While automation has been with us since the 1970s, recent progress made in artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning have helped it pick up the pace. In the coming years, more and more jobs will be automated, from the factory floor, to our roadways, a...

By Mark Patrick | 14-11-2017

In my last column I mentioned that despite the relentlessly gloomy mainstream media Brexit machinations and perorative-prone politicians, electronics technology would always move ahead and that part of that pioneering success are the global collaborations that...

By Paul Whytock | 09-11-2017

The answer is a resounding yes. But it’s not always easy given the mass of mindless misinformation that is unleashed on an almost daily basis by our national mainstream media, much of which harps on relentlessly about how the UK’s separation from the EU will p...

By Paul Whytock | 02-11-2017

Ask any manufacturer in the semiconductor business which market sector is their rock-solid banker, the one that not only ticks over year after year but steadily grows, and most will say automotive. And this has been the case since the upsurge of electronics in...

Semiconductors | By Paul Whytock | 26-10-2017

Electronic gadget mania means that young people in this country reach for their gadgets every eight minutes of every day. This is just one of the results from a survey of 1000 people in the UK. It showed that people who own two gadgets such as phones and ta...

By Paul Whytock | 18-10-2017

Improved sensor technology is a key element driving forward the creation of IoT systems and devices but the monumental amounts of data they will create has to be communicated and this raises some serious worries about whether the Internet in its current form w...

By Paul Whytock | 12-10-2017

Do People Want Self Driving Cars? There are now close to 280 companies worldwide working on technology related to the development of driverless (autonomous) cars. They include heavyweights from the German car industry and the likes of Google. But the question...

By Paul Whytock | 05-10-2017

In Part I of this environmentally related look at how lithium battery powered electric vehicles (EVs) could have a substantially negative impact on our planet it became clear the problem with such batteries relates to how the materials they use are mined and t...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 27-09-2017

Anyone involved in the power supply sector knows it is a ferociously cost conscious business. Keeping the bean-counters happy at both the manufacturing and the purchasing end involves some clever technological developments and as usual it is the engineers who...

By Paul Whytock | 22-09-2017

A friend of mine recently bought himself a Tesla X and I have to say it’s a great looking vehicle and I had to agree with him that the performance figures are impressive and would certainly wipe the grin off any Porsche Carrera driver’s face. But when it came...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 12-09-2017

There has been a spate of news recently about how today’s electronically sophisticated cars are vulnerable to hacking and a recent story that Chinese researchers posing as hackers were able to gain access to a stationary Tesla electric car from 12 miles away h...

By Paul Whytock | 31-08-2017

Irresponsible droners could be forced to license their machines or be grounded by software that makes their drone inoperable. Electroblog in the past has written about the real danger drones represent when flown in commercial airline flight space, not to m...

By Paul Whytock | 23-08-2017