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Startup developing mobile EV charging robot “ZiGGY” continues to gain funding and support BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — EV Safe Charge has been selected to participate in the Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator, which includes funding to accelerate the development of ZiGGY, the company’s autonomous mobile EV charging robot. ZiGGY is the first and only innovation in the charging industry that is AI-enabled and features a high-resolution screen for communication and advertising. Run by Alabama Power and located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, the EnergyTech Accelerator is part of a global program led by Techstars, an institutional investor that provides…
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell University graduate students won the Department of Energy’s Office of Solar Energy Technologies Bonus Award in the 2024 EnergyTech University Prize competition. The EnergyTech University Prize includes both student and faculty teams and aims to foster clean energy entrepreneurship. From left: Students Eve Qiang, Henry Williams and Mike Liao received the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology Office Bonus Award in the 2024 EnergyTech Collegiate Award Competition, which ended April 15, 2024. Henry J. Williams and Mike Liao, doctoral students in the Sibley Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering supervised by Irving Porter Church…
Going public can sometimes go awry, especially for companies that went public via the SPAC route at the peak of the last boom. Dozens of companies once valued at billions of dollars have seen their values plummet and their stock prices plummet into penny-stock territory. In response, a growing number of companies are opting to exit the stock market and try their luck again as private companies. A few weeks ago, genetic testing provider 23andMe became the latest candidate to try this route. The company announced that it was considering acquiring all of the outstanding shares that CEO and founder…
Based at its iconic campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City, Cornell Tech has launched its Security, Trust and Safety (SETS) Initiative, leveraging Cornell’s world-leading faculty in computer security, digital safety, policy, ethics and law across both its New York City and Ithaca campuses, and its longstanding partnership with the Technion. SETS will guide new education, research, engagement, and entrepreneurial activities aimed at making progress towards solving the critical problems that insecure digital technologies pose to societies around the world. SETS will push the envelope on topics ranging from fundamentals of computer security and privacy to emerging threats to…
To receive industry-leading AI updates and exclusive content, sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters. Learn more Artificial intelligence startup Alembic announced today that it has developed a new AI system that it claims can completely eliminate the generation of misinformation, a problem known as “hallucination” that plagues other AI technologies. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Alembic co-founder and CEO Tomás Puig revealed that the company will unveil the new AI during a keynote address at the Forrester B2B Summit today, and again next week at the Gartner CMO Symposium in London. The key breakthrough, according to Puig,…
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Good afternoon, RSA Conference. (Cheers and applause.) Wonderful to be with all of you today. And now we finally know what Ferris Bueller did on his day off. (Laughter.) To all of the cyber practitioners, the innovators, the researchers who are here, the business leaders, thank you for welcoming us to the RSA Conference. Now, it’s true that “move fast and break things” is literally the exact opposite of what we try to do at the State Department. (Laughter.) But it’s also true that when it comes to our mandate to try to deliver on the…
Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service.In an introduction to a special issue of the journal First Monday on topics related to AI and power, Data & Society (D&S) affiliate Jenna Burrell and Program Director of D&S’ AI On the Ground Jacob Metcalf argue that “what can and cannot be said inside of mainstream computer science publications appears to be constrained by the power, wealth, and ideology of a small cohort of industrialists. The result is that shaping discourse about the AI industry is itself a form of power that cannot be named inside of computer science.”…
Hubble Networks, a US-based space technology company, has achieved a world first: a direct Bluetooth connection to a satellite more than 600 km away, a breakthrough technology that could enable millions of devices to connect anywhere on Earth, regardless of mobile phone coverage.The Hubble Space Telescope proved skeptics wrong by successfully launching its first two satellites in March 2024. Hubble’s proprietary technology allows standard Bluetooth chips to communicate with the satellites using software updates, eliminating the need for expensive dedicated hardware.A new milestone in IoTThis innovation will revolutionize the Internet of Things (IoT). Imagine being able to connect any Bluetooth…
Every May, Cornell Tech hosts Open Studios on its campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, celebrating student startups and presenting cutting-edge research and projects as an annual end-of-year event. The 2024 event will take place on May 17 from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm, this year coinciding with the annual New York City-wide NYCxDESIGN festival. The 2024 Open Studios event will feature Cornell Tech’s annual Startup Awards as the evening’s main event. The Startup Awards marks a key milestone in students’ entrepreneurial journeys. Ten teams graduating from Cornell Tech’s Startup Studio course will present the company ideas they developed…
Attachments overview Space technology plays a critical role in disaster management in some of the world’s most disaster-prone regions. While ASEAN countries with space technology capabilities are focused on their own national efforts and goals, climate-induced disasters remain a significant transboundary threat. For this reason, ASEAN countries with access to space technology should consider coordinating the use of these resources specifically for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) in areas where disaster risk outweighs resilience. Commentary www.rsis.edu.sg Issue 048 – 3 May 2024 The views expressed by the authors are their own and do not necessarily represent the official views…