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A team of scientists at Japan’s National Defense Medical College has created artificial blood that could be used in any patient, regardless of their blood type. If it moves into human trials, it could revolutionize trauma medicine. If it moves...

The smart factories – version 4.0 – must be completely rethought. This has a fundamental impact not only on production, but also on traditional and previously proven processes in purchasing, logistics and supply chain management across all industries. A design...

Digitalization requires a workplace with modern equipment. As the study “The digital workplace in Swiss companies” by MSM Research shows, the fixed workplace is becoming less and less important. Cloud services are regarded as the actual enablers for the next...

The Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is calling for the U.S. government to make a $120 billion investment in the nation’s AI ecosystem over the course of the next 10 years. The national AI vision report specifically calls...

Will AI and blockchain also show twice the value combined together? Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a market is full of hype, with vendors, customers, and press all speaking breathlessly about the capabilities for AI in general and their offerings specifically....

If you want to know how the global regulation of artificial intelligence might shape up in the coming years, best look to Berlin. Last year Angela Merkel’s government tasked a new Data Ethics Commission with producing recommendations for rules around...

UPS is rolling along with its drone delivery program, working with partner CVS Pharmacy to deliver prescription drugs to customer doorsteps via its newly deployed commercial drones. UPS delivered medications to two paying customers on November 1 using the Matternet...

For decades, scientists have sought an affordable and effective way of capturing, storing, and releasing solar energy. Researchers in Sweden say they have a solution that would allow the power of the sun’s rays to be used across a range...

A team of scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto has laid out the blueprints for a “quantum battery” that never loses its charge. This battery doesn’t exist yet — but if they figure out how to build it,...

Google researchers are training neural networks with a new technique to predict how a molecule smells based on its chemical structure. Google has its own perfume—or at least one team of the company’s researchers does. Crafted under the guidance of...