Socionext has a prototype media edge server which uses Socionext’s multi-format codec MB86M30 and SC2A11A central processor.

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The IET and Prospect trade union are working together to help employers in the engineerings and technology sectors on how to attract a wider talent pool, including career returners.

Read full article: Tech firms should attract career returners, says IET

NXP Semiconductors releases the MCUXpresso integrated development environment (IDE) for its LPC and Kinetis MCUs based on ARM Cortex-M cores.

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SeeedStudio – the prototype specialists behind such things as the BeagleBone Green Wireless – develops the Wio GPS Board, based on the MT2503 and Arduino M0 MCU.

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Xilinx says its Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs are available in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances which bring in extra servers to cope with heavy loads. The application provides programmable hardware acceleration with FPGAs and enables users to optimize their compute resources for the unique requirements of their workloads. F1 instances make it easy to …

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Fourteen percent of over 60s learning to code are doing it for their current job, and 9% want to improve their future job prospects.

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The average British adult spends an average of 57 minutes on their gadgets in bed before going to sleep, according to LaptopsDirect, which surveyed 1,012 UK adults. 68% used smartphones in bed, 32% watched television in 19% use tablet computers, 14% listened to music and 8% played on games consoles. Those aged 18-24 were most likely …

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53 years ago, a computer company made a momentous decision – to cut its product line down to one family. Before the single product family was introduced, it was just as complicated for a customer to move from one of the company’s computers to another company’s computers as it was to move between the different …

Read full article: Fable: The Momentous Decision

Microlease, test equipment distributor and rental firm, will now sell instruments from GW Instek in the UK, Ireland and Italy. Microlease, which is already a distributor of Keysight and Viavi instruments in the UK, will sell over 300 GW Instek instruments including oscilloscopes, signal sources, power supplies, and digital meters. Raffaele Gatta, European sales director at Microlease, writes: “This addition …

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A team from Korea creates extra-flexible neural electrodes, using zinc oxide nanowires, that minimise tissue damage without losing signal fidelity.

Read full article: Nanowires offer less damaging brain probe