Intersil has launched a radiation hardened 32-channel driver which integrates the decoder, level shifter and driver array. The ISL72813SEH driver leverages Intersil’s SOI process, which provides single-event latch-up (SEL) robustness in heavy ion environments. The driver’s integrated decoder interfaces directly to the general purpose I/Os of FPGAs and CPUs in the satellite’s flight computer, dramatically reducing ...
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A Digital Skills Partnership aims to link Government, business, charities and voluntary organisations to give people the right skills for the jobs in their area and are aware of all the digital training opportunities on offer and an attempt to make the UK “the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business”. ...
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Pypestream is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. When the startup launched more than a year ago, founder and CEO Richard Smullen was pitching text messaging as the best way for customers to communicate with businesses — specifically, through the Pypestream app, where businesses can create their own accounts with a variety of different “pypes”… Read More
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When the original $5 Raspberry Pi Zero came out – to much fanfare, I might add – users connected it to all sorts of things. They made micro gaming rigs that ran on the 1GHz single-core CPU and added Pi Hats – little breakout boards – to power robots and sensors. Now you can do all that but without worrying about a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth dongle. The $10 Pi Zero W is the… Read More
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What can you wrap up in ribbons? Stick in your sock? And what can you take out in public and not get thrown in the dock? The Kado phone charger, of course. This new product by Itay Hasid and Daniel Assis is making the rounds at MWC and is essentially the “world’s thinnest wall charger for smartphones.” Obviously a wall charger isn’t that exciting but the pair raised… Read More
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Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek collaborate on testing 5G wireless communication technologies: mm-waves for 5G radio access and over-the-air testing concepts for massive MIMO antenna arrays.
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A driverless car was tested in London yesterday as Nissan put a modified Leaf on the streets of the East End. The car was said to have gone at speeds up to 50mph on local streets and main roads. The Leaf uses cameras, radar and lasers to figure out where it is in relation to ...
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Mobile World Congress brought a demo of driverless cars controlled by 5G signals staged by Telefonica, Ericsson and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology KTH. The companies showed how they could control driverless cars on a test track 70km away in Tarragona. Telefonica’s Javier Lorca said that, for the moment, using cellular signals to control driverless ...
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The world of mobile development is a hairy one. You can code things yourself and hurt your brain on React Native or you can use a drag-and-drop editor and get locked into one platform forever. But now app development house Kinetise is offering the best of both worlds. Kinetise, who I’ve talked about for years as an interesting alternative to coding your own Android and iOS apps, came… Read More
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Qualcomm, Telstra and Ericsson announce plans for interoperability testing and an over-the-air field trial based on the expected 5G NR (New Radio) specifications.
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MediaTek’s 10 core Helio X30 phone processor includes graphics processing from UK-based Imagination Technologies. Its 800MHz PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU (GT7400 Plus) produces a 2.4x performance boost and 60% power saving compared with MediaTek’s previous generation phone (X20) chipset, which is made on a TSMC 10nm process. It includes full hardware support for tessellation and ASTC ...
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Dream Chip Technologies, the German IC design house, has produced first silicon of a 22nm FD-SOI ADAS SoC for automotive computer vision. It is the first chip to be made on GloFo’s 22nm FD-SOI process. The chip was created in cooperation with ARM, Arteris, Cadence, GloFo, and INVECAS as part of the EC’s ENIAC THINGS2DO ...
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The next decade will be one of immense change. The future of humanity will be decided – do we go to space or stay put, do we survive the changes coming? Further, many establishments will die. The publishing industry, burdened and drowned by the long tail, will sink. Music and movies will take new shapes, shapes as revolutionary as the talkie was to the zoetrope. Basically,… Read More
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Rambus has announced a mobile payments platform to enhance payment security, reduce operational costs and increase revenue for retailers. The Rambus Unified Payment Platform enables consumers to pay with credit, points and coupons in a single transaction, and transform how they shop and pay. “Our Unified Payment Platform is based on a bank-proven foundation from our ...
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ARM’s owner Softbank is reported by CNBC to be spending up to $4 billion on a US workspace-sharing start-up called WeWork. The deal is said to be that Softbank will invest an initial $2 billion and may subsequently invest another $2 billion. WeWork is backed by Chinese investor groups Hony Capital, backed b Legend Holdings, and ...
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So this isn’t the Oscar moment that everyone’s talking about, but it’s also kind of big deal: Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, both distributed by Amazon Studios, won a collective three Academy Awards tonight. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos even got a shoutout in Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue. Manchester by the Sea won for Best Actor (Casey Affleck, who won… Read More
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Analogix has produced reference designs paring MediaTek’s Helio X30 10-core processor with Analogix’s ANX7625 SlimPort transmitter to provide DisplayPort over USB-C at 4K Ultra-HD resolution for smart devices. The ANX7625 is an ultra-low power, single-chip bridge from the MIPI and USB 3.1 interfaces of the application processor to DisplayPort over USB-C, simultaneously performing the necessary ...
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HIPPEROS, the Belgian RTOS developer, has added hardware acceleration, fast multicore IPC and mixed criticality scheduling, to its multicore RTOS for high performance embedded systems version 17.02. HIPPEROS RTOS is a family of ITAR-free, highly configurable, modular and parallel real-time operating systems (RTOS) designed specifically for multicore platforms for the next generation of reliable, low ...
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Nokia’s re-entry into the handset business sees the launch of a phone with a battery which lasts a month and has 22 hours of talk time with a 1200mAh battery. It was designed nearly 20 years ago and is the re-launch of the most popular mobile phone of the year 2000 – the 3310 – ...
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Renesas announces the completion of its acquisition of Intersil. “I am excited to welcome the Intersil employees into the Renesas Group and look forward to building a robust organization that will bring the capabilities of both companies to bear to proactively address changing market dynamics and customer needs,” says Renesas CEO Bunsei Kure, “with the ...
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The government is to give £17 million to universities to support research into robotics and AI.. “Innovation is at the heart of our Industrial Strategy,” says business secretary Greg Clark, “by investing in dynamic fields such as robotics and AI, we will help put the UK at the forefront of global innovation.” HMG says that ...
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Layer, the messaging platform that won TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield back in 2013, is making two big announcement today: It’s raised $15 million in Series B funding, and it’s acquiring another startup, Cola. Layer makes it easy for businesses to add messaging capabilities to their iOS, Android and web products — customers include Trunk Club, Staples and Udacity. In… Read More
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Google’s spun off driverless car unit Waymo is suing Uber’s driverless truck subsidiary Otto for stealing its technology. “Recently, we uncovered evidence that Otto and Uber have taken and are using key parts of Waymo’s self-driving technology,” says Waymo, “today, we’re taking legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for misappropriating Waymo trade ...
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Imec has had its funding from the Flanders government increased from €79 million a year to $108 million a year for the next five years. Flanders innovation minister Philippe Muyters said that the extra funding would cover Imec’s task of getting Flemish companies to automate and use big data in the Industry 4.0 transformation. “This ...
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TSMC will start risk production on 5nm in H1 2019, its co-CEO Mark,Liu told the company’s annual supply chain management forum yesterday, reports Digitimes. Risk production on 7nm starts in Q1 2017 with volume production in 2018 10nm production shipments will expand rapidly in H2 2017, said Liu. EUV will start being used at 7nm ...
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Infineon is offering a DC-DC regulator aimed at high density Point of Load applications where efficiency, reliability and thermal behavior are important in NetCom, Telecom, Servers and Storage solutions. The voltage regulator employs a stability engine that makes it stable with ceramic capacitors without compensation for an easy design. The device, designated IR3883, can save up ...
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Have you ever wanted to feel smack of the punches coming at you from sweaty aliens? The whang of bullet hitting your guts? The feeling of hitting the deck as pirates stream over the virtual bow? The subtle vibration of the VR sexual encounter with a many-tentacled sex robot? Well here we go. The Hardlight VR Suit is ready to please. This vest contains multiple vibrational elements and can add… Read More
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Revcontent, a self-funded company powering content recommendations for publishers like Forbes and The Atlantic, has acquired Rover. That’s not Rover the pet-sitting marketplace, but rather the content discovery app formerly known as Flipora and Infoaxe. CEO John Lemp told me that Revcontent is paying “north of $30 million” in cash and stock for the acquisition, which he… Read More
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Like all great programmers I get most of my code from StackOverflow questions. Can’t figure out how to add authentication to Flask? Easy. Want to shut down sendmail? Boom. Now, thanks to all the code on the Internet, a robot can be as smart as a $180,000 coder. The system, called DeepCoder, basically searches a corpus of code to build a project that works to spec. It’s been used… Read More
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Scientists at the US Northwestern University have accidentally created a semiconductor junction with the newly-discovered material borophane, that might offer a route to determining if it is electronically useful. Borophene is a molecule made of boron atoms. Like graphene, borophene is a two-dimensional sheet-like molecule, but thought to be a better conductor of electrons than ...
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Engineers from TDK-Lambda UK supported a team of students from The Ilfracombe Academy in the international STEM competition, F1 in Schools. “TDK-Lambda is committed to supporting STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] education. We believe it is vital to address the looming skills gap and our engineers are engaged in a range of activities with ...
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Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have discovered large uniform reversible changes in electrical resistance as oxygen ions migrate in an oxide material. The discovery could open a route to ionotronic memories. It transpires that potential difference drives oxygen ions away from one electrical contact, causing an abrupt change in oxide lattice structure and an ...
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AndersDX has has increased all-round display readability with what it calls ‘moth-eye’ film. It has introduced the technology in a 7” capacitive-touch display module. “The moth-eye film surface treatment applied to this TFT display uses technology which mimics the micro-sized lenses in the eye of a moth,” said the firm. “It reduces internal reflections between the ...
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In April, NXP intends to sample a family of programmable, multi-standard SoCs for multi-access technologies including 5G. The Layerscape Access family targets wired and wireless enterprise and carrier networks, and home gateway markets. The first product in the family, the LA1575, solves a multi-standard problem with simultaneous implementation of 802.11ax, 802.11ad, and millimeter wave ...
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Farnell is aiming at industrial users with two ‘cape’ add-on boards for BeagleBone Black: one for wireless comms and another that adds a display. On top of this, is it also now stocking BeagleBone Black Wireless, which has followed Raspberry Pi 3 by adding native Wi-Fi support to a credit card-sized single-board computer. The Wireless ...
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Worldwide spending on cloud services and infrastructure will reach $122.5 billion in 2017, an increase of 24.4% over 2016, says IDC. Over the 2015-2020 forecast period, overall cloud spending will experience a 21.5% CAGR – nearly seven times the rate of overall IT spending growth. By 2020, IDC forecasts cloud spending will reach $203.4 billion ...
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Taiwan led all regions in wafer capacity with 21.3% share, a slight decrease from 21.7% in 2015 when the country first became the global wafer capacity leader, says IC Insights. Taiwan was only slightly ahead of South Korea, which was in second place. IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity report shows that South Korea accounted for ...
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Ericsson, Honeywell, GE, UC Berkeley and Intel are launching the 5G Innovators Initiative (5GI2), an open industry initiative designed to join major equipment manufacturers, leading technology companies, industry leaders and top universities to explore, test and innovate with 5G network and distributed edge technologies to accelerate the adoption of 5G wireless and infrastructure innovation in ...
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CEVA has introduced a communication DSP to meet the performance requirements of multi-gigabit class modems. The CEVA-XC12 aims to efficiently implement 5G, gigabit LTE, MU-MIMO Wi-Fi and other multi-gigabit modems. Already licensed to a leading wireless OEM, the CEVA-XC12 delivers up to 8x performance improvement and consumes 50% less power than its predecessor, the CEVA-XC4500, for ...
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Amobee just announced that it has agreed to acquire adtech company Turn for $310 million. Amobee used to be a mobile ad startup itself, before a 2012 acquisition by Singtel, where it remains a subsidiary. Since then, Singtel and Amobee have continued to make more acquisitions on the digital ad side, including Gradient X, Adconion and Kontera. Turn, meanwhile, operates both a data… Read More
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SocialRank co-founder Alex Taub classifies most brand interactions on social media into two broad categories. They’re either broadcasting to all of their followers or, if they’re communicating individually, it’s usually in a reactive way, like responding to a complaint. With the just-launched SocialRank Realtime, Taub and his team are trying to enable something different. Read More
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Knotel announced today that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2015, the company offers what co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva described as “headquarters as a service” — a flexible office space that can be customized for each tenant while also growing or shrinking as needed. This might sound like it’s addressing the same need as WeWork and other… Read More
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This is what a machine learning algorithm looks like, according to Nigel Toon, CEO of Bristol start-up Graphcore. The false colour image has been created by the firm’s graph compiler software, which untangles neural networks as a prelude to executing them on Graphcore’s as-yet undisclosed hardware. “In software, we explode the full graph, with all ...
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I’m not saying your head is oddly shaped, per se, but if you have trouble finding glasses that fit then a team from Cambridge, Massachusetts has a pair for you. Their Falcon I glasses are designed to fit you perfectly and won’t touch your cheeks, spread over your wider face, or frustrate you by slipping off. The $229 shades come in a sporty style and are aimed at bikers and runners. Read More
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Hydronium-ion batteries show promise for sustainable high-power energy storage, according to scientists at Oregon State University, which claims to have developed the world’s first battery to use only hydronium (H3O+) ions as the charge carrier. The hydronium ions are reversibly stored in an electrode made from the organic crystalline solid perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydridem (PTCDA). Dilute sulphuric acid is the electrolyte. ...
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Taoglas has unveiled its series of modular 5G massive MIMO antenna arrays. The new antennas – including the 5-6GHz Adaptrix CMM200.A (pictured) – feature a patent-pending, modular interlocking system (not shown) to help operators scale capacity – when more capacity or speed is needed at a location, another module is clipped to the side of ...
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Toshiba is sampling 64-layer 3-bit-per cell 512Gbit 3D NAND. Mass production is scheduled for H2. In April Toshiba plans to sample a 1Tbyte product which stacks 16 512Gbit die in a package. For the 512Gbit device, Toshiba deployed a 64-layer stacking process to realize a 65% larger capacity per unit chip size than the 48-layer 256Gbit ...
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Blu Wireless Technology, the Bristol WiGig specialist, has received a significant investment from ARM and other strategic and private investors. This will allow the companies’ mutual customers to deploy high performance mmWave and software defined networks (SDN) demanded for the cost-effective deployment of the forthcoming 5G standard. 10Gbps-class mmWave modems based on the Blu Wireless ...
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Intel has release some details of its forthcoming C3000 Atom processors. Designed for network and storage products, the family provides up to 16 compute cores for a claimed increase of up to 2.3x compute performance compared with the previous-generation C2750 Atom. In addition, up to 19Mpacket/s of Layer 3 forwarding is available. “Unique features for the intelligent network edge ...
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The Q1 contract price for server DRAM modules is 40% up on Q4, reports DRAMeXchange. The price is expected to rise another 10% in Q2. The price of 16GB DDR4 RDIMM modules will hit $130, says DRAMeXchange. Demand was unexpectedly high in H2, says DRAMeXchange. With the number of major suppliers down to only three ...
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The Q1 contract price for server DRAM modules is 40% up on Q4, reports DRAMeXchange. The price is expected to rise another 10% in Q2. The price of 16GB DDR4 RDIMM modules will hit $130, says DRAMeXchange. Demand was unexpectedly high in H2, says DRAMeXchange. With the number of major suppliers down to only three ...
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Researchers at MIT have created a power supply for small electronic devices that “sips” energy by turning devices on with packets of energy rather than a steady stream. Most power converters release a steady voltage. This means they’re generally inefficient for small devices like sensors and other devices that don’t need to be constantly on. The MIT’s… Read More
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In the startup world, opening a real-world, physical store can seem a bit quaint. Who wants to deal with the sky-high rents charged in prime, urban locations, not to mention getting locked into a long-term lease? Well, a Y Combinator-backed company called Bulletin is looking to offer a more flexible experience for brands who want to sell their products in brick-and-mortar stores — COO… Read More
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Kirill Tatarinov has seen computing from bottom to top. As a student in the USSR he wrote programs on punch cards to manage the cutting edge hardware clones that Russia was churning out and now, as CEO of Citrix, he’s working on the next generation of managed computing. His vision for the future is simple: he thinks 3D will be the next big UI shift and that we need to be ready. Tatarinov… Read More
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Cosmunity is a new social network for people who want to keep the experience of Comic Con (or another geek event of your choosing) going all year long. Co-founder and CEO Cole Egger recalled attending a Dallas Comic Con (now known as Fan Expo Dallas) and being “blown away by the size.” However, he found fans who were “frustrated” by the difficulty of staying connected… Read More
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Connecting millions of electronic devices is creating significant security risks, and designing in security from day one is becoming ever-more crucial. Developers now recognise that the Internet of things (IoT) will only operate successfully if it becomes the Internet of trusted things. A key message at the Secure Systems Summit 2017 will be the importance ...
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Mid-air touch-free haptics company, Ultrahaptics, has announced a collaboration with HARMAN to incorporate mid-air gesture haptic feedback technology into a range of infotainment and audio systems. HARMAN is involved in connected car technology, lifestyle audio innovations, design and analytics, cloud services and IoT. There are more than 30 million vehicles currently equipped with HARMAN’s connected car ...
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Globalfoundries has announced the availability of PDKs for its 45nm RF SOI (45RFSOI) to support next mmWave beam forming applications in future 5G base stations and smartphones. The technology is optimized for beam forming front-end modules (FEMs), with back-end-of-line (BEOL) features including thick copper and dielectrics that enable improved RF performance for LNAs, switches and ...
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Xilinx has integrated RF-class analogue technology into its 16nm MPSoCs resulting in a family of RFSoCs which eliminate discrete data converters resulting, claims Xilinx, in a 50-75% power and footprint reduction for 5G massive-MIMO and millimeter wave wireless backhaul applications. Large scale 2D antenna array systems will be key to the increase in spectral efficiency ...
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Toshiba is now looking to raise $8.8 billion plus from the sale of a stake in, or all of, its chip business, reports Reuters. Although Toshiba’s preference would be to retain 30% of the business, it is prepared to sell all of it because Toshiba’s priority is to raise the $6.3 billion needed to cover ...
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Altreonic’s multicore VirtuosoNext Designer embedded RTOS has been ported to Sundance Technology’s VF360 3U OpenVPX single board computer (SBC). The Sundance board integrates a TI C6678 Keystone multicore DSP alongside an Altera Stratix V FPGA. VirtuosoNext Designer is Altreonic’s fifth generation embedded RTOS which is small enough to fit in on-chip caches. It also supports ...
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I like Digital Reader editor Nate Hoffelder. He is one of the few bloggers about publishing who doesn’t suck up to the industry nor does he particularly gild the lily. He basically believes that books are great, publishing is probably doomed, and that writing is really important. That’s why I was happy that he surfaced and debunked the claims of Chip McGregor, an agent who… Read More
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