Alice Bowman told the story of the New Horizons NASA mission to Pluto in her keynote presentation at ESC Silicon Valley in San Jose last week.

In the new world of multiple security threats, cybersecurity and safety have to work in unison to present dangerous attacks.

Future industry will be highly automated and populated by robots and other smart machines. A new engineering discipline is emerging to meet the future of mechanized systems. Mechatronics encompasses mechanical and electrical engineering with system design, all critical to robotics.

In an upset that stunned the US and the world, Donald Trump crossed over to 289 electoral votes late last night, making him the 45th President of the United States. The news shook markets around the world, with the Dow Jones futures taking an 800-point drop before recovering about half the fall.