Years ago, I built a robot chassis consisting of hardboard, two motors, two wheels, plus a third pivoting trailing wheel to keep the thing upright. The motors were hinged in such a way that their weight kept their spindles in contact with the wheels forming a simple reduction drive. It was bought to mind because …

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Rohde & Schwarz is addressing the simulation of GNSS satellite location signals with a multiple input tester that can operator simultaneously in multiple frequency bands for multiple antennas. GNSS receivers are able to process signals from diverse navigation systems such as GPS, Glonass, Galileo or BeiDou in several frequency bands in order to improve positioning accuracy. …

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Nordic-Baltic countries Sweden, Finland and Estonia are leading the roll-out of 5G mobile services in Europe and local operator Telia claims to have deployed the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe. This is a collaboration between the Swedish mobile operator and technology suppliers Ericsson and Intel. One of the use cases demonstrated …

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TSMC says its 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park in Taiwan. There had been speculation that the company might locate it outside Taiwan – perhaps in the USA. TSMC says it  ‘recognises and is grateful for the government’s clear commitments to resolve any issues, including land, water, electricity and environmental protectioN.’ …

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Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 chip becomes officially Thread 1.1 Certified, for bridging between networks.

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In a world which seems chaotic – beset by hackers, terrorists, Brexit, weird weather and an unusual US president – there is a phrase of the late, great Andy Grove, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Intel, which rings through the murk: “The operating phrase should be: Let chaos reign!” said Grove, “not that chaos is …

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AD Connector enables you to use your existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) identities to access the AWS Management Console and compatible AWS applications, such as Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Connect, and Amazon Chime . With AD Connector, you can enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for AWS applications users and use your existing RADIUS-based infrastructure for an additional layer of security. You also can join Amazon EC2 Windows instances to your on-premises AD domain and manage the instances using group policy objects.

Amazon Pinpoint now supports Amazon Device Messaging (ADM), Baidu Cloud Push (Baidu), as well as additional options for using Apple Push Notification service (APNs). These changes help Amazon Pinpoint customers reach more customers on more devices around the world using push notifications, one of the most effective channels for increasing customer engagement with applications.

Satellite data monitoring underground water reserves shows that water levels rebounded quickly after one of the worst droughts in state history.

The Solar Energy Technologies Office expects to make funding available to projects that explore early-stage technologies with the prospect of significantly reducing the cost of desalination through solar thermal energy.