The UK government publishes its ‘modern industrial strategy’, by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, with ten “pillars” to underpin a new approach.
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Great Success Of British Computer
GREAT SUCCESS OF BRITISH COMPUTER 56 years ago, this was the headline on an article in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 19th 1960. The story opens: WORLD-WIDE acceptance of a British made computer indicates the growing demand for medium size computing systems. Elliott Brothers have successfully marketed their 803 solid state computer not only on …
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Smart LED street lights will learn from the bigger picture in IBM, Echelon IoT partnership
Watson cognitive computing will combine external and streetlight data to optimize lighting for public safety, traffic, energy, you name it.
Amazon RDS now supports Read Replicas of Encrypted Database Instances across Regions
Starting today, you can easily create cross-region read replicas for your Amazon RDS for MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL database instances encrypted at rest with AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Previously, you could create cross-region read replicas for unencrypted database instances only, and the only option for creating copies of encrypted database instances was to copy encrypted DB snapshots to the target region. Now, you can create cross-region read replicas for your encrypted database instances in just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.
Ed Sucks Up To No.10
No.10 have been badgering me about what my department is doing about driverless cars, Ed confides to his diary, it’s a lot of nonsense but it’s the tech obsession du jour and you might as well argue with a doorpost as with the present lot at No.10. I’ve come up with an approach which will …
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Computer beats the ‘average American’ in intelligence test
An artificial intelligence does well on a test that is said to measures abstract reasoning in humans.
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Tsinghua announces huge memory fab in Nanjing
Tsinghua Unigroup said yesterday that it would build a $30 billion, 300k wpm fab in Nanjing.
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Book: The 5G Myth
An interesting new book for your attention: the ‘5G Myth’ by the wireless comms expert Professor William Webb, of the Weightless SIG.
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Scotland turns to Isle of Wight electronics to measure fishing vessels
Isle of Wight torque measurement firm Datum Electronics confirms fishing vessel engine power as part of a certification proces
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EU customs exit ‘no problem’ for component suppliers
Plans to withdraw from Europe’s single market and customs union shouldn’t present problems for electronic component suppliers, says the ECSN
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