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31 Mar 23

Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Atovaquone Oral Suspension, USP 750mg/5mL Due to Potential Bacillus Cereus Contamination in the Product

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Health Professional, Pharmacy, Consumer March 31, 2023 – Piscataway, NJ, Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is voluntarily recalling lot # E220182 of Atovaquone Oral Suspension, USP 750mg/5mL to the Consumer/User level, due to the...

31 Mar 23

Functional Programming: The Biggest Change Since We Killed the Goto?

Computer & Information Technology

TranscriptStephen Cass: Welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast. I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and this episode is brought to you by IEEE Explorer, your gateway to trusted engineering and technology research with nearly 6 million documents with research and abstracts. Today we are talking with Charles Scalfani,…

30 Mar 23

Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for Its Motorbikes

Civil, Structural & Architecture

Lightning Motorcycles is already known for record-setting speeds. In 2011, the company’s LS-218 SuperBike set a land speed record for production electric motorcycles at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, with a 347.55 kilometer-per-hour (215.91 mile-per-hour) average run and a 351 km/h (218 mph) peak. That SuperBike topped every internal…

30 Mar 23

MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler

Computer & Information Technology

Python has long been one of—if not the—top programming languages in use. Yet while the high-level language’s simplified syntax makes it easy to learn and use, it can be slower compared to lower-level languages such as C or C++.Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hope to…

30 Mar 23

UK unveils multi-million-pound green energy scheme

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The UK has presented a new, more detailed plan for investing in affordable, clean, homegrown power to mark what has been informally dubbed 'Green Day'. The government was required to present one such scheme after a court ruling found that the country's net-zero strategy is "unlawful", as it failed to…

30 Mar 23

Rural businesses struggle with local infrastructure, transport and skills

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

According to a survey of more than 900 SMEs from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), 27 per cent expect their turnover to decrease over the next year, while only 30 per cent plan to increase investment in technology and R&D Almost two in three (64 per cent) believe they…

29 Mar 23

Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy—and No Anode

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

A new all-solid-state lithium battery can not only store nearly twice as much energy as a standard lithium-ion battery, but it’s also not prone to catching fire like its present-day, commercial counterparts. The secret behind this novel prototype’s success? Getting rid of one of a battery’s usual electrodes, a new…

29 Mar 23

Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

We’ve gotten used to thinking of quadrupedal robots as robotic versions of dogs. And, to be fair, it’s right there in the word “quadrupedal.” But if we can just get past the Latin, there’s absolutely no reason why quadrupedal robots have to restrict themselves to using all four of their…

29 Mar 23

Government ‘must act urgently’ to stop the sale of unsafe electricals online

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

A recent survey by Electrical Safety First (ESF) found nearly four in ten (37 per cent) people are using online marketplaces to compare prices in a bid to get the best deals as the cost-of-living crisis bites. But a new investigation by the charity has revealed that people are more…

28 Mar 23

How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

One looming artifact of the pandemic that remains in 2023—the global chip shortage—has gratefully begun to recede. Unlike the state of things in mid-2021—when crimps in the semiconductor supply chain cropped up in big ways—supply and demand have become much less of a mismatch. As IEEE Spectrum reported in the…