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Littlehampton Book Services (LBS) has ensured its materials handling trucks continue to work with minimum disruption at its warehouse thanks to a maintenance contract taken out with battery manufacturer Hoppecke Industrial Batteries.

Leading tech employers across the UK are preparing to open their doors to young people, hoping to inspire a new generation about the digital world. By offering real world experience of the tech workplace, and a variety of exciting hands-on challenges, they plan to change students’ perceptions of tech roles and careers.

A new global design contest is due to kick off this summer, as announced by PowerVision. The PowerEgg Design Challenge aims to inspire both professional and amateur designers to submit outstanding external designs for the pioneering and elegant PowerEgg flying robot, PowerVision’s first consumer drone.

The IDTechEx report, Microcontrollers and Single-board Computers 2016-2026, is the first to reveal the big picture developing from the close relationship between these devices. The report provides newly researched forecasts leading to figures such as $300bn in 2026 for SBCs alone. Applications, technologies, players and markets are revealed in easily understood infographics offering a depth never seen before. For example, the ten year forecasts f...

The EU-funded COREGAL project combines traditional positioning technology with reflected global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals to let land management professionals see through thick tree canopies and better understand what lies on the forest floor. Not only is Brazil a large country but much of it is covered by the dense Amazon rainforest. Trying to manage such a rugged and isolated area using traditional mapping, surveying and land m...

The Advanced Color ePaper has been announced by E Ink, which the company tags as "Advanced" and as a "Breakthrough Technology" for color electrophoretic display (EPD) applications. There are numerous terms and acronyms accompanying the technology but they can be explained—and are worth reading about as they relate to the future of displays all around us. First, electrophoretic: E Ink is the creator of electrophoretic, or, electronic ink&mda...

A farming technique practised for centuries by villagers in West Africa, which converts nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland, could be the answer to mitigating climate change and revolutionising farming across Africa.A global study, led by the University of Sussex, which included anthropologists and soil scientists from Cornell, Accra, and Aarhus Universities and the Institute of Development Studies, has for the first-time identifi...

For the past 40 years, eye-tracking technology - which can determine where in a visual scene people are directing their gaze - has been widely used in psychological experiments and marketing research, but it’s required pricey hardware that has kept it from finding consumer applications.

The CyberUK in Practice 2016 currently taking place in Liverpool, has seen Amulet Hotkey announce that its PCoIP zero clients have been certified as secure by CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance within the UK.

The next gold rush could be in outer space, but the treasures luring modern-day prospectors won't adorn lavish jewelry.They are rare earths, a group of 17 chemical elements with tongue-tying names such as yttrium and thulium that are used in televisions, cell phones, laptops, cars, cancer treatment drugs, nuclear reactor shielding, aircraft engines, and weapons. Coveted for their magnetic and conductive properties, they make technologies faster, ...