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–   Following are list of players that are currently profiled in the report 3D Robotics, DroneDeploy, Phoenix Drone Services, PrecisionHawk, SenseFly, Pix4D, Aerobo, Cyber??hawk Innovations, Eagle-Eye Drone Service, Skylark Drones, Airware, FlyWorx
 
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2) What will the Drone-Powered Business Solutions industry market size be in 2029 and what will the growth rate be?
In 2021, the Global Drone-Powered Business Solutions Market size was xx million USD and it is expected to reach USD xx million by the end of 2029, with a CAGR of xx% during 2019-2029.
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We are excited to announce that Planet has entered into an agreement to acquire VanderSat, a leading provider of advanced earth data and analytics. Vandersat’s innovative products help customers better measure and understand water management and crop health in major markets. Planet intends to leverage VanderSat’s technologies and products in further pursuit of bringing to market next-generation solutions that combine the best of commercial and public satellite data to provide clear and actionable information to help industries, non-profits, and governments around the world.
VanderSat has world-class expertise in providing insights to customers by drawing from NASA, ESA and JAXA satellite data, and has built a suite of novel products that report on key conditions on the Earth’s surface, like soil moisture, land surface temperature, vegetation optical depth, and biomass. VanderSat’s unique algorithms deliver daily, global data products with great accuracy, unhindered by changing cloud-cover and atmospheric conditions. 
“VanderSat is a mission-driven company with the goal to serve one billion hectares of land in 2024. By joining Planet, our mission and impact will be dramatically accelerated and together, we aim to reach that goal in 2022,” said Dr. Thijs van Leeuwen, CEO of VanderSat.
“We’re thrilled to be welcoming the VanderSat team to Planet. We expect VanderSat’s analytics and industry expertise will help Planet provide solutions ‘up the stack’ to bridge the gap from complex remote-sensing science to products that offer improved data to the ecosystem and our customers. And when one combines their new data with Planet’s, the value is far greater than the sum of its parts,” said Will Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder of Planet. “We believe VanderSat’s products will add value in Planet’s core verticals of agriculture, and civil government, and will help us open up to others such as insurance and banking, to help grow our business.”
At Planet, one of our goals is to bridge the gap between real-world problems and the complexity of remote-sensing science. VanderSat is another step towards that goal with their advanced analytics. We believe their products will accelerate and expand our position in one of our most important verticals – agriculture – and help mature our offerings for others such as insurance, civil government, and finance. For example, easier-to-consume data can enable modeling to help financial institutions and insurers quantify climate impacts on water availability and crop production.
Adding VanderSat’s unique, all-weather data products to Planet’s high-cadence and high-resolution global monitoring will bring even greater value to users in agriculture, civil government and insurance by providing them with richer insights and more precise measurements. Plus, Planet’s unique platform and integrations will make these products more accessible than ever before. 
Continue reading: https://www.suasnews.com/2021/11/planet-to-acquire-vandersat-to-deliver-advanced-agriculture-data-products-to-customers/

On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 10:00am ET, Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04), the Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, held a hearing titled “Our Changing Economy: The Economic Effects of Technological Innovation, Automation and the Future of Work,” to look at the impact that technology like drones, robots, and technology advances in automation and digitization will have on the American economy and workers nationwide.  Will automation create jobs, or more unemployment and wage stagnation?
It’s not a new problem, and since Part 107 regularized the commercial use of drones, many opponents to the new advancements like drone delivery, warehousing, inspections, and more have cited job losses as a major concern.
It’s a fair point.
Will automation create new jobs, or create unemployment?
Professor Daron Acemoglu, MIT Institute Professor, points out that job losses due from automation tend to have an outsized impact on people with lower levels of education, and those already disadvantaged.  This is not, however, a new development: “Automation is not a recent phenomenon. The beginning of the British Industrial Revolution was marked by rapid advances in automation technologies in the textile industry, and automation played a major role in American industrialization during the 19th century,” he says in written testimony.
Continue reading: https://dronelife.com/2021/11/11/drones-robots-and-more-will-automation-create-jobs-or-unemployment/

Thirty-eight percent of women in the tech industry are planning on leaving their jobs in the next two years, according to a new survey. 
The report from business management consulting firm New View Strategies, out Nov. 4, found that womens' experience with gender inequality in the workplace, as well as with the pandemic, is impacting their career trajectories. 
Twenty-seven percent said they felt less optimistic about their careers than before COVID-19 hit. Fifty-two percent said their workload had increased since the pandemic began. 
"The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone's lives over the last year and a half, including women who work in the tech field," the report said. 
Continue reading: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/more-than-a-quarter-of-women-in-tech-eyeing-the-exit-in-next-two-years/ar-AAQDURB?li=BBnbcA1

Chemistry had been her favorite class in high school. She’d done well in it, too. She was excited by the ways in which chemicals conspire to create life. And whenever she would picture her future self, it was in a lab coat and goggles.
So when she arrived at Utah State University in 2009, chemistry was the major she wanted to pursue.
By 2010, though, she was majoring in nutrition science. Her love for chemistry had been relegated to a minor.
She’s not alone. Women make up a majority of students at Utah State — but a minority of those earning science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees. Female professors and students in STEM say it wouldn’t be that way if women were allowed to have the same unearned confidence that so many men have.
Sexism in STEM programs isn’t as prevalent as it used to be. “It seems like the men are very accepting and anxious to work with the women,” explained Vicki Allan, a computer science professor at USU.
So why aren’t more women majoring in STEM programs?
“What happens is if a guy is getting a C, they just go, ‘I don’t care, I love my major and I’m staying in it.’ If a woman is getting a C, they’re going, ‘Oh, everyone told me I couldn’t do this, I guess I can’t,’” Allan said.
According to Allan women often self-select so only the ones who get high grades stay in the program. She believes that women are self-selecting for failure — likely because of what they’ve heard about their chances for success.
Continue reading: https://usustatesman.com/the-long-term-effects-of-sexism-on-women-in-stem/

THERE’S A WELL-KNOWN story among surveillance studies scholars and students of Black innovation: that of Marie Van Brittan Brown, a Black woman from Jamaica, Queens, New York who is now recognized as having invented the home security system in 1966. Brown worked long hours as a nurse and often came home late at night. Her husband also worked “irregular hours,” and Brown worried about who might knock on her door if she were home alone at night. Similar versions of Brown’s story can be found at the MIT Lemelson Center and all around the internet, including on Wikipedia, the African American history site Blackpast, and the history site Timeline. It’s understandable that attention would be paid to Brown’s pioneering work as a Black woman inventor whose contribution has rightly been cited in the development of subsequent home security systems and as the origin point for a massive industry.
Brown’s inventor origin story is quite different from that of a similar technology’s creator—Jamie Siminoff, founder of DoorBot, which eventually became the Ring Doorbell. Siminoff started DoorBot in a garage in 2012, after he grew annoyed by people constantly ringing his doorbell. “I was like, how the fuck can there not be a doorbell that goes to your phone?” Siminoff told Digital Trends. As Caroline Haskins wrote in Vice, “DoorBot was thus posed as an answer to a question perhaps only he had ever asked.” Indeed, Brown’s patent is cited in Siminoff’s patent.
Continue reading: https://www.wired.com/story/black-inventor-home-security-system-surveillance/

A lot gets said about the Internet of Things (IoT). It is burdened with the responsibility of solving many issues, and although not every claim is reasonable, one certainly is. IoT can improve the efficiency of rail travel, and the customer experience of all those who use it. 
This will be particularly important as the rail industry prepares for the extensive new regulations coming into play – namely the Service Quality Regimes (SQRs). Here are five ways I believe that IoT can improve rail travel.

1. Combat overcrowding
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   Over-crowding is not just unpleasant, it is also dangerous – particularly in tight spaces, bottlenecks, and during a pandemic.
   IoT can be used to monitor passenger density through video analytics and the tactical use of sensors throughout the station. Combined with cameras, which will probably already be in use, crowding can be spotted live, and something can be done about it. For example, staff can usher busy commuters down the platform or open extra ticket gates.
   Continue reading: https://www.railway-technology.com/features/5-ways-the-internet-of-things-can-improve-rail-travel/

There has been an increased usage of drones — also known as unmanned aerial vehicles — in various sectors. The increased uptake of drones by different businesses will assist those businesses attain a competitive advantage.
Drones are aircraft that can be controlled remotely by an authorized person to enable them fly independently. Drones have several advantages to businesses and this is the reason they have diverse usage.
Drones have been used to access areas which are difficult or risky for direct human access. Some examples include archeological sites and even construction sites. Drones have been deployed to capture data in archeological sites. Drones have been deployed in real estate developments where aerial views are made.
Similarly, drones have been used in filming and journalism. Usage of drones for filming has been made much easier by deployment of drones.
Continue reading: https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/lifestyle/society/legal-challenges-use-of-drones-3619368

The government of India recently introduced an online airspace map for drones, which is available on the DigitalSky website, to help citizens know where they can fly their drones and what paperwork is required to fly drones in certain areas. As part of the “liberalized Drone Rules, 2021”, the DigitalSky platform, developed and hosted by Happiest Minds Technologies, is primarily meant for providing information and registering new drones manufacturers and operators in India. Having said that, the company informed that it is technologically capable of aiding law enforcement agencies in spotting rogue drones or drones that are flying without registration on a real-time basis.
Aurobindo Nanda, president-- Operations & Deputy Chief Executive Officer, PES at Happiest Minds in conversation with The Times of India--GadgetsNow said, “Right now we are providing the technology required for registration of drones and operators along with the other aspect of DigitalSky platform. We are working as per the guidelines of the government and we are delivering what the government and we are delivering what the government wants from us. We are technologically capable to provide better support and more digital help to the government if demanded in future.”
Continue reading: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/we-have-the-tech-capability-to-spot-rogue-drones-says-happiest-minds-after-delivering-indias-first-airspace-map-for-drones/articleshow/87713199.cms

Highly capable connected technology has emerged in recent years and is on track to disrupt the traditional pharmaceutical industry. A smart contract is a tool that automatically executes the agreed upon terms, while simultaneously facilitating business and decreasing risk. Promising increased accuracy, transparency, and security, smart contracts and blockchain technology are the next steps in the evolution of secure data transaction. Companies in the pharmaceutical industry, and their supply chains, will be forced to adapt their operations to keep up with these generational changes in order to competitively deliver services and treatments in the future.
Currently, serialization and track and trace requirements are the predominant industry practices, but their execution is manual and disjointed.1 In addition, the ability to confirm a medicine’s end-to-end provenance is becoming an increasingly important aspect of delivering medicines in a safe and trusted manner. With the deployment of distributed ledgers and blockchain technology, these capabilities are simplified and can operate with a higher level of precision.
A distributed ledger technology (DLT), or blockchain, is protected by cryptography. A network of nodes maintains the ledger of information without complete trust between other nodes. As long as a majority of the nodes confirm the entries (“blocks”), then the entry can be posted to the ledger (“chain”) as mandated by the governing rules, and the information will be posted and stored on the blockchain as trusted and reliable.1
Continue reading: https://www.bioprocessonline.com/doc/demystifying-blockchain-supported-smart-contracts-0001

Since their earliest manifestations, cities have been vital to our collective future. Cities are engines of commerce, thought, culture, and innovation. Even during the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, cities have demonstrated their persistence and pushed humanity forward with critical leadership on the pressing issues facing the world. We need cities more than ever, to solve the challenges of climate change, globalized trade, and political stagnation. The best way to ensure that cities are up to the task is to bolster self-governance efforts. Blockchain technology is an ideal and underutilized tool to accomplish this task.    
The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, published a stimulating thought piece this month outlining how he believes blockchain technology and cryptocurrency can aid the development of cities and encourage better self-government. Blockchains enable innovative governance, Buterin argues, by securing information. This isn’t limited to the straightforward storing of residents’ data but can aid in more efficient tax collection, allocation of resources, and crisis management. Using the example of Harberger taxes and other zoning mechanisms, Buterin shows how blockchains can fundamentally transform how cities function. The more efficient and trustworthy a city handles the heavy lifting of capital management, the better its self-governance will become. Better self-governance stimulates economic benefits across society and in the global economy.
Continue reading: https://www.timesnownews.com/columns/article/how-blockchain-technology-can-unlock-the-ultimate-potential-of-our-cities/831939

News that two teams of Chinese scientists have achieved quantum advantage — a technical term for when a computer can perform functions beyond that of a classical computer — may be the signal that we have truly entered a new era. While Google’s 54-qubit quantum processor, Sycamore, became the first widely known example of early-stage quantum computing, the latest news out of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei is the best proof yet that we have crossed the information rubicon.
But despite many reasons to be excited by these developments, there are reasons to be concerned, too. While we might all eagerly await the day when we can predict traffic jams, consign animal testing to the history books, or pinpoint someone’s likelihood of getting cancer and then engineer a unique treatment — all in seconds — its tremendous power has a dark side.
Perhaps most terrifying for a society so reliant on the internet, quantum-level computing puts all of our digital infrastructures at risk. Our contemporary internet is built on cryptography — the use of codes and keys to secure private communication and storage of data. But for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), for whom this concept is fundamental, one sufficiently powerful quantum computer could mean the theft of billions of dollars of value or the destruction of an entire blockchain altogether. With digital signatures suddenly easily forgeable, the very concept of wallet “ownership” will seem quaint.
Continue reading: https://cointelegraph.com/news/without-quantum-security-our-blockchain-future-is-uncertain

If you work in tech, law, business, finance or a related area, blockchain should be on your radar. It is changing and will change many services you use – both related to your professional life, as well as to your personal one. Like other transformative technologies that have emerged it will require you to get up to speed on how it affects your profession – yet, unlike other technologies that preceded it, blockchain will not only require that you get up to speed from the perspective of your discipline but also gain literacy in the peripheral disciplines.
Smart contracts will allow for you to enter into digital agreements that are tamper-proof and automatically execute, guaranteeing your interests – as well as the other parties – as long as the smart contract is correctly programmed. How would you know if the smart contract is correctly protecting your interests? While many tools are being developed to allow for non-programmers to both read and write smart contracts, the smart contract domain is still very focused around software developers. Will everyone be required to become a developer to interact with smart contracts? Most definitely not, but professionals will be required to be smart contract-literate. Tools will undoubtedly continue to be developed to enable for non-programmers to interact with smart contracts in the future – yet, even with such tools literacy to be able to reason about encoded logic will be required. Becoming smart contract-literate will become vital.
Continue reading: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/blockchain-the-need-for-tech-law-business-and-finance.914925

In today’s world, almost everyone is familiar with the term called blockchain technology, especially those who invest in cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technology is a new alternative to traditional currency, transaction methods, and centralized banking. This advanced technology is changing the way how people handle financial transactions.
The ability of the technology to share data in a fast, secure way among entities – without any one entity having to take responsibility for safeguarding the data or facilitating the transactions is providing multiple advantages to businesses – whether they are using a public blockchain network or opting for private or permission blockchain-based applications.
Here are the top five applications for blockchain technology in your business:
Smart Contracts
In 1993, the term ‘smart contract’ was introduced, but it made the headlines after the release of the Ethereum Project in 2013. The Project is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that can automate many different processes and operations, the most common being payments and actionable conditions on payment. Businesses utilize smart contracts to bypass a web of complex regulations and lower the expenses for some of the most common financial transactions.
Continue reading: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/five-applications-of-blockchain-technology-in-your-business/

Know about the importance of AI, Automation, Data Security, and skills in schools
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is rapidly changing how businesses operate around the world. The practical, efficient, and organizational benefits of artificial intelligence cannot be ignored, especially when it comes to the industries that deal with complex numbers such as accounting.
Today, artificial intelligence applications are so good when tasked with specific functions. They actually perform better than humans in most cases. For instance, businesses are using AI to extract data from their client contracts to see if it meets their requirements and complies with different agreed standards. 
These are tasks that are normally handled by accountants with a CPA (Certified Public Accountants) qualification. These accountants spent a considerable amount of time in business and accounting schools to gain the required qualifications. They also have to gain enough working experience before working for top businesses.
That notwithstanding, and with the recent disruption of the accounting industry by artificial intelligence, business and accounting schools need to introduce AI in their curriculum. Before accountants graduate, they need to have learned a number of things about AI, among them;
Continue reading: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/what-business-accounting-schools-should-teach-about-ai/

Before we try to explain how automation and artificial intelligence can integrate productively, it might help to define their differences.  Many people no doubt confuse the two, and that isn’t helped by the way the media often conflates the two.
First off, “automation” involves the application of technologies for carrying out processes with minimal human intervention. Robotics and software are forms of automation, but they don’t necessarily include AI.
Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence by machines. Some see “artificial intelligence” as a monolith, but it’s really a catch-all term for several different capabilities.
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), for instance, is highly specialized, like a chess program that can beat a human being but will never be able to operate a light switch. There are good examples of ANI now available for commercial usage in natural language processing and machine learning. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is “strong” AI, like IBM’s Blue Brain project that simulated—but still in a limited way—human problem-solving and learning processes. Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is the Ultron or HAL 9000-level stuff of movie nightmares, which doesn’t yet exist, and no one yet knows if it will.
Continue reading: https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/11/14/artificial-intelligence-automation/

With the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the workplace, the debate about the future of work, workers, and the workplace has intensified. The polarized nature of debate ranges from job losses versus new-technology job creation through performance efficiency versus performance effectiveness to liberating humans from drudgery versus being controlled by machines. While several other polarities are evident in this debate, the truth always lies somewhere in between. In addition, there are other dark-side debates in the field about ethical, legal, and moral issues in the design and implementation of AI technologies for work and society.
While popular discourse presents AI as a new phenomenon, the development of AI as an academic discipline dates back to 1956. Since then, the computational power has increased exponentially, and various new AI technologies have been developed for delivering a range of social, business, and workplace applications. The rise of expert systems in the 1980s, followed by the increasing integration of various knowledge-based systems, saw the growing adoption of intelligent agents for a range of activities. The foundational efforts employing multidisciplinary lenses from maths, science, psychology, and economics led to increased use of machine learning, deep learning, and big data, and artificial general intelligence to develop a range of developments in AI-enabled applications for the workplace. 
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminlaker/2021/11/14/embedding-artificial-intelligence-at-work-from-efficiency-gains-to-employee-experience/?sh=52ff1b16d6f8

• A growing number of female artists, investors and collectors are embracing cryptocurrency and NFTs, and bridging the gender gap.
• More than two-thirds of US cryptocurrency investors are men, and about 60% are white - a gender gap that is wider than in other financial investments.
• A physical version of an NFT from Boss Beauties, a collection of 10,000 NFT portraits of women, was displayed at the New York Stock Exchange last month.

As an artist and women's rights activist, Maliha Abidi is adept at using digital technologies, so when she came across non-fungible tokens she quickly figured they could be a way to reach more people, and for women artists to gain a bigger following.
Abidi, 25, who was born in Pakistan and migrated to the United States as a teenager, created her first NFT a few months ago - a type of asset which uses blockchain to record ownership of digital items such as images, videos and collectibles.
The U.K.-based activist is about to launch Women Rise, a campaign to bring 100,000 girls and women into cryptocurrency by the end of 2022.
Continue reading: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/crypto-nft-women-cryptocurrency-space-blockchain-world/

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the potential to connect up billions of devices around the globe with infrastructure that link directly to enterprise systems. Connecting up sensors to monitor all kinds of equipment across the IoT gives tremendous advantages in providing data about smart buildings, smart cities, tracking, monitoring and utilities. With this data, machine learning can provide key insights into the operation of all kinds of systems, optimising their performance and even predicting when they will need maintenance.
Over 75 billion IoT devices are expected to come online by 2025 according to market research firm Statista. However, many of these are in rural or remote locations that lack traditional connectivity networks.
One of the key technologies for connecting up these devices is low power wide area networking (LPWAN). These networks operate in the sub-GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands at 868MHz in Europe and 915MHz in North America. These frequencies allow long distance connections, often several kilometres, to connect smart sensor nodes to a gateway. This gateway can feed the data back into the internet and enterprise systems to enable detailed analysis elsewhere in the world.
One of the leading LPWAN technologies is Semtech’s LoRa devices. This was developed in 2009 with a specific modulation called chirp spread spectrum (CSS) that has a high level of immunity to noise to achieve both low power and long-range capability. LoRa can support low power transmission of data at rates up to 50 Kbit/s, although data rates of 1kbit/s to 5kbit/s are the norm to extend the battery life.
Using this protocol enables battery life of up to 10 years, removing the need for costly replacements and cutting OPEX costs, making the deployment of smart sensor networks at scale possible. The low power of the transceiver chips means smart sensors can also be powered by energy harvested from the environment via solar panels or even from the surrounding RF radio waves.
Continue reading: https://www.information-age.com/what-is-lorawan-why-is-it-taking-over-internet-of-things-123497659/

With users becoming increasingly concerned about cybersecurity, it’s no surprise that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have taken measures to protect their users from cyber threats. Several organizations have already had significant data breaches this year, including CNA Financial and Acer. An active exploit of four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server resulted in a mass cyberattack that affected millions of Microsoft clients worldwide. Among the companies affected by the attack are over 60,000 private companies in the US alone. Considering the demand for cybersecurity measures, and what happens when they fail, here’s how Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have worked to compete against the threat.
Amazon
Compared to some of the other big tech brands, Amazon has had markedly fewer problems with data breaches. They have taken steps specifically to secure their cloud services and smart speakers.
Amazon’s Approach to Cybersecurity
The company’s cybersecurity and data protection efforts go beyond their own users’ data. They also include Amazon Web Services (AWS) and smart home security. Cloud computing, database storage, and other functions are the focus of AWS, a division of Amazon. Enterprise-level AWS clients include Netflix, Expedia, and NASA. Many high-profile security breaches were caused by incorrect AWS configurations, including Accenture, Uber, and Time Warner.
In response, Amazon is no longer relying entirely on its clients to secure their data following these errors. Amazon has worked to enhance AWS’ user interface and control access. As part of their compliance efforts, they have deployed GuardDuty, a threat detection service. In addition, Amazon has launched a machine learning-based security service, Amazon Macie, for AWS. AWS users can also utilize Amazon’s management of encrypted data storage patent. Businesses in sectors such as finance, medicine, and hospitality – where ensuring user privacy is crucial – find this to be particularly useful.
When it comes to Alexa’s cybersecurity, Amazon has taken steps to ease users’ concerns, including providing more detailed information about when users are being recorded, how data is used, and how to delete recorded data. A tougher app review process for Alexa devices has been implemented by Amazon, and information transmitted between Amazon’s devices and Echo devices is now encrypted.
Google
Two breaches were reported around Google+ in 2018. While Google+ was already shutting down due to low engagement rates and the recent data breaches, the service was forced to close early. As well as better audits, Google is also working to improve cybersecurity measures, especially for enterprises.
Continue reading: https://www.iotforall.com/how-do-amazon-google-and-microsoft-fight-cyber-threats

Women are sending a message and they are sending it with their feet. In 2020 alone, 2.5 million women chose to leave the workforce, on top of the 5.4 million women that lost their jobs during the pandemic. The stats are heartbreaking for many of us who were applauding the fact that women were participating in the workforce in record numbers just prior to the pandemic. Even if women still were not earning as much as men, the future seemed optimistic.
So, what is going to bring them back? We know childcare, flexible work schedules, and the ability to work from home are top of mind for working women. But in addition to these benefits, employers also need to focus on education, which takes the form of career planning, investments in learning and development, and customized training for the most lucrative and in-demand jobs of the future.
If this seems like a daunting task, there is one fool-proof place to start: Employer-provided education and tuition assistance benefits. These kinds of offerings provide opportunities for female employees that will propel them into the roles of the future where they are currently underrepresented, like data science, software development, and engineering. Women hold 56% of college degrees overall, but just 36% of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degrees, and compose only 25% of the STEM workforce, according to the World Economic Forum.
Investment in education is going to be essential for women if they are to have a role in the future workforce. For one thing, research has shown that the future of automation and advances in digital technology will disproportionately affect women, a segment of the workforce that is overrepresented in roles that are highly vulnerable to automation, including clerical roles like back office and administrative staff, customer service and call center jobs, and frontline service jobs.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that 11% of jobs currently held by women (a higher percentage than jobs held by men) are at risk of elimination due to artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies.
Without a doubt, women are exceptionally vital to our workforce. History tells us that when more women participate in the workforce, economies tend to grow. For organizations, recruiting and retaining female employees is not just about contributing to a diverse and equitable workforce, but building a workforce that reflects the fabric of our country and setting companies up to compete on a global level.
So, what can organizations do to promote the women in their existing workforce into high-paying careers and roles that will allow them continued success in the future? Below are four actionable ways to ensure female employees have the same access to education opportunities that will help grow their careers as men:

• Remove cost barriers: According to EdAssisst Solution’s recent study of working adults, women have reported financial barriers as one of the most significant barriers to participation in education programs. Employers can help relieve employees of cost concerns by removing the need to pay upfront by paying the school directly, and perhaps even covering some or all of the program costs. T-Mobile, for example, covers 100% of tuition, fees, and books for employees, in addition to pre-paying tuition upfront, leaving employees with no out-of-pocket costs. As a result, the company has seen a 92% retention rate for education program users.
• Offer short, non-degree options to remove time constraints: Providing a variety of programs for employees to choose from—such as boot camps, and professional certifications—will be key to the educational success of employees strapped for time. Raytheon Technologies recently expanded its education benefits program to include non-degree offerings for non-credit bearing certificates, certifications and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The program has proven successful among employees, with a 6% utilization rate in the U.S. and Canada across the organization.

Continue reading: https://www.fastcompany.com/90695034/your-female-workers-have-many-reasons-to-move-on-heres-what-may-convince-them-to-stay

Usually when we think of multicopter drones, we picture aircraft with four or more rotors. The V40 agricultural drone takes a different approach, using two tilting two rotors in an effort to improve range and spraying efficiency.
Manufactured by Chinese company XAG, the modular V40 comes with a 16-liter (4.2-gal) liquid tank for herbicide/pesticide, a 25-liter (6.6-gal) granular container for seeds, and it has two folding arms – each of those arms has one rotor (a set of two rotor blades) on top, and a spray nozzle on the bottom.
Regular multicopter drones are able to move forwards, backwards, left and right by varying the distribution of thrust between their four or more fixed-angle rotors. The V40 only has the two rotors, but it gets around that limitation by being able to electronically tilt them fore and aft relative to the arms.
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On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 10:00am ET, Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04), the Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, held a hearing titled “Our Changing Economy: The Economic Effects of Technological Innovation, Automation and the Future of Work,” to look at the impact that technology like drones, robots, and technology advances in automation and digitization will have on the American economy and workers nationwide.  Will automation create jobs, or more unemployment and wage stagnation?
It’s not a new problem, and since Part 107 regularized the commercial use of drones, many opponents to the new advancements like drone delivery, warehousing, inspections, and more have cited job losses as a major concern.
It’s a fair point.
Will automation create new jobs, or create unemployment?
Professor Daron Acemoglu, MIT Institute Professor, points out that job losses due from automation tend to have an outsized impact on people with lower levels of education, and those already disadvantaged.  This is not, however, a new development: “Automation is not a recent phenomenon. The beginning of the British Industrial Revolution was marked by rapid advances in automation technologies in the textile industry, and automation played a major role in American industrialization during the 19th century,” he says in written testimony.
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There are a lot of good reasons why uncrewed aerial vehicles (i.e., UAVs or drones) do not fly near, let alone contact, structures such as buildings, trees, or vehicles: it is very dangerous. In addition to environmental variables such as wind and barometric pressure creating difficult flight conditions, a host of technical issues, such as magnetic, electrical, and radio frequency interference, can also negatively impact drone flights.
For successful operations, UAV pilots need to recognize that a drone is a tool and, like any tool, is best suited for its intended use. No one should fly near, nor try to contact a surface or structure unless the drone has been designed for that type of use or specific use case. As business use cases and opportunities for drones and other UAVs increase, here are some things for drone service providers (both new and seasoned) to remember when it comes to flying safely.
Location, Direction, and Elevation Are Keys to Success
To fly a drone safely there are three primary indicators that any drone needs to know in real-time in flight: location, or where it is in the world; direction, or where it is headed; and altitude, or how far is it from the ground.

• Location. Typically, the drone uses the onboard Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver to determine its exact spatial location. However, in many industrial locations or environments, such as above-ground storage tanks or large cargo ships, satellite signals may not be fully received and result in degraded or denied GPS coordinates.
• Direction. The magnetic compass onboard the drone is used to find north, which allows the drone to know its heading and directional orientation. However, in some environments, such as near large metal steel objects, compass readings can be inaccurate or unavailable.
• Elevation. Drones, like commercial aircraft, use barometric pressure to determine distance from the ground. However, when in close proximity to structures barometric readings are often skewed or incorrect.

When any of these three information flows to the UAV autopilot fails, either partially or completely, there is potential for loss of control of the aircraft. Degradation or false information and data flowing to the autopilot, navigation controls, motors, or any other subsystem is dangerous.
Solving For Compromised Flight Data
It’s possible to overcome some of these issues by building a Faraday cage or shield around some of the drone’s electronics. A Faraday cage is a grounded metal cover or screen surrounding a piece of equipment to exclude electrostatic and electromagnetic influences. This is particularly helpful, for example, for companies that complete close visual inspection of live powerlines on power transmission towers.
Another more complex solution involves designed and manufactured systems of a robotic arm/rod that protrudes from the drone body past the propellers, with a probe tip that makes physical contact with a surface, known in the robotics world as an end-effector. To enable the system to make physical contact with structures during flight they use a multimodal array of various sensors, an onboard computer, and a set of complex integrations, including a lot of software, to allow automated precision flight control close to structures. These systems flights make 20 or more micro adjustments to the flight per second, impossible for human pilots to replicate.
Continue reading: https://connect.comptia.org/blog/flying-safe-how-to-operate-drones-near-buildings-and-other-structures

Today’s woman in Tech: Weili Dai, Co-Founder and Chairwoman of MeetKai
Chinese-born American businesswoman, Weili Dai is the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of MeetKai, the first gender-less AI and personalized Conversational Search company. She is also the Co-Founder, former Director, and former President of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful entrepreneur and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. As of 2021, she is America’s 21st Richest Self-Made Woman according to a ranking by Forbes. She has been profiled by CNN International for the Leading Women Innovator Series and recognized by Forbes as one of “The World’s Most Powerful Women”, among many other recognitions. Dai was born in Shanghai, China, where she played semi-professional basketball before moving to the US at the age of 17. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
When did you become interested in technology?
It all started at school. As a little girl, I loved science and math, learning the mechanics of things and the reason behind everything. Curiosity is a powerful thing. That’s how technology became a passion very early on, and I knew I had to follow it through college, where I chose to major in Computer Science.
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