China ranked second after the United States in an internet development index released on Monday that gauges six dimensions from internet infrastructure to application among 38 countries. China has the largest number of internet users and is the world’s top e-commerce and mobile payment market by transaction volume, according to the Global Internet Development Index, …
Chen Zhao, Chief Global Strategist at Alpine Macro, makes the case that China has a low risk of a debt crisis. Chen says that China’s debt to GDP level is safe. I will relate what Chen Zhao says to how some people can safely afford mortgages that are ten times their income level. Chen makes …
Japan Airlines has made a $10 million investment and pre-order of 20 Boom supersonic passenger jets. JAL is helping Boom deliver something further: a mainstream supersonic airliner, which is practical, reliable, and economic. Their decades of experience as a world-class operator, expertise in everything from passenger experience to safety to technical operations will help us …
The Economic Boom of the 1920s was driven by the Assembly line and the mass production of consumer goods such as the Ford Model T Automobile and luxury labor saving devices and access to easy credit on installment plans. Their could be an emerging global economic boom for the 2020s. 5 to 6% annual GDP …
Variety reports Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams are making plans for a new “Star Trek” movie at Paramount. Tarantino and Abrams are waiting until a solid script is in place before committing further. They are in the process of setting up a writers’ room for the next installment in the series. If the script is …
Together with EPFL scientists, our IBM Research team has developed a scheme for training big data sets quickly. It can process a 30 Gigabyte training dataset in less than one minute using a single graphics processing unit (GPU) — a 10x speedup over existing methods for limited memory training. The results, which efficiently utilize the …
In October, 2017, Delphi Automotive acquired self-driving startup NuTonomy for $450 million, speeding up its plans to supply carmakers with autonomous vehicle systems. NuTonomy will add more than 100 employees, including 70 engineers and scientists, to roughly double Delphi’s team developing autonomous driving software. The company was spun out from a research and technology alliance …
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Elon Musk’s vision of electric self driving cars has won as all major car companies are making multi-billion dollar investments on electric self driving cars. The robotic ride sharing vision of the future has also won as GM and Ford announced imminent robotic ride sharing service launches. Whatever troubles Tesla is currently having with the …
There are currently about 100 self-driving Volvos self-driving Volvos on Swedish roads. In November, 2017, Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, signed a framework agreement with Uber, the ride sharing company, to sell tens of thousands of autonomous driving compatible base vehicles between 2019 and 2021. The base vehicles are developed on Volvo Cars’ fully …
General Motors plans to introduce an autonomous ride-sharing service to several big cities in 2019. GM outlined its vision to reinvent itself. GM wants a future with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. GM sells 2.7 million cars a year and sodl 150,000 electric vehicles. GM has the Bolt electric car. GM bought self-driving …