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02 Mar 23

117 zero-emission buses to take to English roads

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The Department for Transport (DfT) said 117 of the zero-emission vehicles will be rolled out in Yorkshire, Norfolk and Hampshire. The buses will be manufactured in Northern Ireland by Wrightbus and operated by First Bus. FirstGroup, an operator of buses and rail in the United Kingdom, said its capital spending…

02 Mar 23

Industry calls for ‘urgent’ publication of strategy to bolster hydrogen transport

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In the future, hydrogen could be used to fuel vehicles where current battery technologies struggle to provide enough power density such as planes and heavy goods trucks. Hydrogen UK, which represents the industry, has called on the government to publish a strategy with aims to establish a network of refuelling…

01 Mar 23

Ukraine’s Clashing Atomic Fuel Dilemmas

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last Friday Ukrainian transmission grid operator Ukrenergo marked one year of war with a hopeful milestone—two straight weeks without rolling blackouts. For sure, some cities at the front suffered outages. But the big picture was clear: Power engineers had delivered the grid through the worst of the winter and Russia’s…

01 Mar 23

United States Kicks Off CHIPS Act Funding

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

On Tuesday, the U.S. government started accepting the first round of applications for the billions of dollars of funding and incentives available to companies looking to start or expand facilities through the CHIPS and Science Act. According to the CHIPS Program Office, the government’s money will lead to at least…

01 Mar 23

‘Biocomputers’ could be developed within our lifetime, scientists say

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The Johns Hopkins research team has outlined their plan for the development of a 'biocomputer' that could create faster, more efficient, and more powerful computers. They called this type of technology "organoid intelligence" (OI), as it is powered by living human brain cells. "Computing and artificial intelligence have been driving…

28 Feb 23

Zero Trust Architecture in Combatting Wireless Network Attacks

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Secure Comms Shield provides a framework for protecting these distributed networks using a zero-trust network architecture - making it easier to implement secure communication.

28 Feb 23

Bacteria used to extract rare earth elements from wastewater

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

REEs are a group of 17 chemically similar metals which got their name because they typically occur at low concentrations (between 0.5 and 67 parts per million) within the Earth’s crust. Indispensable in modern technology – featuring in light-emitting diodes, mobile phones, electric motors, wind turbines, hard disks, cameras, magnets…

27 Feb 23

Smaller, Denser, and More Powerful: Optimizing PCBs with Master-Satellite Power Modules

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Board-level power innovations such as using a master-satellite concept can help improve power density, design flexibility and efficiency in data centers and networking equipment.

27 Feb 23

Aalyria’s Lasers and Routers Could Close the Digital Divide

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Aalyria, a recent spinout from Google, is trying to build on other companies’ near successes. The company is revamping the software platform from the ambitious-yet-failed startup Loon to optimize and reconfigure networks in real time, using whatever connections are available. Aalyria is combining that tech with free-space lasers originally developed…

27 Feb 23

Qualcomm phones to incorporate satellite-based messaging features

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Qualcomm revealed it is working with a group of Android smartphone companies to add satellite-based messaging capabilities to their devices. The California-based company, which is the world's biggest supplier of chips that connect mobile phones to wireless data networks, said it is working with Honor, Lenovo-owned Motorola, Nothing, OPPO, Vivo and…