Unsmart phones have been a bit of a theme on Gadget Master – after all, a clever or cool gadget doesn’t have to be bleeding edge technology.

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Open Cosmos, the British space company, has announced the Open Constellation project, which is described as a shared satellite infrastructure. It will be built and managed by Open Cosmos with the aim to provide data to address challenges around climate change. Essentially, entities that contribute satellites to the constellation gain access to the wider data. …

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As DRAM demand weakens, DRAM suppliers are looking to increase their market share with cases of “consolidated Q3/Q4 price negotiations” or “negotiating quantity before pricing” expected to deliver  an acceleration of Q4 ASP decline to 13-18%, says TrendForce. PC OEMs are de-stocking but a rising market penetration of higher-priced DDR5 to 13-15% in Q4 will …

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Researchers from IDLab (an imec research group at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Nokia Bell Labs have presented the first upstream linear burst-mode transimpedance amplifier (TIA) chip that accommodates 50 Gbit/s NRZ and 100 Gbit/s PAM-4 modulation. The chip enables optical line terminals (OLTs) to cope with upstream packets’ varying signal …

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Intel has picked Vigasio, near Verona, in Italy’s north east region of Veneto to be the site of its new European packaging plant according to Reuters. The plant will cost €4.5 billion and is expected to employ 1,500 direct jobs and create 3,500 indirect jobs. It is due to come online in 2025-7. The Vigasio …

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Move-X is aiming at tracking applications that need meter-level accuracy and a long-range battery-powered wireless connection with a module that is physically compatible with Arduino’s 63mm long MKR boards. Called Cicerone, it is built around u-blox’ MAXM10S GNSS (sat nav) receiver module and Move-X’ MAMWLE LoRa transceiver module, which has a Semtech SX126x inside. “This …

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Siglent has announced a spectrum analyser and a RF generator for use at 20GHz to support X and K-band measurement. SSA5085A (right) is the spectrum analyser, which works across 9kHz to 26.5GHz and offers -165dBm/Hz DANL and 105dBc/Hz phase noise, according to the company. Options include analogue and digital modulation analysis, and demodulation, including for …

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USB Promoter Group has announced USB4 Version 2.0, which will enable up to 80Gbit/s through USB Type-C cables and connectors. The associated specification is due before USB DevDays in November. It will deliver “up to 80Gbit/s operation based on a new physical layer architecture, using existing 40Gbit/s USB Type-C passive cables and newly-defined 80Gbit/s USB …

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Marl International has started delivering LED lighting for Bakerloo line rolling stock, operated by Transport for London (TfL). A 50% energy saving is expected compared with existing fluorescent lighting. The fleet has 4,906 lighting units, including 512 power supply units, according to Marl, which is based in Cumbria. That adds up to a million LEDs and …

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AWS App Runner adds Node.js v16 managed runtime for building and running node.js based web applications and APIs. App Runner allows you to deploy your application from source code or a container image directly in the AWS cloud. Regardless of the source type, App Runner takes care of starting, running, scaling, and load balancing your service. App Runner provides convenient platform-specific managed runtimes. Each one of these runtimes builds a container image from your source code and adds language runtime dependencies into your image. App Runner uses the managed runtime to build and deploy your application alleviating the need for you to develop and manage your own Dockerfiles.