Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

08 Sep 23

‘Energy disaster’: offshore wind farms absent from government auction

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The UK’s renewable energy strategy has suffered a blow as no new offshore wind projects have been bought by developers at the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction. Industry experts had warned that this might be the case after ministers refused to increase the maximum price for the auction despite…

08 Sep 23

Smart home devices could be harvesting excessive person data, report finds

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The ICO has announced a crackdown on connected devices and is working on developing new rules and action to be taken against manufacturers who fail in their data security obligations. The news follows the publication of a Which? report that analysed the data collection practices of popular home device brands. The report…

07 Sep 23

The Secret to Nvidia’s AI Success

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Nvidia is riding high at the moment. The company has managed to increase the performance of its chips on AI tasks 1000-fold over the last 10 years, it’s raking in money, and it’s reportedly very hard to get your hands on its newest AI-accelerating GPU, the H100.How did Nvidia get…

06 Sep 23

This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

People have expected great things from Alice Parker, who was raised in a family of distinguished scientists and engineers. And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. She helped develop high-level (behavioral) synthesis, an automated computer design process that assists with…

06 Sep 23

This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a sponsored article brought to you by LEMO. Science thrives on data. As such, the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) brought about a fantastic revolution. Billions of “intelligent objects” packed with sensors are connected to each other and to servers, capturing and exchanging, in real time,…

06 Sep 23

Intel’s Open Source Strategy

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, a podcast from IEEE spectrum. I’m your host Stephen Cass, a senior editor at Spectrum, and before Before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum‘s most important beats, including…

September 6, 2023
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

06 Sep 23

Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Yesterday, Clearpath Robotics of Kitchener, Ontario in Canada (and Clearpath’s mobile logistics robot division OTTO Motors) announced that it was being acquired by the Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation for an undisclosed amount.The press release (which comes from Rockwell, not Clearpath) is focused exclusively on robotics for industrial applications. That is, on…

06 Sep 23

UK ‘will struggle’ to meet carbon capture targets, report says

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Analysis by the global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources has stressed that many companies have not been able to progress their carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects due to a slowdown in the negotiations for government funding. The difficulty in securing public and private investment would…

06 Sep 23

New Photon Polarizer Lights Way to Quantum Communications

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technique that can produce polarized photons more easily and cheaply than existing methods. The technique uses an atomic force microscope to form indentations in a two-layer stack of atomically thin materials. The indentations produce small magnetic fields that polarize photons emitted…

‘Energy disaster’: offshore wind farms absent from government auction

Smart home devices could be harvesting excessive person data, report finds

The Secret to Nvidia’s AI Success

This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things

Intel’s Open Source Strategy

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Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation

UK ‘will struggle’ to meet carbon capture targets, report says

New Photon Polarizer Lights Way to Quantum Communications

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