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Ed Pisses Off The Boffins

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Today I resolved to get to grips with the government funding of science and asked my Permanent Secretary to fix up a meeting with the top boffins. “Which boffins, Secretary of State?” asks the PS. “The ones who run R&D.” I reply. “Well, there’s the EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, BBSRC, STFC, AHRC and MRC, Secretary of …

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Apple bags up 91% of Q3 smartphone profits

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In Q3, 91% of the worldwide profit from smartphone sales was made by Apple, reports Strategy Analytics. Total smartphone operating profit in Q3 was $9.4 billion. Apple had $8.6 billion of that with the second, third and fourth most profitable companies, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo each making a profit of $200 million representing 2% of …

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Rohm plugs stepper motor drive design into Arduino

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Rohm Semiconductor has developed an evaluation kit for motor driver devices which is designed as a ‘shield’ to plug directly into the Arduino open source board. There different versions of the kit for the supplier’s various stepper motor driver ICs– from standard, micro step, low voltage to high voltage. It covers supply voltages from 8V to 42V, enables up to 2.5A per …

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More on: Sussex quantum computer

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The University of Sussex has proposed a route to a practical quantum computer, and has just demonstrated the core ingredient – a two-qubit quantum gate. See Leti CMOS quantum transistor ‘Practical’ is an important word here, according to Sussex professor of quantum technologies Winfried Hensinger, as while other quantum computer designs might in theory be …

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The Genesis Of The Psion 3

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Organiser 2 was launched in April 1986 and drove Psion’s growth through the second half of the Eighties from a £5 million company to a £30 million company. It was still in production – for industrial use – in 2000. In 1988, Japan struck back. Sharp and Casio of Japan copied the concept, even using …

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