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Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech

Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech

[ad_1] But it will also see £100m invested in the development of infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, the much talked about ‘driverless cars’. The Chancellor ear-marked £390m for transport technology, including £80m for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and £100m for new connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) testing infrastructure. There was £150m in support for low emission buses and taxis,Read more about Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech[…]

Download of the day: Mozilla Thunderbird

Download of the day: Mozilla Thunderbird

[ad_1] If you’re not already familiar with Thunderbird, we bet you know about its sibling: it’s part of the same project that created the Firefox web browser, and Thunderbird uses Firefox to render content. But where Firefox is all about websites, Thunderbird is all about email and newsgroups. It’s overkill for the occasional Gmail orRead more about Download of the day: Mozilla Thunderbird[…]

Manchester and Nottingham universities find graphene-beater

Manchester and Nottingham universities find graphene-beater

[ad_1] InSe crystals can be made only a few atoms thick and are a better semiconductor than graphene. “Ultra-thin InSe seems to offer the golden middle between silicon and graphene,” says Nobel Laureate Sir Andre Geim co-discoverer of graphene, “similar to graphene, InSe offers a naturally thin body, allowing scaling to the true nanometre dimensions.Read more about Manchester and Nottingham universities find graphene-beater[…]

You can now reserve the uniquely capable UMi Plus E for only $199

You can now reserve the uniquely capable UMi Plus E for only $199

[ad_1] At long last, the wait is finally over for the UMi Plus E powerhouse of a smartphone. That’s because, on November 11, subscriptions went live to reserve UMI’s premium quality handset for the low cost of $199.99 (about £160, AU$267). Thanks to the new 2.3Ghz Helio P20 chipset, the UMi Plus E is capableRead more about You can now reserve the uniquely capable UMi Plus E for only $199[…]

Graphene: the ultimate loudspeaker cone material?

Graphene: the ultimate loudspeaker cone material?

[ad_1] To do this, the firm is replacing the cone and dome diaphragms of loudspeakers with a composite consisting of 95% graphene, 5% binder and possibly other materials. The result has been dubbed a ‘nanocomposite’ and branded ‘Grapheneq’. The composite is both stiff and light, company founder Ari Pinkas told Electronics Weekly – which areRead more about Graphene: the ultimate loudspeaker cone material?[…]

Google says RIP to Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb

Google says RIP to Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb

[ad_1] It’s surprising it hasn’t happened before now, but Google has announced that it will stop supporting two of its oldest Android operating system generation following an upcoming update to Google Play Services.  That means in early 2017 we can wave a fond farewell to Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb, arguably two ofRead more about Google says RIP to Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb[…]

Southampton and St Andrews universities join Leti Si photonics project

Southampton and St Andrews universities join Leti Si photonics project

[ad_1] The Leti-coordinated COSMICC project will combine CMOS electronics and Si-photonics with high-throughput, fiber-attachment techniques. These scalable solutions will provide performance improvement an order of magnitude better than current VCSELs transceivers, and the COSMICC-developed technology will address future data-transmission needs with a target cost per bit that traditional wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transceivers cannot meet. ForRead more about Southampton and St Andrews universities join Leti Si photonics project[…]