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North East based automotive cleantech firm AVID Technology has secured a key position in a three year collaborative programme to develop more efficient vehicle powertrains with global OEM Caterpillar.In a project co-funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, Caterpillar UK Engines Company, AVID Technology, Denso Marston and Imperial College London will collaborate to develop a highly efficient hybrid powertrain for heavy-duty on- an...

Bosch Sensortec has announced its next-gen Android M sensor hub solution, a ready-to-deploy solution for smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. The solution integrates an advanced feature software library to leverage Bosch Sensortec’s high performance sensor hubs, motion and environmental sensors.

The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system. The first high-resolution images of the gas giant Jupiter are still a few weeks away.

The mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments has been won by five seventh graders from the Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The national competition asked students from across the country to propose solutions to challenges astronauts would face on a journey to Mars.

Valkyrie has recently landed at Northeastern, marking the first time that the 6-foot-2-inch, 275-pound humanoid robot has interacted with the public.There was a demo: As part of an hourlong presentation, the robot walked across the carpet in the event space on the 17th floor of East Village, turned to face the audience, and then waved, eliciting a surge of laughter.

Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth since 2005, meaning academics and amateurs alike can get a rare, bright close-up of our dusty red neighbour in the night sky. On Monday, at 9.35pm, the alien world will be just 46,762,695 miles (75,279,709km) from us as it continues its 687-day elliptical orbit around the Sun.

Following the news that millions of Twitter passwords have been leaked on the dark web, John Marsden, Head of ID and Fraud at Equifax, explains the dangers the population face as technology continues to evolve at an alarming rate:

Sailors working on vessels spread across the Earth’s oceans and seas must be better connected than astronauts, who’s working environment is hundreds of kilometres into space, right? Well, recent research from the 2015 Crew Connectivity Survey and sources such as NASA and The Atlantic has taken a closer look at the communication services that are provided to sailors, as well as the limiting factors that impact accessibility, making a d...

Researchers have introduced the world's first infant exoskeleton designed to help children with spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative illness. Weighing 12 kg, the apparatus is made of aluminium and titanium, and is designed to help patients walk—in some cases, for the first time.It can also be used in hospital-based physiotherapy to prevent secondary effects associated with the loss of mobility associated with spinal muscular atrophy.

NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications and imaging, as well as robotic science exploration, in support of NASA's Journey to Mars. The orbiter would substantially increase bandwidth communications and maintain high-resolution imaging capability.