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I have to admit, I've paid very little attention to all the buzz surrounding bitcoin these past few years. I'm fairly conservative when it comes to banking (for example, I'm still not comfortable "depositing" checks using my smartphone), so using a new digital currency, or "fake money" as my wife ca
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Stratfor
Technology has always been the way to offset high labor costs in the developed world. Moving toward driverless trucks is the next big step in that direction for supply chains. More broadly, however, the developed world is advancing to where technology can prevent the export of jobs in manufacturing to other countries where people still do them.
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Forbes
The last mile is often the most inefficient and costly part of getting online purchases into the hands of the consumers who ordered them. With expectation on the rise, retailers are exploring all sorts of new opportunities to ensure more seamless processes. Here are three disrupter technology companies.
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a16z
Stream a16z Podcast: Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops by a16z from desktop or your mobile device
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New York Times
The retailer is testing flying drones to handle inventory at its warehouses. The machines could help catalog in a day what now takes employees about a month.
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DC Velocity
UPS Inc. is in the process of fully automating its 30 busiest U.S. package and delivery hubs, a four-year program that will yield 20 to 25 percent in productivity
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Fortune
Domino's Pizza demonstrated what it hopes to be the world's first commercial drone delivery service on Thursday.
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VICE
What’s happened inside warehouses since Amazon bought a fleet of robots in 2012?
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Next Big Future
A few million self driving cars and trucks should be on the road by 2022. Afterwards a few million per year will be added with self driving car conversion
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MIT Technology Review
Do not let the breathless predictions and gimmick-laden pilot tests by large tech companies fool you: drone deliveries are still a ways off. We wrote in March that drone delivery will be a long time coming. And even though federal rules released since then allow the use of drones for commercial activities, there are major…
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ArsTechnica
Such drones will soon be "as normal as seeing a delivery truck."
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YouTube - JLL
What does advancing technology mean for the future of industrial real estate? Watch the video to hear JLL experts give their views how automation is changing...
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VICE - Motherboard
The experimental program will cover a nine mile route.
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CNBC
Amazon described plans for an "airborne fulfillment center" such as an airship that would float at an altitude of around 45,000 and contain items.
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Engadget
try{document.getElementById("aol-cms-player-1").style.display="none";}catch(e){}The infrastructure to support traditional deliveries has been strained ever since the growth in online orders. What's more, the projected growth will exceed anything UPS, FedEx and the like can currently support. Because of that, companies like Amazon have been working on both an air-drop solution using drones to auton
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KSL
Self-driving cars are the hot topic, but self-driving trucks could help fulfill a shortage of truck drivers or take away their jobs entirely. Let's take a look at how self-driving technology works and how it will affect the moving industry.
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CNBC
Chinese e-commerce retailer JD.com, one of the country's largest online shopping sites, is building 150 drone delivery operation sites in Sichuan province
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Wall Street Journal
Chinese e-commerce provider JD.com said Monday it is developing heavy-duty drones capable of delivering payloads weighing one ton or more, which it plans to deploy in Shaanxi.
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Retail Dive
Retail industry news, voices and jobs. Optimized for your mobile phone.
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The Next Web
Micro-weather data may soon become a reality—and a necessity for future fleets of delivery drones.
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Inverse
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The Guardian
Warehouse will be third in north-west and will be next-generation facility with staff working alongside robots
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YouTube - Vox
What’s the environmental impact of online shopping and what are the solutions to make it more sustainable? Climate Lab is produced by the University of Calif...
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IEEE Spectrum
Startup Natilus’s prototype aims to complete its first water trials, with flight tests to follow
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Reuters
The world's largest container shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk is teaming up with IBM to create an industry-wide trading platform it says can speed up trade and save billions of dollars.
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Stratfor
As the global shipping industry recovers from a decadelong crunch, the sector's ability to steer through powerful geopolitical winds will determine how successful its recovery will be.
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YouTube - Tech Insider
Celluveyor is an omnidirectional conveyor belt that consists of small hexagonal cells capable of moving products in any direction. Operators set a product's ...
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PYMNTS
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Strategy Business
Keeping up with the growing volume of e-commerce will require delivery companies to disrupt their long-standing business model.
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RT Insights
GlobalData shares optimism with Waymo, Ford, and other developers of autonomous vehicles that the future of deliveries will remain on the ground.
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Stratfor
The shipping industry is poised for a revolution with distributed ledger technologies. But a lack of collaboration could limit the benefits of blockchain.
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Venture Beat
Food delivery has become a $100 billion-plus market. By most metrics, Uber Eats is one of the fastest growing companies in history, posting a $6 billion bookings run rate within just four years of getting started, according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. In 15 major U.S. cities, Eats has surpassed GrubHub, previously the unchallenged delivery leader. Why isn't anyone talking about it?
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Revolutionary delivery
Magway, which was designed wholly in Britain, transports goods including groceries and small parcels on carriages along a magnetic track.
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Popular Mechanics
Delivering cargo anywhere in the world in 30 minutes? Take that, Domino's.
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Medium
Earlier this year, Amazon became the second U.S.-based company to be valued at more than $1 trillion. Yet for all its dominance and efficiency, Amazon relies on a dusty, centuries-old system to…
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McKinsey
Autonomous trucks will change the cost structure and utilization of trucking--and with that, the cost of consumer goods. With full autonomy, operating costs would decline by about 40 percent, but the big question is how this savings will be distributed.
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Bloomberg
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
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The Economist
Squeezed suppliers and big corporate buyers stand to benefit
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Thomas
A recent study from ABI Research found that fewer than 4,000 facilities included robotics last year.
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Commercial Appeal
As XPO Logistics downsizes to employ fewer workers, it offers a glimpse of a future in which fewer people will be needed to do repetitive jobs.
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Business Insider
Amazon's trial version of its online freight-brokerage platform is undercutting market prices by as much as a third, according to FreightWaves. ...
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YouTube - Wall Street Journal
As the decline of brick and mortar retail rolls on, commercial real estate developers are left with massive abandoned properties. Who will fill that underuti...
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YouTube - The Verge
Companies like Google, Amazon, and UPS are planning to fill the skies with autonomous cargo-carrying drones. These new cargo drones are a fast and eco-friend...
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Postal and Parcel Technology International
The future of last-mile delivery is electric - read more about this with Parcel and Postal Technology International
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ARK Invest
ARK illustrates that parcel drone delivery could boost ecommerce’s share of retail sales from 13% today to 75% by 2030, reshaping shopping completely.
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Mckinsey
Everybody likes to get a package. In 2020, we'll send more than 100 billion of them--and that number could double by 2030. Who will deliver all those packages, and how? In this edition, The Next Normal explores what's ahead in last-mile parcel delivery.
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Forbes
Emerge is one of many digital freight platforms angling to transform the $600 billion domestic full-truck load industry.
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The Atlantic
The pandemic has shown how just-in-time systems are also fragile.
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WeForum
We can't afford to lock down. Trade decisions made now will shape whether we have diverse, cost-effective and accessible sources of supply in the future.
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Stratfor
The pandemic risks ending the past 30 years of rising intercontinental trade volumes by sapping global economic growth and emboldening nationalist calls against globalization.
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Cointelegraph
The U.S. Department of Transportation released a lengthy report on blockchain's application for drones.
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Forbes
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the e-commerce supply chain relied on robots to fill in gaps.
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Singularity Hub
Covid-19 has exposed massive vulnerabilities in the global supply chain. To make it more resilient to this and future pandemics, we must look to technology.
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SDCExec
This shift in the market, including longer lead time, is something companies need to start preparing for now.
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GeekWire
The Federal Aviation Administration this weekend approved Amazon's Prime Air arm as an official "air carrier," marking a key milestone for Amazon'
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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New York TImes
The pandemic and the holidays will make shipping a zoo. Shoppers, listen up.
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Supply Chain Digest
Complete Predictions from Michael Watson and Rich Sherman; Part 3 Next Week
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Business Insider
Hip clothing company Everlane had to become transparent before it could become sustainable, said its GM of apparel, Kimberly Smith.
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Canadian Underwriter
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Supply Chain Brain
Analyst insight: The supply-chain industry needs new educational models to meet the changing knowledge demands of the profession. Innovative online models are playing a key role in meeting these demands. The new generation of online education programs, commonly known as massive open online courses (or MOOCs), is rapidly evolving — and the implications for future education are far-reaching. MOO
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Insurance Journal
Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to impose lockdowns,
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The Grocer
With further threats around the corner, some suggest we should be rethinking the way we stock our supermarket shelves
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Insurance Journal
With the coronavirus outbreak that originated in Hubei province, China, showing no signs of abating any time soon, some companies that buy and sell goods
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Supply Chain Dive
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