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Almost a decade ago, back in 2008, ARM was battling Intel in the mobile processor space using its three advantages: as the incumbent mobile processor leader, as a licensor of cores rather than a supplier of single-sourced chips, and as the power consumption leader. As the power consumption leader, ARM always though Intel would catch up one day, …
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By Steve Bush
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling red light with electric fields, with possible applications in photonics. It involves layers of thin material whose refractive index changes by up to 60%. “Unfortunately, it is very difficult to tune refractive index with electric fields,” said researcher Linyou Cao. “Previous techniques could …
Read full article: Electro-optic switch sweeps refractive index by 60%
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Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to control network traffic between your streaming instances and the resources in your VPC by using security groups. Security groups provide granular, network-level access controls to streaming instances, and you can use them to manage users’ access to databases, license servers, file shares, or application servers from the streamed applications they use.
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We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 P2 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions.
A wearable device that extracts information from the shelf-edge label in a supermerket and uses this to obtain the current price for that item from the store’s central server.
Read full article: Electronics patent of the month: Smart glasses reading dynamic price info
80 years ago this gentleman (pictured below) pioneered the use of high-gain dc amplifiers as computer components so enabling analogue computers. After WWII he set up a company making op amp circuits with vacuum tubes and later, when they became available, with germanium transistors. Many of the company’s engineers went on the pioneer the analogue …
Read full article: Fable: The Man Who Kicked Off The Analogue Component Industry.
Today, Theresa May is to tell the G7 leaders in Taormina, Sicily that ISIS’ defeats on the battlefield will see their fight against the West transfer to the Internet. May will say she wants to see Internet companies act faster to remove extremist content and give law enforcement agencies access to encrypted messages. The PM will …
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BBK Electronics of China is now the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world with its two brands OPPO and VIVO. BBK shipped 56.7 million smartphones in Q1 with OPPO shipping 30.9 million and VIVO shipping 25.8 million, says Gartner. Samsung was the top vendor with 78.7 million phones shipped. Apple came in third with …
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Chewing on a lobster earlier this week with Bob Jones, Chairman of Publitek, it suddenly dawned how simple really great ideas are. Bob has just returned after three months in San Francisco and was telling me how the city is setting up public areas of free WiFi access all over the town. If you go …
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Imec founds a pre-seed investment fund of €12.5 million to be spent over the five years 2017-22.
Read full article: Imec starts pre-seed fund for entrepreneurs