Emerging Tech
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California-based company Coco Robotics announced a pilot program in the Heights neighborhood last week, nearly a year after Uber Eats teamed with Avride for downtown robot delivery service. -
As Hollywood imagines our future, are brain and human microchip implants nearing a “ChatGPT moment” in 2026? Medical progress collides with privacy fears and state bans.
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The Kansas City Council is beginning to rethink the city’s approach to future data center construction while striving to learn more about the booming industry’s impact locally.
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The Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab is helping municipal officials see LED lights for themselves in a real urban environment.
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Apple's Touch ID fingerprint sensor is the final piece of the Apple Pay puzzle, allowing users to confirm their identities with a finger tap.
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Weather researchers are developing a new tool they say could give as much as a month’s warning when drought conditions are on the way.
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Demand for mobile payments has been lukewarm, and nearly two-thirds of Americans express little or no interest in making payments by tapping their cellphones at a register.
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The falling cost of adding sensing and communications technologies to consumer products will catalyze the evolution of smart homes over the next decade, according to the Garner study.
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Larger iPhones, Apple Pay and the Apple Watch will all impact the public sector.
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New system captures and retrieves video from six facilities housing as many as 10,000 inmates.
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Officials are asking for $1 million in 2016 — as part of a $3 million total request over three years — to establish a non-profit institute focused on “autonomous intelligent machines and systems.”
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While Google competes with a number of tech rivals, the recent dueling announcements show the Mountain View Internet giant and the Seattle e-commerce goliath are stepping on each others’ toes with growing frequency.
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Also, how well does your smartphone know you?
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AgTech Roundtable members are working out the details on a drought-focused hackathon that will be hosted at the Farm of the Future, owned by West Hills Community College in Coalinga, Calif.
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Police Commissioner William Bratton announced the program Thursday, saying officers in at least one precinct in each of New York City's five boroughs will begin wearing the surveillance devices.
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Ferguson police are the latest of more than 1,000 departments to wear body cameras, which are proven to reduce officers' use of force and citizens' complaints against cops.
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Juggling documents and keeping track of appointments should be easier with this tool.
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Plus Acer's new Chromebook 13 and Herman Miller's elegant Mirra 2 chair.
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Supporters explain how unmanned aerial vehicles can provide meaningful guidance to private interests, and the need for government to take advantage of the technology before competitors in other countries move full-speed ahead.
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Work is underway at the Combined Armed Support Command to develop autonomous and semi-autonomous systems so soldiers can focus on defending convoys instead of steering them.
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"Project Wing", announced Thursday, escalates Google's technological arms race with rival Amazon, which is also experimenting with self-flying vehicles to carry items bought by customers off its online store.
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