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Submission + - Google and Microsoft are opening huge AI labs in China (eetimes.com)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: "Dominance in the 21st century will not be gained by trade surpluses or industrial throughput; it will be won with the power of AI and access to unlimited data.
Politicians who focus on conventional economic tools, such as trade wars or industrial competitiveness, will find their countries left behind. The real path to economic growth now is collaboration, shared investments and leveraging the power of innovation in automation, machine learning and AI applications.
China is already the second-largest economy in the world based on GDP and, if left unchallenged, it will grow to No. 1 in less than 10 years, and AI will play a significant role in making China the world’s dominant technology power." EE Times

Maybe you have heard about Kai-Fu Lee's book "AI Superpowers", where he argues that China is about to become the dominant power on Artificial Intelligence.

Now, American internet giants are pouring in billions into the country to make sure they don't miss the train.

While the US government is focusing on traditional manufacturing and trade wars, the Chinese are investing in digital technologies, services, and mining the huge amount of data they collect every day, 25x the amount the US does.

Submission + - China on the way to rule on AI (eetimes.com)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: While the US and other countries are focusing on building walls, tariffs, and trade wars, China is pouring billions on developing the latest AI technologies and, if left unchallenged, it will dominate in Machine Learning and AI in a few years.

Some American companies, such as IBM and Microsoft, see the trend and are also investing in China's AI technologies.

Submission + - EU Court of Justice delivers a hard blow to car companies over emmisions

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dkatana writes: From Cities of the Future: "The General Court of the European Union found in favor of a legal case brought by the cities of Paris, Madrid and Brussels to challenge vehicle emissions regulations set by the European Commission and agreed by national governments. The court found that the Commission did not have the power to amend emission limits for the new real driving emission tests, introduced following the Dieselgate scandal."

The court concluded that the Commission had no power to amend those limits for diesel-engine vehicles during real driving emissions (RDE) by applying correction coefficients.

Euro 6 regulations, approved in 2007, limit nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions to 80 mg per Km, a significant reduction from the 180 mg currently in effect. Current rules also require cars to be tested under “normal driving conditions”, using portable emissions monitoring systems (PEMS) on the road, and when the engine is cold.

Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo has previously called the EU Commission rule “a licence to pollute” and a regression of existing European Environmental law designed to protect public health and improve air quality.

Submission + - Singapore Wins 2018 Smart City Award

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: On Tuesday, the city of Singapore was awarded with the Smart City 2018 price on the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.

The jury considered that “Singapore has undoubtedly become a global beacon of the urban transformation and how to implement smart urban solutions in a meaningful manner that not only enhances the city’s functioning but also improves the services provided to its citizens and through them their quality of life.”

Submission + - Singapore Wins Smart City of 2018 Award

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: On Tuesday, the city of Singapore was awarded with the Smart City 2018 price on the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.

The jury considered that “Singapore has undoubtedly become a global beacon of the urban transformation and how to implement smart urban solutions in a meaningful manner that not only enhances the city’s functioning but also improves the services provided to its citizens and through them their quality of life.”

Submission + - 6G networks, with Terabyte speeds, will arrive by 2030

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: According to IoT Times: "The next generation of wireless connectivity will provide speeds of 1 to 100 Gbps to the end user and MU-MIMO capability of 100 to 1,000 simultaneous independently modulated beams effectively providing speeds in the tens of terabytes per second."

Technologists at Finland’s University of Oulu recently announced the funding of “6Genesis,” an eight-year research program to conceptualize 6G under the auspices of the university’s Centre for Wireless Communications.

Submission + - Paris, Madrid, and Brussels go to Top European Court for EU "License to Pollute" (citiesofthefuture.eu)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: Mayors of Paris, Brussels, and Madrid fight for cleaner air for their citizens.

In September 2016, right after Dieselgate, the EU Commission approved conformity factors for NOx emissions, granting the industry the right to legally exceed the 80 mg/km limit by up to 110%.

Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris and chair of C40 Cities, called the decision “License to Pollute”

From Cities of the Future:

"The European Court of Justice (ECJ)will hear arguments this week to determine whether three European cities can challenge vehicle emissions regulations set by the European Commission and agreed by national governments."

Barcelona, also a member of C40 Cities, declined to join the legal action fearing backlash from Seat, the Spanish branch of Volkswagen, which has its main factory just outside the city. Sean employs over 15,000 people in the area.

"Regulation 2016/646, introduced in the wake of the “Dieselgate” scandal, mandates the maximum acceptable NOx emissions from diesel-engine vehicles during real driving emissions (RDE) tests. Rather than enforcing the 80 mg/km NOx emission limits agreed by the European Parliament in 2007, the European Commission, under intense lobbying from the auto-manufacturing industry, granted manufacturers time to gradually adapt to the new RDE rules."

Submission + - "Father of GPS" receives the IEEE Medal of Honor today (eetimes.com)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: A former paperboy from Wisconsin passionate about maps led the team in the Air Force responsible of designing the navigation system we use everyday.

From IoT Times:

'At the IEEE honors ceremony today in San Francisco, Bradford Parkinson, a retired Air Force colonel who spent his life between maps and navigation systems, will be awarded the 2018 IEEE Medal of Honor, “For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System.”'

The current Global Positioning System (GPS) did not exist until 1995, just 22 years ago, and the engineer who led the project for the US Department of Defense (DOD) was Mr. Parkinson.

Submission + - transition to driverless will "ultimately be beneficial." says Uber GM Spain (planetizen.com)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: Asked about this and other Uber plans during a panel on “Business Models in the Sharing Economy” at IESE business school in Barcelona last week, Uber’s General Manager in Spain Juan Galiardo confirmed that the company will continue towards a future of autonomous cars, but said it will take years to make that transition:

“I am optimistic that, as has happened in other sectors that faced transitions, the migration, although painful, will ultimately be beneficial. And new jobs will be created maintaining those cars.”

Submission + - SPAM: Uber GM for Spain: driverless model will create jobs

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: “I am optimistic that, as has happened in other sectors that faced transitions, the migration, although painful, will ultimately be beneficial. And new jobs will be created maintaining those cars.” said Uber’s General Manager in Spain Juan Galiardo when asked if the company --despite the Arizona crash-- was still looking to "get rid of the other dude in the car".

Galiardo argued that Uber’s real competitor is the “paradigm of car ownership.” He said that people are starting to realize that having a car that is parked 95% of the time is not sustainable, and that a mix of public transport and ride-share services are the solution for most cities and citizens.
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Submission + - How Chromebooks became the go-to laptops for security experts (cnet.com)

Submitted by mspohr
mspohr writes: "Heading to my first security conference last year, I expected to see a tricked-out laptop running on a virtual machine with a private network and security USB keys sticking out — perhaps something out of a scene from "Mr. Robot."

That's not what I got.

Everywhere I went I'd see small groups of people carrying Chromebooks, and they'd tell me that when heading into unknown territory it was their travel device.
  "Drewry and Liu focused on four key features for the Chromebook that have been available ever since the first iteration in 2010: sandboxing, verified boots, power washing and quick updates."

Submission + - If AI is acting autonomously .. how can we remain accountable to others? (citiesofthefuture.eu)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: Susan Leach gave an insightful account of Paula Boddington's keynote at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Black box technologies and machine learning—two elements of AI—can be hard if not impossible to explain, she says. “If AI is acting autonomously without direct control—and especially if it’s not completely clear to human creators and users how decisions and actions are reached—how can we as humans remain accountable to others?”

“The power of AI is pushing us towards questions about the very limits and grounds of our human values,” Boddington says. While it can be potentially of enormous benefit, “does it extend our reach beyond what we can really handle. Does it push us beyond where we really want to go? Can we really be responsible for all aspects of such developments?”

Submission + - MWC2018: Europe Will Lag Behind in 5G Adoption said Nokia and Ericsson CEOs (citiesofthefuture.eu)

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: Three years ago the European Union made a pledge to lead the world in 5G networks. And two of the four 5G infrastructure vendors, Nokia and Ericsson, are European, the others are Chinese.

But European users pay much less than their American and Asian counterparts for their wireless services, and the US carriers have their checkbooks ready to start 5G services this year.

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm, during a press conference in the Mobile World Congress, also blamed strict privacy regulations, net neutrality rules and, most importantly, fragmented spectrum in the hands of regulators of each European member state.

Submission + - SPAM: Spanish Islands, Clogged With Tourists, Want Rental Cars to be 100% Electric

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: The government of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera) will pass a new law that requires rental car companies to phase out fossil fuel vehicles and to switch to a 100% electric fleet by 2030.

Mallorca, the largest island in the archipelago with a population under 860,000, has over 90,000 rental cars clogging its roads every summer.

The new law will require rental car companies to increase the share of electric cars in their fleet by 10 percent a year starting in 2020. Which means that by 2025 half of the rental cars should be electric.
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