It’s a bit of a sad day but hardly unexpected. Google is officially ending support for Eclipse Android Developer Tools.

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Thanks to US News and World Report for this one – the world’s ten best universities for engineering in 2016: Tsinghua MIT Univ of California at Berkeley Zhejiang Nanyang Technological Univ National Univ of Singapore Harbin Institute Stanford Georgia Tech City Univ of Hong Kong

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Ever fancied taking a gamble and investing in a tech start-up? Well, no you can. Indiegogo, the well-known crowd-funding website, is offering an equity service which allows anyone to invest in start-ups and even established companies. Apparently, this is all possible because of new equity crowdfunding regulations that took effect in May this year. These …

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The iFixit team have turned their attention to Google Home, the new voice-activated speaker from Google, running Google Assistant services.

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UC San Diego researchers have created transistor-less chips based on metamaterials using low-power laser optical control. Transistors and ICs are limited in their performance by the limitations of the materials from which they are made. A semiconductor’s band gap determines the energy that is needed to allow electron flow, while the velocity of electrons is …

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LiFi is a disruptive technology that is poised to impact a large number of industries, believes Harald Haas, Professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh

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Congatec has introduced industrial Mini and Pico-ITX motherboards based around Intel’s Apollo Lake processors. Conga-PA5 is Pico-ITX and Conga-IA5 is Thin Mini-ITX, and both of them are long-term available, said Congatec, and come with a choice of Atom, Celeron or Pentium processors (see table below). “System engineers can immediately deploy them to upgrade existing Pico-ITX …

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IoT security is an increasingly urgent issue, and companies will have to look at the “cost-to-care” ratio which could dictate their response to this issue, writes Andrew Hogan. The internet of things (IoT) has been a discussion point for years, but only recently has the security aspect become anything more than a concept. However, with …

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A four-channel laser diode component targets LIDAR applications in autonomous vehicles while the latest Oslon Black Flat LEDs will bring adaptive headlamps to mainstream vehicles.

Lighting Science strikes three-year human-centric lighting deal with hospital products facilitator Vizient, connected to Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA, and many more.