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Tech Brands Boom with Expansion Beyond Traditional Domains Valued at over US$150 billion, Amazon becomes world’s most valuable tech brand, leaving Apple and Google behind Chinese tech brands surge in value, with Alibaba, Tencent & Huawei climbing Brand Finance Tech 100 ranking Samsung beats out competitors to become tech sector’s strongest brand View the full list of the world’s 100 most valuable tech brands here Amazon has become the world’s most valuable tech brand, with its value surging by 42% to US$150.8 billion, according to the latest Brand Finance Tech 100 report. Apple (up 37% to US$146.3 billion) has retained...

Faster, cheaper, nano-based manufacturing Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devices Spherical silver nanoparticles and nanowires after being fused by intense pulses of light. Credit: Rajiv Malhotra/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Engineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin film devices -- from touch screens to window coatings, according to a new study. The "intense pulsed light sintering" method uses high-energy light over an area nearly 7,000 times larger than a laser to fuse nanomaterials in seconds. Nanomaterials are materials characterized...

Modified, 3D-printable alloy shows promise for flexible electronics, soft robots Galistan 3D prints. Credit: Image courtesy of Oregon State University Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots. The advance by a team within the college's Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute paves the way toward the 3D printing of tall, complicated structures with a highly conductive gallium alloy. Researchers put nickel nanoparticles into the liquid metal, galinstan, to thicken it into a paste with a consistency suitable for...

Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox The latest in weird and potentially useful robots from German automation giant Festo Photo: Festo We love Festo because every year they invest an entirely appropriate amount of time and money into bio-inspired robots that are totally cool and very functional but have limited usefulness. More often than not, it seems like Festo is able to take some of what it learns from designing and constructing these things and create practical new revenue-generating products. Which is good for them, and means they’ll keep making cool stuff. Over the last few years,...

Security experts fear an industrial hack in the Middle East could hit elsewhere A troubling cyberattack that hit a petrochemical company in August 2017 could be replicated around the world, including America. Backstory: Last fall, it was revealed that malware called Triton was used to shut down operations at an industrial plant in the Middle East. It later emerged that the attack used all-new software to hijack critical safety systems. It’s still unclear who was behind the attack. What’s new:  The New York Times says unnamed government officials and security experts believe the culprits “were sophisticated and had plenty of...