2016 was the year of Li-ion batteries’ silver jubilee, a coming of age that has not been hassle-free, as Samsung’s Firegate showed us, writes Dr Lorenzo Grande, technology analyst at market research firm IDTechEx. This year might mark the first significant switch to new materials in the electrolyte compartment, with both large and small companies trying to bring inorganic and ...
The Government is too focused on highly-automated private road vehicles, when the early benefits of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) are likely to appear in other sectors, such as marine and agriculture, is one finding of a detailed report on driver-less vehicles prepared by the respected House of Lords science and technology committee. The other three main findings are: The development ...
Large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attacks increased 140% year-over-year from Q4 2015, according to the Q4 2016 ‘state of the internet’ security report from Massachusetts content delivery network firm Akamai Technologies, which carries a significant proportion of global web traffic. It uses data gathered by its own software to analyse threats to cloud security and discover seasonal trends. ...
A new report says it is possible that plastic electronics technology is set to revolutionise the consumer electronics industry, with lower costs.
The market for non-military hybrid and pure electric ships and boats will rise to over $20bn worldwide in 2027
Students should be encouraged to pursue a STEM career while they are of primary school age, according to 50% of STEM professionals responding to a survey by MathWorks, which was intended to reveal reasons behind the UK skill shortage. When asked to consider their own experiences; 40% said they were inspired to love the subjects by their families and 19 per ...
Europe ended Q3 with a slight decline in semiconductor sales, but it was only a “technicality”, according to supply chain market watcher, DMASS. The quarter ended with sales of €1.81bn which was a decline of 0.9%, mainly due to different quarter-end reporting by some members. The worrying news for the UK market, where the effect of the Brexit vote are coming into play, ...
Lithium-ion batteries will dominate the automotive scene over the coming ten, and possibly 15, years, but some odd-ball technologies could push their way through, according to market research firm IDTechEx. “During that time we shall see peak Pb-acid battery, the biggest nail in its coffin being when electric vehicles more widely abandon them and even those conventional vehicles modified to ...
UK engineering bodies are aiming at the Government with a detailed report about Brexit, called 'Engineering a future outside the EU: securing the best outcome for the UK'.
If 5G mobile phone services launch in 2020 it is being predicted that there could be 24 million 5G subscriptions worldwide by the end of 2021 for mobile and fixed broadband services, according to Ovum. To put this into perspective, there are over 5 billion mobile phone users today. So this prediction indicates a modest take-up of the new 5G ...
