For the second time in a year, the Lighting Research Center implicates light levels and duration as greater villains than blue frequencies in poor sleep.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Enhanced Monitoring , which provides visibility into the health of your Amazon RDS instances, now reports physical storage device metrics and secondary instance host metrics.

Japan’s wireless network operators Docomo, Softbank, KDDI and Rakuten are to spend $14.4 billion on installing 5G networks over the next five years. The newcomer,  Rakuten, plans to spend $1.75 billion; Softbank plans to spend $1.&86 billion; KDDI plans to spend $4.2 billion and Docomo plans to spend $7.2 billion. The plans were approved yesterday …

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Passive RFID tags attached to inanimate objects in the home can reveal much about the activities of occupying humans

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FlexLogix announces inference-optimized nnMAX clusters to develop the InferX X1 edge inference co-processor

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Frontier has introduced a chip for internet streaming and reception of DAB, DAB+ and FM. Called Chorus 4, it will also be available built into the Venice X module, which is a “customisable turn-key system which enables brands and manufacturers to build smart radios quickly and cost-effectively”, claimed the firm. “By combining internet, DAB, DAB+ …

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The world’s fastest hydrogen sensor, is being claimed by Chalmers University in Sweden, which can detect 0.1% hydrogen in air in less than a second. It consists of millions of palladium-gold alloy nano-particles – a material which is known for its sponge-like ability to absorb large amounts of hydrogen. The plasmon phenomenon then causes the sensor …

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2018 sales of manufacturing equipment were up 14% to an all-time high, says SEMI.

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The fifth folding phone to see the light of day after Royole, Samsung, Huawei and Motorola comes from Foxconn subsidiary Sharp. The phone has a 6.18” 1440 x 3040 AMzoLED which, says Sharp, is capable of enduring 300k folds without degradation. Even Sharp calls it a prototype so presumably it’s a long way from the …

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Semiconductor industry revenues were $474.6 billion in 2018, says Gartner, representing a 12.5% increase from 2017. 2018 growth was weaker than 2017’s 21.9% due to memory growth slowing to 24.9% versus 2017 growth of 61.8%. “Despite slowing growth, the memory market was still the largest semiconductor market, accounting for 34.3% of revenue,” says Gartner’s Andrew Norwood, “this …

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