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Imperas joins RISC-V Foundation

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Imperas Software has become a member of the RISC-V Foundation, at the same time as it made virtual platform and model support available for the RISC-V architecture. RISC-V Foundation drives the adoption of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) – a RISC architecture originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley, now touted as an …

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Photo-dielectric: discovery in need of an application

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An intrinsic photo-dielectric effect has been found in a ceramic by researchers at the University of Nagoya in Japan. Dielectric changes under light are nothing new, but in the case of LaAl0.99Zn0.01O3-δ it is not accompanied by an increase in dielectric conductivity – it remains an insulator throughout the process. “We have demonstrated the existence …

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Apple escalates Qualcomm battle

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Apple has escalated its battle with Qualcomm by refusing to pay royalties to its contractors which are owed to Qualcomm. Consequently, Apple’s contractors won’t be able to pay Qualcomm which means there will be a hit to Qualcomm’s Q1 revenues. Instead of Qualcomm Q1 revenues of an estimated $5.3 billion – $6.1 billion these will …

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Girls like STEM subjects as much as boys, if they have a go

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Girls start believing they aren’t good at maths, science and computers at a young age, but providing fun STEM activities at school and home may spark interest and inspire confidence – at least in the US, according to a study by the University of Washington. The finding was that, when exposed to a computer-programming activity, …

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Updates to Presto, Apache Zeppelin, Apache Flink, and Hue now available on Amazon EMR release 5.5.0

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You can now use upgraded versions of Presto (0.170), Apache Zeppelin (0.7.1), and Hue (3.12.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.5.0. Presto 0.170 includes support for LDAP authentication and various improvements and bug fixes. Hue 3.12.0 adds new features to the SQL editor, timeline and pivot graphing for visualization, and email notifications for Apache Oozie workflow completion. Additionally, we incorporated several improvements for Apache Flink and resiliency for Apache Spark, and we backported a bug fix for Spark 2.1.0 integration in Oozie.

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