Ford to use McDonald’s coffee waste to make headlights and other parts

Ford has made a number of efforts in recent years to incorporate recycled materials in its cars: from using soy products to make seat cushions, to making wiring brackets using tomato skins, to designing bamboo-based interior console compone....

Cadence, National Instruments partner on electronic system innovation

Cadence Design Systems and National Instruments Corp. (NI) have reportedly confirmed a strategic alliance for system innovation. The companies will join forces to develop an integrated design for testing flow, leveraging reusable data and t....

Amazon launches new healthcare service Amazon Transcribe Medical

Amazon seems to have made its next major move in healthcare as it announces the launch of a new voice transcription technology. The tech giant claims it will enable healthcare professionals to enhance patient care by spending more time with....

Seedland launches China’s first UGV for residential communities

Seedland Group, one of China’s leading real estate companies, recently deployed Hachi Auto, an autonomous vehicles designed for residential communities, in its Guangzhou-based community Boston Ivy. Evidently, this makes Seedland the f....

Speedcast awarded multi-year communications contract by Aurora

Aurora Expeditions, an adventure company specializing in small-group expedition style travel experiences, has recently awarded Speedcast International Limited, renowned remote communication & IT solutions provider, a multi-year communic....

WuXi ATU and GeneMedicine partner to develop oncolytic virus products

Oncolytic viruses are an emerging class of immunotherapy agents that preferentially infect and destroy cancer cells. Leading biotechnology companies are focusing their attention on the development of oncolytic virus products. WuXi ATU Co.,....

Amazon ups data center game with new, more powerful processor chip

It seems that cloud computing has become big business for data center chip designers. Semiconductor giant Intel currently dominates the server processor market. Chipmakers using Arm technology, which powers majority of smartphones today, ar....

Facebook is buying the studio behind hit VR rhythm game Beat Saber

Virtual reality is turning out to be a ‘game changer’ for the gaming industry. VR is currently one of the hottest topics among tech enthusiasts and lifestyle trends. The technology is all about providing a realistic and immersiv....

ACI and Salesforce to provide unified ecommerce solution on the cloud

The proliferation of ecommerce is providing merchants innovative opportunities to expand their businesses and drive revenue growth within and across borders. More and more businesses are moving their payment infrastructures to the cloud. An....

HP rejects Xerox’s takeover bid yet again, doubts Xerox’s viability

HP’s board of directors last week turned down Xerox’s takeover bid stressing that the deal would undervalue HP. Xerox had reportedly offered HP $22 per share (77% cash and 23% stock) for the company. HP seemingly believed that t....