On 10 August, a jury of six men and six women rendered a verdict in favor of LED maker Lumileds LLC of San Jose, CA, USA, finding that a Chinese competitor stole trade secrets related to Lumileds core technology for making high-power LEDs ...
Tags: LED, LED technology
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has approved driverless testing and public use rules for autonomous vehicles. The new rules, which will come into effect from April this year, no longer require a human driver at the wheel ...
Mercedes Benz-maker Daimler has broken ground at its new factory to produce the next generation S-Class and electric vehicles at its Sindelfingen plant in Germany. Mercedes-Benz Cars presents its "Factory 56", the world's most modern car ...
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Bridgelux Inc of Fremont, CA, USA (a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications) has filed a counter claim against Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd in the US District Court for the ...
Tags: Bridgelux, LED products
The European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (EUROPEN), along with other 66 EU and national industry associations, are urging the EU to protect the free movement of packaged goods. The loss of the internal market legal base ...
Tags: Packaged Goods, Packaging
General Motors (GM) has been accused of using a device in its diesel-powered vehicles in order to cheat on emissions tests, similar to Volkswagen scandal. A group of more than 700,000 owners and lessees of GM’s Chevrolet Silverado ...
Tags: General Motors, Diesel Emissions
On 31 March, South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd (SSC) filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany in the District Court of Düsseldorf against global electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics Inc asserting ...
Tags: Semiconductor, LEDs
There’s good news on the horizon for Nintendo Switch owners plagued by Joy-Con syncing issues – Nintendo may have a fix. Since the Nintendo Switch earlier this month, Zelda fans have endlessly bemoaned the left Joy-Con ...
Waymo has filed a lawsuit against Uber and its subsidiary Otto for allegedly stealing key parts the self-driving technology. The self-driving subsidiary of Google claims that one of its former employees Anthony Levandowski had downloaded ...
Tags: Waymo, Self-Driving Technology
Argus Cyber Security has unveiled a new integrated solution to improve security capabilities of connected vehicles. The solution features Argus Connectivity Protection suite and the highly-integrated Qualcomm Snapdragon 820A processor, a ...
There were howls of derision in some quarters this week when Apple announced a $300 book, effectively full of press renders of computers and phones. The Designed By Apple in California book, which our own Sean Keach described as a ...
A jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Playboy Enterprises against Play Beverages and CirTran Beverage, awarding Playboy $7m in damages. Iehab Hawatmeh is a principal of the defeated Play Beverages and CirTran Beverage, as well ...
Tags: Cirtran Beverage, Play Beverages
4A Games has quietly confirmed that a third title in the post-apocalyptic Metro franchise is creeping our way next year. The snowy, terrifying and beautifully atmospheric shooter series has already produced two memorable entries, and the ...
Tags: Metro 2035, 4A Games
China's foreign exchange reserves shrank for a fourth straight month in October, the central bank said Monday. The world's largest currency hoard fell to 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars last month, down 45.7 billion dollars from September, ...
Tags: Forex Reserves, foreign exchange
The next entry in Crystal Dynamics’ Lara Croft trilogy is currently known as Shadow of the Tomb Raider. That is, according to a sneaky photo of a presentation a developer was caught looking at on the subway earlier this week. ...
Tags: Tomb Raider