Amazon is UPS's biggest customer, and its biggest competitive threat
United Parcel Service (UPS) and its brown delivery trucks have ruled American streets for decades.
Apr 13, 2022
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Alternate delivery locations may be viable options to offset negative impacts of increased home deliveries
As the demand for home deliveries from online purchases continues to increase, problems like traffic congestion, parking violations, and air pollution from the delivery trucks also grow, particularly in dense, congested, ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Combining different organisms to convert non-recyclable plastic waste
What to do with the non-biodegradable plastics used in food packaging and agriculture? Researchers are turning their attention to microorganisms, enzymes, earthworms and insects to break down plastics.
Dec 2, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Machine learning improves biological image analysis
Scientists use super-resolution microscopy to study previously undiscovered cellular worlds, revealing nanometer-scale details inside cells. This method revolutionized light microscopy and earned its inventors the 2014 Nobel ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Robotics
Amazon applies for patent on secondary delivery vehicle to carry packages from truck to doorstep
Amazon Inc. has applied for a patent on a package delivery system that involves a primary vehicle for carrying packages destined for multiple drop-off points, and a secondary, much smaller, delivery vehicle that carries packages ...
Computer Sciences
Julia programming language tackles differential equation challenges
Emerging open-source programming language Julia is designed to be fast and easy to use.
Jun 22, 2021
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Smart algorithms make packaging of meat products more efficient
In supermarkets you can find a large variety of poultry products, all conveniently packaged in fixed-weight quantities. However, poultry processing plants face numerous challenges due to these fixed-weight batches, growing ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Engineering
Control system helps several drones team up to deliver heavy packages
Many parcel delivery drones of the future are expected to handle packages weighing five pounds or less, a restriction that would allow small, standardized UAVs to handle a large percentage of the deliveries now done by ground ...
Mar 23, 2021
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Swiss say Uber Eats must register as postal service provider
Swiss authorities say food delivery service Uber Eats counts as a postal service provider—and needs to be regulated as such.
Dec 17, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
DeepLabCut-Live! Real-time marker-less motion capture for animals
Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings," Thanos in the "Avengers," Snoke in "Star Wars," the Na'vi in "Avatar"—we have all experienced the wonders of motion-capture, a cinema technique that tracks an actor's movements and translates ...
Dec 9, 2020
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