The Royal Society is commissioning a study to understand the challenges faced by teachers delivering computing and computer science and share best practice which can be adopted more widely. Professor Stephen Furber (right), from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, will lead the research study which is part of a wider  …

Teaching of computing in schools faces big changes

When I was in Brussels yesterday, I saw a dog driving a car. It was on a video shown by Audi. “If pets can drive that’s truly autonomous driving,” cracked the Audi guy showing the vid and it made me wonder do I have a deficient sense of humour or should not Audi be showing …

Teasing The Credulous

ST announced a quarterly dividend of 0.06 eurocents which was 40% down on the last quarterly divi of 0.10 eurocents. Recently the French unions criticised ST management for paying out too much in divis while depriving the company of necessary investment. The dividend policy is designed to keep the share price up. Today France’s Economics …

French Economics Minister Slams ST Management

You can now get up to 60% higher query throughput (as measured by standard benchmarks TPC-DS, 3TB) in Amazon Redshift as a result of improved memory allocation, which reduces the number of queries spilled to disk. This new improvement is available in version 1.0.1056 and above. Combined with the I/O and commit logic enhancement released in version 1.0.1012, it delivers up to 2 times faster performance for complex queries that spill to disk, and queries like SELECT INTO TEMP TABLE that create temporary tables. 

Luc van den Hove, CEO of Imec, opened ITF2016 in Brussels this morning on the theme of ‘daring to take a different view’. He instanced companies which have taken a different view e.g: The company which provides the most taxi rides in the world does not own any taxis; the company which rents more rooms …

ITF2016: The Future Is Good, says Imec

This morning, in Brussels, at Imec’s ITF2016, Imec and Infineon announced a cooperation in CMOS sensor chip development. Infineon and Imec are working on highly integrated CMOS-based 79 GHz sensor chips for automotive radar applications. Imec contributes its advanced expertise in high- frequency system, circuit and antenna design for radar applications thus complementing Infineon’s radar …

ITF2016: Imec, Infineon team for 79GHz CMOS auto radars

Imec and Holst Centre presented a wide-area (LPWA) multi-standard radio chip today at Imec’s annual technology forum in Brussels this morning. The new radio chip is a best-in-class product, which can operate with a lower level of power consumption than any other radio chip technology released to date for long range connectivity in sensor networks. …

ITF2016: Imec presents sub-GHz LPWA radio chip

Thanks to IHS for this one – the world’s top 25 semiconductor companies:

Top 25 Semiconductor Companies 2015

The eBike in question is made by FLUX. It’s a Tesla battery bike only in the sense that the 17A extended lithium battery, available as an option, is the same as those used in the Tesla model S.

Crowdfunding Watch: Tesla Model S battery powers the FLUX eBike

There is plenty of talk about IoT in general, but case studies of real-world implementations are less common. You may want to check out this free Intel whitepaper about Digital signage for transit systems.

Real world IoT implementations – Digital signage for transit systems