The Sony turnaround under Kaz Hirai looks on track to return to the glories of its golden age.

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Infineon reports revenue of €1,831 million for a profit of €338 million at a gross margin of 38.2%. The company expects the same revenues in calendar Q3.

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Thank you to every one who entered our recent JTAG Live Controller competition. We had over four hundred entries, so that was pleasing, but there are three main winners to announce.

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Arduino Micro has some extra leds that it is tricky to programme. Like almost all Arduinos, has a built-in led – the green one on the left in the photo. And it has a pair of yellow leds – called TX and RX – to indicate traffic on the serial bus. Except, on the Micro, …

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Thise with beams to form have got something to get excited about: Lumileds has introduced its most powerful single die led yet, the 1,700 lm Luxeon V. Those with long memories – to 2008ish – will remember an earlier Lumileds led with exactly the same name, which was pronounced ‘luxeon five’. This one, Lumileds has confirmed, …

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Developing flying taxis is becoming quite a crowded area. We’ve seen human carrying drone developments from the likes of Ehang of China and Airbus with the aim of selling fleets of them to taxi operators. Now, Volocopter of Germany, says it’s had $30 million from Daimler to develop a five-seater VTOL flying EV for taxi …

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For our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2017, we highlight Emilio Mistretta, who is studying as a PhD Researcher at the University of Hertfordshire.

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Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top 14 smartphone manufacturers:

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The Luxeon V packaged LED can be driven at just under 5A and targets high-lumen applications including high- and low-bay luminaires, sports field lighting, and outdoor area lighting.

We’re excited to announce the availability of Lumberyard Beta 1.10, the biggest release to date for Amazon’s free AAA game engine. This release contains over 545 features, fixes, and enhancements. Some highlights include:

• Order-independent Transparency – correctly display overlapping transparent surfaces (i.e. wine glasses or ice sculptures) in your games with greater ease
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing – smooth out jagged edges and other imperfections caused by real-time rendering, getting you closer to achieving film-like quality in your games
• Component entity workflows – 35 improvements to help speed up your iteration time
• Cloud Gems – Over 50 improvements to help you better manage your player community
• Plus much more, including a brand new docking system for customizing the editor, performance enhancements to the material editor, and new cinematic features