Global Windows outage plunged banks, airlines, and more into chaos – here’s everything you need to know

Refresh 2024-07-19T07:10:15.424Z Here’s everything you need to know about the July 19, 2024,  global IT outage. 2024-07-19T07:21:15.596Z (Image credit: Down Detector) Here’s what Down Detector is currently showing in the US – with multiple companies impacted across all manner of industries including transport, banking, media and more.  2024-07-19T07:24:34.551Z (Image credit: …

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The House of Mountbatten reigned… until it didn’t: How idle boast ensured Prince Philip’s children and the Royal Family would NOT formally adopt his surname – prompting him to say: ‘I am nothing but a bloody amoeba’

It was an idle boast made amid the Royal Family’s grief following the death of King George VI. At a party at his home, Lord Louis Mountbatten had proclaimed that the ‘house of Mountbatten now reigned’. It was a reference to how his nephew Prince Philip, as the husband of …

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UAV-based LiDAR mapping IdeaForge Partners with Inertial Labs

New Partnership Enhances UAV Mapping Capabilities ideaForge Technology Limited, an India-based global drone technology company, has announced a new partnership with Inertial Labs, a global leader in inertial sensors and GPS systems. This collaboration integrates Inertial Labs’ RESEPI LiDAR solution into ideaForge’s high-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), representing a major …

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The Engineer – Solid state battery breakthrough from pan-Asian team

According to the team, which included contributors from across several Asian universities, they have developed a new generation of solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) for lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), greatly improving both safety and performance. SSE technology could be transformative, as it promises enhanced energy density compared with the lithium-ion batteries in wide …

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