Japan wants the the EU-UK negotiations for Brexit to to be conducted in the open so that Japanese business can be aware of how they are panning out.

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London-based embedded design skills initiative, Hardware Academy has a scored a major coup by teaming with Intel to run a design challenge for IoT developers. Hardware Academy was founded in 2015 by David Bellisario and Fabiano Bellisario with the aim of providing professional training for IoT developers through workshops and seminars. The training sessions introduce …

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Vishay has up-graded its traditional analogue switch and analogue multiplexer lines using a new silicon process.

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The mixing of art and artificial intelligence at Tate Britain art caught my eye last week – an AI programme compares up-to-the-minute photo journalism from Reuters with British art from the Tate collection.

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With the TTIP US-EU trade deal negotiations allegedly in trouble, and with talk that a post-Brexit UK-EU deal may take ten years to negotiate, Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba, may have a great solution. International trade deals should be left to business people to negotiate, Ma tells CNBC. Of course the deals would …

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This week I bring you my guide to medical connectors. Even if you don’t work in the medical field I hope this is still worth a read as many technologies used are transferable qualities.

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Allo has sent Electronics Weekly its Vana Hi-Fi system to try. Consisting of boards that sit top of a Raspberry Pi or Allo’s own Sparky single board computer, the boards do everything needed to make deliver dozens of watts to loudspeakers include re-clocking – which is what high-end Hi-Fi folk do to remove clock-based jitter …

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Avago’s latest optically isolated sigma-delta modulator device, the ACPL-C799, is being sold through Broadcom’s sales channels. This follows Avago’s acquisition of Broadcom last year. “Driven by strong growth in industrial automation, more and more servo designers are looking for a highly efficient, robust current sensing solution that will serve many servo drive models and motors …

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A €1.8m EU grant has been awarded to SmartKem of the UK for technology transfer its organic semiconductor technology to flexible display makers in Asia. SmartKem is investing  €850k in the project which it said will help drive the adoption of organic semiconductors as a universal thin film transistor (TFT) backplane platform for the mass …

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Akzo Nobel, the Netherlands-based corporation that owned the Retsof salt mine, will pay for upgrades to the area’s drinking water system.