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Volvo says driver-facing cameras are key to cutting crashes

by Jack Stewart
Mar 21, 2019
The company is shifting its attention to accident prevention.
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UPS is using new technology to solve an old problem — delivering holiday packages on time

by Tasnim Shamma
Dec 21, 2018
UPS expects to deliver more than 800 million packages on time this holiday season with the help of new super hubs.
UPS employees sort out packages for delivery on May 9, 2017 in New York. This holiday season, "super hubs," like the one in Atlanta, will help the company deliver 800 million packages on time. Last year, 3 million were late.
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Why automation is a huge part of China's goal to remake its manufacturing industry

by Molly Wood and Jennifer Pak
Oct 4, 2018
China wants robots. Lots and lots of robots.
An employee monitors a circular weaving machine at a textile factory in Shangqiu in China's central Henan province in September.
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The most dangerous stage in self-driving innovation

by Molly Wood and Shaheen Ainpour
May 2, 2018
Self-driving cars are on the road now, but they need human supervision. Is that safe?
A driver presents a Cruising Chauffeur, a hands free self-driving system designed for motorways during a media event by Continental to showcase new automotive technologies on June 20, 2017 in Hannover, Germany. 
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If a wave of automation is coming, which countries are best prepared?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Apr 23, 2018
The U.S. rank might be a bit surprising.
A Sainsbury's employee checks an automated sorting area at Sainsbury's Waltham Point Depot on December 13, 2010 in Waltham Abbey, England.
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How to make technology work for you, not against you

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Apr 10, 2018
Former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker says we are not doing enough to meet the challenge and opportunity of automation.
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Most millennials think the U.S. should take care of people who lost jobs to automation

by Janet Nguyen and David Brancaccio
Mar 16, 2018
For many, even if that means raising taxes substantially.
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How Levi Strauss & Co. is using lasers to make jeans

by Kai Ryssdal and Josie Fan
Mar 7, 2018
Automation touches many consumer products — the cars we drive, the sneakers we put on and now the jeans we wear.  Levi Strauss & Co. is planning to swap out garment workers for laser machines that could create the worn look on a pair of jeans in less than two minutes. Suzanne Kapner, a reporter […]
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What happens when a new technology that is better for the environment also eliminates jobs?

by Emily Guerin
Feb 9, 2018
A union in California goes up against the rising tide of automation.
Longshoremen working on the ship COSCO Denmark at a non-automated terminal at the Port of Long Beach in 2010.
Photo courtesy of the Port of Long Beach
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Learning your ABCs in the future: reading, writing, coding and AI

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Oct 4, 2017
One AI pioneer said learning the basics of coding and AI could be key to income equality and opportunity in the future.
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