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UK Nuclear Workforce Tops 100,000 as 2030 Skills Gap Narrows
The UK nuclear workforce now exceeds 100,000, and the projected 2030 shortfall has fallen from 40,000 to 16,000. Retirements are the next pr...
Coolbrook Brings Electrified Rotary Heating to Australian Alumina Refining
Finland's Coolbrook joins Australia's HILT CRC to explore its 1,700°C electrified rotating heater for next-generation alumina refineries.
Fluor and Inelectra Plan a New Engineering Base in Venezuela
Fluor is returning to Venezuela through an agreement with Inelectra, drawing on a history that includes a 190,000 bbl/d extra-heavy crude up...
AI Inference Is Turning Memory Capacity, Latency and Data Movement Into System Design Constraints
KV cache reduces repeated computation but increases memory demand. Serving systems must coordinate capacity, bandwidth, latency, power and c...
AI Agents Could Expand Semiconductor Engineering Without Replacing Verified EDA Tools
AI can cut the effort behind engineering experiments and coordinate EDA workflows, while models, metrology and verification keep decisions g...
Near-Threshold Edge AI SoCs: Where Foundation IP Meets the Power Wall
Near-threshold operation at 0.4–0.5V can cut edge AI SoC power, but memory, logic and I/O IP must be characterized and validated early to ke...
Why Memory Is Becoming the Bottleneck in Physical AI Design
Physical AI shifts design attention from compute to data movement. LPDDR vs GDDR and on-chip sizing hinge on workload reuse and latency.
Electric Drives: Components, Control Types, Trade-Offs and Applications
Electric drives pair motors with power electronics and control systems to match speed, torque and motion to loads across industrial and ever...
Ubuntu MATE on Raspberry Pi: Installation, Desktop Features and Performance
Install Ubuntu MATE by adding its desktop package to Ubuntu Server; expect familiar tools, a large download and modest performance on suppor...
GEFERTEC to Show 700 kg WAAM Impeller and Titanium System at Formnext 2026
GEFERTEC will exhibit large WAAM components and preview modular, titanium-focused and containerized production systems in Frankfurt.
LoRaWAN Smart Metering Passes 30 Million Devices as European Utility Demand Grows
More than 30 million meters use LoRaWAN worldwide, while European tender activity and large water deployments point to growing utility adopt...
Robotics Targets Logan’s Space, Baggage and Airfield Maintenance Constraints
Nine startups presented airport robotics for mobility, cleaning, baggage handling and airfield work as Massport looks to grow capacity throu...
17 Raspberry Pi Shortcuts for Faster Setup, File Access and Maintenance
Terminal shortcuts, desktop settings, reusable scripts and SSH habits can cut routine Raspberry Pi setup and maintenance time.
ISO 21423 Extends AMR Interoperability Across Robots, Fleet Systems and Factory Equipment
ISO 21423 builds on open AMR interfaces to help robots, fleet managers and facility systems exchange status and coordinate work across share...
Hackster.io's Emotion in Motion Contest Asks Machines to Read People
Hackster.io's Emotion in Motion contest offers 500 Arduino UNO R4 WiFi boards and a $14,500 prize pool for projects where machines respond t...
UK Consultation Weighs CO2 Phaseout for Pig Stunning Against Processing Capacity
A proposed CO2 phaseout aims to improve pig welfare, while processors say alternatives lack evidence on throughput and commercial viability.
BP Accelerates $350 Million Louisiana Payment as Profits Rise
BP will pay Louisiana $350 million upfront, bringing forward part of its Deepwater Horizon obligations as refining and trading gains lift pr...
Nikon SLM Sets Co-President Structure as Sam O’Leary Moves to Supervisory Board
Jan-Niklas Thielmann and Simone Castellani will lead daily operations as Nikon SLM prepares to introduce its MACHX system at Formnext.
DMC Chicago Turns Detective at a Halloween Murder Mystery Night
DMC Chicago's team swapped engineering problems for suspects and clues at a Halloween murder mystery, where misdirection proved the hardest...
Experience AI reaches Latin American classrooms through local partners
Experience AI has held launch events in four Latin American countries, with a 2028 target of reaching more than 1.25 million young people th...
Installing Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 on a Raspberry Pi: Flashing, First Boot and Setup
Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 installs through Raspberry Pi Imager on a Pi 4-class board or newer with at least 4GB of RAM. Here's the flash, first-b...