Once completed, the projects will collectively increase sustainability and protect property and life in the area.

An Enigma cryptography machine has been bought in a Romanian street market for €100 and later sold at a Bucharest auction for €45,000. Enigma machines were distributed in Romania by Germany when Romania was on Germany’s side in WWII. Later it switched to the allies. It is assumed there may be other machines undiscovered in …

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Lloyds, which has a 20-25% share of the cyber insurance market, says that a major cyber attack could cause over $120 billion of potential losses and that many organisations are under-insured. In a report co-authored with risk-modeller Cyence, Lloyds finds that: The WannaCry ransomware attack in May cost $8 billion across 100 countries, says Lloyds. …

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Qualcomm has ben grabbing China market share, reports Digitimes, getting its Snapdragon processors into handsets at MediaTek customers Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Meizu. MediaTek’s response is reported to be a move to TSMC’s 12nm process in Q4. It is said that MediaTek’s lack of a Cat 10 modem has reduced both its market share and …

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French semiconductor lab Leti has used deep etching to created micro injection needles for Swiss firm Debiotech.

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With the IoT security genie already out of the bottle, tackling the recurring design vulnerabilities right at the core of IoT devices is critical to the industry’s future, to avoid security disasters, argues Canonical’s Emily Ratliff.

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I have been a little cynical about electric bicycles, with their speed restrictions, arguing that normal cycling speed is above the maximum speed at which assistance is allowed. Now I have seen the light, during a visit to the French town of Grenoble, which is surrounded by hills. People in normal about-town clothes were sailing up …

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The semiconductor  content in electronics systems is expected to reach 28.1% this year, breaking previous high of 25.9% set in 2010, says IC Insights. IC Insights forecasts that the 2017 global electronic systems market will grow by  2% to $1,493 billion while the worldwide semiconductor market is expected to surge by 15% this year to …

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BCD Microelectronics, the Basingstoke semiconductor distributor, has merged with Munich distributor Atlantik Elektronik. The new company will be named BCD-Atlantik. BCD-Atlantik remains an independent company but will combine resources from both companies. BCD are 27 years old this year and Atlantik is 40. “Our merger with Atlantik Elektronik strengthens our position in the UK and …

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Qualcomm has lost its appeal against a fine imposed on it by the EU for failing to produce information in an anti-trust case involving the UK wireless start-up Icera. Icera was sold to Nvidia in 2011 for $367 million – $100 million more than it raised in equity funding – after nine years of existence. …

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