Talk with any company involved in autonomous cars, and it’s likely to insist that it wants to take the driver out of the car, full stop. One startup is taking a different approach. It wants to keep the human driver — just not in the car itself. Phantom Auto has begun piloting technology for autonomous ...

Aside from driving spell checkers (and editors) crazy, the new wave production company m ss ng p eces has positioned itself as an important player in the evolution of creative entertainment using technology. The company started out developing original video programming for major clients, such as Wired Magazine and TED in the mid-2000s, but its ...

For most companies, a sale delayed means money lost, and now data privacy can be added to the list of holdups that hit the bottom line. According to a recently released study by Cisco Systems Inc., customer concerns over how data is captured, stored and deleted are causing sales delays ranging from two to 16 ...

Large-scale data gathering and quantum leaps in processing power have set the table for major advancement in artificial intelligence. Yet there’s a growing body of evidence that the field of AI is poised to move into a whole new dimension, one where AI not only imagines the real world, but can begin to make accurate ...

Mercedes Soria (pictured) knows what it’s like to beat the odds. Growing up in Ecuador, she heard about an exchange program between her native country’s school and Middle Tennessee State, so she decided to apply. Out of 5,000 applicants for the opportunity, Soria was one of only 20 selected to study in the United States. ...

In the evolving spectrum of virtual reality companies, Baobab Studios Inc. stands out as an early, significant player in the creation of high-end VR-animated experiences. With nearly $31 million in financing from companies such as Samsung, HTC and Twentieth Century Fox, the fledgling studio has already released immersive experiences called “Invasion!” and “Asteroids!” The key, as ...

One of the true arts associated with filmmaking in the 21st century is the suspension of disbelief, the craft of making amazing things happen on screen that defy the laws of gravity, physics or human anatomy. Viewers believe what they are seeing, no matter how incredible, because they can. One company that is making software ...

Dynamic pricing, the sale of goods or services based on multiple factors, including real-time customer demand, is becoming more widely used across a range of large industries. What’s driving adoption is both the complexity of many businesses (try booking an airline ticket or renting a car these days) and the advancement of artificial intelligence, which ...

George Washington may be known as the first president of the United States, but today he’s a recent new hire at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That’s because George is actually a software robot, designed and implemented by UiPath Inc. to interact with information technology systems and perform business processes. And when George needs ...

The term “self-driving car” has worked its way into such widespread use that it’s become a part of the popular lexicon. Now the “self-driving cloud” may soon become a commonly used term as well. ZeroStack Inc. employs intelligent software to deliver a self-driving private cloud platform as a way to make it easier for developers ...