NASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on Moon

Nasa has confirmed that it has chosen SpaceX to develop the first commercial human lander to carry astronauts to the lunar surface. The Moon exploration will part of the wider Artemis programme, which eventually aims to send people to Mars. The chosen Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for ...

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Piezo contact microphone picks up voice through bone

Vesper of Massachusetts is claiming high fidelity for a MEMs piezo microphone that picks up the vibration of the user’s voice through the skull. Inside is the mems, an amplifier and a power regulator. Called VA1200, the company describes it as “the world’s first analogue piezoelectric voice accelerometer. Unlike a traditional microphone, the VA1200 is ...

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5V data line protection for 0.37pF

Protecting USB and HDMI connections in commercial and automotive applications is the aim of Vishay’s VBUS05M2-HT5 bidirectional symmetrical (BiSy) two-line ESD protection diode. Supplied in a 1 x 1.1 x 0.45mm DFN1110-3A package with wettable flanks for automated optical inspection, it typically offers only 0.37pF of additional load (0.45pF maximum). “Due to its short leads and ...

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Touch controlled for mid-sized industrial displays

Data Modul is aiming at industrial displays from 12.1 to 23.8in with a projected capacitive (PCap) touch controller PCB built around Microchip’s TD series of touch controller chips. The mXT2952TD touch controller board is compatible with Data Module’s earlier mXT2952T2, but includes differential mutual sensing to increase signal-to-noise ratio. “Neither thick gloves up to 5mm nor ...

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UK government to intervene in Nvidia-Arm takeover

National security grounds are being cited by the government as a reason to intervene in the Nvidia bid to buy Arm from Softbank. “Following careful consideration of the proposed takeover of ARM, I have today issued an intervention notice on national security grounds,” states Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport Oliver Dowden, ...

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Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter takes flight on Red Planet

The first test flight of NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter has successfully completed. It becomes the first ever aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet. Telemetry analysis reports the craft as having performed: spin up, take off, flying, hovver, descent, landing, touch down and spin down. You can hear ground control, in the video below, ...

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Siemens and Google Cloud hook up on factory automation

Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s data and AI/ML technologies into its factory automation products. By combining Google Cloud’s data cloud and AI/ML capabilities with Siemens’ Digital Industries Factory Automation portfolio, manufacturers will be able to harmonise their factory data, run cloud-based AI/ML models on top of that data, and deploy algorithms at the network ...

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ULEMCo raises £500k

ULEMCo, the Liverpool hydrogen-powered vehicle pioneer, has closed an equity funding round of almost half a million pounds from Equity Gap and Scottish Enterprise. ULEMCo converts large vehicles to run on hydrogen dual fuel, on hydrogen alone and in hydrogen fuel cells. The new funds will be used within the overall business plans to build ULEMCo’s ...

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Biden and Suga to spend $4.5bn on 6G

Following their weekend summit in Washington, President Joe Biden and and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are to co-develop key technologies including a $4.5 billion investment in 6G. Together, the United States and Japan will: Advance secure and open 5G networks, including Open Radio Access Networks (“Open-RAN”), by fostering innovation and by promoting trustworthy vendors and diverse ...

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