Parents Are Lining Up to Pay $100 for Tin Can’s Screenless, App-Free “Landline”
I grew up hogging our home phone line, talking for hours with my best friend despite having just spent an entire school day together. Lying in bed, my plastic green handset against my ear, she and I caught up on what happened during the 20 minutes we spent apart on the bus ride home. We’d […]
Dryad Networks Demonstrates First Fully Functional Drone Prototype for Detecting, Locating and Monitoring Wildfires
In the aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires estimated to cost more than $250 billion, Dryad Networks, a pioneer in ultra-early wildfire detection technology, today announced a successful demonstration of the world’s first fully functional drone prototype solution to autonomously detect, locate, monitor and eventually extinguish wildfires. At an event on March 27 in Eberswalde, Germany, […]
JD Sports Canada Uses AI as Secret Weapon Against Fraud and Policy Abuse
JD Sports Canada is using artificial intelligence to give it a home court advantage. The company has linked with startup Yofi to protect itself from bad actors—those who perpetuate abuse, fraud or scams in violation of companies’ policies—in stores and online. And in the process, the sportswear retailer determined that a few of its bad actors had come from the […]
Birdstop Plans Node-Based Drone Deployments
Keith Miao, the CEO and founder of Birdstop Inc., began his career working in imagery and data science, “working with satellite imagery to solve some of the problems we’re trying to solve now with BVLOS drones,” he said. After working in the public sector in Washington, D.C., he moved to Mountain View, California, to lead […]