The City of Helsinki, Finland, aims to offer its citizens the possibility to better manage the personal information the city gathers from them. At the same time, the city is developing data-based city services that are timely and even predictive. Helsinki has chosen Vastuu Group Ltd to be their MyData operator. It develops personal data-based services for Helsinki together with Fujitsu Finland, Nixu Oyj, Personium, and 1001 Lakes.

The "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" not only awards actors and filmmakers with the distinction known as the "Oscar." Oscars are also awarded for technical merit. This year, the basic research and technological development of the "Intel Embree Ray Tracing Library" will be honored with the Technical Achievement Award. Three award winners earned their doctorates under Philipp Slusallek at Saarland University. The university professor and DFKI researcher has significantly advanced the award-winning ray tracing technology over the past two decades. Today, this technology provides many Hollywood movies and computer games with the perfect images and can also recently be found in almost all graphics processors.

This new program invites start-ups specializing in advanced materials from around the world to join forces with Arkema to establish a privileged research collaboration and benefit from the Group’s support and technological experience. By providing technical or financial support for these innovations, Start-up Connect will be a strategic component of Arkema’s development within an ecosystem of responsible innovation.

Finnish self-driving technology company was testing its software in the Lapland of Finland for 2,5 weeks. The Temperature went even below -20°C, visibility distance was short, and roads were covered in snow - in other words, conditions were perfect for testing autonomous vehicles.

Festo presents its new bionic project “BionicSwift”
Thanks to radio-based indoor GPS with ultra-wideband technology (UWB) the BionicSwifts can fly safely and in a coordinated pattern in a defined airspace. To execute these flight manoeuvres as true to life as possible, the wings are modelled on the plumage of real birds. The agility of the artificial birds is not just due to their lightweight design and aerodynamic kinematics, but also to the use of function integration.

The Finnish self-driving software company Sensible 4 has started pre-pilot preparations at Gjesdal, Norway. This includes test-drives in harsh Norwegian winter and mapping of the route with autonomous Toyota vehicles. The pilot is part of the field testing phase of the EU funded FABULOS project.

Merck will present its latest technology advancements for the electronics industry at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021.

Merck shares its vision for Advancing Digital Living at CES 2021
As the company behind the companies, Merck’s innovative materials and solutions enable the digital transformation accelerated by the global pandemic

Integrated load management and excellent value for money thanks to advances in charging technology
Smart charging system for up to 16 electric vehicles at once
Can be incorporated into home energy management systems

Startup has licensed butterfly wing-inspired technology to develop high-performing, affordable air purification systems

The photochemically etched titanium parts produced by Precision Micro meet the highest standards of cleanliness and could save medical device manufacturers time and money.

Innovations in Optics, Inc. offers high power LED Light Engines as fluorescent excitation illuminators for life science instruments. The company is deemed an essential supplier to several life science companies that manufacture equipment used to diagnose patients and study the virus. From Western blot imaging and real-time PCR to fluorescence microscopy, our LumiBright light engines are known for their ultra-high brightness and unsurpassed illumination uniformity.

StoreDot named as one of ten ‘game-changing’ companies leading transformative technologies