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HoloLens experience provides unique look at one of Ford’s most iconic cars

By Guest PostDecember 21, 2017Technologyan american supercar, hololens experience, microsoft hololens

It’s one of the most enduring legends in race car history.

After a business relationship between auto titans Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari soured in the early 1960s, Ford set a single-minded goal — to create a car that would beat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of the world’s most prestigious auto races. The result was the Ford GT40, a slick beauty that dominated Le Mans in 1966, taking the three top spots and winning the next three consecutive years as well. (more…)

Walmart, JD.com, IBM and Tsinghua University Launch a Blockchain Food Safety Alliance in China

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2017Technologyblockchain food safety, bridget van kralingen, China, frank yiannas, ibm, jd, tsinghua university, walmart, yongli yu

Collaboration to apply blockchain technology for food traceability to support offline and online consumers

BEIJING – 14 Dec 2017: Walmart (NYSE: WMT), JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies announced today they will work together in a Blockchain Food Safety Alliance that will kick off with a collaboration designed to enhance food tracking, traceability and safety in China, to achieve greater transparency across the food supply chain. (more…)

IBM and Blue Prism Deliver Digital Workforce Capabilities

By Guest PostDecember 13, 2017Technologyalastair bathgate, blue prism, digital workforce, gene chao, ibm

Walgreens adopts intelligent automation solutions to improve customer service

Armonk, N.Y., Austin TX, and London – 13 Dec 2017: As businesses increasingly recognize the opportunity to increase productivity, improve customer experiences and deliver new products and services through intelligent automation, Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have joined forces to deliver a secure, scalable and easy-to-use Digital Workforce for enterprises worldwide, such as Walgreens. (more…)

Mixed reality and medicine: Surgery with no surprises

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2017Health, Technologychristian woiciechowsky, holoLens, robert amyot, scopis holographic solution, simon kos, surgery, tricorder

In the original Star Trek TV series, the physician on the USS Enterprise, Bones McCoy, would diagnose his patients with just a few waves of his hand-held “tricorder”. Well, medical science has not progressed that far, at least not yet. (more…)

Tarzan Robot Swings on Cables to Monitor Crops in the Field

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2017Science, Technologyai ping hu, geo referenced robot, gtri, jonathan rogers, robot swings, tarzan robot, two armed robot

A two-armed robot named Tarzan, swinging along elevated cables, could allow farmers to monitor fields continuously at lower cost while avoiding interference with plants.

“Swinging – or brachiation – is an energy-efficient way to travel because gravity is doing most of the work,” said Ai-Ping Hu, a senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). The lightweight robot has aluminum arms and 3D-printed hands with sensors. The eight-pound robot swings back and forth with one hand on the cable, gaining momentum until its second hand detects the cable overhead and grips it. This swinging motion replicates a gibbon’s movement along a tree limb or vine. (more…)

On the soccer pitch and in the classroom, feminism flourishes in rural India

By Guest PostNovember 19, 2017Technologydelhi day, feminism, franz gastler, rose thomson, rural india, yuwa school

He had a pedigreed education and a corporate job overseas that he wanted to use for good. But while trudging in suit and tie through another 110-degree Delhi day, Franz Gastler had an epiphany that would end up lifting first his own life, then thousands more. (more…)

Fusion Genomics Turns to IBM Cloud to Help Support Advances Designed to Conquer Global Pandemics

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2017Technologyallen lalonde, conquer global pandemics, fusion genomics, ibm cloud, mohammad qadir, vancouver bc

Advancing RNA and DNA genome sequencing for infectious disease diagnostics

Vancouver, BC – 16 Nov 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Vancouver-based company Fusion Genomics selected IBM’s cloud capabilities to help advance Fusion’s ability to detect pandemics before they happen. Fusion Genomics has developed disruptive DNA and RNA technology that it believes can positively identify infectious diseases and enhance the surveillance of emerging pathogens like MERS, SARS, avian flu, and swine flu. (more…)

This 25-year-old doctor is ‘Making What’s Next’ for healthcare screening in Indian schools

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2017Health, Technologycare n grow, healthcare screening, indian schools, meghana kambham, vishakhapatnam

It was a typical balmy September afternoon in the coastal city of Vishakhapatnam. But little did Dr. Meghana Kambham know that her life and potentially those of hundreds of thousands of school children would change that day. (more…)

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