The move by the Government will see the current minimum wage upped from £6.70 per hour to £7.20 this month. But the news has our indie retail panel calling for a reassessment of 'already squeezed margins'. The livng wage ...
Tags: Touhub, The toy store, Kerrison store, Living wages
Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
Nokia is still exploring ways to re-enter the smartphone market, but claims that it isn't in any rush to do so. Back in 2013, Microsoft bought Nokia's mobile phone business for $7.2 billion, and eventually phased out the famous phone ...
Tags: Nokia, Smartphone Market
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has been developing a hybrid technique to create III-nitride tunnel junctions (TJs) using a combination of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy ...
Tags: Gallium Nitride Tunnel, Hybrid
The Minack open-air theatre in Cornwall, built on a craggy cliff overlooking the sea at Porthcurno, is the last place you would expect to see SGM’s award-winning G-Spot strutting its stuff. Situated just four miles from Land’s ...
Tags: SGM, LED Spot lights, Lighting
These days, one of the keys to having a successful business is getting the most bang for your buck. From the smallest one-man shop to the largest multi-national, we're all looking to get the most return from our business investments. In an ...
Tags: LED Displays, digital outdoor sign, Chipshow
Following the footsteps of automakers like Honda and BMW, South Korean automaker Kia has announced that the company will introduce partially-autonomous driving technologies by 2020, followed by the introduction of fully-autonomous cars by ...
Tags: KIA, Partially-Autonomous Cars, DAS
Tianjin and Beijing may be separated by a mere 30 minutes of rail, but the two cities have definitely maintained their own unique flavors of culture, dialect, and cuisine. Chopsticks & Beyond took to Tianjin last Friday, where the cooking ...
Tags: food industry, chefs, contestants
With a history spanning more than two centuries, Peking Opera is regarded as the jewel in the crown of Chinese culture. Born in Beijing in the mid-19th century, it absorbed facets of a variety of performing arts from different provinces ...
Tags: Peking Opera, Zhang Shu, Broadway
Electric car and energy storage company Tesla will launch its new SUV Model X in the next two months, sporting gull-wing doors. The model was unveiled in 2012 by the company, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, says The Telegraph. It was ...
Tags: Electric car, Tesla, SUV
Lectra’s cut order optimisation technology helped improve material consumption by 10-15 per cent and throughput by approximately 20 per cent at Art Stone, a designer and producer of dance apparel. The solution provided ...
Tags: dance apparel, apparel
Axalta Coating Systems, a global manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings, is the title sponsor for this Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway called the Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400. Axalta's sponsorship reflects the ...
Tags: Powder Coatings, Paint, Coating, Construction
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed gallium antimonide (GaSb) thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells on gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates [Bor-Chau Juang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111101, 2015]. The use of GaAs ...
Tags: TPV devices, lattice mismatch, Electronics
Clive Wooster and Damien Weight raise over £1,300 for the charity. Toy industry duo Clive Wooster and Damien Weight have completed their Isle of Wight Challenge to raise over £1,300 for the Brainstrust. The pair (pictured) ...
Tags: Clive wooster, Isle of wight, Toys
Axalta Coating Systems and Pocono Raceway today jointly announced a multi-year partnership that will include an integrated sponsorship campaign and the renaming of this year’s June NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race held at ...
Tags: Coating Systems, social media, Construction