By Nikolas Kairinos Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses have been working remotely –- for better or for worse. Initially, many employees were overjoyed to wave farewell to the commute and welcomed the prospect of days at home, as well as the freedom to multitask. …

By Sabbir Rangwala Six LiDAR companies have gone public to date (starting in 2020) via SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) mergers. These include Velodyne, Luminar, Aeva, Innoviz, Ouster and Aeye. Two more (Quanergy and Cepton) are scheduled to do so later this year. SPAC mergers have been around for a…

By Sabbir Rangwala We live in a world full of data and imagery. With the invention of the camera in the late 1800s, entertainment, consumer, space, and medicine applications proliferated. The launch of the video camera in the early 1900s continued this revolution, and was accelerated by significant progress in…

By Nikolas Kairinos While the past 18 months or so have focused on providing business continuity in the midst of a crisis, the next year is set to bring another shift. As organizations around the world gear up to return the office — at least in a hybrid capacity —…

By Fountech Solutions THE DRIVERLESS CAR DEBATE. In 1896 the US state of Vermont passed a law, which would require: “all motorists piloting their ‘horseless carriages’, upon chance encounters with cattle or livestock” to: (1) immediately stop the vehicle, (2) “immediately and as rapidly as possible … disassemble the automobile”, and (3) “conceal the…

By Alex Bridgen If you’re a founder with a dream and you are trying to figure out how to make your vision real by raising early-stage funding, it’s safe to say the current ecosystem is extremely difficult to navigate, and unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be many people with a…

By Fountech Solutions IS THE ASSUMPTIVE USE OF NATURAL LANGUAGE IN SOFTWARE HINDERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Here’s a simple question. How many people reading this article, which you can see is written in the English language, will know what is the most popular book written and published in, say, Slovakian this year? It’s very likely that the only group of people who’d be…

By Fountech Solutions Today, businesses are under real pressure to innovate. In many cases, artificial intelligence (AI) will be the answer to a vast array of organizational needs, delivering quantifiable benefits to those that require them. However, not all companies will be so lucky. With so many vendors offering the…

By Sabbir Rangwala Networked devices are all around us. Some of them enable autonomy of things or AoT™. Increasingly, these devices are also providing a path for creating smarter and safer cities — where people, vehicles (horse carriages, cars, bicycles, scooters, pets, robots) and infrastructure interact in highly dynamic situations…