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The big Picture: Reflections on the manufacturing landscape of America in 2018 – Arun Jain vice-president of Siemens Industry’s Motion Control Business about Big Data.

Toll systems in use around the world are hopelessly stuck in the analog age. By using intelligent IoT-based metering governments might be able to keep pace with rising numbers of vehicles as ride-sharing and electric cars take off.

We asked the head of Atos SE where the frist exaflop computer will be built. He thinks Europe has a good shot with supercomputers. ■ by Thierry Breton What organization — company, university, research institute, city, or state — could afford to waste 90% of its resources? You don’t have […]

GSM has been around for two decades but its use in IoT has not been helped by the fact that a SIM card, once installed, is hard to reprogram. eSIMs, coupled with eUICC technology, solve that problem over-the-air without needing to physically change the embedded SIM. Is this the next […]

3D printing is popularly regarded as a method for producing low quality plastic parts – and doing so very, very slowly. But recent improvements in materials, precision and printing methods are rapidly and radically transforming the way almost every kind of product can be manufactured. ■ by Matthias Schlenker Factory […]