If you want to see how dockless bike & scooter services are spreading across the country, this new, interactive map by Smart Cities Dive is a helpful resource: smartcitiesdive.com/news/mapping-t… Can view by company, city, device.

What's a moonshot? Hans Peter Brondmo, Google X's robotics project leader, explains at The Engine's Tough Tech Summit. #toughtech

Google X's Brondmo says organizations can encourage moonshots by creating a culture that supports audacity, hiring people who have a diversity of perspectives, and having good timing. Culture + people + timing #toughtech

Tech Review got an exclusive look at how UPS is using AI -- to forecast package volume & distribution and reroute shipments around snow. My story: technologyreview.com/s/612445/how-u…

UPS is also linking AI to the automated systems in its package-sorting facilities. These hockey puck-like "shoe sorters" push packages into distribution chutes, based on information from the package label. AI will issue those sort instructions starting next year.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off, here's a look at the infrastructure that will process all those packages: UPS uses this six-sided camera tunnel to scan shipping labels on packages -- even if they're face-down. (Related story: technologyreview.com/s/612445/how-u…)

Nice Engadget write-up of my latest story technologyreview.com/s/612477/compa…, which profiles companies planning to use 5G (instead of Wi-Fi or Ethernet) for #IoT and more.

What do you need to know about tech in China right now? Tech Review is publishing ~15 stories over the next 2 weeks that will help answer this question. Up today: an in-depth look at China's burgeoning AI chips industry, by Will Knight: technologyreview.com/s/612569/china…

Who's winning the race to launch 5G first -- the US or China? It depends how you define 5G -- and what you think qualifies as a commercial launch. I interviewed telecom analysts, equipment makers, and pundits in search of an answer: technologyreview.com/s/612617/china…

Some of the best #Business stories of 2018, with recommendations by Max Abelson, Elizabeth Woyke, Prashant Rao, Livia Gershon, Kevin Nguyen, Alissa Quart, Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎, @ethanchiel, and Catherine Cusick: longreads.com/2018/12/21/lon…

This Boston Innovation Guide is a really useful list of local startups, VC firms, accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, etc: bostoninnovationguide.com. Also lists Boston-based media. Thx The New England Venture Capital Association for including me.

Cities are utilizing AI to improve transportation, public safety, sustainability, & more. But what about privacy, ethics, & equity issues? That's the focus of this 2/11 Brookings Institution event: connect.brookings.edu/register-to-wa… (Register to watch webcast for free.) #SmartCities

I did an interview for @CGTNAmericas -- China Global Television Network (formerly CCTV America) -- about China and the US competing in the race to launch 5G. Interesting experience. america.cgtn.com/2019/02/18/hua…

.Elizabeth Woyke in Boston Globe Opinion: "Countries that deploy new mobile technologies early tend to reap such benefits, but access to skilled workers and venture capital, among other factors, will also determine who wins in the 5G era." bos.gl/EVWXXAO

Why the U.S./China race to launch 5G first is far more complicated than it seems: bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/0…. My op-ed for the The Boston Globe -- excited to be in today's newspaper!

Interested in the future of innovation in Massachusetts? Sign up here for a (free) April 22 conference on emerging tech in Boston, Cambridge & beyond: eventbrite.com/e/massforward-…. I'll be moderating the panel on transportation.

How can cities get autonomous vehicles to support rather than compete with public transit? I explain in my latest op-ed for the The Boston Globe:

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first cell phone call. I enjoyed talking to Tom Ough for this BBC story about smartphone history, apps, & future gadgets: bbc.com/future/article…

My publisher tells me Anthropic used my book (amazon.com/Smartphone-Ana…) to train (its AI assistant) Claude and I am part of the $1.5B authors settlement. (My actual share will be relatively small.) Interesting!

Roomba inventor Joe Jones wrote a book that he says covers "early MIT AI Lab days in the 1980s, through the robot's development at iRobot." Dancing with Roomba: Cracking the Robot Riddle and Building an Icon dancingwithroomba.com I have a 20% off code I can share.