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Facebook’s Aquila drone completes first test flight
Facebook’s Aquila drone completes first test flight
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The first test flight of Facebook's high-altitude, solar-powered unmanned aircraft has shown the power requirements needed from its solar cells.
Magnesium batteries vie as lithium alternative
Magnesium batteries vie as lithium alternative
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Over 100 researchers from around the world met last week in Germany for the first symposium on magnesium batteries as…
Urine-powered fuel cell wins Phase III funding from Gates Foundation
Urine-powered fuel cell wins Phase III funding from Gates Foundation
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Researchers in the UK have received funding to turn their urine-powered fuel cell into a commercial product.
Information storage at one atom per bit; a 1kB atomic memory
Information storage at one atom per bit; a 1kB atomic memory
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A team of scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University has achieved what may represent a limit…

Urine power cell wins commercialisation funding
Urine power cell wins commercialisation funding
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Researchers in the UK have received funding to turn their urine-powered fuel cell into a commercial product.
Magnesium batteries look to break into the mainstream
Magnesium batteries look to break into the mainstream
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Over 100 researchers from around the world met last week in Germany for the first symposium on magnesium batteries as the technology looks to break into mainstream use.
Smart composite transfers data through physical structures
Smart composite transfers data through physical structures
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Technology and material research body TWI (Cambridge, UK) has issued details of a materials technology it is calling SurFlow, which it says will be able to offer secure, robust, integrated…
Leti teams up with Korea for research
Leti teams up with Korea for research
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French research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) has announced a five-year plan to conduct research jointly with the Korea Institure of Science and Technology (KIST) on a variety of topics.
Smart composite transfers data through physical structures
Smart composite transfers data through physical structures
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Technology and material research body TWI (Cambridge, UK) has issued details of a materials technology it is calling SurFlow, which it says will be able to offer secure, robust, integrated…
Test flight shows power requirement of Facebook’s aerial basestation
Test flight shows power requirement of Facebook’s aerial basestation
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The first test flight of Facebook's high altitude unmanned aircraft has shown the power requirements needed from its solar cells.
Structuring composites to carry guided EM waves: built-in data pathways
Structuring composites to carry guided EM waves: built-in data pathways
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Technology and material research body TWI (Cambridge, UK) has issued details of a materials technology it is calling SurFlow, which it says will be able to offer secure, robust, integrated…
Record lifetime for silicon-air battery
Record lifetime for silicon-air battery
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Researchers from the Forschungszentrum Jülich research center in Germany have demonstrated a significant achievement in the area of energy storage: For the first time, a silicon-air battery delivered energy over…
Startup to take CMOS RF PAs to a new level
Startup to take CMOS RF PAs to a new level
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After emerging from semi-stealth mode to announce the infusion of $35 million in April, ACCO Semiconductor Inc. is looking to take its CMOS-based RF power amplifier business to the next…
AT&T security technology analyzes billions of threats in minutes
AT&T security technology analyzes billions of threats in minutes
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Enabling businesses to detect, analyze and address security threats faster and more efficiently than ever before, AT&T's (Dallas, TX) Threat Intellect is more than a suite of security services –…
Record lifetime for silicon-air battery
Record lifetime for silicon-air battery
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Researchers from the Forschungszentrum Jülich research center (Jülich, Germany) are announcing a significant achievement in the area of energy storage: For the first time, a silicon-air battery delivered energy over…
AT&T security technology analyzes billions of threats in minutes
AT&T security technology analyzes billions of threats in minutes
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Enabling businesses to detect, analyze and address security threats faster and more efficiently than ever before, AT&T's (Dallas, TX) Threat Intellect is more than a suite of security services –…
A glimpse to the hybrid powertrain of Porsche’s 919 racing car
A glimpse to the hybrid powertrain of Porsche’s 919 racing car
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During the forthcoming weekend, Porsche’s Le Mans prototype 919 Hybrid will have its first and only appearance in Germany. A good opportunity for a look under the bonnet of the…
EDA design win; Mentor’s emulator used by Barefoot Networks for its 6.5Tbps switch
EDA design win; Mentor’s emulator used by Barefoot Networks for its 6.5Tbps switch
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Mentor Graphics has disclosed that its Veloce emulation platform was used by Barefoot Networks, a pioneer in building user-programmable and high-performance network switches, to verify its 6.5Tbps Tofino switch.
ams’ ASIC design kit promises first-time-right designs in analogue 180nm CMOS
ams’ ASIC design kit promises first-time-right designs in analogue 180nm CMOS
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Describing it as a “hitkit”, ams has disclosed its latest design environment for its 180-nm, mixed-signal/analogue process technology, that offers high-density libraries and improved set of transistors, boosting the analogue…
Record lifetime for silicon-air battery
Record lifetime for silicon-air battery
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Researchers from the Forschungszentrum Jülich research center (Jülich, Germany) are announcing a significant achievement in the area of energy storage: For the first time, a silicon-air battery delivered energy over…
IP cores enable high performance FFTs in radio astronomy
IP cores enable high performance FFTs in radio astronomy
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Specialist IP vendor RFEL (Isle of Wight, UK) is supplying one of its HyperSpeed FFT IP cores to the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) at the University of Arizona in Tucson,…
AT&T Threat Intellect examines billions of security events in minutes
AT&T Threat Intellect examines billions of security events in minutes
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Enabling businesses to detect, analyze and address security threats faster and more efficiently than ever before, AT&T Threat Intellect is more than a suite of security services – it's the…
Facebook overcomes data challenges with high altitude drones
Facebook overcomes data challenges with high altitude drones
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Researchers at the Facebook Connectivity Lab have solved one of the major challenges in providing Internet access from a fleet of high altitude unmanned aircraft.
Facebook solves its airborne data problem
Facebook solves its airborne data problem
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Researchers at the Facebook Connectivity Lab have solved one of the major challenges in providing Internet access from a fleet of high altitude unmanned aircraft.
Record 1,100kV UHVDC power link rolls out in China
Record 1,100kV UHVDC power link rolls out in China
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Swiss power specialist ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) is rolling out a DC power network that operates at over a million volts to distribute electricity across China.
Record 1,100kV UHVDC power link rolls out in China
Record 1,100kV UHVDC power link rolls out in China
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Swiss power specialist ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) is rolling out a DC power network that operates at over a million volts to distribute electricity across China.
Connected devices need e-commerce security standard, says industry group
Connected devices need e-commerce security standard, says industry group
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Billions of connected devices are potentially at risk unless security sensitive software can be managed to an e-commerce standard, according to a group of leading technology security experts.
Tower Semi selected to make MEMS loudspeaker chip
Tower Semi selected to make MEMS loudspeaker chip
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Audio Pixels Ltd. (Sydney, Australia) has chosen Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) for the mass production of its first generation MEMS-based loudspeaker chip.


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