23/05/2018
In the 'Year of Engineering', engineering skills are taking centre stage and the Skills Commission inquiry, which is co-chaired by Lucy Allan MP, Preet Gill MP and Professor Sandra McNally, is taking evidence as to why women are so badly under-represented within engineering courses, and whether upcoming skills system reforms will encourage more women to go into the profession.
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20/05/2018
Last week Synopsys released its Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report for 2017, and it has raised some serious issues.
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14/05/2018
Apple, Intel, Microsoft and Uber are among a number of businesses who have been given the greenlight by the US government for ten pilot drone projects - including mapping, aircraft inspection and food delivery.
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08/05/2018
The UK Government has confirmed plans for a British Global Navigation Satellite System are under consideration.
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01/05/2018
News that a £400m government plan to build electric car charging points is going to be delayed will be a blow for car manufacturers and for those attempting to curb high levels of pollution in cities across the UK.
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26/04/2018
The European Commission (EC) has just announced a major push on Artificial Intelligence (AI) coordinated across member states, including more spending, business partnerships and training schemes.
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25/04/2018
Cambridge Consultants have unveiled, what they are calling, the world’s smartest car park in a move that takes deep learning out of the laboratory.
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23/04/2018
News that Qualcomm has begun to lay-off full time and temporary workers, as part of a broader cost-cutting plan, comes at a tricky time for the US company.
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16/04/2018
A new report from the House of Lords says that the UK is well positioned to become a world leader in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The wider adoption of AI and the UK’s position within this market could provide a significant boost to the economy going forward.
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12/04/2018
Researchers at MIT have created a wearable device, called AlterEgo, that can read people’s minds when they use their internal voice. So, while they appear to be silent to the outside world they are able to control devices and ask queries without speaking.
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10/04/2018
According to the National Cyber Security Centre criminal online attacks against UK firms were on the increase last year.
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09/04/2018
The news that Uber has been forbidden by the US state governor of Arizona to resume self-driving tests is certainly a blow for the company but it has also raised some serious questions regarding the self-driving concept itself.
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03/04/2018
Could the impact of artificial intelligence and robots on people’s jobs be less than previously thought?
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03/04/2018
News that Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers, replacing processors from Intel, raises some interesting questions for the industry.
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26/03/2018
News that video from the self-driving car crash, in which a US pedestrian was killed, suggests a ‘catastrophic failure’ of the technology being used by Uber raises some serious questions not only for the company but for everyone involved in autonomous vehicles.
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26/03/2018
When I started covering this industry as a reporter with Electronics Times in 1980, we were getting excited about things like the Intel 80286, which integrated 134,000 transistors and was produced on a 1.5µm process. We saw the beginning of the PC era with the launch of the IBM PC and Japan threatening to dominate the electronics industry.
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21/03/2018
The debate about autonomous vehicles was fairly heated, even before the unfortunate death of a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, the other night. Now, that debate has stepped up a level.
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20/03/2018
Radar stations are currently tracking something like 18,000 objects in orbit and of those only 7 percent are said to be functioning satellites. The rest is space debris.
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15/03/2018
3M has released the findings of a new survey – State of Science Index – to mark British Science Week and has found that almost nine out of 10 adults in the UK say they would encourage their children to pursue a science-related career and that despite most of those questioned never wanting one for themselves.
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14/03/2018
I suggested the other day that the Qualcomm-Broadcom ‘will they, won’t they?’ acquisition was set to run and run. But I have been proven wrong by the intervention of US president Donald Trump, who concluded that such a deal would ‘impair the national security of the US’.
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14/03/2018
The first anniversary of the UK's Digital Strategy has seen the Government announce the winners of a £25million competition to pave the way for a future rollout of 5G technology in the UK.
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12/03/2018
Another week, another report highlighting the industry’s apparent inability to grasp the importance of security.
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09/03/2018
According to Apple’s latest audit of its suppliers it has found an increased number of serious violations of its labour and environmental policies. The company had recently extended the scope of its annual audit and has found that some suppliers have been falsifying work hours data.
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08/03/2018
Gender parity is said to be 200 years away and much progress still needs to be made. However, changes are happening and on International Woman's Day, we wanted to celebrate the progress we have made.
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07/03/2018
Back in 2016, Infineon reached an agreement with Cree under which it would acquire its Wolfspeed division, which develops SiC, GaN and RF power devices. But the deal fell through when it became apparent that US regulators wouldn’t give their approval.
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