A ground-breaking way to fund international space projects, which makes space exploration available to the public, is launching today (January 24) during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A community-led crowdfunding platform run by Spacebit, under the watchful eye of a team of consultants, astronauts, engineers and rocket scientists, will enable the public to vote on large-scale space exploration projects. The Spacebit Foundation has been developing and building an ecosystem to allow people and small enterprise to take advantage of recent giant leaps in launch technology and satellite platforms for five years and has already gained support from top…
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LogiNext recently integrated with Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana. With LogiNext’s voice-controlled automation, managers can verbally communicate their directives to the system. If they want a specific parcel to be assigned to a courier who is more well-equipped to deliver it, they can simply say it and it would be done. It can all be automated by a single skill-defined command. The agility and responsiveness gained by the quick and correct communication of information would help companies react better and faster in key situations. Manager: “Alexa! Ask LogiNext to find my Truck on Route 27!” Alexa: “Your Truck has…
A new update to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Semiannual Robotics and Drones Spending Guide forecasts worldwide spending on robotics and drones solutions will total $103.1 billion in 2018, an increase of 22.1% over 2017. By 2021, IDC expects this spending will more than double to $218.4 billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) or 25.4%. Robotics spending will reach $94 billion in 2018 and will account for more than 90% of all spending throughout the 2017-2021 forecast. Industrial robotic solutions will account for the largest share of robotics spending (more than 70%), followed by service robots and consumer robots.…
Beijing authorities issued two rules on automated driving in December last year, making them the first such rules issued in the world’s largest automobile market. These new rules will apply only to road testing of automated vehicles in Beijing. Nonetheless, these rules are likely to shed some light on the general direction of future national legislation on automated driving in China. It is therefore worth taking a close look at a number of key provisions introduced by these new rules. Who can apply for the road testing of automated vehicles? An applicant who will be testing an automated vehicle…
At the forefront of transforming the age-old vending machine industry is SmartRetail, an automated retail specialist that recently launched in Singapore. With close to 400 machines in Hong Kong and another 100 operating in partnership with local established retailers such as Guardian, Giant, Procter & Gamble, Lenovo and Amway, SmartRetail is set to bring back a fresh concept to an old business model in a whole new way. “With the similar consumer demographic and mindset, expanding to Singapore made the most logical sense after Hong Kong. Shoppers in both countries value the convenience and experience our machines bring to…
The Google Hong Kong “Smarter Digital City Whitepaper” unearthing the status of the city’s digitization with an analysis of four key business verticals – Retail, Travel, Finance and Living. Conducted by Nielsen, the research revealed digital disparities between perception and practice, among consumers and corporates. The publication identifies opportunities to accelerate the city’s digitization, in an attempt to join hands with the public to shape a smarter digital city, and outlines key recommendations for corporates and policymakers to shape the digital future of Hong Kong. Leonie Valentine, Managing Director, Sales and Operations, Google Hong Kong, said: “Our ‘Smarter Digital City Whitepaper’…
Hotel Jen marks a new milestone as the first international hotel brand to use autonomous Relay robots in Asia. Teams at Hotel Jen Orchardgateway and Tanglin Singapore welcome colleagues, Jeno and Jena at their respective properties. The duo will deliver amenities and local favorites from the in-room dining menu to guests, hen an order for them is placed. “Hotel Jen is proud to be the first brand in the Shangri-La group to introduce this technology. The new “colleagues” will be great team players in getting important things done well and delivered in Jen’s distinctive style. Known to curate playful experiences, Hotel Jen, through…
IOT Books Must Read: The Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to the networking of physical objects through the use of embedded sensors, actuators, and other devices that can collect or transmit information about the objects, is growing at a very fast pace. By 2019, the global IoT market is projected to be valued at more than 1.7 trillion US dollars, with the number of connected devices worldwide forecast to reach 20.35 billion in the same year. To better understand these emerging technologies and their implications, here are ten must-read books focusing on the IoT. Top 10 IOT Books The…
Voice-powered artificial intelligence (AI) for the home has become a big business for Amazon and its technology rivals Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft, which have all put hordes of researchers and business specialists to work, trying to build easy-to-use devices that we can talk with. Alexa is the name of Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to engage with human speech and first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot devices. The intelligent personal assistant is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and other real time…
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) a leading provider of cyber-security solutions globally, today announced that its security researchers have discovered HomeHack – a vulnerability that exposed millions of users of LG SmartThinQ® smart home devices to the risk of unauthorized remote control of their SmartThinkQ home appliances. The vulnerabilities in the LG SmartThinkQ mobile app and cloud application enabled the Check Point research team to remotely login to SmartThinQ cloud application, take over the user’s legitimate LG account, and gain control of the vacuum cleaner and its integral video camera. Once in control of a specific user’s LG…