Goodyear's new tires designed specifically for Starship Technologies' robots are already being used to make deliveries at Bowling Green State University.

Goodyear continues to roll on with its efforts to become much more than a traditional "Tire & Rubber Co."

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The education sector, like many others, has been shaken up by advancements in technology. The way students, graduates and employees learn and upskill has changed due to developments in online learning and tools, and this has become more prevalent in the last two years due to the pandemic.

However, the changes in the tech landscape have also impacted the skills that are most in-demand and in turn have expanded the courses and education options for those interested in a career in tech.

Australia and New York-based Smileyscope Holding Inc. (Smileyscope™) announced that the US Patent and Trade Office has awarded a patent for its innovative approach to synchronizing procedures with Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) stimuli. Smileyscope, a global pioneer in VR/AR digital therapeutics, merges evidence-based medicine with state-of-the-art technology, creating ground-breaking digital treatments that help patients manage pain, anxiety, and mental health.

THE SELF-DRIVING CAR has come to seem like an idea that’s always a few years away from reality. But perhaps we aren’t looking closely enough.

According to two women leading efforts to commercialize autonomous vehicles, the technology has well and truly arrived—and while it might be limited to certain niches for now, they believe it could become a lot more common in the next few years.

Jody Kelman oversees the autonomous driving division of the ride-sharing company Lyft, which has been testing self-driving taxis in Las Vegas since 2018.

The demand for data storage technologies stems from the need to efficiently and quickly process large data sets in critical applications such as Big Data, AI, and IoT. Over the years, data storage technologies have evolved on the back of advancements in the components used in storage devices and technologies.

The key factors driving the growth of the data storage industry are the developments across industries and government bodies with respect to digitalization; operations are also becoming data-centric processes.

A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active learning, a form of teaching that has had measurable success, often dies a slow death in the classroom.

The name you choose says a lot about your brand. It can tell potential customers who you are. It should be simple, yet intriguing. And your name needs to allow continuous growth, expansion and evolution. 

Because words have meaning and names have power, your name should be memorable and impactful. It should draw people in and make them want to learn more about your brand. It should tell a story that creates an instant emotional response in people - so make sure it's a positive one.

Seed capital is the initial funding that allows an ETF to launch and become available to investors. The seed capital is used to fund the creation units that underlie the ETF so the shares can then be offered and traded in the open market. 

Historically, most seed capital is provided by banks and broker-dealers, but many ETFs have been self-seeded as well. Self-seeded ETFs are generally funded with either new capital or with assets from separate accounts and other investment vehicles offered by the firm. 

Chief information officers have emerged as key players in their companies’ sustainability programs, leading efforts to unload power-hungry computer-processing applications to the cloud and roll out tech aimed at energy optimization and waste reduction.

Their influence within these programs may grow in 2022, as the relationship between digitization and carbon-based emissions becomes more evident. A 2020 study by the journal Science found that data centers accounted for roughly 1% of global energy use. CIOs see opportunities for innovation.

Image: Francesco Tinto, global CIO of Walgreens Boots Alliance. PHOTO: WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC.

In 1859, Abraham Lincoln noted that the patent system “… has secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of (an) invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius….”

President Lincoln knew what he was talking about. He’s the only U.S. president who received a patent, No. 6,469, in 1849.

And while others may have suggested it, Lincoln’s words need to be showcased somewhere (anywhere) at the Lincoln Memorial. Visitors to Lincoln’s Memorial should know that he cared about inventors, as well as preserving the Union.

US venture capital activity skyrocketed in 2021, rewriting the record books in nearly every category. The final figures are in, with $329.8 billion in capital invested and more than $177 billion in exits. For the first time, we’re releasing an early look at the eye-popping data from our upcoming PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, including high-level numbers on last year’s dealmaking, exits, fundraising, valuations and more. The full report, sponsored by Insperity, will be released next week.

According to most authoritative sources, the global economy has been severely impacted by the current pandemic. Yet if you wait for an economy bubble before starting your new business, you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich." In reality, what matters more is who you are, not when you do it.

How can you ensure that you achieve your definition of career success? The author offers five questions to ask yourself: 1) How fulfilled am I? 2) How am I learning and growing? 3) Am I headed in the right direction? 4) What seeds do I need to plant now? 5) What relationships do I need to build? Stepping back and asking yourself these questions will help you be more intentional in managing your career and will inform your planning and actions for the year ahead.

How long could it take for someone to test positive for COVID following an exposure to someone who had the virus?

It's a question many are asking following holiday gatherings amid surging omicron variant cases.

Testing demand continues to soar as the new year gets underway and some experts say the omicron variant has "sped up" timing for what many have come to know with COVID.

While silk is best known as a component in clothes and fabric, the material has plentiful uses, spanning biomedicine to environmental science. In Applied Physics Reviews, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Tufts University discuss the properties of silk and recent and future applications of the material.

Silk makes an important biomaterial, because it does not generate an immune response in humans and promotes the growth of cells. It has been used in drug delivery, and because the material is flexible and has favorable technological properties, it is ideal for wearable and implantable health monitoring sensors.

Intel subsidiary Mobileye plans to bring a new supercomputer to market designed to give passenger cars, trucks and SUVs autonomous driving powers.

The company introduced Tuesday at the 2022 CES tech trade show a new system-on-chip called EyeQ Ultra that is purpose-built for autonomous driving. The company said the first silicon for the EyeQ Ultra SoC, which is capable of 176 trillion operations per second (TOPS), is expected at the end of 2023 with full automotive grade production in 2025.

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Each year CES Innovation Awards highlight consumer tech products that promise to solve new and old problems alike. There are 26 categories from Accessibility and Fitness & Sports to Smart Home and Wearable Technologies. Here are a few products from the dozens of entries that stand out as something new or cool.

Image: AttnKare is a digital therapeutic for the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. Image: CES 2022

Imagine you’re working outside and accidentally cut your foot on a protruding stick you didn’t see. No big deal. You go inside and wash the wound, perhaps applying an antibiotic cream, and dress it in a bandage. Days and weeks, even months go by, however, and the wound just doesn’t want to seem to fully heal. Even the simplest of tasks such as walking becomes extremely painful, and just one wrong move reopens the wound.

I’ve seen it a hundred times. In coffee shops, by the water cooler and in networking events everywhere. An eager young entrepreneur attempts to impress a potential client with a lengthy monologue about their exotic experience. “I just can’t say enough good things about Bali,” they say, flipping out their phone and scrolling through an endless barrage of images. 

I get what they’re doing: They’re trying to foster connection. And what better way to build rapport than by making yourself appear more interesting and offering up a bevy of videos of your exciting escapade?

One of the great advantages of working for yourself is the freedom it gives you. When you’re a business owner, you get to make your own rules and set your own hours. Unfortunately, in today’s "always-on" culture, this can also mean that you get to suffer from crippling stress and exhaustion too. Between meeting clients’ needs at the highest levels and keeping up with the pressure of all the other day-to-day responsibilities of running a successful business, many entrepreneurs are increasingly suffering from burnout.