driverless cars

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) made an interesting announcement this week: It is bringing a veteran automotive and aerospace industry executive on to its board of directors.   Alan Mulally was CEO of Ford (NYSE: F) from 2006 until just weeks ago. He was also a top executive at...

If you are like the many people who hate driving in downtown traffic, you will be pleased to know that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been working on a solution – a driverless car that can negotiate city streets. According to a recent blog post, the company has shifted the focus of its self-...

Giant cargo ships without a live crew aboard? Is it even possible? “Yes,” Rolls-Royce vice president of innovation in marine engineering and technology, Oskar Levander told Bloomberg. Not only that, Levander said, but such remote-controlled vessels could be deployed in regions like the Baltic Sea...

Imagine a supercomputer so powerful it could absorb millions of bits of data including complete patient records, drug interactions, and past results. Imagine this machine, which understands natural language, could then generate hypotheses based on the data it had assimilated and that in fractions...