MSI has announced a new ATX motherboard built for industrial and embedded systems. The MS-CF20 V2.0 features four 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports Intel’s latest Arrow Lake S processors, while also including a host of legacy ports for compatibility with older equipment.
A UK electric motor maker is teaming up with a California startup to build a new kind of supersonic jet engine. The hybrid-electric “Duality” engine aims for Mach 3+ flight and could fly within three years. But the path to affordable supersonic travel is littered with failures.
BP is pulling the plug on a major hydrogen production plant in northeast England. The energy giant says a newly approved data center for the same site makes the projects incompatible.
Canada’s manufacturing sector contracted further in November, with the key PMI index dropping to 48.4. The report highlights accelerated declines in output and new orders, driven by persistent market uncertainty and tariffs.
GreenWood Investors founder Steven Wood has abandoned plans to join Swatch’s board and is instead pushing for sweeping governance reforms. The investor holds about 0.5% of Swatch’s share capital and claims the company has “worst-in-class governance.”
Baxter is permanently removing its Life2000 ventilation systems from the market due to a cybersecurity vulnerability. The FDA warns that unauthorized physical access could allow therapy setting changes that might disrupt life support functions. No serious injuries or deaths have been reported as of
Japan is making an ambitious $12 billion push to rejoin the semiconductor elite through Rapidus, a government-backed foundry targeting 2nm chip production by 2027. The project faces massive technical and financial hurdles but represents Tokyo’s most serious attempt in decades to reclaim chip leaders
Japanese energy giant Idemitsu is teaming up with Texas-based Overwatch Capital to develop 1 gigawatt of data center capacity across the United States. The facilities will rely entirely on natural gas generation provided by Idemitsu, marking a significant pivot for the traditional oil company into d
Lenovo is holding component inventories 50% higher than normal to shield consumers from immediate price increases. The company warns that if memory shortages persist into 2026, aggressive price adjustments will be necessary across laptops and pre-built PCs.
X-Bow Systems has completed installation of its patented additive manufacturing system for solid rocket motors in Texas. The facility aims to produce 1 million pounds of energetics annually, scaling to 3 million pounds within two years. This addresses critical US defense supply chain vulnerabilities
