New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will soon decide whether to approve hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the state. To date, no alternative to expanded gas drilling has been proposed. But a new study finds that it is technically and economically feasible to convert New York’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one powered by wind, water […]
Applications
Room-Temperature Electrically Powered Nanolasers
A breakthrough in nanolaser technology has been made by Arizona State University researchers. Electrically powered nano-scale lasers have been able to operate effectively only in cold temperatures. Researchers in the field have been striving to enable them to perform reliably at room temperature, a step that would pave the way for their use in a […]
Catalysts That Produce ‘Green’ Fuel
At SISSA a precious molecule for solar energy is being simulated. The energy produced by solar panels, be it heat or electricity, has to be used right away. It is hard to store and preserve and also its transportation can be rather complicated. Creating solar cells capable of producing energy in an easily storable and […]
Ultra-High-Speed Optical Communications Link Sets Record
Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems are now one step closer to reality. A team of IBM researchers working on a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -funded program have found a way to transmit massive amounts of data with unprecedentedly low power consumption. The team will describe their […]
Cablevision, CableLabs team up on Wi-Fi app
CableLabs announced this morning that its Wi-Fi app, which it developed in conjunction with Cablevision and other member companies, has been licensed to mPortal in order to make the app more readily available to the cable industry. The CableLabs Wi-Fi app software includes Wi-Fi detection in order to help subscribers find the best Wi-Fi hotspot […]
Newark Element14 Expands Panasonic Distribution Agreement
Design engineers can now quickly source Panasonic’s full range of board-level passive components and discrete semiconductors from Newark element14. Newark element14, a distributor of electronic components and engineering solutions in the Americas, and Panasonic, a manufacturer of electronic components, have agreed to expand their distribution agreement to include a wide range of passive components, semiconductors […]
AMD to Sell Texas Buildings for $164M
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will sell a campus in Austin, Texas and then rent them, generating about $164 million, in an effort to cut its real-estate costs. The company said Tuesday that it’s selling the buildings to a division of San Francisco real estate investment company Spear Street Capital. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is the […]
Photo of the Day: Lamborghini Veneno Revealed
Lamborghini says its worldwide deliveries of super sports cars rose 30 percent last year to 2,083 units but remained shy of pre-crisis highs. The Italian carmaker owned by Volkswagen said Tuesday that deliveries were up by half in its top U.S. market and up by 34 percent in Europe despite the region’s financial crisis. […]
World’s Smallest FPGA for Miniature Systems
The iCE40 LP384 FPGA, is the smallest member of its expanding iCE40 family of ultra-low density FPGAs. Enabling designers to rapidly add new features and differentiate cost-sensitive, space-constrained, low-power products, the new small footprint FPGA is ideal for applications such as portable medical monitors, smartphones, digital cameras, eReaders, and compact embedded systems. The tiny, low […]
New rankings acclaim MIT’s graduate programs in engineering, business
Extending a decades-long run, MIT’s graduate program in engineering has again been ranked No. 1 in the country by U.S. News & World Report. MIT has held the top spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked graduate programs in engineering. U.S. News awarded MIT a score of 100 among graduate programs in engineering, followed […]