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15 Feb 23

Air India places huge order of 470 jets from Airbus and Boeing

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Air India, which was recently acquired by Tata Group, said it plans to acquire both widebody and single-aisle aircraft. The provisional deal, which includes 220 planes from Boeing and 250 from Airbus, comprises of 40 Airbus A350s, 20 Boeing 787s and 10 Boeing 777-9s widebody aircraft, as well as 210…

15 Feb 23

Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

Biotechnology & Biomedical

It can take up to 15 years to get a new drug through the regulatory-approval process before it becomes available to patients. One of the reasons is the time it takes to analyze the mountains of data generated by clinical trials about the efficacy and safety of the product. Drug…

14 Feb 23

Hardcore Hands-On: This Pocket PC Is Big on Open Source

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Open-source PC hardware is coming to a new frontier: your pocket. MNT, a small German company “driven by the idea of a digital future that is open-source, accessible and modular,” will soon release the MNT Pocket Reform, a pint-size alternative to the full-size Reform laptop introduced in 2019. The pocketable…

14 Feb 23

nanoMaterials Discovery Corporation Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of its Alcohol Antiseptic 80% Alcohol Solution

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Consumers February 14, 2023 – Seattle, Washington, nanoMaterials Discovery Corporation is voluntarily recalling all lots of its Alcohol Antiseptic 80% Alcohol Solution branded as “Snowy Range Blue” in four fluid ounce...

14 Feb 23

Volt Candy Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of PrimeZen Black 6000 Capsules Due to Presence of Sildenafil and Tadalafil

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Consumers February 13, 2023 – Pomona, California, Volt Candy is voluntarily recalling one lot of PrimeZen Black 6000, 2000 mg capsule, to the consumer level. FDA analysis has found PrimeZen Black 6000 capsules to be tainted...

13 Feb 23

Wireless Chargers Reach for the Megahertz Range

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Many people are eagerly looking forward to the day they can stop sifting through a pile of old charging cables to find the one they need. But despite the current success in wirelessly charging…

13 Feb 23

How High Precision GNSS Enables New Automotive Applications

Aerospace & Aeronautical

The typical positional accuracy provided by standalone GNSS is 3-10 meters, which is suitable for automotive applications such as navigation and emergency call. With the emergence of high precision GNSS, able to mitigate the influence of errors, sub-decimeter positional accuracy is possible and it becomes usable for more advanced applications…

12 Feb 23

Two Companies Working Toward Full-Scale Liberty Lifter X-Plane

Aerospace & Aeronautical

In May 2022, DARPA announced a program to develop a brand new X-plane. Called Liberty Lifter, the X-plane is a massive cargo seaplane that leverages ground effect to fly long distances efficiently by skimming over the surface of the sea. DARPA is of course well known for having lots of…

10 Feb 23

Saving the Big Bang (Antenna)

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The antenna that discovered a cosmic microwave background coming from all directions in space—cementing the theory that the universe was created in a big bang—now stares down its own topsy-turvy future. Its owner says the hardware will be preserved, but the fate of the historical site itself is far from…

10 Feb 23

Ofcom investigating inflation-linked mid-contract price rises for broadband

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The regulator said it was “concerned” about the degree of uncertainty consumers face about future price rises specified in contracts on the basis of inflation. The unpredictability of inflation rates means it can be difficult to know, often months in advance, what an inflation-linked price rise will equate to in…