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Rural Minnesota community test drives autonomous shuttle service that features ADA-compliant minivans

To this point, experimentations with autonomous vehicle technology has been mostly centered in large, connected cities like Las Vegas. A rural region in Minnesota is working to change that: In a first-of-its-kind rural pilot program called goMARTI (Minnesota’s Autonomous Rural Transit Initiative), a fleet of five self-driving Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS minivans, three of which will be American […]

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Verizon still faces a 3G problem

Verizon has been talking publicly about shutting down its 3G network for roughly seven years now. But in the next few months, it looks like the company will finally, officially do it. If Verizon does shutter its 3G network on January 1, 2023, as it has promised, it will be the last big US wireless network operator […]

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Ubicquia’s UbiHub leverages streetlights to support video, broadband, IoT-based initiatives

Ubicquia has expanded its family of streetlight-mounted platforms with UbiHub, an easily deployed solution that integrates smart-lighting functionality and wireless broadband access and can support video-based applications with built-in cameras and optional artificial-intelligence (AI) edge processing in an unobtrusive package. Ubicquia CEO Ian Aaron cited UbiHub’s versatility, describing the platform as the “Swiss Army knife […]

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Is network slicing toast?

Ericsson and pals are still desperately trying to present network slicing as the best thing since another famous sliced innovation that took breadknives out of the toast-making routine and is far easier for the average punter to digest. It’s a $200 billion sales opportunity for telcos, cooed executives from the Swedish equipment maker on a […]

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7 IoT devices that make security pros cringe

In cybersecurity, if it isn’t one thing, it’s another 14.4 billion things that’ll get ya. That’s about how many Internet of Things (IoT) devices will proliferate globally by the end of the year, according to some analyst estimates. As a body, this is arguably one of the most rapidly spreading and poorly secured threat surfaces […]

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Cars unlikely to become more computer than transport

The automobile industry wouldn’t be as sprawling and as massive as it is today without effective marketing hype. Recently, advances in ADAS technology have some individuals in, and adjacent to, the industry saying that vehicle “brains” will approach, or even match, the status of supercomputers. Let’s take a quick glance at this myth before delving […]

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

Procurement teams need to take a holistic approach when acquiring technology, says Bill Campbell, senior vice president of North America at Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division. Hexagon offers a variety of digital reality solutions. Its products combine sensor, software and autonomous technologies. The firm puts data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety […]

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South Korea wants half of all cars to be autonomous by 2035

The South Korean government has laid out its road map for the introduction of autonomous cars – and it contains some ambitious targets. The country’s Mobility Innovation Roadmap was revealed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The first notable deadline is later this year, when the country hopes to become the third in […]

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Samsung announces new rugged smartphone, tablet with 5G support

Samsung Electronics America yesterday announced the market availability of the Galaxy XCover6 Pro smartphone and Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro tablet—two additions to the vendor’s rugged-device portfolio and the first device in each series to support 5G connectivity. Both of the new Galaxy devices are designed to work in difficult environments, as they are MIL-STD-810Hii compliant […]

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Smart-city tool coordinates use of drones, robots

A team of researchers has developed a tool to manage and combine deployed technologies in smart cities. Researchers developed the AI-based cooperative infrastructure that allows for the collaboration of technologies from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to mobile robots, which could offer game-changing advances in security, surveillance, and search and rescue efforts. The research team, from […]

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Rural Minnesota community test drives autonomous shuttle service that features ADA-compliant minivans

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Verizon still faces a 3G problem

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Ubicquia’s UbiHub leverages streetlights to support video, broadband, IoT-based initiatives

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Is network slicing toast?

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7 IoT devices that make security pros cringe

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Cars unlikely to become more computer than transport

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

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South Korea wants half of all cars to be autonomous by 2035

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Samsung announces new rugged smartphone, tablet with 5G support

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Smart-city tool coordinates use of drones, robots

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