Collaborate Disseminate
It’s an unfortunate truth that many important chemical reactions require rare and expensive metals as catalysts. But now, scientists have developed a device that actively tweaks plain old aluminum to make it behave like other metals on the fly.Continue… Continue reading “Catalytic condenser” lets cheap metals act like rare, expensive ones
If you’re among those of us with immediate plans for a PCB or parts order from China, watch out – Shenzhen just recently got put on a week-long lockdown. Factories, …read more Continue reading Hackers Beware: Shenzhen Is Closing
The cardboard box is ubiquitous in our society. We all know what makes up a cardboard box: corrugated paper products, glue, and some work. Of course cardboard boxes didn’t just …read more Continue reading There’s More In A Cardboard Box Than What Goes In The Cardboard Box
The cardboard box is ubiquitous in our society. We all know what makes up a cardboard box: corrugated paper products, glue, and some work. Of course cardboard boxes didn’t just …read more Continue reading There’s More In A Cardboard Box Than What Goes In The Cardboard Box
Toyota said Monday that it was suspending operations at all 14 of its plants in Japan after a domestic supplier of parts, Kojima Industries Corp., was hit by a suspected cyberattack. Toyota described it as a “system failure” at Kojima in a short statement posted online. A Kojima spokesperson told ABC News that the company was working to fix the problem, which essentially blocked the company’s computers from communicating with Toyota. “We are not sure yet if it is a cyberattack, but we suspect it might be one,” the spokesperson said. As of Monday morning, U.S. Eastern time, Kojima’s website was unreachable. There was no information available about the suspected attackers or their methods. The incident comes as corporations and governments in Japan, the U.S. and Europe are on guard for potential Russian cyberattacks related to the clampdown on Russia’s financial system in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Reuters […]
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Open-source software and device firmware are two of the biggest areas of vulnerability in the supply chains for information and communications technology, according to a federal report Thursday that called for better risk management practices and improved monitoring efforts by government and industry. Another area that potentially affects U.S. cybersecurity is a shrinking manufacturing base for hardware, including a “significant reduction” in the related workforce, the report said. The Biden administration asked the departments of Commerce and Homeland Security for the review under an executive order signed in February 2021 as the White House worked to address challenges in the supply chains for goods and services overall. At the time, the breach of SolarWinds’ software supply chain by Russia-linked hackers had riled Washington, and Thursday’s report comes as the government and cybersecurity industry are still responding to the Log4shell bug found in December 2021 in a widely used piece of […]
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The open source world and Chinese manufacturing have a long relationship. Some fifteen years ago, the big topic was how companies could open-source their hardware designs and not get driven …read more Continue reading Hackers and China
3D printers may allow individuals or small companies to produce prototypes, but the machines aren’t really suited to mass production. That’s where the Mayku Multiplier is intended to come in – it’s billed as being the world’s first desktop pressure for… Continue reading Mayku Multiplier puts pressure-forming tech on makers’ desktops
The manufacturing industry took a hard hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are signs of how it is slowly starting to come back into shape — helped in part by new efforts to make factories more responsive to the fluctuations in demand that come with the ups and downs of grappling with the shifting […] Continue reading Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks
Although magnesium is known for being lightweight, riveting pieces of it together can be an involved, energy-intensive process. A new technique is claimed to make doing so much simpler, possibly opening up new uses for the metal.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Friction-based riveting tech could make magnesium more useful