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(REUTERS) – Japanese electronic parts maker TDK is shelling out $1.33 billion to buy InvenSense, a U.S. chip maker that produces motion sensors for Apple and Samsung. The deal comes at $13 per share, which is almost a twenty percent premium to the U.S. company’s closing price on Tuesday. It will help TDK boost its sensor technology offerings. InvenSense designs parts which help smartphones calculate motion, enabling augmented reality games, such as Pokemon Go. This […]
Ondrej Prusa, a 26-year old former DJ, has an enviable problem: his firm making three-dimensional printers is growing so fast he had to install a car-sized diesel generator to his downtown Prague plant to ease burden on the power network. Prusa became interested in printing in his DJ era when he needed to create sound controllers. He made adjustments to freely-available designs, and eventually set up his business. Prusa’s office is packed with colourful print […]
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Reuters) — A team at Johns Hopkins’ Department of Biology has discovered that a protein which helps neurons grow, known as ‘nerve growth factor’ (NGF), also triggers the release of insulin in the pancreas. Associate professor of biology Rejji Kuruvilla says the study may one day lead to early intervention in cases of Type 2 Diabetes. Kuruvilla began studying NGF as a post-doctoral fellow. When setting up her laboratory at Johns Hopkins in […]
Apple AirPods are displayed during a media event in San Francisco, California, U.S. on September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo
KAGOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) — Japan launched an Epsilon-2 rocket on Tuesday (December 20) carrying the Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) mission satellite. The satellite will study the creation and disappearance of highly charged electrons in the region of outer space near the Earth along with space storms and the effects of solar winds. The rocket was successfully launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima prefecture, south-western Japan, at 8 p.m. local […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) -Mark Zuckerberg’s artificial intelligence-imbued software “butler” — named Jarvis — is now in service, and even plays with his family, the Facebook chief said Monday. Zuckerberg took on the personal project this year, devoting about 100 hours to making a system inspired by the “Iron Man” film character Jarvis as a virtual assistant to help manage his household. “In some ways, this challenge was easier than […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Physicists on Monday announced an important step towards unravelling one of the Universe’s great mysteries: What happened to all the anti-matter created in the Big Bang? A new technique has allowed them to study the behaviour of a single atom of anti-matter under ultraviolet light, a team wrote in the journal Nature. “Imagine you are the first one to look at something about the Universe […]
With the rise of connected technology, even our clothes can monitor our lifestyles. https://youtu.be/sMLImzNnYLw
Reuters — Scientists have discovered evidence of ice on the dwarf planet Ceres. Researchers presented the findings at the American Geophysical union meeting in San Francisco on Thursday (December 15). The presence of ice is important because water is an essential ingredient for life. Scientists believe Ceres’ upper surface is rich in hydrogen with higher concentrations at mid-to-high latitudes which is consistent with the theory of the existence of plentiful water. Rather than a solid […]
by Jacques KLOPP Agence France Press LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain is set to become the first country in the world to legally offer “three-parent baby” fertility treatments after regulators gave the green light. The technique, which uses DNA from two women and a man, would allow mothers who carry disease-causing mutations in their mitochondrial genes to give birth to children free of the illness. British lawmakers had voted in February to allow the […]
by Rob Lever Agence France-Presse Yahoo said Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 — twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago. In a huge blow to the struggling internet pioneer, Yahoo said it made the discovery as it was investigating what was already the largest data breach of a single company. “Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, […]
by Antoine FROIDEFOND Agence France-Presse Palmyra may just have fallen yet again to the Islamic State group, but a new “immersive” 3D show in Paris lets you walk through the Syrian city’s classical colonnades as they were before the jihadists blew them to bits. The “Eternal Sites” exhibition uses high-definition images often shot by drones to allow the public to visit four of the most threatened heritage sites in the world in war-torn Syria and […]
