Diodes has announced a hot-swap chip for I2C and SMBus connections

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Molex has shrunk its Fit family of wire-to-PCB connectors – to 3.5mm pin-pitch to produce the Ultra-Fit range – the size of the one pictured, looking straight into the pins, is 10 x 14mm. For single row parts (2-8pins) capacity is 14A per pin in tin plate versions and 12A for gold. In dual row …

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Cor strike a light. Listen to this company boss: ‘There is still more work to do, but under our new leadership we’re bringing in: Improvements for passengers — from new safety features to 24/7 telephone support; Improvements for drivers — including for the first time sickness, injury, maternity and paternity protections; And a new more …

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ACEINNA of Massachusetts has brought out OpenIMU – a professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications. Whether you are developing autonomously guided vehicles for industrial applications, autonomous cars, factory or industrial robots, drones, ROVs, any kind of smart machine which needs to move – fast or slow, on land, in …

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Birmingham University researchers see a way  to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium. Lithium is expensive and resources are unevenly distributed across the planet. Large amounts of drinking water are used in lithium extraction and extraction techniques are becoming more energy intensive. With the ever increasing demand for electric cars, the need for …

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Long-time LED and solid-state lighting industry executive Jacob Tarn had very publicly and proactively lauded the advancements made by LEDvance as a global and full-line lighting manufacturer, and now the company will seek a new CEO.

It was a bit startling to see Current – the once overarching energy services company – announce price increases on LED luminaires and “traditional lighting products.” It felt like GE Lighting all over again.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a second Edge location in New Delhi, India. Adding this location doubles CloudFront’s capacity in the area for both processing viewer requests and caching content locally. For a full list of CloudFront’s global network, see the CloudFront Details webpage.

AWS CodeBuild is now available to customers in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD 

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