A second cyber attack using the tools developed by the CIA and dumped on the WikiLeaks site in the Vault7 incident is expected today.

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Toshiba has introduced a 40V/3.0A stepper-motor control IC that requires no external current-sense resistors. The TB67S508FTG stepper-motor controller has on-chip current sensing. As a result it can eliminate the effects of resistor-tolerance errors, ensuring greater accuracy (+/-5%) and uniformity, says the supplier. The transistors of the output bridge have very low on-resistance of 0.45Ω (typical, …

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Digital networks can improve employee productivity by avoiding the confusion of needing separate networks for A/V and IP, writes Andy Hill In a working environment where power availability, audio/visual technology and video functionality work seamlessly together, the result is increased employee productivity. While a connected infrastructure is not the only component that makes a high …

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The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched its own engineering manifesto as the political parties campaign for next month’s general election.

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ARM’s server aspirations seem to have fallen on stony ground since Softbank snaffled the company last year. At that time it was thought to be a weird move for a company to pay $32 billion to kill off ARM’s pre-eminent advantage of being an independent supplier of cores. ARM’s success derived from the fact that …

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Pure, the digital radio company, has today announced the appointment of Sir Hossein Yassaie as Chairman.

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    The English language programme Cobol is to be used in the International Computers and Tabulators 1301 computer.   So, 57 years ago starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of  October 12th 1960   Cobol is thought to be the most versatile common language programme developed so far. It includes some twenty verbs …

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 Intersil has introduced a PMIC  that delivers 91% efficiency at 1.1V output voltage for application processors, GPUs, FPGAs and high-performance system power. The PMIC’s low RDS(on) MOSFETs and programmable PWM frequency allows designers to use fewer low-profile external components, enabling a 50mm2 power-supply that is 40% smaller than competing solutions. The ISL91211 triple/quad output PMIC is …

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The Q1 smartphone market entered a ‘super-cycle’ says IHS, with y-o-y increases for the first time in two years. The increase was all led by the Chinese manufacturers who recorded startling gains. While Samsung was up 0.1% and Apple down 0.8%, OPPO was up 67.3%, Vivo was up 56.3 % and Huawei up 21.7%. Q1 …

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