A partnership between Groupe PSA and AImotive aims to deliver Level 4 (mind off) autonomous cars capable of attaining speeds of up to 130km/h.Via a highway pilot programme based, the project will deploy AI based functionalities, including adaptive cruise control, fully automated lane change, autonomous take-over and collision avoidance. The partn...

The UK government has announced six areas in the UK that will shortly be trying out broadband technology that provides data at speeds approaching one gigabit per second (gbps).The pilots for the "full-fibre" network technology will be run in Aberdeenshire, West Sussex, Coventry and Warwickshire, Bristol, West Yorkshire and Greater Man...

A silver micron-particle sintering joining technology has been developed by scientists at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University.The research, conducted as part of the Advanced Low CArbon Technology Research and Development Program (ALCA) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), has developed a low-temper...

Scientists at the University of Sussex have developed a new algorithm that will enable smartwatches to detect and record an individual’s movements, without being told beforehand what to look for.At present while smartwatches are able to recognise a limited number of particular activities, in order to do so they have to be programmed in ad...

A way to stop frequency fluctuation in buck converters has been found by a research team of scientists from Golestan University in Iran, US Concordia University, and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.Buck converters, or step down converters, put out less power than they receive, and the tracking signals in the output can get stu...

A device being developed by Washington State University physicists could turn the heat generated by an array of electronics into a usable fuel source.According to the scientists, the device is a multicomponent, multilayered composite van der Waals Schottky diode. They claim it converts heat into electricity up to three times more efficiently th...

An SMT board-to-board connector developed by Hirose features a three piece floating contact system to simplify assembly and support data rates of up to 15Gbit/s.Designed for high-speed transmission applications that require multiple stacking connectors on the same PCB, the 0.5mm pitch FX10-3 series connector has a floating contact mechanism tha...

A family of high-performance PXI remote control and bus extension modules featuring PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity has been launched by National Instruments.“As technologies converge into smarter devices under test, you increasingly need to build smarter test and measurement systems that leverage the latest processing and data movement ca...

Finding ways to suppress certain chemical reactions could make compounds such as lithium iodide (LiI) work better in lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, says a team at MIT.The LiI compound was seen as a possible solution to some of the lithium-air battery’s problems – including an inability to sustain many charging-dischargin...

A solution to create rechargeable zinc-air batteries has been found according to researchers from the University of Sydney and Nanyang Technological University.Zinc-air batteries are batteries powered by zinc metal and oxygen from the air. Due to the global abundance of zinc metal, the researchers claim these batteries are much cheaper to produ...