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Have you ever plugged in a vacuum cleaner, only to have it turn off without warning before the job is done? Or perhaps your desk lamp works fine, until you turn on the air conditioner that’s plugged into the same power strip.These interruptions are likely 'nuisance trips,' in which a detector installed behind the wall trips an outlet’s electrical circuit when it senses something that could be an arc-fault — a potentially dangero...

What are the trends that will drive technology and innovation through 2018?In this article John Dignan, Managing Director of Dynamic EMS, shares his views on developing and growing markets, which he believes will impact the scope of services contract Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) offer.

Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe —the Big Bang — the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was filled primarily with neutral hydrogen gas.Then, for the next 50 million-100 million years, gravity slowly pulled the densest regions of gas together until they collapsed in some places to form the first stars.

The volume of digital data produced and stored by companies is growing. Cloud technology offers a convenient solution: IT service providers offer storage space or software which enables data to be saved remotely. But how can companies be sure that their data is protected against unauthorised access or deletion? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have studied this issue and developed a model which allows service providers to...

Imagine a fingerprint sensor with guaranteed identification success, regardless of any fingertip alteration. The INGRESS project has brought us a step closer to achieving this high-value breakthrough in a market set to be worth EUR 7.6 billion by 2022.Ever since they started appearing on smartphones in 2007, fingerprint sensors have been proving quite popular. However, they are far from perfect: any change or damage to the finger will prevent cur...

Thanks to the high performance features of the U9 Flash Memory Controller coupled with Hyperstone’s API (Application Programming Interface), Biolog Device’s design has become what the company claims to be a truly unique USB stick. It can be used across a range of embedded storage applications where security precautions are a must.

A new fingerprint technique that has been developed by Sheffield Hallam University, in partnership with West Yorkshire Police, could revolutionise how the justice system identifies potential suspects and how admissible evidence can be given in court – particularly in murder and rape cases.

A powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery has been invented by ateam of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin. The tooldelivers results in about ten seconds - more than 150 times as fast as existing technology. The MasSpec Pen is an innovative handheld instrument that gives surgeons precise diagnostic information about what tissue to cut or preserve, helping improve treatment an...

Using multiple suppliers across its region previously, BAM Western knew that by standardising access control and workforce management systems it would benefit from better economies of scale as well as more intelligent data, which would enhance decision making.BAM Western was already aware of the benefits Biosite could bring through its sister company BAM Plant.

While considered science fiction a decade earlier, semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicle technologies are evolving rapidly. The prospect of autonomous driving seemed to be impossible and futuristic. The idea of autonomous vehicles is not new and traces back to the times of Leonardo Da Vinci who first sketched a three-wheeled driverless cart in 1478. Tesla’s autopilot was introduced in 2015 with driver assistance systems, which marked the i...