The UK Government has launched the first competition to access funding from its £100 investment program supporting the creation of test facilities for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV). According to the Business, Energy and ...
Tags: CAV, autonomous vehicles
To demonstrate the superior performance of its fully automatic transmissions in difficult conditions and terrain, Allison Transmission hosted a test driving event at The Transportation Science Research Institute in Shibetsu, Hokkaido ...
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Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a group of researchers has synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors (Xufan Li et al, 'Two-dimensional GaSe/MoSe2 ...
Mars Chocolate has completed the acquisition of Hacienda La Chola cocoa farm in Ecuador from Naturisa. Hacienda La Chola is the agricultural unit of Naturisa and located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The latest addition to its network of ...
Tags: Mars chocolate, Acquisition, Hacienda La Chola Cocoa Farm, Naturisa
Cree upgrades the campus of Thermo Fisher Scientific with LEDs and cuts up to 40% of the energy consumption per year. (Cree/LEDinside) After years of searching for the right partner to help implement LED lighting across its Asheville, ...
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Japanese automotive giant Honda has inaugurated its Silicon Valley R&D facility, along with its 2016 Accord flaunting first use of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. With a view to changing the automotive experience of its consumers, the ...
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UK-based plasma etch and deposition processing system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) recently won an order from The City University of New York (CUNY) for its PlasmaPro etch and deposition systems. The PlasmaPro 100 ICP ...
Porsche Engineering Group GmbH, the engineering services provider based in Weissach, signed a comprehensive co-operation agreement with Tongji University in Shanghai in the People's Republic of China. The aim of the agreement is to carry ...
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Researchers have found that electronic cigarettes have established such good reputation among young parents who use them and believe that they are less harmful than the traditional cigarettes. The research was presented during the annual ...
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According to the Brazilian management science research institution - Fundacion Getulio Vargas index, in April Latin American's business environment is actually fell to the October of 2013. The economic climate index of this foundation is at ...
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The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have co-developed inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part ...
Tags: Solar Cells, High-Energy Photons
There is a big effort in industry to produce electrical devices with more and faster memory and logic. Magnetic memory elements, such as in a hard drive, and in the future in what is called MRAM (magnetic random access memory), use ...
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The Food Standards Agency is seeking a contractor to carry out research to explore a model where plant staff acting as spotters identify and flag up defects on carcases and offal. This will happen before the official meat inspection is ...
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Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC