Australian engineers create a long-lasting quantum from the spin of a silicon atom and an electromagnetic field – existing for 2.4ms before de-phasing.

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An interesting experiment has been proposed by Dr Davidson of Battersea College of Technology, London, in a letter to Nature. So, 56 years ago, started a piece in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960. He suggests the use of an artificial satellite carrying a caesium atomic clock. A measurement could then be made of …

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AWS is excited to announce immediate availability of the new US East (Ohio) Region. Ohio joins Northern Virginia, Oregon, Northern California, and AWS GovCloud as the fifth AWS Region in North America and as the fourteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 38 globally. 

“What is the Department doing about the IoT?” I ask the Permanent Secretary. “The Department can do nothing about something incapable of definition, Secretary of State,” replied the PS. ‘Connecting things to eachother via the Internet,” I suggest. “Connecting things like what, Secretary of State?” “Oh, fridges to toasters, that sort of thing.” “De minimis …

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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna manufacturer, is sampling an antenna for small devices in the 433MHz ISM band. The antenna measures 101.0mm x 20.0mm x 0.15mm, and weighs 0.5g, with a peak gain of 2.80dBi. It is suitable for any small electronic device in the 433MHz band, typically remote monitoring, robot control, smart meters, home automation …

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The UK is expected to continue to lead the EU’s five largest economies on a range of fixed broadband measures in 2020, according to a new report by global telecoms advisor Analysys Mason. The report compares the outcomes of the UK broadband market with key benchmark countries including the ‘EU five’ (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …

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Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with the Raspberry Pi Pixel desktop UI, Stratix 10, Osram headlights and PC sales all figuring prominently… Taking it in reverse order as always: 10. Pi gets a new Pixel desktop 9. Wishy-Washy Chancellor 8. Raspberry Pi 3 becomes Hi-Fi audio player with …

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Packaging giant Avery Dennison has made a significant investment in UK-based flexible transistor technology firm, PragmatIC. The investment by Avery Dennison, which also develops radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, was part of a £18m funding round which also included existing shareholders Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and ARM. This investment in PragmatIC is expected to accelerate the mass deployment …

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Aiming at silicon carbide power converters in avionics, Beta Transformer Technology (BTTC) has combined both gate power and gate signal transformers in a single package. Isolation in excess of 2.5kVdc is claimed, as is low parasitic capacitances in order to support the fast transients typical of SiC converters – up to 50kV/µs. Developed with Belgian …

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The founder of Canon, Takeshi Mitarai, was a doctor, specialising in gynaecology. “He didn’t know much about business and he didn’t care much about money,” according to his son. However Mitarai did care that “the microscopes we used at school were made in Germany.” “I thought that this kind of business was right for Japan,” …

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