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Nixie tubes made in Europe

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Yet another reason to thank Steve Kurt, commenter of this parish, if for a link to this 40 minute video about Dalibor Farny, an innovative guy in the Czech Republic who has learned how to make Nixie tubes from scratch, and started a company to produce them. Even if you have not got enough time …

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What links the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics and electronics?

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Work done in the 1970s and 80s by the three physics Nobel Laureates named earlier this week: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, is just starting to bear fruit in the world of electronics. The prize, split 50, 25, 25% respectively, was awarded “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”, …

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Announcing the Hadoop Distributed File System Support for AWS Import/Export Snowball

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We are pleased to announce the launch of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) support for the AWS Import/Export Snowball client. The new HDFS support accelerates the movement of big data workloads. The Snowball client allows end users to import data directly from on premises HDFS clusters to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Big data workloads may now skip intermediary staging and go straight from HDFS to Snowball.

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