California-based Wind River is working with Chinese smart mining solutions provider Beijing Tage Idriver Technology Company on a software platform for autonomous mining vehicles for open-pit mining. The mining industry has been an early adopter of autonomous vehicles and machinery to improve safety, increase productivity, and save costs. Wind River is developing edge software for…
Like a few other brand names, Photoshop is a trademark which is now so common that it has become the catch-all term for any kind of digital image editing. It even has the unique honor of having been made into a verb in modern parlance, with people commonly referring to pictures having been “Photoshopped.” That…
Japanese carrier KDDI and Korean telco LG Uplus announced plans to launch Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corporation (CIRC)’s G6.0, a drone compatible with smart drone platforms, in Japan and South Korea. Headquartered in Taiwan, CIRC’s business focuses on the development of autonomous intelligent robot solutions. The smart drones will be commercially available in Japan and…
Cord-cutting is becoming more popular as our cable and satellite bills seem to get ever more expensive. A cheap Roku streaming box is a great way to do just that. With literally hundreds of streaming channels available on the service, there’s plenty to watch, and you’ll likely save yourself tons of money. We’re also aiming…
Security researchers from Bitdefender have uncovered a new botnet which is targeting millions of IoT devices. The so-called dark_nexus botnet seeks to infect common IoT devices like smart cameras, routers, and more. Bitdefender gave dark_nexus its name after featuring in its user agent string when carrying out exploits over HTTP: “dark_NeXus_Qbot/4.0”. Qbot is another IoT…
Paris based system integrator Altran is working with London edge-cloud startup Ori Industries to promote federated multi-access edge computing (MEC) so developers can deploy Industry 4.0 solutions on private LTE and 5G networks, in any geography, and telecoms operators can serve industrial partners on a global basis. Major telecoms operators have already signed up to…
Do you feel like someone is always watching you and tracking where you are? If you do, then you are probably correct. Apps on your smartphone often include tracking that follows what you do and where you go. If you want a bit more privacy, there is a way to turn off tracking. We’ll help…
Ford is one of a number of automakers pivoting to produce medical equipment for front-line health care workers dealing with the coronavirus crisis. In an update this week, the car giant revealed a slew of new initiatives that include making medical gowns from the material used to produce airbags. The gowns will form part of…
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Swiss firm Landis+Gyr said it has recently expanded smart grid capabilities in Central America with the completion of an advanced metering project for Empresa Eléctrica De Guatemala S.A. (EEGSA), to support the utility’s time-of-use (TOU) rates for reducing peak electricity demand. The five-month project involved deployment of Landis+Gyr’s Gridstream Connect network across the utility’s service…
