In a breather for ByteDance, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he will extend the deadline requiring the TikTok-parent to sell its U.S. operations by an additional 75 days.
The new extension pushes TikTok’s deadline to…
Category: Engineering
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Construction Added 13K Jobs in March, But Economists See Tariff Trouble Ahead
Construction experienced an overall estimated jobs gain of 13,000 in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest monthly report, but industry economists reacted with worry that tariffs announced April 2 by President Trump will…
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Advanced aircraft takes over, lands safely if pilot is unresponsive
Epic Aircraft has introduced the E1000 AX, a high-performance personal and business aircraft, at the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida. This advanced single-engine turboprop is designed to enhance safety and ease of operation with…
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EPFL turns to fruit fly brain to build smarter, more agile robot systems
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) researchers are unraveling the secrets of the fruit fly brain to advance robotics.
A team from the institution’s Neuroengineering Laboratory have used optogenetics—light to control neurons—to…
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Nintendo delays US Switch 2 pre-orders citing Trump’s tariff move
Nintendo has delayed pre-orders for the Switch 2, its much-awaited hybrid console, due to tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
On April 2, Trump unveiled a sweeping new tariff plan, marking a dramatic shift in U.S. trade policy….
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Honda’s fuel cell system could be the key to living on the moon
Honda is taking its expertise in hydrogen fuel cell technology to new heights, literally.
The Japanese automaker has announced plans to test a renewable energy system aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a broader mission…
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Exception to laws of thermodynamics
A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently made the surprising discovery of what they call a “shape-recovering liquid,” which defies some long-held expectations derived from the…
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Polymers with flawed fillers boost heat transfer in plastics
In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices – ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat – a team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst made a discovery:…
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China firm develops one-nanometer thick RISC-V chip with 2D materials
Scientists in China have developed the world’s most complex two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor microprocessor, which is less than one nanometre thick.
Scientists across the world are turning to 2D materials like molybdenum disulphide and…
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Researchers develop fast, eye-safe LIDAR using next-gen quantum dots
The light reaching Earth has a variety of frequencies, some of which are visible to us and others that are not. Of these frequencies, shortwave infrared (SWIR) stands out for its unique properties that make it extremely useful for Light…
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