Bees can do simple arithmetic, and AI might benefit. This shows that alongside the arithmetic capability, which apparently involves storing a concept in long-term memory, bees are also using short-term memory to remember the current answer. “If maths doesn’t require a massive brain, there might also be new ways for us to incorporate interactions of ...
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Work is complete on the National Healthcare Photonics Centre in County Durham. The government-supported Centre will support the scale-up and commercialisation of high-tech medical (medtech) products, acting as a hub for businesses of all sizes and academic partners to work on light-based diagnostic, imaging and treatment systems. Its is part of the UK’s Centre for Process ...
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Mouser is sponsoring the Geox Dragon Formula E electric racing car team through the 2018–19 racing season, in collaboration with TTI, Molex and AVX. This is the fifth year that Mouser and Molex have sponsored Formula E racing. “By teaming up with TTI, Molex and AVX to sponsor Formula E, Mouser shows its commitment to ...
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The Government-sponsored Digital Catapult has set-up a laboratory dedicated to low-power wireless area networks at its London headquarters. Called the Future Networks Lab, it has been created with sponsorship and equipment from BT, IBM, PTC, Semtech, ServiceNow, Siemens and Texas Instruments. Technologies covered include LoRaWAN, SigFox, NB-IoT and LTE-M – and it also has a 5G ...
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In the dreams of battery makers, someone gets sodium-ion chemistry to work properly, and lithium is gets replaced with a cheaper more capacious metal. In the real world, sodium ions destroy the surrounding battery structure as they move in and out during use, catastrophically reducing cycle life compared with lithium-ion cells. Using a supercomputer to ...
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An artificial intelligence that is rewarded for exploring unknown situations has played the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge – learning from mistakes and identifying sub-goals 10 times faster than Google DeepMind, according to RMIT University in Australia, where the algorithm was developed. “A 2015 study showed Google DeepMind AI learnt to play Atari video games like Video ...
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ST announces a peak current control synchronous buck dc-dc converter that can idle at 500nA
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Renesas has expanded its RX24T and RX24U 32-bit microcontroller groups to include high-temperature types for motor-control – ‘G’ versions of both will operate from −40°C to +105°C. “Through the IoT, home appliances and industrial machinery are attaining greater functionality based on network connectivity and user interface enhancements and effective use of the limited interior space as ...
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Osram has released a green laser for phone-based projectors, capable of delivering 140mW pulses. Although a projector also needs red and blue lasers, green is the colour that poses the greatest challenges in semiconductor laser and LED production. “Up to now, RGB laser projections for smartphones, based on a red, green and blue laser, often ...
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Researchers at Fraunhofer Umsicht (Fraunhofer institute for environmental, safety and energy technology) have developed a ‘bipolar plate’ (explained below) for bipolar construction batteries (ditto) that is flexible and can be made on a roll-to-roll process. “We manufacture bipolar plates from polymers that have been made electrically conductive,” said Fraunhofer researcher Dr Anna Grevé. “In this way, we ...
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