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Augmented expertise 27 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Thales Alenia Space Italy have developed a prototype system allowing remote experts to project their instructions directly onto equipment being used by on-...
ScotSoft: Scale and fund? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
This Thursday 29 August, at ScotSoft 2013, the ScotlandIS hosted annual event has a Silicon Valley lineup of speakers, that includes Vint Cerf, Larry Cable and a quartet of powerful female investors a...
SID: shapeshifter drug software 27 Aug 2013 | 04:19 pm
Combining technologies, or hybridising them could slash numbers of early trial compounds from millions to the hundreds, shaving years off discovery-developments programmes. SID (Shapeshifting Inspired...
SOI-HITS harsh environments 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Semiconductor giant, California-based Microsemi Corp is to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary consortium tasked to developing innovative CMOS-compatible, high-temperature sensors that help reduce ca...
Fingers crossed for Redkites 24 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Ground-breaking computer technology is telling the real-time story of Scotland’s satellite-tagged red kites without human input. But it is actually a follows on much earlier radio tracking of the eagl...
Shipyard fails: hybrid tugs emerge 24 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
A one of Scotland's oldest shipyards dating back to 1903, Buckie Shipyard on the Moray Firth, has gone into administration, with the loss of some 68 of the 74 staff. In contrast in Canada at Owen Soun...
Sprint certified Cloudgate 23 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
Option, connecting TTC (Things to the Cloud) has obtained Sprint certification for CloudGate - the secure, reliable and affordable M2M, 3G gateway with new levels of flexibility and ease of deployment...
Circuit size for smart walls 23 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
Princeton University researchers create circuitry that uses ultrathin embedded radios on plastic sheets that can be applied to walls and other structures to both listen and talk.
Waiting on Braco decision 22 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
Back in April this year "The Buchan Observer" painstakingly spelt out local residents opposition to plans for a windfarm on Hill of Braco. In June, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency also lodg...
Qwerty keyboard demise? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:04 pm
Dr Per Ola Kristensson in the St Andrews University School of Computer Science, uses machine learning, signal processing and language modelling to invent new text entry interfaces enabling people to r...