controls air, ground vehicles 31st October 2022 Red Cat subsidiary, Teal Drones, has expanded the capabilities of its multi-vehicle platform, with a new partnership that allows Teal to simultaneously control its air and ground-based vehicles. The partnership with Tomahawk Robotics builds on Teal’s existing 4-Ship platform, which allows a user to operate up to four of Teal’s Golden Eagle drones. The latest […]
News Newscan: Russia threatens a retaliatory strike against U.S. commercial satellites 28th October 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Russia threatens a retaliatory strike against U.S. commercial satellites What is quantum computing, and what does it have to do with encryption? Those fake active-shooter calls to schools? A similar thing happened before Public entities in nearly every state use federally-banned foreign tech, report says Gagged woman calls […]
Partner content Ford, Volkwagen end self-driving operations, Argo closed 28th October 2022 Argo AI, the self-driving tech start-up that had received significant financial backing from Ford and Volkswagen, has shut down. The company, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which proudly proclaimed it was “reimagining the human journey,” confirmed the news in a short statement. It read: “In coordination with our shareholders, the decision has been made that Argo AI will not continue […]
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