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December 17, 2019

Ford has a McDonald's caffeine fix for plastic parts

by dan carney in Uncategorized

Image souce: Ford Motor Co. Like many commuters, Ford Motor Co. is making a morning stop by Mickey Dee’s for coffee. Only Ford’s coffee run is for the chaff of the dried skin that comes off the beans when roasting them. McDonald’s USA produces millions of pounds of coffee chaff every year, and now Ford […]

December 17, 2019

8 biggest AI trends of 2020, according to experts

by Engineering Recruiting in Uncategorized

Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest moving and least predictable industries. Just think about all the things that were inconceivable a few years back: deepfakes, AI-powered machine translation, bots that can master the most complicated games, etc. But it never hurts to try our chances at predicting the future of AI. We asked scientists […]

December 17, 2019

Edge computing key industrial automation trend in 2020

by dan carney in Uncategorized

Factory connectivity and communications have become cornerstone technology trends for automation and control engineers in the last 10 years as the development of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has emerged as a corporate objective. But as we head into 2020, edge computing is evolving into a unifying force for machine designers implementing “computing at […]

December 17, 2019

This week’s poll: the post-election future of HS2

by stuart nathan in Uncategorized

How should the incoming government proceed with HS2, the largest single infrastructure and capital project currently underway in the UK? Take Our Poll (function(d,c,j){if(!d.getElementById(j)){var pd=d.createElement(c),s;pd.id=j;pd.src=’https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/plugins/polldaddy/js/polldaddy-shortcode.js’;s=d.getElementsByTagName(c)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(pd,s);} else if(typeof jQuery !==’undefined’)jQuery(d.body).trigger(‘pd-script-load’);}(document,’script’,’pd-polldaddy-loader’)); Current HS2 plans could see London’s Euston station completely transformed The HS2 project, to link London, the Midlands, Leeds and Manchester with a new high-speed rail […]

December 17, 2019

A tech apocalypse is inevitable without the humanities

by Engineering Recruiting in Uncategorized

If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. Dystopian narratives abound. Black Mirror projects the negative consequences of social media, while artificial intelligence turns rogue in The 100 and Better Than Us. The potential extinction of the human race is up for grabs in […]

December 17, 2019

Exclusive: U.S. initial crackdown on advanced tech exports appears more restrained than feared

by Engineering Recruiting in Uncategorized

(This Dec. 17 story corrects translation in para 13, replacing ‘abuse’ with ‘generalisation’ in reference to the concept of national security) By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is finalizing a set of narrow rules to limit exports of sophisticated technology to adversaries like China, a document seen by Reuters shows, in a […]

December 17, 2019

Bottlebrush copolymer materials eyed to customize coatings

by dan carney in Uncategorized

Researchers have combined a polymer material with the shape of a common kitchen tool to help better control the design and application of coatings for various products and surfaces. A team at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering developed a technique that shows how microscopic bottlebrush polymers are drawn to the top and bottom of […]

December 17, 2019

How We Learned to Love the Pedagogical Vapor of STEM

by Engineering Recruiting in Uncategorized

When American public schools macramé’d together the words language, arts, and English, starting in the 1970s, they created a tangle: ELA.The neo-discipline must have bewildered teachers. There’s a long tradition of teaching individual languages and their literatures, a long tradition of teaching fine arts, and a less long but still solid tradition of teaching linguistics. […]

December 17, 2019

Skin-mountable sensor set to assist swallowing disorders

by stuart nathan in Uncategorized

Millions of people with swallowing disorders could soon be assisted by a skin-mountable sensor sticker designed to make treatments easier and more affordable. This is the claim of two Purdue University researchers who’ve founded Curasis LLC, a company set up to commercialise the wearable technology, which is detailed in a paper in Science Advances. “We want to […]

December 17, 2019

Last week’s poll: SUVs and CO2 emissions

by stuart nathan in Uncategorized

Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) are gaining in popularity, but at what cost to the environment? Figures from 2018 show that SUVs accounted for just over a fifth (21.2 per cent) of new car sales, an increase of 7.7 per compared to 2015. Their increasing popularity comes at a cost to the environment, with the assertion […]