Stanford researchers find a way to extinguish a fire in a lithium-ion battery.

Read full article: Stanford researchers build fire extinguisher into lithium-ion batteries

With flying cars a possibility for some years now, the big question has always been: When? Suddenly Airbus has started to answer that question, Its Project Vahana has been talking rather vaguely about having flying cars available in ten years time but, on Monday, CEO Tom Enders told a Munich audience that Airbus will test …

Read full article: Flying Cars Get Closer

Intel demonstrates Simbe Robotics’ Tally, robots for autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution for retail.

Read full article: Intel wants to put robots in shops

Using VR to select the furniture or wallpaper you want for your home could boost retail sales by as much as £1bn a year, according to new market research. Virtual and augmented reality could provide commercial benefits to the UK’s retail economy by making customers more likely to make purchases if they could preview products in a virtual setting first. Research …

Read full article: VR will make buying furniture easier

Imagination Technologies is aiming to bring sophisticated gaming to mid-range mobiles with a series of PowerVR graphics processors.

Read full article: Imagination brings complex games to mid-range phones

Commenting on today’s Brexit speech from the Prime Minister, techUK, believes leaving the Single Market will have a bigger impact on tech than the rest of the UK economy.

Read full article: Tech body welcomes May’s Brexit plan

Intended as a technical study and proficiency test for laboratories, the 2017 Interlaboratory Comparison will document the equivalence of different types of goniophotometers and variations in laboratory procedures and capabilities.

The LED vendor makes the claim as it and Microsoft again show off indoor positioning systems for in-store shoppers and cloud data analysis.

An online Horticulture Lighting Calculator launched by Lumileds enables SSL product developers to quickly determine the potential of luminaire system designs in terms of photosynthetic photon flux and spectral power distribution.

We are pleased to announce we have added CA Arcserve Backup to the AWS Storage Gateway compatibility list. You can backup and archive from CA Arcserve Backup r17 using the Storage Gateway virtual tape library (VTL) to scalable, cost-effective, secure Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier.