Diamond diodes are at the heart of a nuclear battery, designed by Russian researchers

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Following yesterday’s handover of the CEO job at ST, Jean-Marc Chery, ST CEO, has announced the membership of ST’s execuive committee. “ST’s new Executive Committee is a team of strong and experienced semiconductor industry leaders,” says Chery, “our first priority is to deliver on our 2018 business and financial objectives and continue on our path …

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Alibaba and RoboSense have developed solid-state LIDAR-based unmanned logistics vehicle. The most important feature of the driverless delivery vehicle called G Plus is the solid-state LiDAR technology, the RS-LiDAR-M1Pre, developed by China’s RoboSense. This is the first time that solid-state LiDAR has been  used in the development of an unmanned vehicle,clsim the companies,  heralding the …

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The Scandinavians are opposing the EU’s digital tax plans. “A digital services tax deviates from fundamental principles of income taxation by applying the tax on gross income, i.e. without regard to whether the taxpayer is making a profit or not,” Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson, and the finance ministers of Denmark and Finland, Kristian Jensen …

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One of the original partners in of the UK’s BBC micro:bit project has signed a Canadian distribution deal

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The automotive IC market will grow 18.5% this year , says IC Insights, driven by systems monitoring and control, safety, ADAS, convenience, and the growth of autonomous driving. Systems that improve vehicle performance, that add comfort and convenience, and that warn, detect, and take corrective measures to keep drivers safe and alert are being added …

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Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. Under the new ownership structure of  the memory unit, Toshiba and optical products specialist Hoya, will have a 50.1% stake in Toshiba Memory with Toshiba having 40.2% and Hoya having 9.9%. Bain …

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Topics covered include Daisy the robot iPhone diassembler, speech recognition via Android, the Raspberry Pi-powered NSynth Super sound manipulator, a laser trip wire alarm and an Arduino-based rotary cell phone….

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Queen’s University Belfast is investing £500k in a cyber security research lab at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). An aim of the facility is to work with global companies, start-ups and SMEs to form a strong response to cyber security attacks. The CSIT Test lab includes a high-speed network interconnected via a multi-gigabit …

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The ambivalence in the relationship of Intel founders Bob Noyce and Andy Grove is well documented and in Michael Malone’s book ‘Intel Trinity’, Grove explains his feelings: “His charisma put me off. His management style put me off. His inability to make decisions put me off. So did his unwillingness to actually learn the business.” …

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