Engineering & Technology (E&T) Magazine

Engineering & Technology (E&T) is a magazine focused on science, engineering, and technology, published by IET Services, which is a part of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a registered charity based in the UK. The magazine is released 11 times a year, available both in print and via an app. The E&T website is frequently updated with the latest news articles. It reaches over 140,000 members of the IET globally.

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TikTok ban delayed by 90 days as ByteDance faces pressure to divest US operations

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

TikTok has been given another 90 days by the Trump administration to operate in the US after a law was passed last year that would force parent company ByteDance to sell the video-sharing platform. The ban was originally signed into law in April 2024, but TikTok owner ByteDance appealed to the US Supreme Court.
£725bn infrastructure plan backs nuclear, broadband and hydrogen networks

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

The government has unveiled plans to invest £725bn over the next decade in improvements to the UK’s infrastructure, including energy, transport, water and digital connectivity. Chief treasury secretary Darren Jones said the plan was needed to counteract “years of erratic decisions” from the previous government that has left the UK’s productivity falling behind countries such as France, Germany and the US.
Some AI queries emit 50 times more CO₂ than others, study finds

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

Generative AI services such as ChatGPT are major carbon (CO ) emitters due to their intensive energy usage, but a new study has found that some AI prompts could cause 50 times more emissions than others depending on what is asked. To answer user queries, these services use tokens. These are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the large language model (LLM). This conversion, as well as other computing processes, produces CO emissions.
Amazon’s Zoox opens first robotaxi factory in US with aim to produce 10,000 a year

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

Amazon’s driverless taxi subsidiary Zoox has opened its first production facility for purpose-built robotaxis in the US and hopes to build more than 10,000 a year. Amazon bought the start-up in 2020 for $1.2bn (£890m) with the intention of eventually launching a service akin to Google’s Waymo. Waymo began taking rides for its first commercial service in San Francisco in 2021, while Zoox is gearing up to start public rides in Las Vegas later this year, with San Francisco to follow.
HS2 completion delayed beyond 2033 amid ‘litany of failure’

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

The HS2 railway project will face further delays beyond its expected 2033 completion date because of a “litany of failure”, transport secretary Heidi Alexander has told the Commons. HS2 has been beset by a string of failures and budget overruns over the last decade, including the cancellation of routes ending in Leeds and Manchester by the previous Conservative government.
Abandoned coal mines could host 300GW of solar power, says report

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

Repurposing abandoned coal mines as solar energy facilities could add a hefty 15% to the world’s capacity or 300GW in total, a report from the Global Energy Monitor (GEM) has found. Some 312 surface coal mines that have been idled and degraded since 2020 were identified that collectively take sprawl over 2,089km² – an area nearly the size of Luxembourg.
Plan to pedestrianise 1.1km stretch of Oxford Street gains backing from public and businesses

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced he will move ahead with “bold plans” to pedestrianise Oxford Street. Under the proposed changes, traffic will be banned for a 0.7-mile (1.1km) stretch of Oxford Street between Orchard Street and Oxford Circus up to Great Portland Street. The hope is that it will attract more people once again to this shopping mecca, which has seen a decline in footfall in recent years with the growth of online shopping and out-of-town retail parks.
Red Arrows go green for King’s birthday flypast with sustainable fuels

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

The King’s birthday flypast featured a dramatic aerial display from the Red Arrows, which for the first time were powered using renewable fuels. At 1pm on Saturday (14 June), as part of King Charles’ birthday celebrations, over 30 Royal Air Force (RAF) planes flew over Buckingham Palace in a ceremonial flypast. As every year, the grand finale featured a dramatic aerial display by the pilots of the RAF aerobatic team flying the Red Arrows.
Danish military deploys unmanned sailing vessels to bolster Baltic Sea surveillance

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Jack Loughran

Four unmanned sailing vessels have been deployed for a three-month mission with the Danish Ministry of Defence, which is trialling new technology to boost its surveillance capabilities. Developed by US firm Saildrone, the Voyager vessels are equipped with various autonomous intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems that allow it to patrol the Baltic Sea unmanned for long stretches of time.
Air India crash: Early speculation points to possible dual-engine failure

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

Early speculations on the fatal crash in India last week of the Air India-operated Boeing 787 Dreamliner point to possible dual-engine failure. On Thursday (12 June), the aeroplane crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad, India, en route to London Gatwick. Of the 242 passengers and crew onboard only one person survived, and an additional 38 fatalities occurred on the ground. This makes it the deadliest aviation disaster in India in nearly two decades.