MIT’s dacing, prancing, jumping footballing cheetahs weigh 20lb and can run at 6mph. The machines can perform a 360deg back-flip from a standing position. ‘When it’s running, its feet are only on the ground for something like 150 milliseconds at a time, during which a computer tells it to increase the force on the foot, ...
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It has now been a few months since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, writes Jenny List on Hackaday. While significantly faster than the Pi 3 on paper, its propensity for overheating would end up throttling down the CPU clock even with the plethora of aftermarketheatsinks and fans. The Raspberry Pi folks have been working ...
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Applied Materials has opened its Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), aimed at speeding customer prototyping of new materials, process technologies and devices. Located at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) campus in Albany, New York, the META Center’s cleanroom provides customers and partners access to state-of-the-art process systems to help ...
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The Prince of Wales met the President and Chief Executive Officer, of NMiTE (New Model in Engineering and Technology) Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon and NMiTE Trial Learner Samuel Whitby during a visit, last week, to Herefordshire based technology company, ETL Systems. Photo shows: Ian Hilditch, ETL Systems; HRH Prince Charles; Dr Esen Bayar, ETL Systems The Prince of ...
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For National STEM Day Today, RS Components is sending Dr. Lucy Rogers, Ph.D. on a mission to find the engineering edge in sometimes little-known, but important, places. As a follow-up to its “History Makers” podcast, RS Componentsand its online engineering community,DesignSpark, are debuting on National STEM Day (November 8) a new podcast, The Engineering Edge, hosted ...
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Solid State Disks (SSD) has launched HotBackup, a solid state ‘live host’ backup for use in process and mission critical legacy computer systems in the telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial process control, engineering and manufacturing, oil and gas, mil/aero and media post-production industries. Utilizing twin CompactFlash cards, HotBackup is presented to the host system as a ...
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Bill Gates has warned against US government paranoia about China. Gates suggested at the New York Times DealBook Conference that Huawei could follow the example of Microsoft and provide source code to the US government which would allay fears about its products. When the event moderator said that the US government was unlikely to see ...
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Smartphone shipments increased 0.8% y-o-y in Q3 after seven quarters of decline, says IDC. 358.3 million smartphones were shipped during the quarter, which was up 8.1% from the previous quarter and enough to return the industry to positive growth. India led emerging markets in total, which together were responsible for propelling worldwide growth, mainly from ...
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After ending its US custom core design effort for Exynos processors, Samsung is expected to return to using Arm cores. “Samsung has decided to transition part of our US-based R&D teams in Austin and San Jose,” says Samsung. It is thought that around 290 jobs will be lost. It is believed that Samsung has not found external ...
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More than 50% of smartphones sold worldwide in 2023 will use AMOLED, says IHS Markit, up from about 30% in 2019. Total AMOLED shipments are forecasted to rise to 825 million units in 2023. Due to their advantages in flexibility, image quality and power consumption, AMOLEDs are rapidly claiming market share from the TFT-LCD, long ...
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