This year’s Mobile World Congress seems to have got off with a bang as customers are said to have booked out Europe’s first robotic knocking-shop. A Barcelona bordello is giving away introductory offers of £70 an hour with one of four robots. Once the introductory offer is over, the price goes up to £100. The …

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Intersil has launched a radiation hardened 32-channel driver which integrates the decoder, level shifter and driver array. The ISL72813SEH driver leverages Intersil’s SOI process, which provides single-event latch-up (SEL) robustness in heavy ion environments. The driver’s integrated decoder interfaces directly to the general purpose I/Os of FPGAs and CPUs in the satellite’s flight computer, dramatically reducing …

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Thanks to J.D. Power for this one – the ten worst US airports: La Guardia Newark Philadelphia Chicago O’Hare Boston Logan LAX Houston Bush JFK Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Seattle-Tacoma

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A Digital Skills Partnership aims to link Government, business, charities and voluntary organisations to give people the right skills for the jobs in their area and are aware of all the digital training opportunities on offer and an attempt to make the UK  “the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business”. …

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Plessey is introducing its first four-junction monolithic lighting LED, the nominally 12V 700mA PLW7070, stating that: the “component is 50% more cost-effective than any power LED solution” and that it “provides a 30% increase in light output when using any standard secondary optics”. Bold claims. Can the company justify them? Yes, according to Plessey product …

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Encryption that could defeat future code-cracking quantum computers is possible, claims Washington State University mathematician Nathan Hamlin. A hacker armed quantum computing power could in theory de-crypt any internet communication that was sent today, claimed Hamlin: “Quantum computing will change how we handle data and we, as a society, are going to have to make …

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Sir James Dyson is to build a 500 acre campus in Wiltshire to pursue R&D into robotics, batteries and artificial intelligence. Work starts next week on restoring six hangars on the site which will be ready for occupation by the end of the year. “This investment is a vote of confidence in our modern industrial …

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Hardware ‘secure elements’ will defend against hacking in Sigfox low-power wireless wide-area networks, claimed STMicroelectronics as it introduced such a device. “It’s more important than ever to consider and plan the security architecture at the very beginning of the design and development of an IoT solution,” Sigfox chief marketing officer Laetitia Jay. STSAFE-A1SX is a …

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We are excited to announce support for 1G and 10G Link Aggregation Groups (LAG). Customers in AWS GovCloud (US), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can start using LAG to link existing connections on the same AWS device, or request new connections. Customers who wish to purchase multiple ports, but treat them like a single managed connection can now use our LAG feature to do just this. In addition to ordering and managing bundles, customers can now see when their ports fall on the same router so customers can manage your network availability.

Singapore engineering company Hyflux has doubled its group revenue from the previous years but has been hit hard by increasing costs…