A team from the United Kingdom arrived in Washington on Sunday for technical discussions on the possible use of earth satellites for communications systems. So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26th 1960 The story continues: The talks are being held with agencies of the United States Government and …

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XMOS has announced its VocalFusion Stereo Dev Kit for Amazon AVS, the first linear mic array solution qualified by Amazon for far-field performance that supports stereo acoustic echo cancellation. This XMOS development kit is designed for developers working in the growing Alexa-enabled smart TV, soundbar, set-top box, and digital media adapter market segments, all of …

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Toshiba  has announced three new additions to the EXCERIA family of microSDXC cards, named M303. With capacities of up to 256GB maximum read/write speeds of 98MB/s and 65MB/s respectively, as well as a new Video Speed Class 30 (V30), the M303 allows users to record and store 4K Ultra HD content. The M303’s speed rating …

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Interestingly, from an IoT perspective, both the the Galaxy S9 and S9+ will come with a new SmartThings app, “which unites Samsung’s existing IoT services into one single, smart experience.”

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Further extending its embedded video engine (EVE) product offering, Bridgetek has introduced the BT815/6 series of graphic controller ICs for next generation HMI development. Support for the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) algorithm means that image quality can be significantly enhanced without needing greater bandwidth to be allocated as the compression algorithm allows for smaller …

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The phone market seems to gave reached that point which the the PC market reached seven or eight years ago when, despite some bizarre attempts at differentiation, all PCs looked the same, performed the same, did the same things, looked the same and y-o-y sales stayed the same. MWC this year has been noticeable for …

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Check out this interesting project, whether it might be possible to make a basic 10MHz oscilloscope from a Raspberry Pi 3.

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Company expands into NY-NJ-PA region for civil, dam engineering.

Researchers found that between 1982 and 2015, 9 million to 45 million people annually were affected by water quality issues — and that low-income, rural regions were most vulnerable.

The project will develop a framework for assessing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance treatment techniques.