Harvard scientists Professor Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias have made metallic hydrogen – a material which could have many applications including room temperature superconductors.

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Toshiba has announced the spin-off of its memory business. Market watcher DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, believes there are advantages in the long run that will benefit the Toshiba-Western Digital alliance in the forms of expansion in NAND flash production capacity and increased efficiency in storage product development. “Toshiba wants to put its memory business in a more stable …

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I worked from home yesterday and had trouble accessing the mighty servers of Electronics Weekly. So I fired up a Raspberry Pi 3 and…     ….I still couldn’t connect with the servers. But I could do all the usual office-type tasks at full speed and with out any inconvenience. Web-browsing was slightly slow, maybe …

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At a board meeting earlier today, Toshiba approved the proposed spin-out of its chip division and said that an IPO is one option for the unit.

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Vishay introduces the first device in its fourth generation of 600V E Series power mosfets, aimed at telecom, industrial, and enterprise power supplies.

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Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a ‘modern’ industrial strategy for the UK.

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Swedish researchers have made ‘muscles’ by coating natural fibres with electro-active polymers.

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In 1973 Leo Esaki was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics for his invention of the tunnel diode while working at Sony. Although interesting scientifically, the device had little practical use. Unfortunately, Esaki’s research director at Sony, Makoto Kikuchi, was nobbled by the Japanese press after the Nobel announcement, and a reporter asked Kikuchi what …

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Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) now supports Docker Image Manifest V2, Schema 2 providing the ability to assign multiple tags per image, store Windows container images, and use the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image format. Visit the specification page to learn more about Manifest V2 Schema 2. 

Cypress adds to its FL-L flash family with AEC-Q100 (automotive) qualified 64 and 128Mbit NOR memories with Quad SPI data transfer.

Read full article: Cypress aims FL-L flash at automotive, industrial and IoT