With skills training and STEM education always a big issue, my eye was drawn to a report entitled “Kids in Engineering report”, which has just been published.

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Trident Energy has developed multi-kW linear electromagnetic generators for wave power. Electronics Weekly spoke to Trident CEO Steve Packard to find out how these monsters of the sea work, and what they can do. In principle, they are simple: the movement of a long cylindrical multi-pole magnet through a wound armature generates power every time …

Read full article: More on: PowerPod wave-to-grid energy transducer

After World War II the Americans occupying Japan decided to break up the zaibatsu – the industrial conglomerates which controlled Japan’s economy. The four biggest – Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Yasuda – controlled a quarter of the country’s economy. In 1946, Konosuke Matsushita, who’d built his own company unlike most of these venerable organisations, was …

Read full article: Matsushita’s Scapegoat

In an exclusive interview Naomi Climer, president of the IET, says she sees challenges but also opportunities in a post-Brexit tech sector

Read full article: Brexit may not be all bad news if we are careful, says IET president

Don’t call it an iWatch, and don’t call it Apple Watch ii. Instead, welcome the Apple Watch Series 2, announced at an Apple event in California this weekend.

Read full article: Gadget Watch: Time for the Apple Watch Series 2?

Spectrum has expanded its LXI-based digitizerNETBOX series with eight digitisers featuring from 24 to 48 synchronized channels.

Read full article: Spectrum digitiser has up to 48 16bit inputs

The top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with PiCapture, ARM, electric cars and Sigfox comms all figuring prominently…

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Philips says its ArenaVision LED stadium lighting system supports ultrahigh-definition TV broadcasts.

You can now view details and information about code changes flowing through your software release pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. This provides you more context about changes that have been committed to your source repository and are running through your pipeline. Viewing this information can be useful when reviewing manual approval actions or troubleshooting failures in your pipeline actions.

You can now connect to all the read replicas on your Amazon Aurora cluster through a single reader end point. Until now, you could use the cluster end point to connect to the primary instance in the cluster or instance end points to direct queries to specific instances on your Aurora cluster.