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Wing launches commercial air delivery service in Canberra

“Wing envisions a future when everyone can have access to goods they need as soon as they need them, delivered straight to their doorstep. Today, we are excited to be launching our first air delivery service in North Canberra. Our …

Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers

“New architecture promises to cut in half the energy and physical space required to store and manage user data. MIT researchers have designed a novel flash-storage system that could cut in half the energy and physical space required for one …

Advanced Chipset from STMicroelectronics Brings New 100W Power-over-Ethernet Standard to Connectivity and Smart-Building Applications

“A new chipset from STMicroelectronics lets users quickly build reliable and space-efficient Powered Devices (PDs) to take advantage of the latest IEEE 802.3bt Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) specification. The PM8804 and PM8805 provide the PoE-converter circuitry for PDs up to class-8 …

Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites so it can offer broadband internet from space

““Project Kuiper” is Amazon’s plan to launch 3,236 satellites to build a network to provide global high-speed internet. The move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos. There’s a race among several major players to build …

Controlling pressure-driven ionic flow by voltage at molecular scale

“Similar to our computers which handle electrons to perform the calculations and logics, all the circuitry in living beings is based on the transport of ions, such as sodium, chloride, calcium, etc. Nature exploits incredibly subtle transport of these elementary …

Copper-Based Alternative for Next-Generation Electronics

“Japanese scientists have developed a technique to transform a copper-based substance into a material that mimics properties of precious and pricey metals, such as gold and silver. The new medium, made of copper nanoparticles (very small copper-based structures) has promising …

Cryptography That Can’t Be Hacked

“Researchers have just released hacker-proof cryptographic code — programs with the same level of invincibility as a mathematical proof. rogrammers are human, but mathematics is immortal. By making programming more mathematical, a community of computer scientists is hoping to eliminate the …

Highly Economical LED Street Lights Tested in Practice

“Special Interconnection of Many LEDs – Implementation in Series Under Way – Far Reduced Costs of Public Lighting Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a novel, even more economical LED street light. They replaced conventional high-performance diodes by a …

Intel Driving Data-Centric World with New 10nm Intel Agilex FPGA Family

“Intel announced today a brand-new product family, the Intel® Agilex™ FPGA. This new family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) will provide customized solutions to address the unique data-centric business challenges across embedded, network and data center markets. “The race …

MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing

“Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs. A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change …