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• UK Led opens UK factory

  18-10-2017 18:25 via electronicsweekly.com
  Lighting maker UK Led has opened a factory in the Wirral, despite already owning one in China, and there are more to come. “We are proud that it’s the first manufacturing facility of its type in the UK,” said the firm. “We chose to invest in the UK factory for a number of reasons. [One ...
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• Mars explorers could breathe oxygen made by plasma

  18-10-2017 17:58
  
  Existing cold-plasma technology could convert Martian CO2 atmosphere into breathable oxygen for astronauts, says Portuguese study.
  Astronauts on Mars could breathe air made from the local atmosphere using cold plasmaResearchers from Lisbon and Porto Universities believe that future crewed missions to Mars could make their own oxygen for exploring the surface from the local atmosphere. “Sending a manned mission to Mars is one of the next major steps in our exploration of space. Creating a b
  
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• Skills and automation dominate industry talk at party conferences

  18-10-2017 17:30
  
  Paul Jackson trawled the Labour and Conservative party conferences for signs of a joined-up and coherent industrial strategy. 
  Industrial strategy, a dodo of public policy at the end of the 20th Century, is back very firmly in the political dictionary but do we really know what it means?
  I went to the two big party conferences to search for the substance behind the rhetoric when Labour gathered in Brighton and the Conservatives hit Manchester, trawling the fringe meetings for substance from
  
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• Aerospace Integration Research Centre officially opened at Cranfield

  18-10-2017 17:07
  
  The £35m Aerospace Integration Research Centre (AIRC) has been officially opened at Cranfield University.
  Cranfield AIRC centreThe new facility has been co-funded by Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Cranfield University, plus the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
  According to Cranfield, the Centre will conduct research into ways of integrating advanced technologies to reduce the time from academic innovation to industrial application.
  To enable this, the AIRC has been equipped w
  
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• World’s first floating wind farm delivers electricity to grid

  18-10-2017 16:27
  
  The world’s first floating wind farm has started to deliver electricity to the Scottish grid.Comprising six 5MW floating turbines, the 30MW Hywind Scotland project is located 25km offshore from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and will provide power for approximately 20,000 households. The £190m Hywind project is operated by Statoil in partnership with Masdar.
  “Hywind can be used for water depths up to 800m, thus opening up areas that so far have been inaccessible for offsh
  
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• Commercial use of small satellites is the new space race

  18-10-2017 15:20 via electronicsweekly.com
  The commercial use of small satellites in low earth orbit is changing the design dynamic of the space industry, says Roger Tall.
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• The Engineer drives: Honda Civic Type R is a fast piece of work

  18-10-2017 13:17
  
  Chris Pickering gets to grips with the Honda Civic Type R, the fastest front-wheel-drive production car to lap the fearsome Nürburgring Nordschleife
  Decked out with more vents and spoilers than a Friday night in a McDonald’s drive-through , the new Honda Civic Type R could never be accused of hiding its light under a bushel. But what you see here is the real deal. It’s the fastest front-wheel-drive production car ever to lap the fearsome Nürburgring Nordschleife. Find a lon
  
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• Highest-power biological solar cell offers potential for medical devices in remote regions

  18-10-2017 12:58
  
  Based on bacteria, paper and carbon fibre, the biological solar cell generates energy in a similar way to the Earth’s ecosystem
  Choi’s micro-BSC assembly is compact and self-maintainingThe cells were developed by a team at Binghampton University, part of the State University of New York, and is intended specifically for powering lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices, said research leader Seokheun Choi.
  Such devices need a self-contained clean power source, and miniaturised biological sola
  
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• Flexible sensor skin gives robots a sense of dexterity

  18-10-2017 12:27
  
  Robots could soon handle objects with the same dexterity as humans thanks to a flexible sensor skin developed by engineers from the University of Washington and UCLA.
  Bio-inspired sensor skin wraps around a finger or any other part of a robot to help convey touch (credit: UCLA Engineering)The skin can be stretched over any part of a robot’s body – or prosthetic – to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration that are critical to grasping and manipulating obj
  
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• Socionext ups video transcoding speed 10X

  18-10-2017 12:26 via electronicsweekly.com
  Socionext’s “Media Cloud” is designed to deliver a 10-fold increase in video transcoding speeds and efficiency, resulting in unprecedented levels of performance and optimal user streaming experience. The Media Cloud addresses the ever-growing mass consumption of high-quality video, specifically the need for efficient and dense live transcoding for today’s standards and tomorrow’s 4K AVC/HEVC requirements. ...
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• Intel to ship first neural network processing silicon in two months

  18-10-2017 12:20 via electronicsweekly.com
  Intel says it will ship its first silicon for neural network processing before the end of this year. This will be the Nervana neural network processor (NNP) and Intel’s target is the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) computing in areas such as medical diagnosis and autonomous vehicles. Behind the development of a range of ...
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• MasterChef inspires Highways England funded self-healing road project

  18-10-2017 12:07
  
  An episode of MasterChef inspired a researcher from the University Nottingham to develop a new technology for repairing cracks in road surfaces.After watching a contestant on the Spanish version of the show use a technique known as spherification (the controlled jellification of a liquid to form spheres), Dr Alvaro Garcia, from the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC), began exploring how the addition of microcapsules of oil to asphalt could be used to create self-repairing road s
  
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• Surface mount circuit protection device runs at high temperatures

  18-10-2017 11:44 via electronicsweekly.com
  Littelfuse says it can supply a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) thyristor circuit protection device with a junction temperature of 150°C in a surface-mount package. The SJ series thyristors have a low gate current trigger level of 6mA or 15mA maximum at approximately 1.5V. The most sensitive devices feature a gate trigger current of less than 200μA, ...
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• Comment: Dyson is equipped to drive into a new market

  18-10-2017 11:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  Dyson is well‑placed to hijack the bandwagon set rolling by Google and Tesla when they moved into the electric car market.
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• Canyon Bridge reveals aim to expand in UK

  18-10-2017 10:45 via electronicsweekly.com
  The new owner of Imagination, Canyon Bridge, will look to grow both in UK and across Europe presence after buy-out.
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• Samsung readies 8nm foundry process

  18-10-2017 10:33 via electronicsweekly.com
  Samsung says it has finished its development of an 8nm process for foundry. The 8nm process is a straight shrink from the 10nm process which delivers 10% more dendity with 10% less power. The 8nm process is a low-power plus (LPP) process acting as a half-node interim process between Samsung’s 10nm and 7nm process. 7nm ...
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• Denso and FotoNation collaborate on image recognition

  18-10-2017 09:48 via electronicsweekly.com
  DENSO Is to sstart joint technology development of cabin sensing with the Silicon Valley image recognition specialist  FotoNation. The partnership will help DENSO improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor, an active safety product currently used in commercial vehicles. Improvements of such products also will accelerate the development of next-generation products to be used ...
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• Synopsys buys Sidense

  18-10-2017 09:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  Synopsys has bought Sidense – the one-time programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) IP specialist. The acquisition complements Synopsys’ existing DesignWare Multi-Time Programmable (MTP) NVM IP solution with OTP NVM IP in 16-bit to 1.28-Mbit configurations. With this acquisition, Synopsys gains access to proven OTP NVM IP in process technologies from 180- to 16‑nm along with ...
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• Farnell element14 gets scary

  18-10-2017 09:28 via electronicsweekly.com
  Farnell element14  has announced a new competition to celebrate the season of frights and scares. Engineers and element14.com members are asked to get involved with the chance of winning one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. To get involved engineers can: Build and document their past or present Halloween projects on the element14 community. Tweet ...
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• Farnell element 14 gets scary

  18-10-2017 09:28 via electronicsweekly.com
  Farnell element 14  has announced a new competition to celebrate the season of frights and scares. Engineers and element14.com members are asked to get involved with the chance of winning one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. To get involved engineers can: Build and document their past or present Halloween projects on the element14 community. ...
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• Armour-plated protection through the ages: five innovations from The Engineer archive

  18-10-2017 09:00
  
  The prospect of imminent annihilation is a great motivator and the correlation between warfare and technological advance is well known and documented.
  The development of armour is no different in this respect and The Engineer has taken a keen interest in the materials and processes used to afford protection to the weapons of war, be they horses, boats, tanks or trains.
  Here, we look back at five developments designed to give armoured protection to combatants on land and at sea.
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• Amour plated protection through the ages: five innovations from The Engineer archive

  18-10-2017 09:00
  
  The prospect of imminent annihilation is a great motivator and the correlation between warfare and technological advance is well known and documented.
  The development of armour is no different in this respect and The Engineer has taken a keen interest in the materials and processes used to afford protection to the weapons of war, be they horses, boats, tanks or trains.
  Here, we look back at five developments designed to give armoured protection to combatants on land and at sea.
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