More than a quarter of UK adults polled in the UK Robotics Week survey believe that the biggest benefit of driverless cars will be fewer road accidents. While 20% of adults polled in research believe driverless cars would make road rage less of a problem. The research has been commissioned by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network, …

UK drivers say robotic cars will be safer

A quarter of people polled in research has been commissioned by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network believe that ball-collecting robots at tennis games will exist within the next 10 years. This one one of the quirky findings in the market research which is being released ahead of UK Robotics Week (25 June – 1 July 2016). …

Robots will be at Wimbledon in 10 years

An international team has developed a transparent hole conductor. While transparent electron conducting oxides are common, transparent oxides that conduct holes have not been commercialised due to their low conductivity. “Even though conducting holes and transparency were considered mutually exclusive, this new material both efficiently conducts holes and retains most of its transparency to visual …

Transparent hole conductor for displays, solar cells and LEDs

Cree is going for horticulture lighting with the XQ-E Photo Red led. “XQ-E Photo Red LED is capable of providing very high levels of growth-promoting light wavelengths from a footprint that is less than one-third the size of its closest competitor with similar output,” claimed Cree. In the same way that lumens indicate not just …

Cree goes more horticultural

On June 20th 2016 the Candidate SVHC list increased by 1 to 169.

REACH SVHC List changed

Problems at fabs making commodity chips have always attracted a question mark. Some years ago Samsung saw its share price go up and the DRAM price rise when it said it had suffered a power outage at a Korean DRAM fab. Later on, Korea’s electricity suppliers said there had been no power outages. So, in …

An Old Wheeze?

Achronix has announced availability of the new PCIe form factor Accelerator-6D accelerator board which is the industry’s highest single-FPGA memory bandwidth, PCIe add-in card for high-speed data center acceleration applications. The board integrates a Speedster 22i HD1000 FPGA with 700,000 look-up-tables that connects to six independent memory controllers allowing for up to 192 GB of …

Achronix board delivers acceleration for data centres

The latest US Department of Energy funding for SSL research and development totals $10.5 million and recipients range from university programs to LED-industry stalwarts including Cree, Lumileds, and GE.

Growers can use one horticultural LED lighting fixture to change ‘light recipes,’ rather than purchasing a separate light for each color.

Amazon EC2 now fully supports SQL Server 2016, the most recent release of Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server 2016 AMIs are available in four editions – Web, Express, Standard and Enterprise and runs on Windows Server 2012 R2. Amazon EC2 support for SQL Server 2016 enables you to leverage new capabilities such as real-time analytics, visualizations across devices, deeper security and new big-data solutions for your mission-critical applications running on AWS.