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Age 116, Kane Tanaka of Japan was recently crowned the oldest person on Earth. She's six years shy of the longest human life on record: 122 years and 164 days reached by a French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, before her ...

Blog The plenary sessions at this year's Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) demonstrate the significance of power electronics in enabling advances in disruptive technologies such as robotics, clean energy... Sta...

News Qualcomm has notched a win in its worldwide legal battle with Apple, announcing Friday that a jury in a federal court in San Diego found Apple infringed on three Qualcomm patents and owes the chip giant $31 million ...

Videos "We explore a range of projects that turn light into a powerful medium for data communication and object or behavioral sensing," says Xia Zhou, an associate professor of computer science. "Our recent projects... C...

Blog Industry experts answer the question: Given the importance of reliable, energy-efficient battery technology, do you think existing battery chemistries such as lithium-ion will be the solution or will new... Contribu...

News A floating island of solar panels is being tested in Chile as a way to generate clean energy and reduce water loss at mine operations, a cornerstone of the Andean country's economy that uses huge amounts... Contribu...

Videos The paving crew extended a mixer truck's chute over the stainless steel electrodes that make up part of a heated pavement technology developed by Iowa State University engineers. And then came the other... Contrib...

News When cyberthieves attacked Empire Industries' computer network, technology manager Rich Shemanskis could see files in the process of being infected by malicious software. "We were looking at the network... Contribut...

News The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission shows how cracks cutting across Antarctica's Brunt ice shelf are on course to truncate the shelf and release an iceberg about the size of Greater London - it's just a... Contr...

Product Announcement congatec presents a SMARC 2.0 Quick Starter Kit for the new NXP i.MX 8 QuadMax processor family. The kit offers everything developers need for the immediate evaluation of the new NXP i.MX 8 processor...

Product Announcement TE Connectivity (TE) has introduced a sliding power connector. This is one of the only connectors of its kind that allows for hot swapping (serviceability) of components in a server drawer without sh...

News Antennas catch radio waves, a form of electromagnetic radiation, from the air and convert the energy into electrical signals that feed modern telecommunications. They can also convert electrical signals into radio w...

News People in remote regions can receive a reliable 4G connection by linking their LTE phones to satellites, thanks to Lockheed Martin's new LTE-over-Satellite system. The connectivity boost can help areas currently... ...

News Smartphones contain billions of tiny switches called transistors that allow us to take care of myriad tasks beyond making calls -- sending texts, navigating neighborhoods, snapping selfies and Googling names.... Con...

News Passengers travelling through busy airports should soon face fewer delays and have a lower environmental impact, thanks to efforts to use airspace more efficiently. The Iris programme seeks to equip aircraft... Cont...

News A little piece of technology is making a big splash in Australia's space industry. So what on (and off) Earth is a CubeSat? In case the name hasn't given it away, CubeSats are small, block-shaped satellites... Contr...

Blog An industry expert answers the question: What do you see as the main challenges in developing a reliable, efficient power grid to meet our nation's future energy needs... Contributed Author: ECN Staff Topics: Power

News Driverless cars, robot volunteers and ultra high-definition TV: Japan Inc. hopes to use the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to show the world it has regained its touch for innovation and technology. The last time Japan host... ...

News A UK-German team of astronomers has conducted observations of a peculiar radio magnetar known as XTE J1810-197, which turned on in December 2018 after an almost decade-long period of quiescence... Contributed Author...

News It's a difficult choice: Go hungry or go it alone. When soldiers are weighed down on the battlefield by food supplies and the heavy battery packs that power their communication equipment, they often choose to... Con...

News It can be used to cool or heat the air in a room or to cool or heat liquids. And it looks like something that Q--the tech specialist and gadgeteer in the James Bond films--might have come up with. The prototype... C...

(University of California - Berkeley) People left blind by retinal degeneration have one option: electronic eye implants. UC Berkeley neuroscientists have developed an alternative: gene therapy that, in tests, restored v...