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    Oatly goes electric with new milk trucks

    Oatly Green technology is low hanging fruit for companies with a progressive ethos. The latest example is Oatly, the world’s largest oatmilk company, expanding a partnership with leading electric freight company Einride.  The partnership will bring electric trucks to Oatly’s North American operations after seeing success in Europe for the past two years. This initiative is tied […] More

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    AT&T doubling down on 5G Flying COW, robot dogs

    AT&T A flying COW (“cellular on wings”)  is providing a 5G network in areas with limited infrastructure and after natural disasters. The technology convergence of drones and 5G is an interesting test case for rapid, flexible network deployments that provide a useful stopgap in critical areas. “We had intermittent, weak LTE signal at the flight […] More

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    The #1 way AI is transforming grocery shopping

    Hungryroot The days of walking into a giant grocery store with an empty cart and browsing through tens of thousands of items will soon be a routine of the past. With artificial intelligence, technology startups are hoping to change the grocery shopping experience. “It’s pretty overwhelming to get your food right each week,” says Alex […] More

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    Axon ethics board members resign over taser-equipped drone

    Axon Taser maker Axon is walking back plans to make a taser-equipped drone after nine members of its AI Ethics board resigned. Axon, a technology company known for developing tasers and products for police and the military, wanted to market the product as a means of stopping mass shootings.  Pushback from the ethics AI Ethics […] More

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    Amazon teams up with a fast food robot

    Miso Robotics The maker of a fast food robot designed to cook burgers, fries, wings, and chips for major chains is partnering with Amazon Web Services. The move will allow Miso Robotics to drastically increase its simulation capacity, a key ingredient in the fast-food robot wars. ZDNet Recommends This is a story about the intersection […] More

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    Stop ignoring your car's most important safety feature

    Pixabay Of all the fancy safety features in your car, the most critical safety equipment of all — your tires — is almost certainly monitored by outdated and incomplete technology. But a number of startups are vying to change that, and also fundamentally transform how we view our tires and their role keeping us safe […] More

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    Rush of preorders for this autonomous lawnmower

    Scythe Robotics Autonomous lawnmowers are coming to the U.S. in a big way. The latest proof: thousands of reservations for an autonomous, all-electric powerhouse designed for the commercial landscaping sector, as well as key talent acquisitions by the company that makes the mower from the tech giants SpaceX Starlink and Magic Leap. The company, Scythe Robotics, believes […] More

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    Wing Zone goes all in on robot fry cook

    Wing Zone It’s official: the robots are here to stay. Another fast food restaurant has opted to place a robot cook in the back of house, marking a swift and dramatic shift away from humans in fast food. This week’s update comes via Wing Zone, which offers made-to-order chicken wings. This chain is partnering with […] More