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Last evening saw the introduction of ‘CW Unplugged’, the network’s first ever event run by tech entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Sponsored and hosted by Mills & Reeve at its Cambridge headquarters on Hills Road, delegates were treated to a host of interactive demos and insights from speakers with first-hand experience of the pleasures and pitfalls in founding a successful start-up.

A new X-band silicon quad-core integrated circuit from Anokiwave is available from Richardson Electronics. The highly-integrated AWS-0101 is intended for radar and 5G phased array applications. The device supports four radiating elements, single-beam transmit and dual-beam receive, and includes all requisite beam-steering controls for 6-bit phase and gain control.

Moto X Force: dropped from two-storeys, stomped on, tumbled down stairs, slammed into a wall – even hitting it with a hammer can’t smash the screen on this top-end smartphone. The Moto X Force (known as the Droid Turbo 2 in the US) is the third in Motorola’s new Moto X smartphone line and claims to have a screen that will not break, no matter how many times you drop it. So we tested it to destruction. By Samuel Gibbs, The Guardi...

Students across the United States will soon be able to experience the thrill and adventure of space travel thanks to a new partnership between Space Training Adventure and Research (STAR) and ANSYS. This partnership will enable STAR to inspire and educate young minds about earth and space science by leveraging ANSYS simulation software.

An Advanced Vacuum Apex SLR ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma) etch system recently installed at NASA's JPL is expanding the fabrication capabilities of the site’s Microdevices Laboratory (MDL). The MDL continues to update its wafer-level plasma processing equipment set with this system, the sixth overall from Plasma-Therm and Advanced Vacuum and the third in the last two years.

You may have noticed the increasing number of space and sci-fi film releases over the past few years. From the renowned Apollo films to the 2014 release, Gravity, everyone has a favourite that they can watch over and over. I try not to judge, but if you haven't heard of Interstellar by now you must have spent the last year hiding under a rock. Personally, I didn’t notice any industrial automation parts floating in the background, but if the...

As the Environment Agency (EA) continues its programme to upgrade water control structures on the River Lee, it has contracted ECS Engineering Services to replace the actuators and gearboxes on the sluice gates at Rammey Marsh. The project also delivered improved automation and reliability which reduced maintenance costs.

While Star Wars fans excitedly await the next instalment of the film franchise, Harmonic Drive has released the next best thing: a short video inspired by the film. The video (below) demonstrates Harmonic Drive's technology in aerospace and defence applications, which until recently belonged in the realms of science fiction.

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) with polished substrates to manufacture the high precision grisms that lie at the heart of a Near Infrared Spectrophotometer designed to perform red shift measurements in the forthcoming Euclid space mission by the European Space Agency (ESA).

With its depth of only 6.7mm, the iPhone 6 holds more processing power than was used by NASA at the time of the 1969 moon landing and over four times that of the Mars Curiosity Rover. Here, Jonathan Wilkins, Marketing Director, European Automation, analyses the rate of technological progress and discusses the validity of Moore’s Law.