But Min Wanli, a researcher in IBM's Beijing research lab, wants to exploit those traffic watchdogs for a friendlier purpose. Pulling together automobile movements aggregated from Shenyang's ...

IBM and Beijing then plan to run the data through supercomputers to create pollutant maps that'll highlight how air quality will change 72 hours in advance. AR + VR.

People are fed up, and this anger has led authorities to declare war on pollution, with the goal of cutting Beijing’s PM2.5 (air particle concentration) by 25 percent in the next two years.

IBM once saw China as a major growth market, but its market share has tumbled in recent years as local competitors upgraded their services and Beijing pushed Chinese buyers to purchase more from ...

IBM has 20 years of experience in weather modeling, he added, but forecasting the air quality will require new computer modeling to take into account all of Beijing’s different pollution sources.

Beijing also has control over how much of IBM’s findings are actually communicated to the public. Technology is one part of the solution, but in the end, governance will likely play a larger role.

The air quality in Beijing, China is so poor that breathing it for 24 hours is akin to smoking 36 cigarettes. IBM, famed for its unlikely computer projects to beat humans at chess and Jeopardy, is ...

IBM is cutting more than 1,000 jobs in China, according to multiple state media reports, as geopolitical tension between Beijing and Washington prompts many global companies to reassess their ...

IBM and Beijing Goodwill launched an all-in-one electronic cardiogram management system on Aug. 17 to allow doctors to monitor patients' ECG data using WiFi.

Smart Surveillance System, or S3, uses analytic tools to index digital video recordings and issue real-time alerts when certain patterns are detected ...

The cameras that watch over hundreds of street intersections in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang (pop. 7.2 million) aren't the sort of technology that pleases privacy advocates or taxi ...