CollaborativeTech

• [New] Uber has a goal of operating as a zero-emission platform in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. by 2030, and Henkel plans to source 100% of the electricity it uses for production from renewable sources.
• [New] Aimed at enhancing the Ease of Doing Business in India, the IIG serves as a platform to connect potential investors to project promoters through a dynamic interactive platform.
• [New] Low-cost micro-computers like the Raspberry Pi are a powerful tool that can help transform and democratize scientific research, and will ultimately help push the boundaries of science.
• [New] With GSMA protocols already ensuring adequate security, customers could choose to add an additional layer of connectivity through the use of IoT tools and platforms such as VPNs.
• [New] There is a significant opportunity in RWE for life sciences companies and payers to find shared value, specifically with patient engagement programs designed using digital health platforms to produce similar outcomes to remote patient monitoring systems across a wide range of disease states.
• [New] ZAP automated workflow tools integrate disparate 3D printer systems; protect users against risk for future technology integrations; and eliminate system migration, deployment, and upgrade costs.
• [New] Startup automaker Faraday Future will deploy the Orin platform in its flagship FF 91 EV (electric vehicle), with plans to achieve advanced highway autonomous driving capabilities and advanced parking and summon features when it goes on sale in 2022.
• [New] Agriculture Canada has received funding to improve the accuracy of crop-disease forecast models using the Disease Risk Tool.
• [New] The worldwide push to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require advances in green technologies - particularly tech associated with renewable energy - but simply waiting for future tools to emerge is not a viable solution to climate change.
• [New] The Apache Spark 3.0 libraries are accelerated using Nvidia's RAPIDS platform, which will dramatically accelerate much of the boring prep work required to bring new machine learning models into production.
• [New] Imagine that there is a startup that wants to offer speech to text processing using AI who uses GCP and discovers that now Google Cloud has a similar (and competing product) under its AI and Machine Learning product offering.
• [New] States' increasing use of cyber operations as a tool of national power, including increasing use by militaries around the world, raises the prospect of more destructive and disruptive cyber activity.
• [New] Hong Kong Digital Asset Exchange, the first digital asset exchange to combine both an online platform and a sizable physical store in Hong Kong, plans to launch a one-stop NFT (Non-Fungible Token) trading platform in the third quarter of 2021.
• [New] CNOOC sees minimal output hit from China oil field fire - China's state-controlled CNOOC expects a fire at one of its offshore platforms earlier this week to reduce crude production by around 600,000 bl in 2021.
• [New] Online marketplaces will be required to collect and remit RST on sales of taxable goods by third parties to customers in Manitoba made through their platforms; and.
• [New] Researchers hope to create a global, open-source data repository with information gathered from hydrophones across the planet to measure and document the effects of noise on the behaviour of sea life.
• [New] To further boost consumer confidence, the Civil Aviation Authority will be given additional enforcement powers to act on airlines that have breached consumer rights - with a dedicated consultation on how to use additional tools to enforce consumer rights expected later in 2021.
• Hyundai developed its ICCU to allow for bidirectional power conversion, meaning that vehicles based on the E-GMP platform will be able to use its hardware to output power to external accessories, appliances, and eventually even charge other electric vehicles requiring a bump in electron supply.
• Developers who use Qiskit to improve their algorithms will have access to test them on IBM's cloud-based quantum computing platform.
• Rather than replacing current computer architectures, IBM is betting that quantum computers will gain traction in the coming years by taking on very specific tasks that are offloaded from a classic computing system to a quantum platform.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned capital market operators to stop giving support to online investment trading platforms providing access to foreign securities in Nigeria.
• Further impacts will be felt by tech companies as business with DSR-aligned countries becomes more difficult due to cyber security concerns associated with China's digital platform.
• In response, the United States and its partners should build new models, grounded in the full range of armed group social media usage, if they hope to anticipate the future of malicious online activity by armed groups.

Last updated: 18 April 2021