Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have made a fabric that can simultaneously harvest energy from sunshine and motion. Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team used a commercial machine to weave together polymer solar cell fibres and with fibre-based triboelectric generators. Triboelectric generators use a combination of the triboelectric effect and electrostatic induction to generate small …

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Once upon a time a couple of scientists discovered a wonder material. For this they received the Nobel Prize and a brace of knighthoods. Then the government started thinking how to take advantage of this discovery. It decided to allocate £60 million for development of the material. The money was used to set up an …

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I have concerned thoughts about non-UK governemnts being involved in building UK nuclear infrastructure. Some of these are: UK skills creation, national security and ‘borrowing from the future’ – the latter being my clumsy way of saying – private companies spend now and the public picks up the cost for generations to come – PFI hospital …

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Be careful with EasyJet at the moment. A couple of weeks back friends got stranded in Geneva when their Geneva to Nice flight was delayed for hours. On Tuesday I was to fly from Gatwick to Munich. The flight was delayed then EasyJet offered to fly us to Milan, put us up in a hotel …

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Enterprise Support customers will now have access to self-paced training labs provided through an AWS training partner. These labs provide a hands-on learning environment based on real-world scenarios.

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.

You can now view visual representations of the commits made to your AWS CodeCommit repositories. The Commit Visualizer is a graphical view which helps you see the sequence of commits to a branch, the relationship between parent and child commits, and merges into the branch. You can filter by branch or re-render the graph by a specific commit. You can click each commit to view details such as commit ID, parent ID(s), date, committer name, and commit message.  

The Raspberry Pi foundation celebrates a 10 million sales landmark by launching a premium Starter Kit

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Thanks to the MIT Technology Review for this – the 20 smartest companies in 2016: Amazon Baidu Illumina Tesla Motors Aquion Energy MobileMe 23andMe Alphabet Spark Therapeutics Huawei First Solar Nvidia Cellectis Enlisting Facebook SpaceX Toyota Airware IDE Technologies TenCent

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Texas Instruments has announced a microcontroller with radios for both sub-GHz and Bluetooth low energy, claiming it to be the lowest power dual-band MCU yet. Called the CC1350 wireless MCU, it offers a range of up to 20km on a coin cell for building automation, factory automation, alarms, security, smart grid, asset tracking and wireless …

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