CPI participating in £4 million PowerDrive Line Project
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is collaborating on the PowerDrive Line, a project funded by the Government Faraday Challenge to deliver ultra-fast battery charging for electric vehicles.
Let's draw! New deep learning technique for realistic caricature art
A team of computer scientists from City University of Hong Kong and Microsoft, have developed an innovative deep learning-based approach to ...
Bitcoin falls below $5000 for first time since Oct 2017
The still-nascent Bitcoin market is not completely transparent and analysts have struggled to understand what prompted the latest selloff T ...
Online platform assures cyber-physical systems research is legit results don't disappear
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Computer scientists from around the globe are using a one-stop shop to find research results that could help them ...
Computer scientists use artificial intelligence to boost an earthquake physics simulator
Various layers of the earth plus buildings on top of and within them behave differently during an earthquake. Interactions between these lay ...
Getting rid of sweat at the push of a button
Hot fun in the cold: During winter sports, the body produces a lot of moisture. Nevertheless, new functional clothing ensures a pleasantly w ...
Enabling fabrication beyond 7nm
Scanning Electron Micrograph of a large field region showing low defectivity in a selectively deposited film, highlighted region is a large ...
Repowering the UK's oldest wind farms could boost energy generation by 171%
Credit: Shzphoto/Shutterstock Wind energy has been identified as having an important role to play in the world's move towards a low-car ...
Big tech firms pledge training for workers in Southeast Asia
Microsoft, Google and other major technology companies have promised to help provide training in digital skills for around 20 million people ...
Understanding how to best repower wind farms in the drive for cheaper green energy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With lowest cost green energy considered the future, understanding how to 'repower' existing onshore wind ...
Carlos Ghosn the auto world's 'cost killer'
Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn earned an auto industry reputation as a no-nonsense cust cutter able to put a failing company back on its feet Br ...
World Toilet Day highlights global sanitation crisis
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Poor countries around the world are facing a dangerous shortage of toilets that puts millions of live at risk, ac ...
Russian tech giant dashes hopes for smartphone
Yandex instead announced a new smart speaker that uses the voice of "Alisa"—a virtual assistant similar to Amazon's Alexa Rus ...
Stronger buildings could delay wildfire destruction but not stop it professor says
Even though no building material is fire-proof, a few strategies could still allow more evacuation time during a future wildfire. Credit: Pu ...
How digital media blur the border between Australia and China
WeChat is an all-in-one social media platform that combines services such as those offered by WhatsApp, Facebook, Uber and Apple Pay. Credit ...
Nissan chief Ghosn arrested over financial misconduct: reports
Nicknamed "Le Cost Killer", Carlos Ghosn has turned around Nissan and Renault but now faces arrest Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn w ...
TT Electronics and UniRoyal unveil joint venture to satisfy global demand for precision resistors
A joint venture between TT Electronics and UniRoyal, a resistor manufacturer, has been established to address the growing worldwide demand for precision resistors.
New machine aims to end India's sewer death shame
World Toilet Day is held on November 19 each year and is a campaign to raise awareness of issues surrounding health and sanitation Hundreds ...
?TT Electronics and UniRoyal unveil joint venture to satisfy global demand for precision resistors
A joint venture between TT Electronics and UniRoyal, a resistor manufacturer, has been established to address the growing worldwide demand for precision resistors.
RS Components introduces robot-based learning to students and educational establishments
RS Components (RS) has launched the Sphero’s SPRK+, designed to provide students with hands-on computer programming education.
Search to find cybersecurity experts of the future continues for second year
​An online programme designed to inspire teenagers to think about a career in cybersecurity will continue for a second year after a successful pilot across England.
Adesto’s EcoXiP supports new JEDEC standards
At this year's electronica, Adesto demonstrated its EcoXiP NVM integrated with the NXP i.MX RT1050 crossover processor via the Octal xSPI interface, in compliance with several new standards.
New tech regulation 'inevitable' Apple CEO says
Apple CEO Tim Cook anticipates further regulation of the tech industry Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that new regulations of tech companies a ...
Undersea gas fires Egypt's regional energy dreams
Egypt is looking to establish itself as a key energy exporter by using its vast undersea gas reserves Egypt is looking to use its vast, new ...
At what cost? Debate swirls on 'giveaways' after Amazon HQ deal
Amazon is getting hefty incentives for its new headquarters in New York and Virginia, following a pattern of other companies that seek tax b ...
Argentine submarine wreck found one year after disappearance
Argentine navy submarine ARA San Juan docked in Buenos Aires in 2014 The crushed wreck of an Argentine submarine has been located one year ...
Romania could challenge Russian grip on Europe's energy
Romania is sitting on vast oil and gas reserves, enough to challenge Russia's grip on the region's energy supply Romania, one of th ...
Italy's 'anti-Netflix' law to protect film industry
Italy aims to delay release of Italian films on Netflix to protect its cinema industry Italy is to introduce an obligatory delay between It ...
Airbnb says revenue for 3Q was best ever topping $1 billion
In this Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco. Airbnb says it had its bes ...
VW wants to storm car market with cheaper electric model
In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018 file photo, the logo of Volkswagen is seen on top of a company building in Wolfsburg, Germany. German automa ...
Volkswagen to spend 44 bn euros on 'electric offensive'
As part of the new strategy, VW will convert two existing German plants into assembly lines for all-electric vehicles from 2022 German auto ...
Solid State acquires Pacer Technologies
​Solid State has acquired Pacer Technologies Limited and its subsidiaries, Pacer Components Limited and Pacer USA LLC.
Next-gen batteries may be possible with new engineering approach
Dramatically longer-lasting, faster-charging and safer lithium metal batteries may be possible, according to Penn State research.
The course of reactions in two-layer thin metal films
​A team of researchers from Siberian Federal University (SFU) obtained thin copper/gold and iron/palladium films and studied the reactions that take place in them upon heating. Knowing these processes
Cotton-based hybrid biofuel cell could power implantable medical devices
A glucose-powered biofuel cell that uses electrodes made from cotton fibre could help power implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and sensors in the future.
Electronic skin points the way north
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany have developed an electronic skin (e-skin) with magnetosensitive capabilities, sensitive enough to detect and digitise body mo
How to dance to a synthetic band
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Music plays an important role in most people's lives regardless of the genre and in a wide variety of context ...
Development of a humanoid robot prototype HRP-5P capable of heavy labor
HRP-5P appearance (left) and HRP-5P carrying an approx. 13 kg board (right). Credit: Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Researchers ...
?Solid State acquires Pacer Technologies
​Solid State has acquired Pacer Technologies Limited and its subsidiaries, Pacer Components Limited and Pacer USA LLC.
Researchers make android child's face strikingly more expressive
he newly developed face of the Affetto child android robot. Affetto's face was first revealed in published research in 2011. Credit: Osa ...
Paradigm shift for automotive LED designs
At electronica 2016 Inova Semiconductors launched the innovative ISELED technology, an approach for interior automotive lighting. At the same time the ISELED Alliance was announced. At the heart of th
Toward urban air mobility: Air taxis with side-by-side rotors
Visualization of NASA’s side-by-side rotorcraft concept for UAM in forward flight. This back view shows the complex 3D vortex wake from the ...
What is augmented reality anyway?
Is that Pikachu on the street right next to you? Credit: Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock.com Augmented reality systems show virtual objects in t ...
RS Components announces capability extension of Zerynth partnership
RS Components announced an extension to the capabilities of its DesignSpark Zerynth Studio middleware toolkit, through its partnership with Zerynth, at this year's electronica.
Air taxis – why they're no longer pie in the sky
Credit: Dean Mangurenje, Author provided Imagine a taxi service that picked you up (into the sky) and then dropped you off after an excitin ...
Honeycomb-like frameworks with unusual rippled shapes can produce buckle-resistant architectures
Deconstructing complex shapes into simple mathematical variables has enabled researchers to design and fabricate extremely strong cores for ...
Tajikistan launches giant dam to end power shortage
The dam is expected to reach a height of 335 metres (1,099 feet) in a decade, becoming the world's tallest hydro-electric dam Tajikista ...
Five nanosecond decision-making: New chip design to make speedy calculations for researchers
'You need a hardware expert who understands what's under the hood so you can restructure your algorithms,' said Ali Akoglu of th ...
Facebook says it's getting better at removing hate speech
In this Jun 7, 2013, file photo, the Facebook "like" symbol is illuminated on a sign outside the company's headquarters in Men ...
Amazon rules Walmart gains in e-commerce: study
Amazon is extending its dominance in US e-commerce, but Walmart is seeing strong gains and is poised to become the number three online retai ...
Feeling the pressure with universal tactile imaging
Fig. 1. Tactile imaging using universal conductors. Credit: Osaka University Touch, or tactile sensing, is fundamentally important for a ra ...
Toilets of the future must be designed with people in mind not technology
Environmentally friendly toilets on display at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing on November 8. Credit: Shutterstock Most of you readin ...
Taking hydrogen mobility forward in Europe
Credit: Eviart, Shutterstock In the drive to decarbonise Europe's transport sector, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) offer crucial b ...
Social enterprise Ricult uses digital tools to empower rural farmers in developing countries
Ricult's founders say their mobile platform has helped smallholder farmers in Pakistan and Thailand increase their crop yield by 50 perc ...
Human excrement efficiently converted to hydrochar
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) demonstrated for the first time that raw human excrement can potentially be conver ...
Sci-fi movies are the secret weapon that could help Silicon Valley grow up
Just because you can… Credit: Universal Pictures If there's one line that stands the test of time in Steven Spielberg's 1993 classi ...
Walmart US CEO talks technology workers
In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, photo Walmart U.S. President and CEO Greg Foran talks about the technology the company is using to keep shelve ...
Walmart flexes its muscle against Amazon
In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo shoppers look at toys at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. Walmart Inc. reports earnings Thursday, Nov. 15. ...
Emirates Airline half-year profit slides 86% on oil hike
A passenger walks past an Emirates Airline logo at Dubai International Airport on October 10, 2018 Emirates Airline on Thursday posted an 8 ...
Germany tweaks law to limit diesel car bans
The German government is to ease air pollution laws aimed at curbing diesel vehicle use in urban areas The German government will ease air ...
Innovative method leads to smaller cheaper IoT sensors
NUS researchers invented a low-cost 'battery-less' wake-up timer that cuts power consumption of IoT sensor nodes by 1,000 times, con ...
Can we produce enough green hydrogen to save the world?
Using a proton exchange membrane electrolyser to produce hydrogen from renewable electricity and water can help industry slash emissions. Cr ...
Researchers take steps towards new sustainable battery alternative
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers led by Professor Thomas Nann from Victoria University of Wellington has created a new elect ...
Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainability goals
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence is training an artificial intelligence system with data from the Copernicus Sentinel- ...
Space making the virtual a reality
ESA astronaut Tim Peake is pictured at London’s Science Museum taking part in Space Descent VR: a virtual reality journey that follows his P ...
Diagnostic tool helps engineers to design better global infrastructure solutions
University of Illinois engineering researcher Ann-Perry Witmer has developed a new computer algorithm that helps engineers who work internat ...
Electronic driving systems don't always work tests show
In this March 23, 2018 file photo provided by KTVU, emergency personnel work a the scene where a Tesla electric SUV crashed into a barrier o ...
Japan's SoftBank invests in US office space-sharing WeWork
A man walks past in front of a SoftBank shop in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. American office space-sharing company WeWork has obtained $3 ...
Lockheed Martin awarded $22.7 billion Pentagon contract
Launched in the early 1990s, the F-35 program is considered the most expensive weapons system in US history, with an estimated cost of some ...
Does not compute: Japan cyber security minister admits shunning PCs
Japan's deputy chief of cyber security says he doesn't use computers because he's had other people to do it for him since he was ...
Uber loss tops $1 bn as it seeks to diversify
While a private company, Uber has taken to sharing quarterly earnings figures as it prepares for a keenly-anticipated debut on the stock mar ...
Nepal's first robot waiter is ready for orders
This humanoid robot named Ginger is one of three locally-built machines to serve customers at a restaurant in the capital of impoverished Ne ...
Transit riders drivers brace for influx of Amazon employees
Commuters beware: New York and Washington's clogged streets and creaky subway systems are about to feel more pain as 50,000 more people ...
This place is the pits: China opens luxury hotel in quarry
The swanky hotel is part of a huge project that includes a theme park A hotel development sunk into a disused quarry in China opened its do ...
Snapchat parent hands over data for US inquiry
Snap, the parent firm of the messaging app Snapchat, said it is cooperating with a US probe into whether it provided adequate information to ...
Spanish Amazon workers plan 'Black Friday' strike: union
The employees at Amazon's San Fernando de Henares facility have been demanding better wages and work conditions and have staged strikes, ...
Scores protest against new Amazon HQ in Queens NY
Critics fear Amazon's arrival in Queens will accelerate gentrification in a city where affordable housing is increasingly rare and have ...
EU to curb phone costs set up emergency alert system
The price limits follow the EU move last year to end roaming charges for Europeans using mobile phones within the bloc—a public relations co ...
Volkswagen to devote 3 German plants to electric car push
German automaker Volkswagen says it will convert three factories in Germany to manufacture electric cars, getting ready to ramp up productio ...
Pressure helps to make better Li-ion batteries
The resistance of LTO changes with increasing and decreasing pressure, the insets show the corresponding structures at different pressure re ...
New anisotropic conductive film for ultra-fine pitch assembly applications
Schematic image of display applications using conventional ACFs (a) before and (b) after ACFs bonding process. Credit: KAIST High-resolutio ...
Ringling train chugs into digital world
John Ringling's personal train car used in the early 1900s. Credit: The Ringling Museum The century-old train car known to be the site ...
Photo recognition that keeps personal interests private
Fig.1: Overview of the privacy-preserving framework for image recognition services. Credit: Osaka University From just a quick snapshot on ...
Robots in sewers will save society millions
New project will use robots to monitor the condition of sewers. The robots risk meeting a little of everything down below. Credit: Aarhus Wa ...
Concrete printing in 3-D will put an end to boring buildings
The only material we use more than concrete is water. Credit: Shutterstock Construction is one of the largest industries in the world econo ...
Putting the squeeze on soot
2018-11-14 06:00:23Putting the squeeze on soot
Soot particles form complex chain-like structures called fractal aggregates. Credit: Hafiz Amin Running diesel engines and gas turbines at ...
Cathay apologises over data breach but denies cover-up
Cathay Pacific chairman John Slosar (L), appearing at Hong Kong's Legislative Council with CEO Rupert Hogg, described the crisis as ' ...
Jet Airways shares rise on Tata investment speculation
Tata Group is said to be eyeing a stake in cash-strapped Jet Airways, which has seen millions of dollars wiped off its market capitalisation ...
UK budget carrier FlyBe says for sale
Struggling British no-frills airline FlyBe has put itself up for sale in face of challenging market conditions. Struggling British no-frill ...
Amazon ends suspense over HQ by picking New York DC suburb
A sea gull flies off holding fish scraps near a former dock facility, with "Long Island" painted on old transfer bridges at Gantry ...
Vietnam's top telecom bosses face arrest over loss-making TV deal
A crackdown on corruption in Vietnam has gone after executiveds once thought to be untouchable Vietnam on Wednesday issued arrest warrants ...
The etch stops here
2018-11-13 16:00:15The etch stops here
A team of scientists and engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign claim to have discovered a new, more precise, method to create nanoscale-size electromechanical devices.
Testing times for automotive
2018-11-13 16:00:14Testing times for automotive
With autonomous driving expected to revolutionise the driving experience, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and the convergence of sensors, processors, and software, means that the automotive
New generation of microcontrollers for automotive applications
GLOBALFOUNDRIES and indie Semiconductor have released a new generation of customised microcontrollers on GF’s 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx) automotive-qualified platform, which includes embedded non
RS announces extension of schematic and footprint parts library
RS Components has extended its PCB Part Library, which delivers direct access to schematic symbols and footprints for PCB design​.
Nigerian ISP's configuration error disrupted Google services
In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, photo, a woman carries a fire extinguisher past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in ...
Waymo to expand fledgling self-driving car service
Over the coming months, Waymo will open its self-driving car service up to more people A self-driving car service being tested by Alphabet- ...
Amazon's growing pains in Seattle offer lessons to new hosts
In this Nov. 9, 2018 photo, construction workers mix with the noon lunch-hour crowd outside an Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle. As Amazo ...
Bombardier clings to its last commercial aircraft line
Bombardier has sold its stake in the C-Series aircraft, seen here in a 2013 picture, to Airbus but says it plans to keep producing Canadair ...
Nigerian ISP says error caused disruption in Google services
In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, photo, a woman carries a fire extinguisher past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in ...