Krishna Scientists have 3D-printed synthetic, soft surfaces with tongue-like textures that could be used to test the oral processing properties of food, nutritional technologies, pharmaceutics and dry mouth therapies. The highly sophisticated surface design of a human tongue has been replicated with a synthetic silicone structure that mimics the topology, elasticity and wettability of the tongue’s … Read more
Ofcom has said it will ban mobile networks from selling ‘locked’ handsets to consumers, as part of a new set of rules intended to make switching simpler. Currently, firms including EE, Tesco Mobile and Vodafone sell mobile phones that cannot be used on other networks unless they are unlocked. The potentially complicated process can cost … Read more
PayPal has been granted a licence by the New York State Department of Financial Services, allowing it to roll out cryptocurrency payments via PayPal accounts from early 2021. The Department granted PayPal a Bitlicense, which regulates any company or individual based in New York which uses virtual currencies. A limited number of companies have been … Read more
Ericsson has signed a deal with BT to supply equipment for the non-core parts of its 5G network across UK cities, replacing equipment provided by Huawei. In July, the UK government announced that it would ban Huawei equipment from any part of the UK’s 5G network. Operators were given until 2027 to remove any existing equipment and … Read more
Intel has entered a deal to sell its NAND flash memory business to South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix for $9bn in cash over almost five years. Under the terms of the deal, Intel would sell all of its NAND business, including its solid-state drive business, NAND component and wafer operation, and its factory in Dalian, … Read more
Researchers have found that altering 2D materials could improve the capabilities of optical and electronic devices. The research, led by Shengxi Huang, assistant professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering at Penn State University, found that altering the material in two different ways – atomically and physically – could enhance light emission and increase signal strength in many devices that … Read more
The AI surge makes the PC processor maker’s purchase of Xilinx look like a one-way bet, but trouble may surface not that long from now. The parabolic blowoff top is a common feature of stock markets. Sometimes things get so frothy that there is no stopping investors and traders from piling into buying a particular … Read more
ReactJS is an open-source, component based front end library responsible only for the view layer of the application. It is maintained by Facebook. ReactJS uses virtual DOM based mechanism to fill in data (views) in HTML DOM. The virtual DOM works fast owning to the fact that it only changes individual DOM elements instead of … Read more
After you have an image ready to go, you can include it on your web page. Inline images are placed in HTML documents using the <img> tag. This tag, like the <hr> and <br> tags, has no closing tag in HTML. The <img> tag has many attributes that enable you to control how the image … Read more
GIF Graphics Interchange Format, also known as GIF, was once the most widely used image format. It was developed by CompuServe to fill the need for a cross-platform image format. The GIF format is okay for logos, icons, line art, and other simple images. It doesn’t work as well for highly detailed images because each … Read more