The mental images that pop up when considering beautiful wood furniture are typically those of attractive tables and chairs or elaborate chests. A bunk bed or loft bed is not exactly the archetype for stunning wood craftsmanship. But as you ...
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MathWorks is hosting the first Cambridge Student Robot Challenge on Friday March 15th. The competition will test the wits and programming skills of 10 teams of students who will compete to program Lego Mindstorm robots to navigate a ...
ARM and Synopsys say they have taped out the first ARM Mali-T658 design using a 20nm process technology, ARM Artisan physical IP and shader functionality. The resulting RTL-through-sign-off design flow includes double-patterning ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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Researchers have discovered a way to detect explosives by boiling and vapourising them off a silicon MEMS micromachine. “Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapours in ...
Godson-3B1500 is a two-node eight-core 172.8Gflop/s MIPS64-compatible processor from Loongson in Beijing - a company whose processors have been adopted in several tablets. Fabricated in 32nm 10 Cu-layer high-k metal-gate bulk CMOS, it ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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The most fuel-efficient car in the world, the Volkswagen XL1, has been revealed ahead of its official unveiling at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. Volkswagen claims the futuristic two-seater is the first ever production car ...
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Spy photographers have managed to get closer to the new coupe version of the upcoming Mercedes-Benz S-Class, obtaining better images than those snapped last week. The S-Class Coupe would become the replacement for the CL that is based on ...
Cancer researchers have joined forces with astronomers to identify biomarkers that signal a cancer's aggressiveness. In a study published by the British Journal of Cancer, experts from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and the ...
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The Volkswagen Touareg V8 TDI R-Line, the new flagship of the German brand’s big SUV, will cost from $112,990. Pricing has been confirmed following the release of initial images and details for the Touareg V8 TDI back in January. ...
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For 2013 the Electronics Sourcing LIVE event moves to Stadium MK in Milton Keynes (the home of Milton Keynes Dons football club). It takes place on Thursday 16 May. The free one day networking event is designed for the UK electronics ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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High-tech venture capital in the UK and Ireland ended the year on a high note with £209m invested in 60 companies compared to £129m in 48 deals in Q4 2011, says Ascendant, the tech-focussed investment company. Over 2012 as a ...
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Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D ...
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