TDK introduces its QM series of AC-DC power supplies, the first 1200W to 1500W rated modular series to have full MoPPs isolation.

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By the near-random pushing of buttons, I appear to be playing music remotely through Allo’s hi-fi system, based on the firm’s Sparky processor board, but said to be compatible with Raspberry Pi. Pre-installed is Max2Play’s music and video handling software, which includes a network music player and a Logitech network music server. I go the …

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The driverless car industry is not what it used to be. Earlier this month Google and Apple suggested they would develop the technology for autonomous cars but not the cars themselves. Last month, Ford said its first driverless cars will be taxis and confined to certain cities where the 3D mapping to 10cm accuracy can …

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It could be significant but it may very well come to nothing, however Audi, Daimler, BMW, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm have formed the ‘5G Automotive Association’ and are looking to find other members. The association aims to ‘evolve, test and promote communications solutions for connected mobility’ and promote ‘connected automated driving’. Now one …

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Jeff Bezos says he wants Amazon to be an ‘invention machine’ and the company’s rent-a-priest service in Japan shows just how inventive it can be. Amazon teamed up last year with Japanese Internet start-up Minrevi to offer the service called Obosan-bin. For $350 a priest will come to your home and hold a memorial service …

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Imagination Technologies has licensed the full range of UltraSoC semiconductor IP and software. The agreement allows Imagination customers to incorporate UltraSoC’s real-time trace and control capabilities into their SoC products, providing intimate visibility of the internal operation of the device with very little silicon overhead. It also enables Imagination to significantly enhance its development flow, …

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Imec, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, ZSW), today announced that they have fabricated a thin-film solar module stack made up of perovskite and Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) with a conversion efficiency of 17.8%. The module surpasses the highest efficiencies of …

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In 1957, the Russians not only successfully launched the first artificial satellite but in doing so demonstrated to the world that henceforth Soviet technology and control theory was a forced to be reckoned with. So 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 5th 1960 The story continues: In the debate …

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LED modules with a collimating reflector placed over each LED can enable luminaires such as downlights to be far thinner than the legacy form factor and thinner than most LED-based versions.

We are excited to announce the availability of the m4.16xlarge, the largest instance size in the latest generation of EC2 General Purpose instances, featuring 64 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory. The m4.16xlarge offers a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications including databases, data processing tasks, cluster computing, and web servers that require high computational horsepower or memory size.