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Ecovent is recalling 600 room sensors because they pose an electrical shock hazard. The cover can come off during normal use, exposing high voltage components.

A new microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors but is very energy efficient. The “KiloCore” chip can process 1.78 trillion instructions per second, contains 621 million transistors, and could be powered by a single AA battery.

Although today’s 3D printers are capable of some amazing things, researchers in MIT’s Media Lab are rethinking the technology and expanding its capabilities. They have found a way to bypass a time-intestive step in 3D printing so that hair-like structures can be printed. They have used their new technique to print “hairs” that can perform sensing, adhesion, and actuation.

A new autonomous vehicle is now cruising (slowly) through the streets of Washington, DC. Olli is an autonomous electric vehicle that can carry up to 12 people. It is the first autonomous vehicle to use IBM’s artificial intelligence platform, Watson Internet of Things (IoT).

Mayborn is recalling 255,000 Tommee Tippee electric bottle and food warmers. The warmers can overheat and catch on fire, posing a fire hazard to consumers. The company has received six reports of the warmers overheating, melting, smoking and catching on fire; which resulted in $16,000 in property damage.

NASA has released new details about an experimental aircraft that is part of the...

Researchers have taken a big step toward developing an implantable chip that can detect DNA mutations in real-time and transmit them wirelessly to a smartphone or computer. A team of bioengineers and the University of California, San Diego designed an electrical graphene chip that can detect a common mutation in DNA.

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has published the first edition of IEC 62793:2016. This standard...

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has released IEC 61249-2-43:2016. This standard describes "Materials for printed...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have achieved a new bandwidth record for data communication using visible light. They developed a new visible light communication (VLC) device that uses a color converter that combines traditional materials with perovskites, the crystals that better known for their potential for solar cells. The new color converter has a bandwidth that is 40 times greater than today’s commercial converters.