#Innovation

Testing Begins on Driverless High-Speed Rail in Advance of 2022 Beijing Olympics

Although we're still years away from the 2022 Winter Games, China has already begun testing a driverless high-speed rail system that will...

Aim younger: logistics is going to need more than a million more employees

Logistics firms and their education advisors are now targeting children as young as 14 in an attempt to create more interest in the...

Elon Musk said he'll try to break the Hyperloop speed record 'soon'

The current Hyperloop speed record is 240 mph On Sunday, Elon Musk said on Twitter that he plans to test a Tesla and SpaceX-branded...

$127 Million Savannah Port Rail Hub Expected to Take 200,000 Trucks Off State’s Freeways

Across a highway from the gates to the Port of Savannah, crews have cleared trees and driven pilings into the sandy soil to support...

Editorial: Game of Drones

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering a plan to integrate drones across U.S. national airspace. Several large...

Public Trial of 'Last Mile' Pods Underway in London

The public will be able to ride in one of the driverless pods along a 2-kilometre route Members of the public are being invited to test a...

CERAWeek: Rick Perry Says Innovation, Not Regulation, Is ‘New Energy Realism’

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at CERAWeek by IHS Markit on March 7 in Houston. (Image: CERAWeek by IHS Markit) HOUSTON—If there...

Embroidering Electronics Into the Next Generation of ‘Smart’ Fabrics

Is an archaic sewing skill a key to connected, sensing, communicating fabrics of the future? Archaeology reveals that humans started...

GOP lawmakers derail high-speed train plans to Chicago

A pair of Republican state lawmakers have effectively derailed — at least for now — plans for so-called “high-speed” passenger train...

Texas bullet train proposal pits rural landowners against urbanites

About 100 miles north of Houston, the landscape is dotted with sprawling farms and remote ranches. But critics say parts of the region...