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• European project to boost electric vehicle performance

  20-10-2017 16:03 via electronicsweekly.com
  Better drive-trains for third-generation electric vehicles is the target of a European Horizon 2020 project, to be headed by French research lab Leti. Called ModulED, the three-year, €7.2m project will consist of 10 European research institutes, selected from the automotive-industry and universities (see below), and will cover boosting drivetrain performance, efficient manufacturing, reduced environmental impact and vehicle cost. ...
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• Mercedes Benz debuts truck platooning system with automated runway snow clearance demo

  20-10-2017 12:26
  
  Truck platooning system allows a convoy of commercial vehicles to operate with only one human driver
  The four Arco tractors were operated as a semi-autonomous platoonIn what it describes as a “step forward on the road to the fully connected and autonomous commercial vehicle”, Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler has for the first time demonstrated its system for operating a convoy of vehicles working in a coordinated task with only one of the vehicles controlled by a human driver. Kn
  
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• Mercedes Benz debuts truck platooning system with automated airfield snow clearance demo

  20-10-2017 12:26
  
  Truck platooning system allows a convoy of commercial vehicles to operate with only one human driver
  The four Arco tractors were operated as a semi-autonomous platoonIn what it describes as a “step forward on the road to the fully connected and autonomous commercial vehicle”, Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler has for the first time demonstrated its system for operating a convoy of vehicles working in a coordinated task with only one of the vehicles controlled by a human driver, wi
  
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• Software bugs fixed automatically with AI and Big Data

  20-10-2017 12:25 via electronicsweekly.com
  Fujitsu Laboratories has created artificial intelligence that automatically creates patches for software bugs after learning from archived bug reports and bug patches. It works on bugs in object-oriented programmes, typically used for business application software development, and reduces average time to diagnose and fix single-fault-location bugs by 28.8%, claims Fujitsu, compared to the conventional heuristic-search-based patch generation ...
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• UK developed heart disease detection technology is set for US trials

  20-10-2017 12:09
  
  A UK technology designed to scan patients for signs of heart disease quickly and non-invasively is to undergo clinical trials in the US, following clearance by the Food and Drug Administration.The Vitalscan device, which is already two-thirds of the way through a clinical trial in four UK hospitals, will now be tested in a number of emergency departments in the US.
  In the UK, over five per cent of visits to accident and emergency departments, and up to 40 per cent of emergency admissions, are th
  
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• Green Hills verifies multicore OS for future airborne systems

  20-10-2017 12:01 via electronicsweekly.com
  Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. ...
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• Custom mosfets help to simplify hot-swap design

  20-10-2017 11:10 via electronicsweekly.com
  Infineon releases a family of custom mosfets targeted specifically for hot-swap, e-fuse and battery protection.
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• UK government awards £51m to driverless car testing infrastructure projects

  20-10-2017 11:03
  
  Four UK projects have been awarded a total of £51m of government funding to develop testing infrastructure for autonomous cars.
  One project to win a share of funding is WMG’s Central CAC TestbedThe four projects, which are led by HORIBA MIRA; Millbrook Proving Ground; TRL and the Warwick Manufacturing Group are the first to be funded from the government’s £100m Connected and Autonomous Vehicles testing infrastructure programme which was announced in November 2016.  T
  
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• Aerospace electronics reach the height of cool

  20-10-2017 10:52 via electronicsweekly.com
  Aerospace electronics demand higher standards of reliability for their thermal design than other industries, writes Tom Gregory of 6SigmaET.
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• Boeing HorizonX makes first investment in autonomous technologies

  20-10-2017 09:30
  
  Boeing’s venture capital arm has made its first foray into autonomous technologies with an investment in Near Earth Autonomy, a company that developed the world’s first full-size autonomous helicopter flights.Boeing and Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy have also entered into a partnership to explore future products and applications for emerging markets, including urban mobility.
  “This partnership will accelerate technology solutions that we feel will be key to unlocking eme
  
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• Intel invests in 15 Big Data start-ups

  20-10-2017 09:10 via electronicsweekly.com
  Intel Capital has invested $60 million in 15 start-ups in the big data area which takes the amount of start-up capital it has invested this year to $566 million. “The world is undergoing a data explosion,” says the president of Intel Capital Wendell Brooks (pictured) , “by 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will ...
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• September SEMI billings take a dive

  20-10-2017 08:54 via electronicsweekly.com
  SEMI’s September billings report shows billings of $2.03 billion which is 6.9% lower than the August level of $2.18 billion, and is 36% higher than the September 2016 billings level of $1.49 billion.   “Global semiconductor equipment billings of North American headquartered suppliers for September were $2.0 billion, down 12% from the peak level set ...
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• Qualcomm joins China AI unicorn SenseTime to develop mobile AI

  20-10-2017 08:34 via electronicsweekly.com
  Qualcomm is to get together with China’s AI specialist unicorn SenseTime to develop AI for mobile. ‘The companies expect to drive the popularity and development of on-device AI in areas such as innovative vision and camera-based image processing,’ says the announcement, ‘implementing AI on the mobile device provides a number of advantages over cloud-only implementations, ...
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• How an initiative in Leicester is inspiring youngsters about STEM

  20-10-2017 08:30
  
  There are around 30,000 STEM Ambassadors in the UK whose voluntary work encourages and inspires the nation’s young people to achieve more and progress further in STEM, including those involved in the Leicester based Creat-A-Con.
  Counted among them is Jason Boomer, one of the organisers of Creat-A-Con which is a day of activities aimed at stimulating young – and not so young – minds with STEM-based activities.
  Ahead of the next edition of Creat-A-Con on October 21, 2017, Boomer
  
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