Thanks to lucifer666 for this one – the ten most evil people who ever lived: Hitler Stalin Genghis Khan Vlad the Impaler Mao Nero Attila the Hun Ivan the Terrible Pol Pot King Leopold II of Belgium      

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When I wish upon a star I’ll get an army and a semiconductor industry, warbles the girl in the gaily patterned dirndl on the Alpine mountaintop. She looks a trifle familiar. Good Lord can that be VdL?  Maybe, in her imagination, she stands on a rostrum, taking the salute as legions of brightly uniformed troops march …

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element14  has put out an eBook that offers insights into the history and the reality of 3D printing, including the processes, materials, and applications — as well as what the future holds of this advancing technology. The 3D printing industry has been developing rapidly over the past two decades, and has moved beyond large corporations …

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Northrop Grumman has been awarded a DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contract for a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite payload. It’s part of DARPA’s Blackjack programme. Specifically, a contract for “Phase 2 development” of an advanced, software-defined positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payload. The contract includes options to build units destined for space …

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Nasa has announced the destination for its Artemis lunar robotic rover, which is dubbed Viper (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover). The site, to be explored in 2023, is the western edge of the Nobile Crater near the Moon’s South Pole. The region features areas permanently covered in shadow as well as areas that are bathed …

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IDC expects the semiconductor market to grow by 17.3% this year after a 10.8% rise last year. The industry will see normalisation and balance by the middle of 2022, says IDC, with a potential for overcapacity in 2023 as larger scale capacity expansions begin to come online towards the end of 2022. Growth is driven …

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Renesas has brought out the R-Car SDK, a software platform in one package that enables quicker and easier software development and validation for smart camera and automated driving applications used in passenger, commercial, and off-road vehicles. Optimised for use with Renesas’ R-Car V3H and R-Car V3M system-on-chips (SoCs), the new R-Car SDK is built for …

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Robust demand for advanced processors used in networking and data center computers, new 5G smartphones, and ICs used in other high-growth market applications such as robotics, self-driving vehicles and ADAS, AI, ML and image recognition systems, is forecast by IC Insights  to lift total foundry sales to $107.2 billion in 2021, a 23% increase that …

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Drivers and vehicles now rely more heavily on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). While the use of systems such as radar and lidar will be important here, ADAS in vehicles also relies heavily on high-quality video imagery. As vehicles become more autonomous, the quality of these video streams will be more important. From a design …

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Today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN released an updated Download Configuration utility. Customers can now generate configuration templates for compatible Customer Gateway (CGW) devices, simplifying how customers setup VPN connections to AWS.