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Promising New Solar Material Boosts Performance of Silicon.

Silicon probably won’t be replaced as the dominant solar material anytime soon, but it might not be too long before it gets a partner from a promising class of materials called perovskites.

A group led by Henry Snaith, a physicist at the University of Oxford and leading perovskite researcher, has demonstrated what it says is a viable pathway to a device that combines a conventional silicon cell with a perovskite cell to boost the efficiency of that silicon cell by several percentage points.

Israeli startup’s suitcase follows you around: NUA Robotics seeks to eliminate travel woes with hands-free luggage

sraeli startup NUA Robotics has unveiled a prototype for luggage that uses Bluetooth technology to sync with a smartphone app, locate its owner, and follow along.

The case also features an anti-theft alarm, a USB port for charging electronic devices on the go, and can send real-time data, including its weight and location, to the app.

“Any object can be smart and robotic,” the co-founder and CEO of NUA Robotics Alex Libman told Mashable on Thursday. “We want to bring robots into everyday life.”

Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms.

Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts, livers, or other organs needed for transplants.

The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur the line between species.

Last September, in a reversal of earlier policy, the National Institutes of Health announced it would not support studies involving such “human-animal chimeras” until it had reviewed the scientific and social implications more closely.

AT&T Launches Smart Cities Alliances With Cisco, Deloitte, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Intel & Qualcomm.

AT&T has formed Smart Cities Alliances with Cisco, Deloitte, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Intel and Qualcomm Technologies to help support the Smart Cities Framework, building more connected communities.

AT&T is building Smart Cities Framework to help cities better serve their citizens by using Internet of Things (IoT) innovations to create impactful solutions for cities and forming alliances with technology leaders and industry organizations.

We will bring the smart cities framework to several initial spotlight cities and universities that include Atlanta, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Chicago and Dallas.

“Atlanta is a great city and, thanks to our collaboration with AT&T, it will soon be a smarter city,” said Kasim Reed, mayor, Atlanta.

Illumina’s Bid to Beat Cancer with DNA Tests.

The world’s largest DNA sequencing company says it will form a new company to develop blood tests that cost $1,000 or less and can detect many types of cancer before symptoms arise.

Illumina, based in San Diego, said its blood tests should reach the market by 2019, and would be offered through doctors’ offices or possibly a network of testing centers.

The spin-off’s name, Grail, reflects surging expectations around new types of DNA tests that might do more to defeat cancer than the more than $90 billion spent each year by doctors and hospitals on cancer drugs. Illumina CEO Jay Flatley says he hopes the tests could be a “turning point in the war on cancer.”

Copreci expondrá sus productos en la mayor feria de electrodomésticos de China.

Entre el 9 y el 12 de marzo se celebrará AWE 2016 en el Shanghai New International Expo Centre.

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La nueva era de los mecanizados: Danobat cierra 2015 con una facturación que rondará los 260 millones.

Hace dos años la consultora Gartner realizó una proyección que causó cierta polémica: dibujó para 2020 un mundo dominado por máquinas inteligentes. A medida que se acerca la fecha, la idea va tomando cuerpo. En la industria, donde reinan robots con nombres tan poco sugerentes como paneladoras, mortajadoras, brochadoras o fresadoras, la demanda de mecanizados de alto rendimiento está impulsando la llamada máquina-herramienta, que consiste en la creación de máquinas a medida capaces de fabricar cualquier objeto, o incluso construir otras máquinas.

Google patents a wearable that tells you to take your medications when you eat.

Google has applied for a patent for a device, potentially a smartwatch, that can remind you to take one or more ingestible substances, such as medications, when you eat. The device could also relay the notification to other devices by way of text message or email reminders.

Two Google employees based in Israel, Asaf Zomet and Michael Shynar, first sought the patent in July 2014, and it was published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Thursday.