The BeagleBone Black Wireless has on-board 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and there are also two new capes (Display and Wireless) from the BeagleBone team.

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Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with Blu Wireless, quantum mechanics, the iPad2, visualising AI in action and MIPS figuring prominently…

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The static induction transistor was responsible for getting Yamaha into semiconductor manufacturing. Invented by a professor at Tohoku University, Jun’ichi Nishizawa, SITs had the advantage over other transistors in that, when used as audio amplifiers, they didn’t tend to deliver tinny output at higher frequencies. The SITs performed very like vacuum tubes but, as with …

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We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Amazon CloudFront. With the addition of the Philadelphia edge location, there are now a total of 24 edge locations in the US and 71 worldwide. To see a list of Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list here. 

Marc Edwards has received the inaugural Borchardt-Glysson Water Treatment Innovation Prize

 

Water Planet’s PolyCera® membrane filtration technology is based on advanced polymeric materials.

 

PcVue 11.2 is the latest platform update for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Building Management Systems (BMS) and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) solutions.

Agreement broadens use of simulation to disrupt preventative maintenance.

 

Carthage, NC partners with Suez to improve drinking water taste.

 

A.Y. McDonald has added 100 PSIG pressure relief valves to its line of relief valves in 3/4″, 1″ and 1 1/4″.