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SoftBank + ARM £24.3bn investment in future of technology

“Two companies with a shared vision of pushing the limits of technology. Coming together to accelerate ARM’s leadership in technologies for the future. Assurance to create over 1,500 additional ARM jobs in the UK over the next five …

Stanford students get creative with robots

“After learning new software and programming languages, Stanford students in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have an opportunity to choose a creative task and design a robot to perform the task for demonstration. The tasks call for a wide range of …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Announces Heavy Truck, Ride Sharing Fleet of Cars

“Elon Musk failed to capture investors’ imaginations with his latest “master plan” for Tesla Motors Inc., a 1,500-word manifesto laying out lofty ambitions for an integrated solar and battery product and, someday, electric trucks and buses. Tesla shares slid …

TI introduces the industry’s fastest isolated gate driver for high-voltage applications

” Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced the industry’s fastest 5.7-kVRMS isolated dual-channel gate driver, the first of a new gate driver family in TI’s isolation portfolio. The UCC21520’s flexible, universal compatibility enables its use as …

World premiere: Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot – a milestone on the way to the autonomous city bus, and a revolutionary mobility system for the future

“Megacities, traffic gridlock, environmental problems – the hot topics are the same on every continent. Under these circumstances, people’s need for mobility to attend work and school and take recreation, cannot be met by private transport alone. Daimler as a …

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC Announces New DMOS Microstepping Driver with Translator and Overcurrent Protection

“Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces a new integrated bipolar stepper motor driver IC with built-in translator for easy operation. Allegro’s A5985 is designed to operate bipolar stepper motors from full-step up to 1/32 step modes that are selectable by …

Berkeley Lab Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits

“In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets —scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way to chemically assemble transistors …

Curiosity Mars Rover Resumes Full Operations

“NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is resuming full operations today, following work by engineers to investigate why the rover put itself into a safe standby mode on July 2. The rover team brought Curiosity out of safe mode on July …

Discovery Could Dramatically Boost Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells

“Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting the efficiency of perovskite solar cells hidden in the nanoscale peaks and valleys of the crystalline material. Solar cells …

Graphene Flexes its Muscles in Boise State Study

“A team of researchers from Boise State University, led by Eric Krueger and David Estrada, have published an article in the American Chemical Society’s Biomaterials Science and Engineering journal. Titled “Graphene Foam as a 3-dimensional Platform for Myotube Growth …