NASA awards exclusive license to the company to commercialize in-situ remediation technology.

The G3 is a 240-pound robotic crawler equipped with several sensors.

Farm groups are pressing Iowa lawmakers to find a “long-term” source of tax dollars for state programs that prevent soil and fertilizer run-off from farmland and improve the quality of Iowa water. 

Well the good, the bad and the ugly of the telecoms world got together yesterday and declared a standard for 5G NR (New Radio). They also declared that trials could start and also, hopefully, declared that first deployments of 5G NR, could start in 2019. Hopefully, of course, because these guys aren’t buying the gear, …

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Renesas and Green Hills Software are collaborating on a Connected Cockpit Vehicle with a Dodge Ram truck. The truck integrates the Renesas R-Car H3 automotive computing SoC, and Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY Multivisor secure virtualisation, and features ISO 26262-safety critical applications with Android infotainment and cockpit features. The R-Car H3 is part of Renesas’ platform …

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Q4 DRAM sales are forecast at $21.1 billion by IC Insights, delivering 2017 annual growth of 74%. Strong demand, particularly for high-performance DRAM used in data centre servers, and low-power high-density DRAM used in smartphones and other mobile products, put significant upward pressure on DRAM ASPs. This trend continued into 4Q17 and is expected to …

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a permit to Qualcomm to test one driverless car with three drivers on California public highways. Qualcomm has a chipset – 9150 C-V2X – for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications. Thev company has begun driverless car field tests in San Diego countybusing Ford cars. Qualcomm also intends to …

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NXP and Baidu have announced a cooperation in autonomous driving. Under the terms of the agreement, NXP will join Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform, Apollo, and provide semiconductor products including millimeter wave radar, V2X, security, smart connectivity and in-vehicle experience technologies. Apollo is Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform which provides a comprehensive, secure and reliable …

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Since its inventors were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1956 commentators have observed the milestones in the development of the humble transistor. And while transistors may be regarded as humble now, because so many of the tiny semiconductors are used as switches or amplifiers in every electronic device, the impact of the …

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Seiko and Sharp pioneered the LCD market in Japan but Sharp was first to commercialise the technology. According to Seiko’s LCD champion, Toshio Yamakzaki, Sharp’s success owed nothing to research everything to corporate balls. Early work can be pushed by an individual but to get a product from lab to factory is a matter for …

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