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European RF and space component vendor SWISSto12 and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (MELCO) have struck a deal to jointly progress advanced payloads, radio frequency products and market development in Japan and the Asia-Pacific regions. Beyond the collaborative arrangement to build future payloads, MELCO awarded SWISSto12 a contract to build phased array antenna products for the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) secure communications program for the Japanese government.

Without advances in electric vehicle (EV) chargers and infrastructure, growth in the overall EV market will be hindered. As the EV infrastructure market matures, new innovations are emerging to reduce costs in design of these parts. Versinetic has launched two EV charging boards targeted at reducing the number of hardware original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) need to build infrastructure.

Teledyne has introduced an industrial grade 3D time-of-flight (ToF) camera for use in challenging environments like logistics, robotics, inspection and surveillance.

A team from Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale is making cookies using an unexpected ingredient: plastic. In a bid to repurpose this material, the team modified yeasts so that plastic and agricultural waste could be converted into edible proteins and flavoring molecules. Beyond upcycling a problematic material, the technology could also prove useful in settings such as disaster zones or deep-space missions.

A supply-demand gap in data center power is set to emerge by 2030, and it's a big one: 268 gigawatts (GW), according to new data from market research firm TrendForce. The grid supply is simply not keeping pace with data center growth, TrendForce said. And the divergence between supply and demand will begin as soon as 2026 and then widen sharply after 2028. By 2030, TrendForce projects that global data center power demand capacity will reach 490.7 GW.

September 17, 2026 AI data centers are concentrating more graphics processing units (GPUs) and more power into individual racks to improve computing performance and reduce chip-to-chip communication delays. That consolidation is pushing rack densities from the tens of kilowatts toward several hundred kilowatts and, eventually, past 1 MW.

A sea cucumber-inspired self-healing ionotronic hydrogel that could one day be used in the making of wearable tactile sensors and more has been created by a team of researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Hydrogels are water-rich, tissue-like materials that can conduct electrical signals while flexing, making them promising for wearable sensors, soft robotics and human-machine interfaces.

A sea cucumber-inspired self-healing ionotronic hydrogel that could one day be used in the making of wearable tactile sensors and more has been created by a team of researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Hydrogels are water-rich, tissue-like materials that can conduct electrical signals while flexing, making them promising for wearable sensors, soft robotics and human-machine interfaces.

Editor's note: This article originally ran on e-tech and appears here courtesy of the IEC. There is a story in Greek mythology about a king’s insatiable appetite that could serve as a parable for the modern-day power challenges of data centers. When King Erysichthon of Thessaly cut down all the trees in a sacred grove, the goddess Demeter cursed him with unrelenting hunger. Nowadays, data centers are doing all the eating, consuming vast amounts of electricity while growing hungrier all the time.

The International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized UN agency responsible for developing standards, oversight and monitoring, is leading the advancement of the global air traffic management system through the Global Air Navigation Plan. The introduction of automated air traffic control systems aims to improve the operational safety and efficiency of air traffic controllers. But these automated systems could introduce new risks.