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Completing a dream: the first Round-the-World solar flight in history

“We have now just watched our shared dream unveil, becoming a reality. It’s with great emotion that I write this last blog to report on the Round-the-World solar flights. Emotions, tears, relief, exhilaration is what we are all feeling …

Download the new Arduino IDE 1.6.10!

“Great news, Makers! We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the Arduino IDE 1.6.10, AVR core 1.6.12 and SAM core 1.6.9. The most notable feature of this release is the introduction of …

Mercedes-Benz is presenting the first fully electric truck for heavy distribution operations

“The world’s most successful truck manufacturer Daimler Trucks is presenting the Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck, as the first fully electric truck with an admissible total weight of up to 26 tons. This means that in future, heavy trucks will take …

Microchip Releases Demonstration Platform Based on Industry’s Lowest Power BLE Sensor Node for IoT Applications

“Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today released a demonstration platform for the world’s lowest-power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) sensor node. The platform comes complete with the award-winning ultra-low-power …

New movie screen allows for glasses-free 3-D at a larger scale

“3-D movies immerse us in new worlds and allow us to see places and things in ways that we otherwise couldn’t. But behind every 3-D experience is something that is uniformly despised: those goofy glasses. Fortunately, there may be …

Researching 3D Printing Technology on the Space Station

“Crew members on the International Space Station re-installed the first 3D printer in orbit, during the week of June 27, 2016, to continue research on the developing technology and how it can be used in space. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams …

Scientists program cells to remember and respond to series of stimuli

“Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in response to disease markers. In a step toward devising much more complex cellular circuits, MIT engineers …

Surround 360 is now open source

“Today we officially open-sourced the specs for Surround 360, our high-quality 3D-360 hardware and software video capture system. The open source project includes the hardware camera design and software stitching code that makes end-to-end 3D-360 video capture possible in one …

Toshiba Starts World’s First Sample Shipment of 64-Layer 3D Flash Memory

“Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today unveiled the latest generation of its BiCS FLASHTM three-dimensional (3D) flash memory with a stacked cell structure1, a 64-layer device that will be first2 in the world to start sample shipments today. The …

A battery inspired by vitamins

“Harvard researchers have identified a whole new class of high-performing organic molecules, inspired by vitamin B2, that can safely store electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind power in large batteries. The development builds on previous work in …