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Daimler tests self-driving truck on public highway
Daimler tests self-driving truck on public highway
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Carmaker Daimler has performed the first test drive with a self-driving truck on public roads. The test drive took place…
Put FPGAs in your SoCs
Put FPGAs in your SoCs
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Flex Logix Technologies Inc. has created a new species of product. The Mountain View, Calif. company has added field-programmable gate…
Volvo shows user interface for self-driving cars
Volvo shows user interface for self-driving cars
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Automated driving poses specific requirements to the user interface of the cars, in particular for the transition phases to and…
Battery lifetime can be extended with heat
Battery lifetime can be extended with heat
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As mobile devices use a lot of batteries, extending their lifespan either for longer use or for repurposing to another…

Heat helps rechargeable batteries extend lifetimes
Heat helps rechargeable batteries extend lifetimes
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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have explored in detail how higher temperatures can break down the dendrites that grow within electrodes inside a rechargeable battery cell. The discovery…
Machine learning for every app
Machine learning for every app
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Startup company Dato wants to make a splash in the consumer market by making it easier for developers to integrate machine-learning capabilities to their apps. Creator of the machine learning…
UV OLED development creates all organic on-chip spectrometer
UV OLED development creates all organic on-chip spectrometer
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode (OLED) that can be used as an on-chip photosensor.
Pushing the envelope for electric motors
Pushing the envelope for electric motors
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Engineers developing today’s electric motors focus on power density and efficiency as the two most important parameters. The Hanau-based company Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG (VAC) supplies advanced magnetic materials…
Are mushrooms the answer to lithium-ion battery degradation?
Are mushrooms the answer to lithium-ion battery degradation?
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering believe that portabella mushrooms can be used to stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time.
3D memory chips may beat 3D hybrid memory cube
3D memory chips may beat 3D hybrid memory cube
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A novel three-dimensional (3D) memory from the self-described "nanotechnology development center" with its own fab to boot will make an appearance next week at SEMICON Europa 2015.
Measuring the most stable light source in the world
Measuring the most stable light source in the world
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In order to be able to detect planets comparable to Earth, the CHEOPS satellite, which will be sent into orbit at the end of 2017, needs to be able to…
Invisibility cloak focuses on enhancing solar cell efficiency
Invisibility cloak focuses on enhancing solar cell efficiency
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Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have discovered an unconventional approach to increasing the efficiency of the solar cell panels. Optical invisibility cloaking technology enables sunlight to be guided…
3D memory chips may beat hybrid memory cube
3D memory chips may beat hybrid memory cube
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A novel three-dimensional (3D) memory from the self-described "nanotechnology development center" with its own fab to boot will make an appearance next week at Semicon Europa 2015.
TSMC turns logic FinFET into ReRAM
TSMC turns logic FinFET into ReRAM
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One of the more interesting papers scheduled for presentation at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is about making a non-volatile memory device – together with its array select…
Connected cars and mobile security
Connected cars and mobile security
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Internet of Things (IoT) solutions promise to improve productivity, enhance safety, and provide advances in comfort and convenience. In this way, IoT solutions are intended to radically improve the quality…
Insurance companies call the shots for biosensors
Insurance companies call the shots for biosensors
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Talking about multi-spectral sensing and photonics during the company's annual press day, both ams COO Thomas Stockmeier and Sajol Ghoshal, Senior Director for emerging sensing strategies shared their view on…
First optical rectenna converts light to DC current
First optical rectenna converts light to DC current
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Researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna using nanoscale components, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into DC current.
System solution simplifies dimming via the mains
System solution simplifies dimming via the mains
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Tridonic is aiming to make it possible for everybody to dim via the mains by introducing LED drivers from the cost-efficient TALEXXdriver EXCITE series and the ready2mains gateway.
Leading by example: Polyera’s flexible displays
Leading by example: Polyera’s flexible displays
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A provider of proprietary materials for the design of organic flexible thin film transistors, Polyera is opening a new branch of business and hoping to create its own technology market…
Biosensors: insurance companies call the shots
Biosensors: insurance companies call the shots
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Talking about multi-spectral sensing and photonics during the company's annual press day, both ams COO Thomas Stockmeier and Sajol Ghoshal, Senior Director for emerging sensing strategies shared their view on…
Multifunction biosensor/vital signs monitor for wearables, from ams
Multifunction biosensor/vital signs monitor for wearables, from ams
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Sensor and mixed-signal IC specialist ams (Graz, Austria) has applied optical detection techniques to produce a sensor capable of accurate heart rate measurement; the company says its device is the…
V2X end-to-end tester demonstration spotlights driving hazards
V2X end-to-end tester demonstration spotlights driving hazards
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Rohde & Schwarz, Vector and Commsignia plan to jointly present a V2X end-to-end tester which demonstrates how, for the first time ever, an onboard unit in a simulated vehicle environment…
Embedded optical sensors give robots a lighter touch
Embedded optical sensors give robots a lighter touch
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors which will enable to have a lighter  touch and become more dextrous.
Testing solution speeds development of IEEE 802.3bm-related technologies
Testing solution speeds development of IEEE 802.3bm-related technologies
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Tektronix has released the industry’s first fully automated Transmitter Dispersion Eye Closure (TDEC) measurement and 100GBASE-SR4 conformance test solution that will make the complex process of ensuring that new product…
Digital predistortion improves data-acquisition performance
Digital predistortion improves data-acquisition performance
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Srudeep Patil and Carmelo Morello of Maxim Integrated explains how digital predistortion can improve data-acquisition performance.
Can crowdfunding produce the perfect smartphone?
Can crowdfunding produce the perfect smartphone?
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Sweden based Symetium, has been focused on creating the perfect phone for more than 3 years. What started as a passion project for young Entrepreneur, Jonathan Gustafsson, has quickly turned…
MotionEngine Wear debuts
MotionEngine Wear debuts
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Wearables are the hottest Internet of Things (IoT) market since consumer electronics surpassed industrial electronics—in market size and volume—with the smartphone. IDC Research Inc. (Framingham, Mass.) recently predicted that wearable…
Hybrid solar panel roof helps slash energy bills
Hybrid solar panel roof helps slash energy bills
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Scientists at Brunel University London have designed a hybrid roofing system which claims to be cpaable of halving energy bills in new homes.


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