Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is joining the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Advisory Board and will become part of a group of tech leaders who will now advise the U.S. government on innovations in the tech sector. Bezos, who also heads up the private space company Blue...
Attempting to hold onto its leadership position in wireless broadband, the White House announced late last week that it’s investing $400 million to build out 5G networks around the country. The program, dubbed the Advanced Wireless Research Initiative (AWRI), is being headed up by the National...
Would you ride in a car driven by a computer? As cool as the idea and concept of automated driving sounds, there are still many people who feel uncomfortable with such a notion or who argue that it will never truly be 100 percent safe....
MasterCard is partnering with 100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) in order to push digital payments as part of its “Smart Cities” initiative and leverage its technologies to create more sustainable urban centers. As part of this partnership, MasterCard will be working with 100RC to...
OK, let’s be honest, having a car that can pretty much (and literally) drive itself is pretty damn cool. Right now, however, unless you’ve got $80,000-plus to shell out on a Tesla, you’re pretty much out of luck. Self-driving technology is not yet widely available...
JPMorgan just launched its own version of a FinTech accelerator, but with a twist. That’s all part of JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank’s new strategy for a program called In-Residence, a FinTech startup-like lab designed to help young companies overcome industry challenges. JPMorgan is setting itself...
More than half the world’s population lives in cities. And by the year 2050, that figure is expected to be closer to 70 percent. So, it stands to reason that giving city planners smart ways to use new technologies will only make living, working and...
Is Sidewalk Labs, the secretive labs division of Alphabet, trying to shake up the public parking and transit industry? According to documents dug up by The Guardian, the labs are looking to shake up the industry by offering cloud software to a service in Columbus,...
FinTech Fiserv said on Thursday (June 23) that it has launched a platform geared toward real-time alerts, moving from financial institutions to the individuals and small business that make up client bases. The platform, known as Notifi, takes information from FIs, collects that information into...
