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Your space mission: Design a logo for NASA to represent In-Space Manufacturing

China is looking for self-sufficiency in ICs but lacks a fundamental pre-requisite for growing a chip industry. “China is not encouraging freedom of thought and that’s something you need if you want innovation,” Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. China has a $23 billion government fund …

China Lacks Basic Requirement For IC Industry

I was amazed and horrified when I heard racing cyclists have been cheating by using electric motors to boost their performance. My first thought was, where can you hide an electric motor on a racing bicycle? I was prepared to be technologically amazed – I thought maybe someone had fitted the whole motor into a bicycle bottom …

Cyclists cheat with electric motors

Rohde & Schwarz has secured the contract with Swansea University to equip the College of Engineering’s electronic teaching laboratories on the Bay Campus. The company has equipped 66 workstations in three labs with oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies and function generators. The contract was awarded following a European tender process. The total value of test …

Rohde & Schwarz forms skills partnership with Swansea University

Avery Dennison, provider of RFID technology to the retail clothing sector, has teamed with IoT data systems firm Evrythng to connect 10 billion clothing and footwear products for major brands to cloud-based product ID and tracking services. The IoT deployment will use Evrythng’s Janela platform to provide digital identity and data management capabilities to consumer …

Billions of trainers tagged in “biggest” IoT deployment

This year, 500 exhibitors prepare to converge on the city of San Diego, CA, with their latest solid-state lighting innovations in tow for LightFair 2016.

At next week’s Hannover Fair, Germany’s Fraunhofer will demonstrate a factory floor robot sending information via lightwaves in a Li-Fi system.

You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create WebM outputs using the VP9 codec. VP9 is primarily used for web video and achieves lower bitrates without sacrificing quality. You can try out this format by using the newly available system presets. 

British ultraviolet disinfection system provider atg UV Technology has been awarded a contract by Trant Engineering, to supply utility Portsmouth Water with its first installation…

South Australia Water has embarked on an ambitious AUD 400 million network upgrade project using new analytical tools from Bentley…