Government of Canada improving water infrastructure.

RS Components CEO Lindsley Ruth talks to Josh Brooks about the promise embodied in the 2017 BrightSparks cohort. Read more about the EW BrightSparks 2017 programme » What have you made of the young people who have come through the BrightSparks programme and who we have met today? It’s been an amazing experience and I’ve …

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u‑blox, Commsignia and NXP Are combining to pursue Vehicle‑to‑Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle‑to‑Infrastructure (V2I) technology. The adoption of V2X (V2I and V2V) technology in North America and European markets equips new vehicles with the ability to share information with other similarly equipped vehicles, infrastructure and even pedestrians within a radius of up to 1km. IEEE 802.11p …

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As part of the EW BrightSparks programme, we wanted to share with you the comments of the industry experts that made up our selection panel.

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National Instruments has released a new generation of its engineering system design software, called LabView NXG. “For a long time we focused on making additional things possible with LabVIEW, rather than furthering the goal of helping engineers automate measurements quickly and easily,” said NI co-founder Jeff Kodosky. “Now we are squarely addressing this with the introduction of …

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TDK-Lambda has introduced a series of programmable single-output power supplies that can deliver 5kW from a 1U rack-mount unit. ‘Zero stack’ design means that they can be inserted in a rack with no space in between, and four of them can be paralleled to produce 20kW. “They could go higher, but customers are usually looking for …

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Could the unthinkable happen and AMD get back to significant x86 market share? It’s never wise to bet against Intel in the x86 business – they’ve bounded out of apparently tight spots many times before. But an article by EnerTuition points out how vulnerable Intel is to a challenge in x86. An EnerTuition graphic states …

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Finlay Cuffe (pictured below), the 17 year-old Sutton Grammar schoolboy, won  Third Place at last week’s Intel-sponsored International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles. Finlay and his colleague Shahab Fazal from Manchester’s Loreto Sixth Form College, were the only two students representing Great Britain at the competition, which saw 1,778 students from 78 …

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Next year Intel will offer its Thunderbolt interface technology as a royalty-free licence. The move is designed to get the manufacturers of peripheral devices to use Thunderbolt. Intel will put the port on its processors and Microsoft will support the interface on Windows PCs. Thunderbolt was originally planned as a photonics interface but, when copper …

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Softbank is reported to have bought 4.9% of Nvidia’s shares for $4 billion. The purchase could either be by Softbank, adding to Softbank’s $130 billion of debt, or it could be by Softbank’s Vision Find which is said to have got $93 billion in pledged investment but it is not clear whether any investor has …

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