This month’s patent features the challenge of transaction checking and countering ‘man-in-the-middle’ and ‘man-in-the-browser’ attacks

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Zach Shelby, CEO of the micro:bit Foundation has replied on the issue of over-heating chips (and proposed mechanism here) on the BBC’s tiny computer – he says there will be changes in the next revision.   As with any other electronic PCB used outside a lab, micro:bits are susceptible to damage, including ESD. If a …

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Tesla agrees to acquire Grohmann Engineering, a German company developing technologies for automated manufacturing.

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Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, introduces a server processor with 24 ARM Cortex-A53 cores.

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IBM and Nvidia have collaborated on a deep learning tool to “help train computers to think and learn in more human-like ways at a faster pace”, said IBM. In this case, ‘deep learning’ is being used to mean crunching through vast tracts of data to detect and rank its most important aspects. IBM sees it …

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NXP claims to have the world’s smallest leadless logic package for 8 lead logic functions, measuring 0.8mm x 1.35m x 0.35 mm in height. The 8-pin GX 8 (SOT1233) package succeeds the earlier 5- and 6-pin functions in the GX package, making AXP, AUP and LVC functions are now available in a GX package. Functions …

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The world’s largest moving coil meter – about 17 feet square – will overlook the Tenth Electrical Engineers Exhibition to be held from March 21 to 25 at Earls Court. So, 55 years ago, opened a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961 The meter scale will be more than 20 feet long …

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As Talleyrand said of the Bourbons “they learned nothing and forgot nothing” so it is with our Euro-elite. Jean-Claude Juncker’s insolent public reaction to the US election shows that he thinks the world is wrong, not him. “We will need to teach the president-elect what Europe is and how it works,” said Junker, “two years …

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Weebit Nano, the ReRAM start-up, has transferred its SiOx ReRAM from Rice University’s facilities in Houston, Texas, to Leti’s pre-industrialisation facility in Grenoble, France. Weebit Nano was founded in 2014 to develop a memory technology invented by Professor James Tour of Rice University with the potential to be 1000 times faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient …

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The LTC 3119 has a 2.5V to 18V input voltage range extending down to 250mV once started.

Read full article: LTC buck-boost converter delivers 5A of continuous current