Original Source: http://bit.ly/1W9IWD6 Author: John Beltz Snyder PayScale’s survey of employees from top tech companies finds good news and bad. How do you decide whether a particular job or employer is good or bad, or rather worthwhile? A few obvious questions come to mind. Does the job pay well? What is the work environment like? Is itRead more
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Original Source: http://wapo.st/1U8z5OT By Matt McFarland March 1 Sitting cramped in coach on a long flight can be unbearable. And NASA feels your pain. The agency is funding early efforts to build a plane so fast it could whisk you to any city on the planet in six hours or less.NASA is giving Lockheed Martin aboutRead more
Original Source: http://on.wsj.com/24syGeQ For United Parcel Service, investment is an opportunity to observe a market in which it doesn’t yet compete A guest-services representative uses the Deliv app on an iPad at the Williams-Sonoma in Tysons Corner, Va. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES By GREG BENSINGER and LAURA STEVENS Updated Feb. 24, 2016 9:57 a.m. ET Same-day deliveryRead more
By Daniel Laury | Autonomous Driving, Transportation, Venture Capital | Comments are Closed | 7 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2016/01/29/self-driving-car-tech-mit-spinoff-nutonomy-receives-3-6m/ Some of Nutonomy’s team, which is split between Cambridge and Singapore. At an office in Kendall Square, an MIT spinoff called Nutonomy is working on technology that could very well power many of the self-driving cars we’ll start seeing in the next decade or so. Even a year after being co-founded by MITRead more
By Daniel Laury | Autonomous Driving, Energy, Transportation | Comments are Closed | 7 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/05/google-is-exploring-wireless-charging-for-self-driving-cars/ Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images Self-driving cars are poised to be an incredible tool of the future, but they won’t be much use if they can’t hold a charge. It looks like Google wants to solve this problem via resonant magnetic induction, a form of wireless charging that could use manhole-style transmitters embedded inRead more