The Latest New York City Technology News of 2016 Brings Real Innovation

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• The Latest New York City Technology News of 2016
  Brings Real Innovation

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New York City is often at the forefront of new
technologies and their practical applications
because the city is an ideal testing ground for
finding out how theoretical advances work in
urban environments. The latest round of top news
stories includes making the NYC transit system
mobile and modern to keep pace with other global
metropolitan areas. Self-driving cars, virtual
reality, replicator machines for building
surgical parts and smart refrigerators are also
among the top New York City technology stories.
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NYC Subway System to Get Wi-Fi in 2016
This article at endgadget.com tops the technology
stories of the first full week of 2016 because
finally getting Wi-Fi throughout the subway
system will affect real New Yorkers dramatically.
Commuters will get real-time arrival data and the
ability to pay their fares with their
smartphones.
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NYC Subway System to Get Wi-Fi in 2016
Subway cars will have USB charging ports, and all
new above-ground buses for the transit system
will have Wi-Fi hotspots for commuters. Workers,
students and visitors can get more done during
long daily commutes.
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3-D Printing Advances Surgical Procedures
3-D printing, which is often called additive
manufacturing, is used commercially and in homes
to reproduce models to exacting specifications by
printing a single layer of material during each
pass of the printing head.
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3-D Printing Advances Surgical Procedures
The technology creates objects in a way thats
similar to Star Trek replicators, and now Crains
New York reports that surgeons at NYU Langone are
using 3-D printing to duplicate and replace
sections of jaws, vertebrae and other delicate
body parts.
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3-D Printing Advances Surgical Procedures
Author Caroline Lewis of Crains New York reports
that researchers are working on creating bionic
hands, printing organs from living cells and
other technologies that promise to simplify
manufacturing the small batches that are
necessary in many health and personal care
applications.
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Will Self-Driving Cars in New York Face Gridlock?
Huffingtonpost.com reports that General Motors
recently invested 500 million on the concept
that at least among urban residents people
will stop buying cars and opt for ride-hailing
services or self-driven vehicles that can
transport them everywhere they need to go in an
urban environment.
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Will Self-Driving Cars in New York Face Gridlock?
GMs investment with Lyft, a competitor of Ubers
car service, is to develop self-driving cars that
people can call for with an app instead of
hailing a taxi or summoning a ride from Uber.
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Will Self-Driving Cars in New York Face Gridlock?
Mobility, technology and communications are
hallmarks of todays manufacturing and social
engineering goals, and this project could
generate significant changes in how New Yorkers
get around the city. The only question is whether
the cars will be able to deliver a Bronx salute
when circumstances require it.
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New Yorkers Test High-Tech Refrigerators
You hear a lot about the risks of the Internet of
Things or smart devices that connect to the
Internet to make peoples lives easier, but these
risks dont stop innovation or new products with
ever-expanding abilities.
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New Yorkers Test High-Tech Refrigerators
Samsung recently announced at the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it would
test-market the Samsung Family Hub refrigerator
in New York where busy commuters were ideal
candidates for testing a smart refrigerator that
allows people to order groceries where they store
them.
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New Yorkers Test High-Tech Refrigerators
Business Journal author Teresa Novellino reports
that New York-based MasterCard, online marketer
FreshDirect and ShopRite will partner to keep New
Yorkers larders well-stocked with healthy and
even not-so-healthy foods.
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Virtual Reality Becomes More Real for New Yorkers
Facebooks Oculus has begun accepting preorders
for its virtual reality headset call the Rift.
The Wall Street Journal article by Sarah E.
Needleman further explains that the headset can
run on at least three PCs that are priced at
about 1,000.
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Virtual Reality Becomes More Real for New Yorkers
An exact price for the headset isnt available
but should cost around 500. In New York City,
however, there might be some competition between
virtual reality and the alternate reality that
New Yorkers experience daily. VR innovation is
expected to lead the next generation of computing
products and advances in technology.
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New York city technology news always includes
innovation and creativity thats at the forefront
of the worlds advances in engineering, science
and new social conceptions. The city that never
sleeps never rests on the status quo but
challenges established conventions
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