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U-blox enables narrowband IoT street lighting

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Streetlight remote management firm InteliLight has used Swiss company U-blox’s Sara-N2 series of  narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT) modules to control a connected smart streelight system in Romania. InteliLight used Flashnet’s NB‑IoT connected smart street lighting control system. A pilot project is already deployed on the OTE (Telekom) network in Patras, Greece. Having identified NB‑IoT as strategically important, …

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Turing letters found

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148 letters and documents belonging to Alan Turing have been found at Manchester University. They are dated between 1949 and 1954 – the year he died. Here is an amusing correspondence with the editor of the magazine CHESS:   In view of the rather caustic comment from the editor asking Turing “what you really claim for …

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What an idiot did wrong in Eagle pcb – getting component on the correct side

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On my single sided pcb, I ended up with my SOT-23 mosfet gate and source connections swapped. Having checked the footprint is correct, by replacing the SOT-23 n-channel mosfet foorprint (Ao3404A) with some known SOT-23 npn transistors – MMBTA42 and BCX70 – where the base and emitters ended up swapped. So my only conclusion, is …

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Renesas sampling 4k image sensor for security cameras

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Renesas is sampling an  8.48 megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor that supports 4K video cameras for security cameras and plans mass production in December. Renesas says that The sensor achieves clear, high-visibility full-color imaging even in a moonlit environment and captures clear, high-visibility images even when digital zoom is used due to its capture of high-reliability 4K …

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Pinnacle launches Denali-MCTM image processing IP

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Pinnacle Imaging Systems of Miami has launched a camera-ready HDR Image Signal Processor (ISP) IP core called Denali-MCTM. The HDR video capture technology tones map high contrast scenes while minimising HDR motion artifacts, the company said. According to Pinnacle Imaging the ISP can render  shadow and highlight data from a high contrast scene, enabling camera designers seeking …

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AR: Fart-App Or Big Deal?

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Why would you want to overlay a digital image on a real-world image? A) Because you can B) Because you’re one of those brilliant people who created Pokemon Go entertaining hundreds of millions of people and earning several billion dollars C) Err. . . . .umm. It’s the answer to C) Err. . . .um …

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Socionext and Advantech to deliver hardware transcoding products for datacentres

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Socionext, the hardware HEVC encoding specialist, and Advantech, the video acceleration specialist, are to provide live hardware transcoding products for the datacentres supporting MPEG2, AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). Socionext real time dense transcode solution, also known as the “Media Cloud”, enables advanced HEVC compression technology and real-time transcoding capabilities for OTT applications. Socionext’s partnership with Advantech …

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