‘Upcycle it’ will challenge community members to Upcycle an unwanted product to give it a new lease of life, and make it a useful IoT device.

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The Associate Android Developer Certification was first announced at Google I/O 2016, in May, and launched a few months later

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Fujitsu is sampling a FRAM designed for an operating temperature of up to 125°C, suitable for use in the automotive sector

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Design software firm Altium has acquired its UK reseller Premier EDA Solutions. But Altium said it would also continue to expand its direct sales and support of customers in the main European markets. According to Altium CFO Joe Bedewi, Premier EDA Solutions, which has represented Altium in the UK for 23 years, is “highly respected …

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Fortunately for Silicon Valley and the future of the US IC industry, the law-suits which occasionally followed the defectors to new start-ups were rarely terminal. However it was mot always the same dlsewhere. In 1959 a group of Sperry scientists started a semiconductor company in Connecticut. In 1961 the start-up employed 250 people with sales …

Read full article: Fable: The Survivor

I like the title of this new book from O’Reilly – The Internet of Risky Things – which may be of interest to Gadget Masters!

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Mark Durcan, CEO of Micron, is to retire after four years as CEO. “The Board of Directors has formed a special committee to oversee the succession process and has initiated a search, with the assistance of an executive search firm, to identify and vet candidates,” says a company statement, “the Board has not established a …

Read full article: Micron CEO Mark Durcan to retire

Uber’s CEO has resigned from a US Presidential advisory committee following the executive order putting a temporary ban on immigrants into the US from seven countries. Following the executive order, an online petition, sponsored by the Independent Drivers Guild (New York), called for the immediate resignation of CEO Travis Kalanick from President Donald Trump’s advisory …

Read full article: Uber CEO quits US Presidential advisory council

Clarivate Analytics has come up with its 2016 Top 100 Global Innovators list based on the analysis of patent volume, patent-grant success rates, global reach and invention influence to identify the world’s most innovative organisations. “Just two countries account for 73 percent of the list — Japan and the US — making them the major …

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Former Micron Technology executive Mark Adams will take the helm of the new Lumileds LED manufacturing business that was just recently announced as an acquisition by Apollo Global Management.