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29 Jun 23

Hardware Pioneers Max 2023: Where Electronics, IoT Connectivity and Embedded Systems Converge

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

There will be an audience of over 2000 people at the event - comprised of engineers, business leaders, technology journalists, industry analysts and investors. 75 influential companies and organisations will be exhibiting, and there will be a series of informative presentations, valuable networking sessions and lively panel discussions too. Among…

29 Jun 23

EV Interference Doesn’t Have to Kill AM Radio

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

AM radio could very easily fit into the hallowed category of “perfected technology.” It’s been around for over a century, the physics and engineering are very well understood, and there have been no major technological advancements in its design for at least a couple decades.Which is perhaps why it’s so…

29 Jun 23

Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

For the first time, a large language model—a key driver of recent AI hype and hope—has been added to MLPerf, a set of neural-network training benchmarks that have previously been called the Olympics of machine learning. Computers built around Nvidia’s H100 GPU and Intel’s Habana Gaudi2 chips were the first…

28 Jun 23

‘Walking’ through lost neighbourhoods possible with 3D digital maps

Geotechnical & Environmental

By turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighbourhoods, the researchers aim to drive forward urban research and provide users with a view of the cities of the past. The programme would allow people to use a virtual reality headset to “walk” through long-gone neighbourhoods – seeing the…

28 Jun 23

How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

You might be able to take the girl off the farm, but you can’t necessarily take the farm out of the girl, as the saying goes.That was the case for Melba Crawford, who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career.MELBA…

28 Jun 23

Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Electric motors have helped bring legged robots into the mainstream, offering a straightforward and compact way of controlling robotic limbs with all the fancy control features you need for safe and nimble motion. What you can’t get out of electric motors (more than once, anyway) is the kind of instantaneous…

27 Jun 23

What AMD Learned From Its Big Chiplet Push

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Over the last five years, processors have gone from being single pieces of silicon to a collection of smaller chiplets that collectively act as if they’re one big chip. This approach means that the CPU’s functional pieces can be built using the technology that suits each piece best. Sam Naffziger,…

27 Jun 23

Peculiar Pangolin Bot Is a Pill-Size Prototype

Computer & Information Technology

A tiny robot version of the scaly mammal known as the pangolin may one day perform medical procedures inside the body, a new study finds. Scientists are increasingly exploring how miniature robots might find use in medicine—for instance, to carry drugs, genes, or cells into the body. Soft robots especially…

27 Jun 23

E.U.: Climate-Proof Grids Require More Transparency

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Open standards in energy planning will make power and utility grids more resilient to a changing climate. That could be the topic sentence for the European Union’s increasingly open-data grid standards and open-access grid forecasts and models. A number of countries and regions around the world—the United States in particular—could…

27 Jun 23

UK faces being ‘starved’ of North Sea power, energy boss warns

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Last week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party would grant no licences to explore fresh fields in the North Sea if elected, calling a wait until UK oil and gas runs outs a “historic mistake”. But Gilad Myerson, executive chairman of Ithaca Energy, which has the bulk of…