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How Driverless Cars See the World Around Them
On Sunday night, a woman died after she was hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber in Tempe, Ariz. The car was operating autonomously, though a safety driver was behind the wheel, according to a statement from the local police.
'Not Welcome Here': Amazon Faces Growing Resistance to Its Second Home
What do you get for the man who has everything? When it comes to Jeff Bezos — the richest man in the world with around $130bn to his name — many U.S. cities competing to host Amazon’s second headquarters have an answer: billions of dollars in tax incentives.
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Collaborative Mobile Robots Are Coming To Your Warehouse
A common question warehouse operators often ask themselves is: "what can we do to further increase productivity and efficiency?" For a while, this challenge has been met with Six Sigma methodologies to identify and eliminate waste in the process. However, one of the biggest sources of waste remains non-value-adding movement and material handling. A new breed of robot has recently emerged that tackles this challenge and is helping warehouses to reach next level productivity and efficiency. -John Santagate, Research Director, IDC
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Blockchain Can Help in War on Fake Drugs, Report Says
A blockchain prototype tool has been developed with the potential to tackle the problem of counterfeit medicines.
'Exhausted' Toys R Us Suppliers Weigh Options As Huge Retailer Shuts
When Toys ‘R’ Us secured a $3.1bn bankruptcy loan in September, toy makers were reassured they would be paid for goods delivered to the company as it tried to emerge from Chapter 11.
Tablets, Lasers and Time to Market: How Levi Strauss Reinvented the Way It Makes Jeans
On a quiet street at the very edge of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood is a red-brick building bursting with blue. This 88-year-old structure, which carries no external signage of any kind, is what Levi Strauss & Co., the 165-year-old inventor of the blue jean, calls its Eureka Innovation Lab.
China Is Leaving the West Behind in Race for Electric-Car Raw Materials
China is first out of the blocks in the global race to secure raw material supplies critical for the batteries that will power the electric vehicles of the future.
Big Health-Care Players Are Turning Their Partners Into Prey
Over 20 years, Brian Komoto built a thriving pharmacy in California’s Central Valley. Each day, his nurses would travel the vast agricultural region’s roads to help hepatitis C patients take a grueling regimen of shots.
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Lyft Links With Magna to Sell Driverless Systems to Any Auto Manufacturer
Lyft's driverless car strategy became much clearer last week. The ride-hailing service announced it will partner with major automobile industry supplier Magna to develop driverless vehicle systems and make them available to any automaker that wants to buy them.
Trump Condemns Chinese Factories. China Is Already Closing Some.
Li Jinzi’s apartment lost its heat when the kilns went cold. Li works at a Chinese aluminum factory, the sort of hulking industrial installation that has helped set off a global trade fight.
On the West Coast, Ports Brace for Steel Tariffs
It's a normal weekday at the Port of Vancouver. That means by noon, piles of steel slab cover the work yard at the docks on the Columbia River.
Clear Sailing for Ocean Carriers in 2018 — If They Don’t Blow It
The coming year looks like smooth sailing for container-shipping lines — if they can meet shippers’ increasing demands for service.
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