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Michael Belfiore New Paltz, NY michaelbelfiore.com michaelbelfiore.contently.com Technology Writer I've been covering emerging tech for major media outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, since 2004, and I support tech companies with compelling blog posts, white papers, and more. 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To put that figure in perspective, that’s about as many American casualties as in the entire Vietnam war. Fortunately, help is on the way in the form of autonomous vehicles. “When you think about it, the main reason for car accidents are humans,” says Yosi Taguri, CEO of MissingLink.ai. “Take the humans out of the equation, you get more safety.” View paidpost.newyorker.com The Rise of Ethical Machines In the near future, a humanoid robot wakes up each day, greets a fellow robot, and steps off her porch into an idyllic landscape of sweeping prairie vistas, mountains, and clear blue skies. She has no memory of yesterday and so starts each morning cheerfully, no matter what horrors had befallen her the day before. That is, until flashbacks begin to intrude. That’s the setup for the HBO series Westworld, where humanoid robots built as playthings of the rich experience an awakening.... View innovationmatters.economist.com That thinking feeling Despite our always-on technology connecting us with each other in more ways than ever before, recent studies have shown that technology seems to contribute to feelings of isolation rather than social connectedness. Scrolling through countless pictures of our friends' polished and perfect lives no doubt contributes to this increased sense of isolation. But what if technology could sense and accurately convey our emotions, beyond simple clicks to indicate likes or the use of emojis? What if technology allowed us to interact in ways that were much closer to the ways we do in real life? View eniday.com Keeping the lights on with liquid air More than 25% of the world’s electricity now comes from renewable sources, with the percentage growing at a rapid clip, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). That’s the good news… The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that avoiding catastrophic climate change depends on reducing, and even reversing, carbon emissions. Moving to renewable sources of energy helps by replacing carbon-rich fossil fuels for electricity production. There’s just one problem... View Bloomberg Five Carbon Capture Techniques That Could Help Mitigate Global Warming The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that warding off catastrophic global warming requires actively removing 100 billion to 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by midcentury. “We have to create an industry equivalent to the oil and gas industry whose job it is to undo emissions,” says Julio Friedmann, chief executive officer of Carbon Wrangler LLC and a senior research scholar at Columbia University. Here are some of the most promising demo-ready projects trying to do just that. View Bloomberg Five Ways Companies Can Store Renewable Energy for the Grid Even the best lithium-ion batteries stink at storing the large amounts of electricity a massive wind or solar installation is capable of generating. They’re expensive and hold, at most, about four hours’ worth of that grid-scale juice. Here are five potentially less costly—if somewhat Rube Goldberg-y—methods companies are trying to store power as potential energy in other forms, smoothing out renewable energy’s peaks and valleys. View nextmobileeconomy.economist.com Home Buying Goes High Tech More real estate agents are closing the door on open houses as Virtual Reality tours take off The freshly remodelled four-bedroom, three-bath ranch is ready to be listed, open floor plan and all, when you get a call that the homeowner has decided to put the kibosh on the open house this weekend. How are you supposed to sell a home that people can’t visit? For more and more real estate professionals, the answer is: make the visits virtual. If clients don’t want strangers wandering through thei... View Bloomberg Mobile Brain Scanner Article on BrainScope for Bloomberg Businessweek View ibm.com IBM X McLANE Bringing new value to legacy infrastructure McLane, a well established logistics company came to the IBM Garage to spark ideas for innovation and development. The result was a new revenue stream that took advantage of the company's existing assets to provide new services in a very competitive industry. Beyond that, the garage helped them innovate in marketing and HR to supply chain, operations, manufacturing, e-commerce – across many functional and business areas. The process also helped the ... View ibm.com VW and the IBM Garage Transforming an automaker into mobility services company Along with every other major industry, car manufacturing is facing disruption brought about by new, data-driven services and rapidly shifting customer needs. The IBM Garage has helped one of the world's leading automakers anticipate and adapt to the future in order to remain as strong in its future as it has been in its past. Leveraging the data it had already been collecting allows the company to offer services as well as products, pos... View Bloomberg This Robot Is a Roomba for Your Lawn Article in Bloomberg Businessweek on the Kobi landscaping robot. View paidpost.nytimes.com Keys to the Fortress: A Cautionary Tale Paid post for CA Technologies in The New York Times. View automationworld.com Automation Brings Manufacturing Back Home Article in Automation World. View digitaleng.news Microfabrica: Mass Production at Millimeter Scale Article on Microfabrica in Digital Engineering. 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