Excessive internet use contributes to the development of school burnout. School burnout, in turn, may lead to excessive internet use or digital addiction, according to research by the Academy of Finland. The findings show that, via school burnout, adolescents’ excessive internet use can ultimately lead to depression. Exposure to digital addiction is most likely to …

Internet addiction and school burnout feed each other

Texas researchers have created a liquid catalyst for lithium-air batteries, perhaps bringing this weight-saving technology nearer, writes Steve Bush. “There’s huge promise in lithium-air batteries. However, despite the research being done by groups all over the world, those promises are not being delivered in real life,” said professor Kyeongjae Cho. “Our collaboration team has demonstrated …

Liquid catalysts boost efficiency of lithium-air batteries

IoT devices come in all shapes and sizes, so this is wireless connected product design in 10 steps, writes David Griffin The internet of things (IoT) promises a huge range of possibilities from industrial asset tracking to agricultural monitoring, from home security to chronic disease monitoring.  Some IoT products are complements to existing businesses, others …

10 design steps to IoT heaven

NASA has installed the instrument package into the James Webb Space Telescope. Consisting of cameras and spectrographs, it will record light from the telescope’s huge golden mirror, once it is in orbit. “This is a tremendous accomplishment for our worldwide team,” said project scientist John Mather. “There are vital instruments in this package from Europe …

Successor to Hubble telescope is going well, says NASA

“Is this the end of the the semiconductor success story?” asked Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss at ITF2016 in Brussels this week. “”As Moore’s Law is stalling an overall system optimisation is required to achieve further value-add,” argued Ploss. “The physical limits may be pushed further but commercial limits provide a hard ceiling,” said Ploss, adding …

ITF2016: Infineon CEO looks to progressive integration

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Imec had a great success this week. Over a thousand delegates attended the Imec Technology Forum – ITF2016 – in Brussels. It is an acknowledgment, if one was needed, that Imec is the world’s pre-eminent nanoelectronics research centre. Imec, for instance, handles all the major companies’ DRAM development and is the world leader in a …

The Pride Of Europe

Earlier today, the French unions showed a similar disdain for the 40% dividend cut set by ST, as was shown yesterday by France’s economics minister. “We demand a total suspension of the payment of dividends to devote all the resources of the company to a strong revival of investment in R & D and in …

ST Becomes A Farce

There was once an Intel engineer who did the start-up thing the nice way – he bought a licence to the technology he wanted to use from Intel. Then, with one of the ‘Traitorous Eight’ he started a company whose name bore a hidden reference to the fact that it had emanated from Intel. The …

Fable: The Nice Way To Defect

Today we are announcing three new enhancements to Amazon Route 53’s domain name registration service.