Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns has announced that the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult – Wales’ first and the UK’s newest Catapult – will open its Innovation Centre, based in South East Wales, ...
For second-quarter 2018, POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada and San Jose, CA, USA — a designer and manufacturer of optoelectronic devices, including light sources, passive waveguides and photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for ...
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Daimler has inaugurated Lab1886 in Atlanta, Georgia, a new location for the company's innovation hub. Guests at the event included Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, as well as Silicon Valley icon and investor Guy Kawasaki. Lab1886 ...
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Bosch and Daimler have selected and signed an agreement with the US AI computing firm Nvidia as a supplier for the artificial intelligence (AI) platform they need. AI is an important building block in fully automated and driverless ...
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Eastman Kodak has announced Eric-Yves Mahe will assume the role of president of the Consumer and Film Division (CFD), effective immediately. Eric will also continue in his role as president of the Software and Solutions Division. Eric ...
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Daimler Trucks & Buses has established an automated truck research & development center in Portland, Oregon. This innovation facility is already working in close cooperation with existing development functions for automated driving in ...
Mercedes-Benz Cars is extending its capacities for electric cars in Europe with an investment of about €500m to manufacture electric compact car at Hambach plant in France. The Hambach plant in France will produce a compact electric ...
Luminus Devices Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA – which designs and makes LEDs and solid-state light sources for the global illumination market – has expanded its horticulture LED portfolio with new SST-20 series white LEDs to ...
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German automaker Daimler has started production of its Mercedes-Benz A-Class vehicle at the Mercedes-Benz Kecskemét plant in Hungary. This makes the Hungarian plant, about 90 km in the south of Budapest, the second location ...
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Eurofins Scientific has agreed to acquire Covance Food Solutions, the food testing and consulting business of global life sciences company LabCorp, for $670m. The global bioanalytical testing firm said that the acquisition will expand its ...
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Baidu has unveiled Apollo 2.5, the latest version of the open autonomous driving platform, which now supports autonomous driving on geo-fenced highways. At a launch event to celebrate Apollo’s one-year anniversary in Beijing, Baidu ...
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Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have recently found record levels of microplastic in arctic sea ice. However, the majority of particles were microscopically small. The ice ...
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Smurfit Kappa has further invested in its Facture paper mill to meet the growing demand for kraftliner grades in Europe. An upgrade of the mill, which is in South West France, was successfully completed in March following a three-week ...
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An inventor from Cary of North Carolina has developed the HOLD ON, a modification to the current method of packaging cereal so that the contents will be kept fresh. "I developed my invention to keep cereal safe and to make it easier to ...
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Toyota and its luxury brand Lexus are planning to launch technology to connect vehicles and infrastructure in the US in 2021. The two companies plan to deploy dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) systems on vehicles sold in the US ...
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