148 letters and documents belonging to Alan Turing have been found at Manchester University. They are dated between 1949 and 1954 – the year he died. Here is an amusing correspondence with the editor of the magazine CHESS:   In view of the rather caustic comment from the editor asking Turing “what you really claim for ...

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Sony is sampling two new image sensors which are the first to employ Sony’s 3rd gen CMOS Global Shutter Mode. They are designated IMX420 and 428. The IMX420 has a scalable bit depth of 8, 10, and 12 bits, and can be programmed for multiple regions of interest (ROI). The IMX428 sensor, optimized for ITS ...

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The majority of people (66%) would be uncomfortable travelling in a driverless car at 70mph, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. According to the findings, younger people tend to be more accepting of the technology ― with 45% of 25-36 year olds saying they would be comfortable in a 70mph driverless car, compared to just ...

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Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have replaced graphite with silicon in anodes for Li-ion batteries. The researchers analysed the suitability of electrochemically produced nanoporous silicon for Li-ion batteries. It is generally understood that in order for silicon to work in batteries, nanoparticles are required, and this brings its own challenges to the production, ...

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Google has delivered proposals to the EU over how it will stop favouring its own shopping services over rivals . Some of the rivals have asked for the proposals to be made public. Google was fined $2.9 billion by the EU in June for favouring its own service in on-line searches. Under the EU judgment, ...

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Google has come up with an SDK called ARCore to allow developers to make AR apps for Android smartphones. The first phones to use the tool will be the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Google’s Pixel phone. Apple says it will make an AR tool-set called ARKit available to developers in a fortnight when it launches ...

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