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Phone data is good for town planning

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Big data analysis of mobile phones is as good as existing survey techniques for town transport planners, but much cheaper, claims MIT and Ford. “Applying the system to six weeks of phone location data from residents of the Boston area, the researchers were able to assemble the kind of model of urban mobility patterns that …

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Korea develops roll-based packaging for flexible silicon ICs

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Korean process engineers have developed a chip packaging technology that creates flexible integrated circuits. The process starts with a flash memory wafer diced after thinning to ~100nm. These die are attached to a plastic carrier film, which allows them to be transferred to a roller and pressed onto a flexible PCB supported by a flat …

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Common-mode EMC chokes offer up to 10A

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Schaffner has expanded its range of common-mode EMC chokes. The current-compensated inductors now have horizontal and vertical mounting options for currents between 0.3 and 10A and the RN series is now rated up to 300Vac. RN dual chokes are available over 0.4 to 100mH operating over DC to 60Hz with common-mode resonance between 100kHz and …

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Organic solar cells face large scale tropical test

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Heliatek has installed the second phased of organic photovoltaic solar cells on its Singapore pilot project. The opaque organic solar film was installed on the west façade of a building called Cleantech I on steel panels with 56 2m-long films and 45 films of 3.25m-long laminated into 15 glass sheets. Prior to this, 87 soar …

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China’s Almost Insurmountable Challenge

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Throwing money at the semiconductor industry is not going to get China toba dominant position, reckons the business consultancy Bain. “Consumers and businesses around the world will continue to choose systems and devices based on quality, technology, value, and brand,” says Bain, “to gain a material share in the global market, Chinese semiconductor manufacturers need …

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Amazon CloudWatch improves the usability of CloudWatch Logs Console

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Amazon CloudWatch announces usability improvements to the CloudWatch Logs Console. The Logs Console now gives customers the ability to share the state of their log sessions with their teams to facilitate collaboration when troubleshooting issues. Sharing is done via human readable URLs that include timestamp and search parameters. In addition, customers can narrow down their log search to specific time frames with just one click. The Logs Console now supports infinite scrolling, allowing customers to navigate large volumes of log data without pagination. It also improves readability of log data through additional display formatting options.

To learn more about these usability improvements click here . To know more about CloudWatch Logs, visit the CloudWatch Logs product page.

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