Pizza Hut and Toyota are partnering on an autonomous delivery vehicle called e-Palette that could make the delivery process driverless.
Despite the implications for current drivers, Pizza Hut said driverless delivery could create more jobs than it displaces.
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The planet is growing more food than ever, and yet millions of people continue to starve worldwide. People are hungry everywhere — in the country, in the suburbs. But increasingly, one of the front lines in the war against hunger is in cities. As urban populations grow, more people find themselves in food deserts, areas with “[l]imited access to supermarkets, supercenters, grocery stores, or other sources of healthy and affordable food,” according to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A new report from the IEEFA is positioning China as a world leader in renewable energy investment. The country has put $44 billion in clean energy projects around the world.
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Japan is dealing with what economists call a “demographic time bomb.”
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AI will make better decisions by embracing uncertainty.
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Humankind has done a great deal in terms of making exquisite art, whether through its paintings, songs, or performance art. Museums are packed with such work, and ordinary people have libraries full of fantastic literary achievements—both physical and digital. For the longest time, creativity seemed like an exclusively human forte.
If Spotify’s non-IPO goes forward this spring, it will be unusual in that it will be a “direct listing,” wherein the current shareholders will sell their shares directly to the retail-investing public on the NYSE, vs. to institutional investors. Spotify is the first company of its size to propose such a listing. If the listing yields a lucrative exit for existing shareholders, it will encourage other nascent high-growth firms to follow in Spotify’s footsteps.
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A UK-based team of researchers has created a graphene-based sieve capable of removing salt from seawater.
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Microsoft and Alibaba machines tied for first place, but both beat a human by a slim margin.
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Blockchain-based skills platform BitDegree has unconventional plans for connecting tech talent and recruiters.
Continue reading… “Want to learn programming? This startup pays you cryptocurrency to study Python”
Boeing today unveiled a giant drone that’s capable of lifting a 500 pound payload. Calling it an “unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) cargo air vehicle (CAV) prototype,” the aerospace giant said it could serve as a precursor for future autonomous flying aircraft.
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“Electric cars are vastly better than internal combustion devices,” said James Anderson, a Harvard scientist.
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