This week’s SD Times open-source project of the week is an IBM hackathon winning project that uses visual recognition to detect and count SOS icons on the ground from drone streams overhead to help first responders plot rescue actions. DroneAid was developed by developer Pedro Cruz after he witnessed Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and … continue reading
Drone, a continuous delivery solution provider, has announced that it is launching cloud native CI/CD for Google Cloud as well as Drone Autoscale for Google Cloud. Drone Autoscale will enable Google Cloud users to maximize their server capacity while minimizing costs. According to the company, customers have reported a 5x increase in build volume capacity … continue reading
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) continued in Las Vegas today, and while there was a clear interest in self-driving and autonomous cars, there was also still a fair share of drones, virtual reality, IoT and wearable technology to see. (Related: What happened at CES on day 1) Here are some of the most interesting and … continue reading
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) believe they can make drones safer, homes smarter and WiFi password-free with their newly developed system. The researchers have developed Chronos, a WiFi localizer system that users a single WiFi access point to pinpoint users within tens of centimeters. According to the researchers, current localization … continue reading
Watch out Amazon: There’s a new drone delivery service in town Google introduced a Google X project that may just give Amazon’s drones some competition. Project Wing is a “a new approach to delivery using self-flying vehicles,” Google wrote on its Google+ page. “Throughout history there has been a series of innovations that have each … continue reading
This week’s most popular projects feature Drone, Pageres, InstantClick and Godot … continue reading
