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Technology innovation can happen at any place at any time. As rental prices for prime real estate in large cities continues to rise, startup companies and innovation centers look to the surrounding areas. While some cities like Kansas City hoped to attract entrepreneurs and technology innovators with its Google Fiber installation, it wasn’t enough. It soon found out that it...

A new challenge is open to find ideas to help decarbonise and improve cities’ environmental footprints. ‘Internet of Things (IoT) for Greener Cities’ is a new challenge launched by the World Economic Forum (WEF). It aims to find and develop cutting edge technologies, based on the IoT and other digital innovations, which could be introduced in homes, buildings and cities to...

Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow‘s company makes in-space habitats. One (the BEAM adds 16 cubic meters of living area to the ISS) is now attached to the International Space Station and he and his company are developing permanent, stand-alone habitats to serve as private space stations in orbit around the Earth, ready to house private astronauts. Bigelow has talked with...

With almost 8 billion souls to feed and a changing climate to deal with, there’s never been a better time to field a meaningful “Internet of Agriculture.” But the expansive fields that make industrial-scale agriculture feasible work against the deployment of sensors and actuators because of a lack of infrastructure to power and connect everything. So a low-power radio...

New 50 to 100 MHz oscilloscopes have professional-level functionality, software analysis Highlights: Ideal for students and new scope users Includes an educator's resource kit with built-in training signals and comes standard with a comprehensive oscilloscope lab guide at no additional cost Unique 6-in-1 instrument integration gives users even more value for their investment, including a Keysight exclusive feature—built-in frequency response...

Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the global distributor for engineers, received the Turnaround of the Year Award at the national PLC Awards 2016 gala dinner and ceremony, which took place last night at The Grosvenor Hotel in London. The Turnaround of the Year Award is judged by a panel of leading institutional fund managers and investment brokers. The category encompasses companies...

Amazon is to install solar panels at its warehouses and distribution centers around the world.In an announcement on Thursday, the online retail giant said it was planning to install large-scale solar systems on the rooftops of over 15 "fulfillment" and "sortation" centers across the U.S. this year. The initial projects, set to be completed by the end of this year,...

Information security, cybersecurity, IT security, and computer security are all terms that we often use interchangeably. I know that I do. I’ve written a lot about those areas for the past several years. I notice that sometimes I switch between the terms in an article simply to avoid repeating the same phrases over and over again in my prose. Very often,...

When we talk about climate change, two of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces are how will we feed ourselves when the weather gets crazy and where will we get reliable, low carbon energy. A project in Port Augusta, South Australia appears to offer a partial answer to both of these problems: Producing 15,000 tons of pesticide-free tomatoes (that's...

Manufacturers, suppliers and academia gather to understand the road ahead MILPITAS, Calif. — Semiconductor manufacturing thought leaders will convene at the annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC 2017) on May 15-18 in Saratoga Springs, New York. The conference will feature 35 hours of technical presentations and over 100 experts addressing all aspects of advanced semiconductor manufacturing. This year’s event...