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Teardown: Meta Quest 3S

Thu 16 Jan 2025

This diminutive device tracks vital health signs and physical activity, but does its environmental impact override the technological advance?

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Virtual Reality

Consumer Technology

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Trump II – This Time It’s Personal

Fri 10 Jan 2025

What happens in the US affects the world, so Donald Trump’s election victory has implications for everyone, including in the tech sector.

Chipmakers

Climate Change

Artificial Intelligence

Consumer Technology

Politics

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Editor's comment: New ways of thinking (artificially)...

Fri 10 Jan 2025

These are interesting times for artificial intelligence (AI). Unquestionably the technology of our day, it seems to have the weight of our expectations across the technology sector on its shoulders. AI, it seems, is the answer to everything – it can be sprinkled like fairy dust on to a problem and a solution will emerge.

Artificial Intelligence

Energy

Energy Efficiency

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Are insect brains the secret to energy efficient AI?

Fri 10 Jan 2025

From algorithms that mimic honeybee navigation to spiking neural nets and tiny drones running on neuromorphic chips, efforts to copy the functions of insect and animal brains have major implications for AI and robotics.

Artificial Intelligence

Energy

Energy Efficiency

Nature

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How Britain is building its battery future

Fri 10 Jan 2025

The UK has strategic ambitions to build several battery factories in the coming years. We find out how the sector is getting along.

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Engineering the solution to the forever chemicals problem

Fri 10 Jan 2025

A family of toxic, indestructible chemicals have contaminated the planet over the past 80 years, risking people’s health. Engineers are now racing to find ways to scrub those chemicals from our environment.

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Ground-penetrating radar reveals 15th-century secret passageways under Milan's Sforza Castle

Tue 21 Jan 2025

Numerous secret passages have been discovered under Milan’s Sforza Castle, some of which were immortalised in drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Trump’s day one executive orders target the Paris Agreement, EVs and AI

Tue 21 Jan 2025

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement just hours after taking office.

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Sweden to construct test reactor on its path to building ‘Europe’s first advanced SMR’

Tue 21 Jan 2025

Uniper SE, a German energy supply company, and Blykalla AB, a Swedish producer of advanced small modular reactor (SMR) technology, have signed a deal to start work on building a test reactor near the coastal town of Oskarshamn, Sweden.

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Wildfires and fossil fuel burning caused record surge in atmospheric CO2 levels in 2024

Mon 20 Jan 2025

The biggest-ever annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels has been recorded by a Hawaii-based atmospheric monitoring station.

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UK loses out on 29 years of modernisation due to government’s approach to tech procurement

Mon 20 Jan 2025

A new report from the National Audit Office calls for the UK government to improve how it works with technology suppliers to prevent further missed opportunities to modernise government.

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Local council to rely solely on AI to find potholes needing repair

Mon 20 Jan 2025

AI is going to be deployed by Surrey County Council to help it detect potholes so they can be swiftly repaired.

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TikTok banned in the US for less than a day after Trump intervention

Mon 20 Jan 2025

Popular short-form video app TikTok was temporarily banned for US users yesterday following the culmination of its owner’s legal challenge to the Supreme Court.

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Sweden breaks ground on repository to bury radioactive waste from nuclear power plants

Fri 17 Jan 2025

When complete the final storage facility will hold 12,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel at a depth of 500 metres.

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UK government urged to tap into solar carport potential as Sunshine Bill returns to parliament

Fri 17 Jan 2025

Renewable energy company RenEnergy is urging the government to tap into the potential of installing solar PV panels on the roofs of commercial carports across the UK.

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Millions in Arctic regions face infrastructure risks from thawing permafrost, study finds

Fri 17 Jan 2025

Up to three million people living in Arctic regions are at risk from thawing permafrost due to climate change, a study led by Umeå University has found.

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Millions in Arctic regions face infrastructure risks from thawing permafrost, study finds

Fri 17 Jan 2025

Up to three million people living in Arctic regions are at risk from thawing permafrost due to climate change, a study led by Umeå University has found.

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Prototype fusion energy plant could be built in UK with £410m taxpayer investment

Thu 16 Jan 2025

Ministers have pledged £410m to support the rapid development of fusion energy technology in the UK, with the hope that a prototype plant could be built by 2040.

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From the archives: The invention of Christmas tree lights, the first steam train ride

Thu 12 Dec 2024

Tanya Weaver looks back at a fiery start for the steam locomotive, the beginnings of a Christmas tradition and ‘genius’ Hertha Ayrton

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‘World’s largest’ seawater heat pump starts operations in Denmark

Mon 2 Dec 2024

MAN Energy Solutions’s industrial-scale seawater heat pump located at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, starts delivering sustainable heating to 25,000 households.

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Interview: talking techno-panic with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Tue 17 Oct 2023

There’s nothing new in techno-panic, says psychologist and AI thought leader Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, But, as he outlines in “I, Human”, today could be the moment when technology really does make us look to our own humanity.

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Simon Johnson on ‘Power and Progress’ and ‘the thousand-year backstory for ChatGPT’

Wed 14 Jun 2023

Despite tech billionaires’ inspirational promises of a brave new world for everyone, innovation has a long history of merely empowering the elite, says Simon Johnson.

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Teardown: Meta Quest 3S

Thu 16 Jan 2025

This diminutive device tracks vital health signs and physical activity, but does its environmental impact override the technological advance?

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The year in review: 2024’s biggest technology and engineering stories

Mon 23 Dec 2024

As the year draws to a close, we at E+T magazine have been looking back at some of the most important trends in engineering and technology over the past year.

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UK government urged to tap into solar carport potential as Sunshine Bill returns to parliament

Fri 17 Jan 2025

Renewable energy company RenEnergy is urging the government to tap into the potential of installing solar PV panels on the roofs of commercial carports across the UK.

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‘World’s largest’ solar power and battery storage gigascale project to be built in Abu Dhabi

Thu 16 Jan 2025

Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy company Masdar and Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) have announced the launch of the ‘world’s largest’ combined solar and battery energy storage system (BESS).

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Automotive

Trump’s day one executive orders target the Paris Agreement, EVs and AI

Tue 21 Jan 2025

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement just hours after taking office.

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China-based WeRide to start a driverless shuttle service at Zurich Airport

Mon 13 Jan 2025

China-based autonomous driving start-up WeRide is to follow a dedicated route transporting employees to various areas of Zurich Airport starting in early 2025.

Autonomous Vehicles

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How software can help make mandatory climate reporting easier for small and medium-sized companies

Fri 20 Dec 2024

Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and Europe are under increasing pressure to manage and report progress on their sustainability efforts.

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Designing Next-Generation Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology for Better Life in Space

Thu 12 Dec 2024

NASA combines thermal modelling and experimental testing to find the best compressor design for the system that keeps the air breathable at the International Space Station.

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Sandvik introduces 14-week paid parental leave for all employees

Fri 8 Nov 2024

Sandvik is rolling out a new gender-neutral parental leave program that enables employees around the world to take 14 weeks of paid leave.

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Modelling Cables & Power Electronics

Fri 25 Oct 2024

The shift toward the electrification of vehicles and the expansion of the electrical grid for renewable energy integration has led to a considerable increase in the demand for power electronics devices and modernised cable systems — applications that will help ensure a consistent and long-term electricity supply.

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What’s in store for Advanced Engineering attendees?

Tue 1 Oct 2024

Advanced Engineering, the UK’s premier annual event for the engineering and manufacturing sectors, has announced this year’s keynote speakers. The six industry leaders — and 150 plus other speakers — will share their expertise and insights on critical industry issues during talks across several different forums. The two-day show will take place at the NEC in Birmingham on October 30 and 31, 2024.

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Demystify ecommerce technologies with the BIG B2B Catalogue

Wed 7 Aug 2024

n today's digital era, the B2B industry is rapidly expanding online. This directory offers insights into innovative solutions and how to seamlessly integrate them into your business operations.

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Thermal Health Monitoring for the Built Environment: Accelerating Product Development with COMSOL Simulations

Tue 23 Jul 2024

This webinar will explore how lean technical teams can leverage simulation to reduce the cost and increase the speed of product development cycles in the advanced materials sector.

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Evolution of the MXO oscilloscope family

Thu 27 Jun 2024

The new MXO 5 oscilloscope adds more channels and higher bandwidths to the MXO series. The MXO 5 is the first 8-channel oscilloscope from Rohde & Schwarz and simplifies power sequence measurements, compliance testing for automotive ethernet and EMI pre-compliance testing.

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Designing Hyper Energy Efficient Facilities

Thu 13 Jun 2024

This Webinar offers a guide to these up-to-date standards and technology to help specify and design future-proof electrical systems that deliver optimal energy efficiency throughout the entire building life cycle.

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AI is bridging the gap between physical and digital engineering

Fri 31 May 2024

By Keith Perrin, Dr. Kambiz Kayvansash and Dr. Guillaume Boisot, Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division

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