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Norway tests tiny electric plane, sees passenger flights by 2025

“Norway tested a two-seater electric plane on Monday and predicted a start to passenger flights by 2025 if new aviation technologies match a green shift that has made Norwegians the world’s top buyers of electric cars. Transport Minister Ketil …

Researchers Fabricate New Type of Cellulose Nanopaper

“Cellulose nanopaper (CNP) has potential application in the fields of electronic devices, visual display substrates, batteries, barrier material due to its renewability, light-weight, low thermal expansion, excellent mechanical properties and optical properties. However, CNP is sensitive to moisture due to …

Russia Launches Soyuz-2.1b Carrier Rocket With Glonass-M Navigation Satellite

“Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a Glonass-M satellite, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “On Sunday, at 00:46 Moscow time [21:46 GMT]… the Space Forces of the Aerospace …

The Future of AI Needs Better Compute: Hardware Accelerators Based on Analog Memory Devices

“Software-equivalent accuracy achieved with analog memory for faster, lower power neural network training Imagine personalized Artificial Intelligence (AI), where your smartphone becomes more like an intelligent assistant – recognizing your voice even in a noisy room, understanding the context of different …

Arm Mbed OS 5.9 release: Focus on low power, robustness and ease of use

“About this release Mbed OS 5.9 includes the release of device statistics APIs, which allow you to gather critical device information. This is a first step toward giving you power to remotely diagnose the health of IoT devices deployed …

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers create first artificial human prion

“Finding may shed added light on, offer treatment hope for brain-wasting diseases Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease …

Electronic skin stretched to new limits

“A metal carbide within a hydrogel composite senses, stretches and heals like human skin for use in medicine and robotics. An electrically conductive hydrogel that takes stretchability, self-healing and strain sensitivity to new limits has been developed at KAUST. “Our …

Exact Optical Frequencies on Demand

“Caltech’s “fine-toothed” optical comb contributes to a fomenting technological revolution In 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Direct On-Chip Digital Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) program, with the goal of finding a way to synthesize optical frequencies …

Increase System Performance in Closed-loop Control Applications with New PIC and AVR MCUs

“From pool pumps to air handling units, closed-loop control is one of the most fundamental tasks performed by embedded systems. Advancements in the architecture of PIC® and AVR® 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) have optimized the devices for implementing closed-loop control, enabling …

Interfacing With the Brain

“New material improves brain-machine interfaces Chris Bettinger and his group have created a hydrogel material and fabrication process for electrodes that stick to the brain, matching its soft, squishy makeup in order to keep the body from rejecting electronic probes …