The majority of people (66%) would be uncomfortable travelling in a driverless car at 70mph, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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LEDs with spectral power distribution tuned to optimally illuminate specific goods in retail markets from fashion to food are intended to boost sales to the end customer who sees the displayed items accurately.

The Smartrix SSL and lens module will enable auto makers to more easily offer advanced LED headlamp features such as adaptive drive beams.

A one-for-one SSL retrofit of a Washington State greenhouse facility has resulted in an extra lettuce harvest per year and allowed the business to boost sales 25% in its existing footprint.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for August 28, 2017.

310.4 million wearables devices will be sold this year for $30.5 billion – $9.3 billion of which will be from smartwatch sales, says Gartner. In 2017, 41.5 million smartwatches will be sold and, by 2021, 80 million will be sold for $17.4 billion. “The overall ASP of the smartwatch category will drop from $223.25 in …

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A BIG market is opening up for small transistorised dictating machines . So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 5th 1960. The story continues: These machines are small and generally inexpensive and they do not overheat if left switched on. A year ago only one make of machine was …

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Uber has appointed a new CEO – the head of Expedia Dara Khosrowshahi. Something of a dark horse – Jeff Immelt and Meg Whitman were seen as front-runners – Kosrowshahi has headed up Expedia for 12 years. Kosrowshahi, who is 48 years old, had options worth $180 million at Expedia so Uber must be paying him …

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Taiwan has launched the first satellite to be designed and built on the island. It cost $189 million. The satellite was entirely designed by Taiwanese engineers and 70% of the hardware came from local components suppliers. SpaceX performed the launch. It had to pay a $2.1 million penalty for being a year late because the …

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Unit shipments of PCs, including desktop, notebook, and workstations and tablets are expected to decline from 435.1 million units in 2016 to 398.3 million in 2021 – a five-year CAGR of -1.7%, says IDC. Apart from 2018, notebook PCs show small but steady year-over-year growth throughout the forecast. Detachable tablets and convertible notebooks, which represent …

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