Chinese researchers are developing a smart grid control technique to handle wind turbine contributions.

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Stanford University develops artificial intelligence that can diagnose skin cancer as well as dermatologists, it claims.

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The ‘wisdom of the crowd’ can be better extracted by asking just two questions, according to MIT’s Sloan Neuroeconomics Lab.

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V-Tac’s range of lights will be listed on DIALux’s software by March this year, said V-Tac. “We are delighted to have become a DIALux Partner,” said V-Tac marketing director Anil Sunagar. “The capabilities of their software makes lighting design much easier for everyone.” According to V-Tac, over 600,000 architects, engineers and lighting technicians use DIALux software …

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53 years ago a compsny described the idea of an ASIC at the 1963 Wescon Show – the first time that the idea of customisable ICs had been suggested. The company suggested it would make standard RTL parts but have customers design a unique metal interconnect mask. The idea failed to get into production line …

Read full article: Fable: The Idea Whose Time Had Not Yet Come

The UK Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is to develop ways to print the electronics of RFID labels, with £2.6m from the European Regional Development Fund.

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The Raspberry Pi Guy is a young electronics enthusiast behind the eponymous YouTube channel TheRaspberryPiGuy, which has already totalled four million views (and counting).

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Intel had 2016 revenues of $59.4 billion, operating income of $12.9 billion, net income of $10.3 billion and cash flow of $21.8 billion. For Q4, Intel had revenue of $16.4 billion, operating of $4.5 billion, net income of $3.6 billion. The PC business grew 2% in 2016; Thee data centre business grew 8% to $17.2 …

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It was once said of Qualcomm that you only get one chance to screw the industry. The question is: Was it worth it? Chickens are coming home to roost – a $975 million anti-trust settlement with China; an $858 million fine from the Korean FTC, possibly more fines to come from the EU and the …

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AWS customers can now directly access more than 150 free and paid desktop apps using a new integrated AWS Marketplace experience. AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps enables customers to discover and subscribe to Microsoft Windows-based applications using the familiar AWS Marketplace website, without having to first log in to the Amazon WorkSpaces console.