Government plan reduces red tape for digital businesses

Today, the government publishes its Plan for Digital Regulation which aims to reduce red tape and cut down on cumbersome and confusing policy so businesses are freed to come up with new ideas, grow their firms and create new jobs and prosperity. The vision is to drive prosperity through pro-innovation regulation of digital technologies while ...

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James Webb Space Telescope passes key launch review

The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch, the European Space Agency has confirmed. It will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It’s an international mission, with the joint NASA-ESA–CSA (Canadian Space Agency) space telescope intended to succeed the Hubble Space ...

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Battery dump

78 million batteries will be dumped worldwide every day by 2025 if we do not improve the life span for powering IoT devices, according to EnABLES, an EU funded European Research Infrastructure project involving Tyndall National Institute,  CEA-Leti, CEA-Liten, Fraunhofer IIS, Fraunhofer IMS, imec, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Polytechnic University of Turin, University of Bologna, University of ...

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Chinese buy Newport Wafer Fab

Nexperia, the Chinese-owned former standards product division of NXP, has bought the 40 year-old former Inmos fab in Newport. Nexperia is a foundry customer of the fab now called Newport Wafer Fab and became its second largest shareholder in 2019.  Current capacity is over 35,000 200 mm wpm covering a wide range of semiconductor technologies ...

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Scurrying micro-bot steers by electrostatic grip

Inspired by the way certain insects grip surfaces, Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have added electrostatic adhesion to the feet of their insect-scale robot. In 2019, the team demonstrated an externally-powered layered piezoelectric flexing cockroach-sized mini-machine that could scurry forwards at 20 body lengths per second (~1.5mph). Part of its secret is that it ...

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Sondrel reference design for AI at the Edge In IoT devices

Designed to be the solution for an AI compute device right at the Edge, Sondrel’s new SFA 100 IP reference platform makes creating high-performance, battery-powered IoT devices easy and fast. The design has an onboard Arm CPU to locally process data gathered from its associated sensors for onward transmission via wire or wireless connection for ...

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Hot Rocks

Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) will build four more geothermal power plants in Cornwall after producing geothermal steam using 175degC water from 5km underground at its United Downs plant. Each of the four new plants is expected to supply 5MW of electricity to the National Grid and 20MW of heat to the local area. The electricity ...

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CIS market on a five year CAGR of 5.4% to 2026

The market for CMOS image sensors (CIS) will enjoy a 5.4% CAGR over the next five years to reach a total market of  $28.4 million in 2026, says Yole Développement, last year it rose 7.3%  to reach $20.7 billion. Long production cycles and demand from markets such as consumer, automotive, security, and industrial led to challenges in CIS ...

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Leonardo engineer starts AeroWomen21 network for women in aerospace

When a female engineer working at aerospace company Leonardo couldn’t find a dynamic network to propel her professional career forward, she decided to start one herself. AeroWomen21 has been formed by Olivia Gribler, who works at Leonardo’s Yeovil site at Lysander Road. And it has just held its inaugural event attracting students and some of ...

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