Note that there are just a few days left until submissions close for entries to the Elektra Electronics Industry Awards 2018.

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I’ve had a 1980s Nikkon F3 sitting in a cupboard for years, along with a case of assorted lenses. It cost a lot when I bought it all and for the past 20 years I’ve watched its value evaporate as digital replaced photographic film.

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The entrepreneurial culture of  Silicon Valley started with The Fairchild Eight leaving Shockley but, almost as influential, was Bob Widlar’s realisation in 1966 that his analogue IC designs were making everyone rich but himself. Widlar asked Charlie Sporck, who then headed manufacturing at Fairchild, to ask the company’s Manhattan head office to make him and …

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Chinese researchers are claiming an organic solar cell record – 17.3% efficiency under standard sunlight conditions from a solution-processes structure – as opposed to more-complex vacuum processing. The cell is a tandem device, where wavelength coverage is increased by using two different junctions. In this case the materials were tuned so that the junctions complement …

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What topics have your peers been reading? There are the issues of diversity in engineering, rising cobalt prices, the EV battery market, Californian stats and an ARM-based supercomputer chip…

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Still hankering after trying 3D printing, I had a look on the web to see how much cheap reasonable printers are now. And it transpires that around £200 will get you one. Two printers seem to come up in reviews over and over as cheap and reasonable: ‘Mini Delta’ by Monoprice  and ‘Da Vinci Mini’ by …

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For industry traditionalists, Osram’s new homepage might look curiouser and curiouser. But many believe this isn’t Wonderland. It’s the future.

Amazon Rekognition is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions.

Amazon QuickSight now allows you to easily create rich metrics and calculations for dashboards without having to craft complex SQL statements and precompute at the data source. QuickSight authors can now create calculated fields and table calculations to evaluate running sum of measures, partitioned by set of dimension in a specified sort order, or calculate percentage contribution of a measure to the total within the partitioned dimension. Similarly, authors can create custom fields that measure the difference or percentage difference between preceding or succeeding metrics, partitioned by a dimension. Authors can also rank metrics or sub-dimensions within the partitioned dimension. Other functions enable authors to measure sum, average, count, minimum/maximum, and display leading and lagging values by an offset of 1 over partitioned dimension. All these functions are available in both SPICE and non-SPICE datasets.

Starting today, you can pay your AWS invoices with any US ACH enabled bank account. Adding a bank account is easy. Simply go to the Payment Methods page on the AWS Billing Console and provide your bank account number, routing number, billing address, and your driver’s license number (for personal accounts) or tax identification number (for business accounts).