Intel’s Q3 revenues grew 9.1% y-o-y and profit grew 21% y-o-y Gross margin was 64.8% and operating profit was $5.1 billion.

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The government appoints the former Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, to be Director General for Digital and Media. At university, Gould studied philosophy and divinity.

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The government should step carefully when it implements Brexit, says the Royal Academy of Engineering, which wants to see free movement, a continuation of UK participation in EU R&D projects and continued access to the single market.

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A foundation, in the form of not-for-profit company, has been set-up to support the BBC micro:bit educational computer. Prior to this, support has been from a group of companies and other organisations loosely called the ‘micro:bit partnership’. “I’d like to say huge thank you to everybody that has played a part in getting the micro:bit to …

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Weller’s WTQB 1000 surface-mount re-work station is intended to cover infra-red pre-heating, de-soldering, pad cleaning, positioning and soldering components from 1 x 1 to 42 x 42mm. And BGAs can be re-balled – fitted with new solder balls. It includes an adjustable positioning arm with a vacuum pipette for lifting components and a camera, plus a …

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Rittal has introduced a fastener that replaces captive nuts when installing equipment in 19inch racks. Attachment is by hand without tools, and it can be used with every enclosure in the Rittal product range straight away. It is available as a pre-assembled 1U support with three captive nuts, including centre attachment, to standard EIA 310. …

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LP-176 from BMV is a Pico-ITX (100 x 72mm) single-board computer is based around a choice of Intel 14nm Braswell quad-core processors: 1.6GHz N3710 Pentium or 1.04GHz Atom X5-E8000. Applications are expected in information appliances where graphics rich operation and high end audio are key. Both versions have Generation 8 graphics support with a standard …

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CB Insights and KPMG report that VC Funding went negative in Q4 and stayed low in Q1: The number of $100 million plus VC financings fell off a cliff in Q4 and have stayed low: Q1 was a five quarter low for new companies entering the unicorn club: The median size of European late-stage deals …

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NEC  has adopted Raspberry Pi as a standard internal display peripheral “enabling a seamless integration of Raspberry Pi’s devices with NEC’s displays”, said NEC. In this case, it is the third-generation Raspberry Pi Compute Module – an industrial computer with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. “The latest Raspberry Pi 3 compute module boasts significant performance …

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Where I failed to get much further that playing the odd music file on Allo’s Vana hi-fi stack – which is compatible with Raspberry Pi, website CNXsoft has managed to go the extra mile. The issues that stopped me (see links below) were around the version of Max2Play software supplied with the Sparky Raspberry Pi …

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