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Technology is great and makes lives easier, advances in technology entertains us, diagnoses illness, aids us in many ways, Driving, buying goods,finding our way,keeping in touch with family and friends around the world...
But is it about to take our jobs, our livelihood, our means to live to enjoy this technological age?
Proposal of a robot tax to safeguard government revenue and provide for displace workers is not as straightforward as it may at first appear
…The warning is contained in a report by a leading independent think tank that forecasts 230,000 posts could go by 2030. Of those, 112,700 are in Glasgow, 60,800 in Edinburgh, 35,900 in Aberdeen and 20,000 in Dundee, according to the Centre for Cities report.
By now you’ve probably heard how robots are going to take over our jobs. And how this will leave future generations with plenty of time on their hands to take up hobbies and pursue creative interests. All while our robot friends spend their days doing the lion’s share of the work needed to make the world run...
Electric and automated vehicles represent an industry of great importance. Not only can they reduce the number of human drivers required, but they can also address traffic congestion. As it turns out, some researchers feel an electric robo-taxi could be 10 times cheaper compared to owning a car. This threshold is expected to be met by the year 2030, which is quite a bold claim...
The company predicts that mobility-as-a-service will disrupt long-held patterns of car ownership, maintenance, operations and usage. The first "green shoots" of autonomous driving are expected to be in the business-to-business sector - not from soccer moms, sports car enthusiasts or pickup drivers giving up the wheel.
"Companies should start thinking about their autonomous strategy now," says Intel CEO Brian Krzanich...
He was tour manager for the Band, producer of Mean Streets… so why, at nearly 70, is Jonathan Taplin taking on Facebook and Co....
We are all – or nearly all – slaves to technology. Think about how many times you consult Google every day. Consider the role that social media like Facebook and Twitter play in your lives. And when you buy a book, or countless other items, it’s increasingly likely that you purchased it from Amazon...
When that got too long, he switched to making a list of jobs that would not be obliterated by changes in technology, in accelerating automation and artificial intelligence...
Stanford University economist Tony Seba continues to draw attention this month with a paper predicting that a global shift to self-driving EVs will create a death spiral for Big Oil (USO, OIL) and major automakers caught asleep...
ALMOST two in every five jobs could be carried out by robots within just 15 years, a shock new report has claimed...
Industrial robots are depressing wages and increasing unemployment, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit, non-partisan research organization in America.
The U.S. workforce is about to undergo "unprecedented job destruction" as computers and robots get smarter, Jeff Greene tells CNBC.
Images show Uber vehicle on its side after apparent high-impact crash with ordinary driver.
Such is the rapid rate of technology that driverless cars now seem to be old news. They’ve been talked about since news leaked that Google had started working on the technology back in 2009. Now while the world is still intrigued, people have begun looking for the next new bit of headline-grabbing technology. Luckily for us, that headline comes from Dubai yet again...
Within three decades, artificial intelligence will be smarter than the human brain, supersmart robots will outnumber humans and more than a trillion objects will be connected to the internet, says the CEO of SoftBank...
A few years ago, Michael Osborne and a colleague at the Oxford Martin School caused a stir when they published research suggesting that 47% of jobs in the US are at risk of being replaced with robot labor. Subsequent studies suggest closer to 10% of jobs in developed countries could be automated, which is only marginally less...
Igor Barani calls up some medical scans on his screen. He is the chief executive of Enlitic, one of a host of startups applying deep learning to medicine, starting with the analysis of images such as X-rays and CT scans. It is an obvious use of the technology...
It is estimated that the AI market will grow to $5.05 billion by 2020, thanks to the rising adoption of machine learning and natural language processing technologies in the media, advertising, retail, finance, and healthcare industries...
At the beginning of each year there are a some tradition to make predictions for a future. Is blockchain a major technology or it’s just a buzzword? Bots vs Apps, who will win? etc. The technology…
The robots are coming; heck, in many heavy manufacturing industries, they’re already here. Last year infamous tech manufacturing giant Foxconn announced a plan
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