Commission will also consider a resolution approving recovery of $2.9M in drought costs from 2014 and 2015; Update to Travis Air Force Base water service contract status.

The contract includes ongoing service checks, calibrations, and spare parts replacement.

Company strengthens presence in Southwestern US.

It was Kryptowire of Virginia that discovered that some Android phones included stealth software that secretly sent personal information back to servers every three days, or sometimes daily. Amazon was amongst the companies selling he phones, although there is no suggestion it knew about the spying. “These devices actively transmitted user and device information including the full-body …

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There was once a Brit whose name became a by-word for destructive pre-announcements. He wrote a dozen books and founded a publishing company before launching himself on the computer market. In 1982 he was selling 10,000 computers a month, had sales of $82 million and employed over 1,000 people. The following year he talked publicly …

Read full article: Fable: The Guy Who Should Have Kept His Trap Shut

Analog Devices has acquired ‘liquid crystal waveguide’ solid-state laser steering technology from Vescent Photonics. “Vescent’s innovative non-mechanical beam steering technology enables more robust integrated lidar systems that overcome many of the major drawbacks associated with today’s mechanical offerings,” said ADI, which intends to apply scanning lidar to self-driving cars. While ADI is not yet saying …

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Jean-Louis Evans explains the importance of Tempest testing to protect military equipment from emitting unintentional electromagnetic signals which can be used by the enemy Today’s military forces increasingly find themselves fighting on two battlefields – the more traditional force-on-force, alongside the growing threat of cyber and electronic warfare. Unintentional signals emanating from equipment on military …

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If you have designed a product, and need a prototype, or a batch of them made and tested, Nexus Intelligent Engineering of Ely is only a phone call away. And it will be of particular interest if the design has mechanical or electro-mechanical content, but this is not a requirement – Nexus builds wiring looms, …

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Companies are still not that good at identifying the technologies that will have the largest impact on their business. According to business analyst KPMG, fewer than one-third of senior executives in technology companies believe they are “very prepared” to address disruptive technologies like IoT and robotics. Many technology company executives fear growing competition from outside …

Read full article: Tech CEOs live in fear of new ‘non-tech’ competitors

The smartphone market is always in flux. Motorola, Nokia, Blackberry, Apple and Samsung have led it at different times but now it’s changing again. According to Gartner, the Apple-Samsung duopoly is failing fast. Together they now account for under a third of sales when they used to account for half. Samsung is now down to …

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