The Prime Minister’s Brexit Deal will provide the UK’s £130 billion digital sector with the certainty it needs to continue to thrive says Jeremy Wright Secretary of State fore Digital Culture Media and Sport. “We have secured the best deal possible to protect our businesses and make sure our personal data is processed safely and ...
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Sony SPresense is a multi-function development kit with a lot of processing power, GPS receivers and a camera interface, amongst other peripherals. The CXD5602 SoC on the 50 x 20.6mm main board contains six 156MHz ARM Cortex-M4F cores, and its periperals include an 8bit parallel camera interface, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and a sensor-fusion block ...
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Q3 chip revenues grew 7.4% q-o-q, says IHS, reaching a record $129 billion. Samsung took 16.2% market share, followed by Intel at 14.5% and Hynix at 7.8%. Over the last eight months Samsung has gained 3.8% of share while Intel has lost 4.8%. In Q3, Intel grew 12.6%, Samsung grew 9.3%, and Hynix grew 6.5%. Q3 ...
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Inertial measurement units (IMUs) from Bosch Sensortec are now available from Mouser. The BMI088 is a low noise, six-axis inertial sensor is designed for industrial applications as well as drone and robotic applications. The IMU has a 16bit digital, triaxial accelerometer and a 16bit digital, triaxial gyroscope to measure orientation and detect motion along three ...
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N26 announced today that it now has more than 2 million customers — up from 1.5 million in October.
The German fintech startup’s CEO Valentin Stalf was interviewed onstage at Disrupt Berlin with Tandem CEO Ricky Knox, where they discussed the growth of what are sometimes called challenger banks or neobanks — new banks that are taking on the incumbents by focusing on digital tools.
Stalf said N26 is seeing more than €1.5 billion in transactions each month, with €1 billion in deposits. He also discussed the company’s recent launch in the United Kingdom — he didn’t know the exact number of U.K. users, but estimated that the company has tens of thousands of U.K. accounts, with between 1,500 and 2,000 new signups on a single day three days ago.
Meanwhile, Knox said Tandem now has nearly half a million users in the U.K. (“This year, we’re seeing everybody’s growing really quickly.”) He also noted that because Tandem allows users to aggregate different accounts, he’s noticed some of those users are starting to become more focused on individual services.
“What tends to happen, particularly with the early adopter audience, is they will open [an] account with everybody because they want to check it out, they want to get the best product,” he said. “And then what you’ll see is over time, them kind of picking a horse — depending on the functionality they like, depending on, you know, the service they’re getting there — and settling in.”
Tandem is also expanding geographically, specifically to Hong Kong through a deal with Convoy Global Holdings. Asked why he’s making the leap to Asia before launching in other European markets, Knox said, “There are a load of massive Asian markets … The exciting thing here is the opportunity, as I said, for a global bank, and some of these Asian markets are really ripe for disruption.”
In discussing the different models for challenger banks, Knox warned against the dangers of the “marketplace bank” model, where banks make money by connecting customers to third-party services.
“What we found is, the more we try and push revenue in that area there, the less customers love it,” he said. “That’s the challenge with marketplaces: If you build your business model around it, you’ve got an inherent contradiction between customers loving you less when you make more money.”
Instead, Knox argued that customers have a better experience if the bank is willing to recommend free or low-priced services: “And actually at the backend, we’re still making money the same way the bank makes money. So we’re able to fund, if you like, all this great customer stuff at the front end.”
Moderator Romain Dillet quickly pointed out that Stalf was shaking his head while Knox was making his arguments.
“What we see with our customers is, I think if we have a great product, they’re normally also willing to pay a little bit for it,” Stalf said. “It needs to be transparent, and it needs to be a good value to consumers. But I think it’s untrue that customers are always not choosing a product if you price it.”
As for whether we’ll be seeing consolidation in the industry over the next few years, Knox argued, “I’d say there’s plenty of room for the existing cadre of neobanks to be incredibly successful on a global basis without any mergers or acquisitions.” He suggested it’s more likely that the established banks start trying to acquire the challengers, although he said, “That’s not a route we want to take.”
“I think there’s a couple players that are set for being a global bank, and I think we are trying to take the shot to be a global bank,” Stalf added. “I think it’s about building up 50 to 100 million users in the next couple years.”
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Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have created a system that can reproduce paintings from a single photo, allowing museums and art lovers to snap their favorite pictures and print new copies complete with paint textures.
Called RePaint, the project uses machine learning to recreate the exact colors of each painting and then prints it using a high-end 3D printer that can output thousands of colors using half-toning.
The researchers, however, found a better way to capture a fuller spectrum of Degas and Dali. They used a special technique they developed called “color-contoning”, which involves using a 3-D printer and 10 different transparent inks stacked in very thin layers, much like the wafers and chocolate in a Kit-Kat bar. They combined their method with a decades-old technique called “halftoning”, where an image is created by tons of little ink dots, rather than continuous tones. Combining these, the team says, better captured the nuances of the colors.
“If you just reproduce the color of a painting as it looks in the gallery, it might look different in your home,” said researcher Changil Kim. “Our system works under any lighting condition, which shows a far greater color reproduction capability than almost any other previous work.”
Sadly the prints are only about as big as a business card. The system also can’t yet support matte finishes and detailed surface textures but the team is working on improving the algorithms and the 3D printing tech so you’ll finally be able to recreate that picture of dogs playing poker in 3D plastic.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled have agreed to “pay disgorgement, penalties and interest” for failing to disclose promotional payments from three ICOs including Centra Tech. Mayweather received $100,000 from Centra Tech while Khaled got $50,000 from the failed ICO. The SEC cited Khaled and Mayweather’s social media feeds, noting they touted securities for pay without disclosing their affiliation with the companies.
Mayweather, you’ll recall, appeared on Instagram with a whole lot of cash while Khaled called Centra Tech a “Game changer.”
“You can call me Floyd Crypto Mayweather from now on,” wrote Mayweather. Sadly, the SEC ruled he is no longer allowed to use the nom de guerre “Crypto” anymore.
Without admitting or denying the findings, Mayweather and Khaled agreed to pay disgorgement, penalties and interest. Mayweather agreed to pay $300,000 in disgorgement, a $300,000 penalty, and $14,775 in prejudgment interest. Khaled agreed to pay $50,000 in disgorgement, a $100,000 penalty, and $2,725 in prejudgment interest. In addition, Mayweather agreed not to promote any securities, digital or otherwise, for three years, and Khaled agreed to a similar ban for two years. Mayweather also agreed to continue to cooperate with the investigation.
“These cases highlight the importance of full disclosure to investors,” said Stephanie Avakian of the SEC. “With no disclosure about the payments, Mayweather and Khaled’s ICO promotions may have appeared to be unbiased, rather than paid endorsements.”
The SEC indicted Centra Tech’s founders, Raymond Trapani, Sohrab Sharma, and Robert Farkas, for fraud.
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Tesco and VW are to set up an EV charging network based on Tesco’s srprores. In the next three years, the plan is to install 2,400 charging posts in 600 stores. That would increase the number of UK charging points by 14%. The installation will be done by Pod Point which has installed 2,500 charging ...
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Participating in Formula Student gives a platform to explore leadership, teamwork and public relations in engineering before entering the world of work
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Artificial intelligence can recognise congestive heart failure non-invasively via by a cloud-connected phone, briging diagnosis into the home, according to a research team from Nanyang Technological University and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, both of Singapore. One in five people worldwide, according to Nanyang, run the risk of developing congestive heart failure – and this increases with age. ...
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Saelig has introduced the Alldaq ADQ-USB 3.0-ISO series of USB 3.0 isolators, which support the full USB 3.0 SuperSpeed data rate of 5Gbit/s, while breaking the electrical connection between host PC and peripheral. Applications are expected in industrial and automotive instrumentation, and blocking mains pick-up in professional sound. “Re-clocking design guarantees a stable USB connection ...
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Wave Computing, the edge computing start-up, has taken its VC funding tally to $117.3 million with its latest Series E round of $86 million which was, says Wave, oversubscribed. Wave is one of a host of ‘neural’processor start-ups claiming to have a new way of processing large data-sets on-chip. Wave calls its technology DataFlow and ...
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The semiconductor industry has a big stake in what happens in Buenos Aires this week. Applied and ASML are among a host of companies which have already had to pull out of Fujian Jin Hua’s fab site following an escalation of the Trump-Xi trade war. The US equipment industry is losing substantial revenues over the ...
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Thirteen companies took the stage today at Disrupt Berlin, delivering six-minute pitches and demos, then answering free-for-all questions from expert judges. Now that the judges have given us their feedback, we’ve chosen five finalists.
These finalists will all take the stage again tomorrow afternoon to present in front of a new set of judges, who will have time to ask more in-depth questions. Then one winner will be chosen to take home the Disrupt Cup — not to mention $50,000, equity-free.
Here are the finalists. The competition will be live-streamed on TechCrunch starting at 2:05pm Berlin time on Friday.
Imago AI is applying AI to help feed the world’s growing population by increasing crop yields and reducing food waste. To accomplish this, it’s using computer vision and machine learning technology to fully automate the laborious task of measuring crop output and quality.
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Kalepso says it can do better than other database offerings out there by melding strong security with high reliability, while filling in the spots where sensitive data can be accessed or obtained in the clear. Its Harvard-educated founders argued that all the existing database services out there are either slow or insecure.
Legacy is tackling an interesting problem: the reduction of sperm motility as we age. By freezing men’s sperm, this Swiss-based company promises to keep our boys safe and potent as we get older, a consideration that many find vital as we marry and have kids later.
Polyteia is building a platform that would allow city leaders to unify and analyze the data that represents the constituents they serve. The problem, the company says, is that local governments collect a lot of data, but they aren’t always great at organizing and using it efficiently.
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Spike lets family and doctors lend a hand to diabetes patients by sending them real-time alerts about their stats. And the app’s artificial intelligence features can even send helpful reminders or suggest the most diabetes-friendly meals when you walk into a restaurant.
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Legacy is tackling an interesting problem: the reduction of sperm motility as we age. By freezing our sperm, this Swiss-based company promises to keep our boys safe and potent as we get older, a consideration that many find vital as we marry and have kids later. Legacy, which exhibited in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2018, was chosen as the wildcard company to present its services onstage during Startup Battlefield.
How does it work? Well, the company delivers a system for grabbing sperm. The material is kept in a specially made container and shipped to a nearby clinic where they then test the sperm and place it in cryogenic storage. You can then make a withdrawal when you’re ready for babies.
“Our unique at-home solution allows men to have their sperm analyzed and frozen at a clinic without leaving their home or having to meet with a physician,” said founder Khaled Kteily. “All clients receive a full fertility analysis, including personalized recommendations using our machine learning-driven technology.”
Kteily ensures us that our special sauce will stay safe over the years.
“Our core values of privacy, quality, and security ensure discretion, anonymity, and the highest level of quality for all our clients, including multi-site storage, whereby our clients’ deposits are stored in multiple tanks in multiple locations at high security.”
[gallery ids="1752635,1752630,1752631,1752632,1752633"]The company offers three packages: Bronze, Gold and Platinum. The $1,000 Bronze package requires you to take your sperm to a clinic where it will be tested and cryogenically stored. The Platinum plan costs $10,000 and ensures the company will keep up to six samples of your swimmers indefinitely, affording your genetic material practical immortality.
Kteily founded the company after a friend looked for solutions to sperm storage while facing cancer treatment. Realizing there was nothing that looked trustworthy or usable, he used his background in health and entrepreneurship to build Legacy.
The company has raised $250,000 and they are profitable. Kteily sees his company as the “Swiss Bank” of sperm storage.
“Male fertility has declined by 50 percent. Every 8 months, men produce a new genetic mutation that gets passed on to their children. Birth rates around the world are plummeting and men are responsible for infertility in 30-50 percent of couples. Meanwhile, you can freeze sperm indefinitely with no loss in quality — through Legacy, without having to leave your home and at a tenth of the cost of egg freezing,” he said. “We treat our clients as a private bank would — our core values of quality, privacy and security ensure our clients are taken care of at every level.”
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The team behind Rlay believes that blockchain technology can play a crucial role in helping businesses crowdsource their data-gathering tasks.
Founder Michael Hirn said this is a problem he encountered while working with Sunstone Capital to develop a more quantitative approach to venture capital, which meant pulling startup data from a wide variety of online sources. It ended up being an incredibly time-consuming process, and he said, “90 percent of the time was spent cleaning the data and acquiring the data.”
CTO Max Goisser argued that this is a broad problem. There are already successful examples of crowdsourced data, most notably Wikipedia, but in his view, they succeeded because “these things were of value for the entire world — everyone’s interested in that.”
“But what if you wanted to crowdsource something that is [only] interesting to you as a company?” Goisser said. Then you’d need the right incentive system to convince people to contribute. And that’s where Rlay (pronounced “relay”) comes in — the startup is launching onstage today as part of our Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin.
There are other startups, like Dirt Protocol, offering blockchain-powered tools for data collection and verification. But it sounds like one of Rlay’s big selling points is its ability to integrate with existing enterprise database technology.
In other words, Rlay leverages the blockchain side of things to provide a mechanism for people to contribute data and be rewarded for their contributions (each customer decides how they want to structure the incentives), but the goal is to collect the data in a format that’s useful for the company, and where, if the company desires, it can be kept private.
“We abstract over the backend database that you as a company would use, we abstract over the blockchain or ledger technology — it’s currently Ethereum, but technically, it doesn’t matter,” Hirn said. “So you don’t have to figure out how to work between Postgres and Ethereum, you don’t have to figure out ‘How do we represent the data?’, all of that is taken care of by Rlay.”
As for the incentives, he said:
There are almost as many ways [of] incentivizing as there are different types of financial products. Obviously some ways are more robust than others and we outlined a very general and universal incentive mechanism in our whitepaper, but for most of the applications that is a little bit to complex. So with Rlay, we will provide some templates in the future and certainly advice for certain ways when we work with a client, but Rlay just gives a good interface to define these things very easily.
Ultimately, this should allow companies to acquire the data they need at a lower cost than going out and buying data sets or hiring their own data collection team. For example, Hirn said Rlay is working with “a big name in the blockchain space” to gather environmental, social and governance (ESG) data required by hedge funds and other investors.
For now, Hirn said Rlay is focused on working with developers to collect data that’s online but not aggregated or structured in a way that makes it easily accessible. In the ESG case, that means writing scripts to pull the data from the reports that many companies are already publishing. Ultimately, Rlay could move into collecting data from the physical world, as well.
Goisser said the company is also developing various ways to recognize and resolve conflicting data, so its customers can be sure that the information they’re collecting is accurate.
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Jeffrey Martin takes massive panoramic photographs of the world and his photos let you go from from the panoramic to the intimate in a single mouse swipe. Now he’s truly outdone himself with a 900,000 pixel wide photo of Prague’s Old Town that took six months to build.
The photo, viewable here, has a total spherical resolution of 405 gigapixels and amazing. Martin used a 600mm lens and 50MP DSLR to take photos of nearly everything in the Old Town. You can see the Cathedral, Castle Hill, and even spot street signs, building signs, and pigeons. It’s a fascinating view of a beautiful city.
Martin said it took him over six months to post-process the picture and it required thousands of photos and tweaks. He said the files are six times bigger than anything Photoshop can manage so he found himself working with delicate fixes as he stitched this amazing photo together.
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For $799 you can start mining cryptocurrencies in your home, a feat that previously either required a massive box costing thousands of dollars or, if you didn’t actually want to make any money, a Raspberry Pi. The Coinmine One, created by Farbood Nivi, soundly hits the sweet spot between actual mining and experimentation.
The box is about as big as a gaming console and runs a custom OS called MineOS. The system lets you pick a cryptocurrency to mine – Monero, for example, as the system isn’t very good with mature, ASIC-dependent currencies like BTC – and then runs it on the built in CPU and GPU. The machine contains a Intel Celeron Processor J Series processor and a AMD Radeon RX570 graphics card for mining. It also has a 1 TB drive to hold the massive blockchains required to manage these currencies.
The box mines Ethereum at 29 Mh/s and Monero at 800 h/s – acceptable numbers for an entry level miner like this one. You can upgrade it to support new coins, allowing you to get in on the ground floor of whatever weird thing crypto folks create tomorrow.
I saw the Coinmine in Brooklyn and it looks nice. It’s a cleverly-made piece of consumer tech that brings the mystery of crypto mining to the average user. Nivi doesn’t see this as a profit-making machine. Instead, it is a tool to help crypto experimenters try to mine new currencies and run a full node on the network. That doesn’t mean you can’t get Lambo with this thing, but expect Lambo to take a long, long time.
The device ships next month to hungry miners world-wide. It’s a fascinating move for the average user to experience the thrills and spills of the recent crypto bust.
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Battery-powered consumer electronics can have artificial intelligence hearing, according to a partnership between low-power MCU firm Ambiq Micro, mems microphone maker Vesper and sound recognition specialist Audio Analytic. They are not offering wide vocabulary speech recognition, but recognition of individual sounds. “Meeting steep power consumption demands remains the largest barrier to truly enabling AI on battery-powered edge ...
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UltraSoC has launched the UltraSoC Lockstep Monitor. A hardware-based, scalable solution, the new Lockstep Monitor significantly helps functional safety by checking that the cores at the heart of a critical system are operating reliably, safely and securely. UltraSoC’s flexible IP supports all common lockstep / redundancy architectures, including full dual-redundant lockstep, split/lock, master/checker, and voting with any ...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES says its SiGe process – 9HP -is now available for prototyping on 300mm wafers at its East Fishkill, New York fab. The move reflects the strong growth in data center and high-speed wired/wireless applications that can leverage the scale advantages of a 300mm manufacturing footprint for high-speed applications such as optical networks, 5G millimeter-wave wireless ...
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The BSI Group will remain members of two key European standards bodies, writes techUK CEO Julian David.
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Seeking a fast route to stretchable circuits with integrated electronics for on-skin use, a team from Portrugal and the US have developed a technique that avoids clean rooms and photo lithography. Instead, the required conductive pattern is printed onto temporary tattoo paper with an ordinary desktop laser printer. Next, a silver pasted is rubbed onto ...
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Reproduction of paintings that look good in any light can be created by combed artificial intelligence and 3D printing, according to MIT. “If you just reproduce the colour of a painting as it looks in the gallery, it might look different in your home. Our system works under any lighting condition, which shows a far ...
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IAR Systems and Andes have formed a partnership in order to deliver development tools for Andes’ RISC-V-based solutions. IAR Systems provides the C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench. Andes provides the RISC-V cores, AndesCore N25(F)/NX25(F) and A25/AX25, with AndeStar V5 instruction extension and leading Andes Custom Extension (ACE) instruction customization capabilities. The AndesCore ...
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Qualcomm Ventures has set up a $100 million fund to invest in AI start-ups. Since the failure of its bid for NXP, Qualcomm has been looking for ways to grow the company. The AI fund’s first investment is in AnyVision a company specialising in on-device facial recognition and computer vision. “As a pioneer of on-device ...
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As lead times have shortened from six months earlier this year, to 12 to 13 weeks, on chip resistors and passives, Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia Components, has warned that while availability has improved, there may be instability in pricing ahead. Rawlins cited weak demand for iPhones and a softening in the Chinese economy due to ...
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Fujitsu claims to have developed the world’s first equipment technology to enable simultaneous communications to four users with a single antenna panel in the 28-GHz band. The equipment delivers high-speed communications in excess of 10 Gbps, as required by 5G mobile communication formats. The use of 5G is premised on deployment of base stations with ...
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Custom MMIC has lauched a wideband Distributed Driver Amplifier MMIC. The CMD292 delivers 13 dB of gain with a corresponding output 1 dB compression point of +27 dBm and output IP3 of +33 dBm at 15 GHz. The CMD292 features a positive gain slope over frequency, easing broadband designs when flat gain profile is desired. The ...
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C&K has launched a space-grade D-Subminiature surface mount termination (SMT) range of electrical connectors. The SMT D-Sub connectors under CS-FR053 specification are primarily intended for aerospace engineering applications such as developing communication and network ports for satellites, spacecraft and launchers. Reducing weight and making space savings on PCBs are critical requirements for connectors in space ...
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If you’ve ever wanted to add creepy, 3D-printed hands to your creepy robot dog, YouBionic has you covered. This odd company is offering an entirely 3D-printed arm solution for the Boston Dynamics SpotMini, the doglike robot that already has an arm of its own. YouBionic is selling the $179 3D models for the product that you can print and assemble yourself.
This solution is very skimpy on the details, but, as you can see, it essentially turns the SpotMini into a robotic centaur, regal and majestic as those mythical creatures are. There isn’t much description of how the system will work in practice — the STLs include the structural parts but not the electronics. That said, it’s a fascinating concept and could mean the beginning of a truly component-based robotics solution.
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Steemit, a distributed app designed to reward content creators, has laid of 70% of their staff citing “the weakness of the cryptocurrency market, the fiat returns on our automated selling of STEEM diminishing, and the growing costs of running full Steem nodes.”
The remaining team will focus on reducing server costs by shrinking the size of the Steemit blockchain and slowly the dependence on Amazon AWS instances.
Founder and CEO Ned Scott wrote:
We still believe that Steem can be by far the best, and lowest cost, blockchain protocol for applications and that the improvements that will result from this new direction will make it far better for application sustainability. However, in order to ensure that we can continue to improve Steem, we need to first get costs under control to remain economically sustainable. There’s nothing that I want more now than to survive, to keep steemit.com operating, and keep the mission alive, to make great communities.
Steemit became one of the first working decentralized applications and allowed users to submit content and pay content creators. The Steemit coin, STEEM, has fallen 96% from is all-time high and is currently trading at $0.37 USD.
Steemit follows Civil down the decentralized toilet as idea of idealized decentralized apps rams headfirst with the volatility of the crypto market. Civil, for example, promised to pay journalists for their work and a number of organizations created Civil-based payment programs for writers. With the fall of crypto, however, these organizations have pulled back, sometimes cutting salaries by 70%.
I’ve requested clarification on the actual number of layoffs and further plans for the product from Steemit.
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Vishay has introduced automotive grade X2 EMI suppression film capacitors for 50 and 60Hz. Called F339X2 305VAC, the series is qualified to both AEC-Q200 (rev D) and IEC 60384-14: 2013 / AMD1: 2016 grade IIB. To comply with the new humidity grading in IEC 60384-14: 2013 / AMD1: 2016 grade IIB, the series withstands a ...
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STMicroelectronics is offering free graphical interface software for a sub-set of its Arm Cortex-based STM32 microcontrollers – largely those based on Cortex-M4 and M7. TouchGFX, as it is called, “is ready to use with STM32 microcontrollers and includes a C++ framework that enables the user-interface code to occupy as little as 10kbyte SRAM and 20kbyte ...
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Johanson Technology is offering high-Q capacitors with low equivalent series resistance (ESR) for high power RF applications. Called the E-Series, “in addition to minimising energy loss, Johanson Technology’s high-Q capacitors reduce thermal noise caused by ESR to assist in maintaining desired signal-to-noise ratios”, according to the firm. The firm claims to use the lowest loss ...
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XP Power has announced the DSR range of ac-dc DIN rail power supplies for industrial control and information technology equipment, with 150% peak load capability. “The power supplies’ 150% peak load capability enables start up for electro-mechanical loads,” said the firm, which expects use in process control, factory automation, escalators, travellators, lifts, heating, air conditioning and ...
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Mouser has set up a microsite dedicated to RadioVerse technology from ADI combining hardware, software, documentation and technical support. RadioVerse simplifies the radio development process for a broad range of applications and markets. The RadioVerse site provides a one-stop resource for quickly finding the right products for a variety of wireless radio design projects. The microsite ...
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Premier Farnell has signed a global distribution agreement with Zymbit, the developer of hardware security modules which ensure physical and digital security of IoT devices. This new franchise provides customers with access to Zymbit’s ZYMKEY 4i security module which delivers professional grade security to the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers. The ZYMKEY 4i ...
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Small Robot Company, the Shropshire agritech start-up, says that prototypes of all four elements of its autonomous robotic farming service – Tom, Dick, Harry and Wilma – will become ready for trial in 2019. Small Robot Company’s farmbots Tom Dick and Harry will plant, feed and weed arable crops autonomously, with minimal waste. Tom, thevmonitoring ...
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A Hall effect magnetic torque sensor claims to boost EPS drivability for safer, sustainable motoring TT Electronics has introduced the SX-4462 Hall effect magnetic non-contact torque sensor, a flexible and cost-effective sensor for electronic power steering (EPS) applications including off-road vehicles (ORVs), three-wheelers, light commercial trucks, and tractors. The SX-4462 fourth-generation Magnetorque (MT4) hascustomisation options ...
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The Linux and RISC-V Foundations are collaborating to accelerate open source development and adoption of the RISC-V ISA. The RISC-V Foundation includes over 210 institutional, academic and individual members from around the world and has realized 100 percent year-over-year membership growth. This partnership with the Linux Foundation will enable the RISC-V Foundation to grow the RISC-V ...
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PLDA and Samtec have demo-ed a PCIe 4.0 product that delivers full PCIe 4.0 bandwidth (16 GT/s) over copper or optical fiber at minimal cost. The solution is based on a PLDA PCIe 4.0 acquisition board running PLDA’s PCIe 4.0 controller IP combined with Samtec’s FireFly Micro Flyover System. This demo suggests a solution to ...
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Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company announced today that they’ve signed a deal for the streaming service to create a slate of animated “event series” based on a long list of titles by the classic children’s author, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “The BFG.”
All of those books have already been turned into feature films — multiple times, in the case of “Charlie.” But the deal also includes less famous titles like “George’s Marvelous Medicine,” “Going Solo” and even Dahl’s memoir “Boy.” (However, my favorite Dahl novel, “Danny the Champion of the World,” does not appear to be on the list on the list, which is a travesty.)
It sounds like the idea is less about straightforward adaptations and more about telling new stories using various characters, storylines and settings. Could it be a Roald Dahl … cinematic universe? Well, the press release describes it as “an imaginative story universe that expands far beyond the pages of the books themselves.”
“Our mission, which is purposefully lofty, is for as many children as possible around the world to experience the unique magic and positive message of Roald Dahl’s stories,” said Felicity Dahl (his widow) in the release. “This partnership with Netflix marks a significant move toward making that possible and is an incredibly exciting new chapter for the Roald Dahl Story Company. Roald would, I know, be thrilled.”
Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company say they will go into production on the first series in 2019.
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Accelerator on a Chip International Program (AChIP) aims to create an electron accelerator on a silicon chip. To do this, metal structures are replaced with glass or silicon, and lasers instead of microwaves used to apply energy. “Due to glass’s higher electric field load capacity, the acceleration rate can be increased and thus the same ...
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Lifelong PlayStation fans have probably decided already if they’re interested in buying the PlayStation Classic — particularly since Sony has already released a list of the 20 games preloaded on the console.
But the company has also said it wants to attract players who are new to the platform — the kind who like the idea of finally checking out classic titles like “Final Fantasy VII,” “Metal Gear Solid” and “Grand Theft Auto” without actually having to track down 20-year-old hardware.
That’s me: a PlayStation neophyte who’s spent the past couple weeks with a Classic, getting a crash course on the console’s best games. I’ll admit that I couldn’t quite match the dedication of my colleague Devin Coldewey, who reviewed all 30 games on the Nintendo Classic. Instead, I’ve tried out 10 of the 20 preloaded games, and since I was usually playing with friends or family, I generally spent more time with the titles that supported two players.
Let’s just get this out of the way: If you’re thinking about getting a Classic, particularly if you’ve played and enjoyed the games in the past, you should go for it when it hits shelves on December 3. After all, it’s hard to argue with the value of getting 20 games for a price of $99.99.
If you’re wondering about the hardware, the console feels almost comically small (Sony says it’s 45 percent smaller than the original PlayStation), but all the games loaded up and played smoothly.
My only real complaint is that the controller cords are too short, requiring me to either sit at the very edge of my sofa or set up chairs closer to the TV. If you’ve got a normal living room setup, I suspect you’ll have similar issues, but this is something Nintendo Classic and Super Nintendo Classic owners have to deal with as well.
The bigger question is: Do the games have anything to offer besides nostalgia? The answer varies from title to title.
“Cool Boarders 2,” for example, is very ’90s — I got a good laugh out of the extreme opening montage, followed by the process of styling my badass snowboarding avatar.
Meanwhile, if you’re familiar with the expansive world and fun storylines of the “Grand Theft Auto” franchise, then the original game will feel a bit simplistic. It’s worth playing to see how much the writing and the technology have evolved, but after a few minutes you’ll probably be tempted to swap it out for one of the later games.
And time seems to have been particularly unkind to “Resident Evil,” where any scares are now fatally undermined by the combination of amateurishly acted cut scenes and blocky animated gameplay.
There’s no denying that my lukewarm response to some of the games reflects my age and gaming history — the PlayStation simply doesn’t have the same childhood associations for me as the Nintendo Classic. But there may also be something inherently awkward about the where these games fall in the broader evolution of the industry: They don’t have the “classic” look or easy-to-learn gameplay of an 8-bit or 16-bit Nintendo titles, but they still feel primitive by the standards of today’s consoles. So you don’t get the nostalgia hit of an older game, or the genuinely impressive visuals and depth of a new one.
That doesn’t make them bad games; it’s just harder to enjoy them in 2018. At the very least, there may be an adjustment process. (I took the PlayStation Classic with me when I was visiting family for Thanksgiving, and at one point my mom asked, “Why does everyone look so strange? Why can’t you see anything on their faces?”) Even if we were still impressed by the graphics, not all of the games are winners, and have little to offer now beyond historical curiosity.
But the best titles still hold up: Thanks to games like “Tekken 3,” “Twisted Metal” and “Super Puzzle Fighter II,” I’ve spent a good portion of the past couple weeks frantically mashing my controller as everyone I know took a turn at humiliating me, whether that was whizzing past me on a race track, knocking my fighter out again or lining up the perfect set of “Puzzle Fighter” combos to leave me helpless to respond.
And you won’t be surprised to hear that “Metal Gear Solid” and “Final Fantasy VII” are still really, really good — as I played “Metal Gear,” I became less and less conscious of the graphics, and more and more immersed in the stealth gameplay and convoluted storyline. (I never stopped cringing at Solid Snake’s habit of constantly hitting on all his coworkers, though.) And with its stunning steampunk-y environments, “Final Fantasy VII” is probably the best-looking game in the collection, one that feels timeless rather than clunky.
In a lot of ways, playing games on the PlayStation Classic was like watching a classic film. You may snicker at first at the primitive special effects (or graphics), and sometimes, the old clothes, hairstyles or acting may be hard to take seriously. But that’s the easy response. If you’re willing to dig, you’ll find plenty of rewards under the surface.
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Phototonics has been called one of the fastest developing areas in healthcare. It is the use of light to diagnose and treat medical conditions with non-invasive, cost-efficient methods from wound, skin and cancer treatment to use in the fields of neurology and ophthalmology. Academic groups around the UK are conducting research into photonics and now ...
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Embedding electro-active bacteria in a polymer structure can improve the effectivness of living electrodes, according to Swedish researchers at Linköping University. Working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, they embedded the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis into the electrically-conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS, on a substrate of carbon felt. The result, revealed by microscopy, was an interleaved structure of bacteria and conducting polymers up ...
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Microchip is aiming at sophisticated motor control with a single-core DSP microcontroller, said to offer almost double the performance of its previous similar offering. Called dsPIC33CK, is is a stripped down version of the recently announced dual-core dsPIC33CH family, with the same core and peripherals. This is the dsPIC33 ‘C’ core with DSP engine. For fast control ...
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SSMC (Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company), the NXP-TSMC jv has added 4,400 sq ft of clean-room space in Singapore. The $300 million addition represents a 34% increase in its capacity for automotive and specialty chip manufacturing. It will increase automotive wafer production from 26% of the firm’s capacity to 40%, and potentially up to 60% ...
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LightCraft offers a range of fluorescent and LED magnifier lamps, task lamps, hand-held magnifiers, head-band magnifiers and light boxes. And you can now get them from Dunstable-based component distributor JPR Electronics. “LightCraft are the leading brand of lighting and magnification aids for manufacturing and inspection and also very popular with professional and hobby model makers. We ...
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U-blox has announced a multi-band NB-IoT module that supports a preliminary set of 3GPP Release 14 features (LTE Cat NB2). Low power consumption means 10+ years operation on a single primary cell, according to the firm. Called Sara-N3, it is available in two variants: one for China and another that can operate across multiple bands on ...
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Renesas has expanded its Renesas Synergy™ S1 microcontroller (MCU) series with the introduction of the S1JA MCU Group. The ultra-low power S1JA MCUs feature the 48 MHz Arm Cortex-M23 core and integrate best-in-class programmable analog and security functions for high-accuracy sensor signal acquisition and conditioning. The S1JA MCUs target cost sensitive and low power Industrial ...
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SEMI has extended its remit to providing fab data for power and compound semiconductors as their rise in importance translates into significant capacity. Power devices are rising in importance as energy-efficiency standards tighten to meet growing demand for power-thrifty high-end consumer electronics, wireless communications, electric vehicles, green energy, data centers, and both industrial and consumer IoT ...
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Infineon and IDEX Biometrics aim to integrate IDEX’ biometrics technology into platforms featuring Infineon’s secure elements and will develop a system-on-card demonstrator that runs on the latest dual-interface 16-bit security controller from Infineon. Biometric cards are expected to further reduce card fraud by introducing a simple second factor authentication. This can be used for payment ...
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pureLiFi, the six year-old Edinburgh University spin-off pioneering light-based wireless networks, has provided its LiFi technology for a range of LiFi-integrated lighting products that will extend to panel lights and other commercial form factors. The product has been launched by French company Lucibel, the designer and manufacturer of next-generation lighting products and solutions based on ...
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ST’s ISO8200AQ galvanic isolated octal high-side smart power switch enhances diagnostics and system management by providing a 20 MHz SPI port allowing both per-channel over-temperature signalization and efficient daisy-chaining of multiple devices. A power-good output indicates the status of the process-side power supply. The device enlarges ST’s family of galvanic isolated high-side switches, featuring maximum ...
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MagnaChip has started volume production of an IGBT for power modules targeted at high-voltage industrial applications. The IGBT P-series (“MBW100T120PHF”) has both high current and high voltage capabilities of 1200V and 100A, and has achieved a low saturation voltage Vce(sat) of 1.71V and low switching losses by using Field-Stop Trench technology. MBW100T120PHF allows designers to ...
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Lizzie Truett and David Lakin, both of the IET, have kindly agreed to strengthen the EW BrightSparks 2018 selection panel.
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Divisions in society were made worse by hoards of automated software ‘bots’ in the days preceding the Catalan independence referendum last year, according to Italian and US researchers who analysed four million contemporary tweets from one million twitter users. At times, over 23% of posts were by bots, and Twitter ‘replies’ by bots peaked at 38.8% ...
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A broken US Postal Service API exposed from over 60 million users and allowed a researcher to pull millions of rows of data by sending wildcard requests to the server. The resulting security hole has been patched after repeated requests to the USPS.
The USPS service, called InformedDelivery, allows you to view your mail before it arrives at your home and offered an API to allow users to connect their mail to specialized services like CRMs. We profiled in the service in 2017.
The anonymous researcher showed that the service accepted wildcards for many searches, allowing any user to see any other users on the site. Brian Krebs has a copy of the API on his site.
The USPS told Krebs that it had investigated the hack and that:
“Computer networks are constantly under attack from criminals who try to exploit vulnerabilities to illegally obtain information. Similar to other companies, the Postal Service’s Information Security program and the Inspection Service uses industry best practices to constantly monitor our network for suspicious activity.”
“Any information suggesting criminals have tried to exploit potential vulnerabilities in our network is taken very seriously. Out of an abundance of caution, the Postal Service is further investigating to ensure that anyone who may have sought to access our systems inappropriately is pursued to the fullest extent of the law.”
Krebs also reported that identity thieves are misusing the service to see what mail is arriving at users homes on which days, allowing them to grab important documents and checks at will. The API hole is currently patched but there is no telling what other mishandled features will crop up in this powerful tool.
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The unnamed 54 year-old chairman of an unnamed South Korean semiconductor company listed on the Kosdaq has been arrested for allegedly making $17.7 million from manipulating his company’s shares, reports The Korea Herald. The unnamed chairman is said to have put it about three years ago, in November 2015, that he was about to build ...
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ADI has extended its transceiver product line for controller area networks with flexible data-rate (CAN FD). The galvanically isolated iCoupler digital isolation ADM3055E IC series offers 12 Mbps performance to support future needs, yet remaining fully backward compatible with existing CAN and CAN FD designs. The reinforced ADM3055E also features a low radiated emissions isoPower ...
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Fujian Jin Hua’s fab in Jinjiang is on hold following the USA’s ban on Western companies selling it supplies, reports Bloomberg. The effect of the US ban parallels the effect of the US ban on US companies selling components to ZTE which brought the Chinese company to its knees in a a week or two. ...
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DENSO has made an ‘mid-double-digit million’ Euro equity investment in Infineon, Both companies aim to jointly enhance their system know-how in established and new technologies – like automated driving and electro-mobility. “We would like to establish optimal semiconductor solutions for in-vehicle electronics systems through strong partnerships with semiconductor companies in order to enhance the competitiveness ...
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Of the top 10 fabless companies, only Qualcomm had a Q3 revenue decline, reports Trendforce. Taiwan houses Mediatek, Novatek, and Realtek, showed remarkable Q3 performances due to stock-up demand from consumer electronics makers for the upcoming holiday sales. MediaTek grew by 3%. The only company to see a drop was Qualcomm with a revenue decline ...
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Logitech is talking to Plantronics about buying it, reports Reuters. The Swiss key board and webcam manufacturer is reported to have offered $2.2 billion to buy the US headset specialist. Plantronics’ market cap is $2 billion. The biggest shareholder in the 57 year-old company is private equity firm Siris Capital Group. Logitech’s market cap is ...
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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. (This one’s a little shorter than usual — it’s a holiday weekend in the United States.) If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here:
1. Black Friday predicted to hit $5.9B in online sales, $645M spent so far
After a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across desktop and mobile devices, it looks like Black Friday will also pull in a bumper year for e-commerce. Adobe — which tracks trillions of transactions across a range of retail sites — says that as of 7am Pacific Time, there has already been $645 million spent online.
Shopify, which provides a real-time sales visualisation for some 600,000 merchants on its platform, notes that the average sales per minute for those merchants is hovering at just over $400,000 per minute.
2. Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage ‘we are not robots’ protests
They’ve timed the latest protest for Black Friday, one of the busiest annual shopping days online as retailers slash prices and heavily promote deals to try to spark a seasonal buying rush.
3. Be a Thanksgiving security hero with these family-friendly tips
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re: Pretty good at tech stuff, spending time with your family for Thanksgiving and bored because you’re reading this newsletter right now.
4. Silentmode’s PowerMask is a $200 connected relaxation mask
Someone described the PowerMask as a kind of small scale take on a sensory deprivation tank — and sure, why not?
5. BlueCargo optimizes stacks of containers for maximum efficiency
Under current sorting methods, yard cranes end up moving a ton of containers just to reach a container sitting at the bottom of the pile. BlueCargo wants to optimize those movements by helping you store containers at the right spot.
6. Gift Guide: 16 fantastic computer bags
Yep, it’s another TechCrunch gift guide, this one focused on Matt Burns’ favorite subject.
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Fingerprint authentication systems can be fooled by generic fingerprints created by artificial intelligence, according to the New York University Tandon. “These experiments demonstrate the need for multi-factor authentication and should be a wake-up call for device manufacturers about the potential for artificial fingerprint attacks,” said researcher Philip Bontrager. “Fingerprint-based authentication is still a strong way to protect ...
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A single-layer of nano-structures on the surface of optical elements can correct chromatic aberrations across the visible spectrum, from simple lenses to “the super-complex objectives with as many as 14 conventional lenses, used in high-resolution microscopes”, according to Harvard University which has developed the technique. It has been dubbed ‘metacorrection’, and relies on pillars whose ...
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Earlier this week, engineers at MIT flew a plane by what they have dubbed ‘solid-state flight’. Instead of propellers or some form of jet engine, the scheme uses high voltage to accelerate ions in the air, and these, in-turn, accelerate molecules in the air. In this case, there are multiple accelerators – two columns of ...
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EnSilica was named company of the year at last night’s annual TechWorks Awards, at The Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London. EnSilica was cited as follows, by TechWorks: Since its inception it has emerged as a world-leading IC design house with a consistent track record for technical excellence in digital, RF and mixed-signal design; ...
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Blockchain users’ credentials can be checked by the Blockchain Security 2Go starter kit from Infineon. “The success of the blockchain system hinges on securing user interaction with the distributed database,” says Infineon’s Stefan Rueping, “Infineon’s Blockchain Security 2Go starter kit allows to quickly develop convenient access solutions based on security tokens or embedded security chips ...
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Devon-based chip fab Plessey has wonn US recognition for its GaN-on-silicon microdisplays – being named a ‘CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree’ in the exhibition’s embedded technologies category. The displays could offer a route to the high intensities needed for augmented reality googles that can be used outdoors – where the display has to compete with ...
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The US is ratcheting up its tech trade assault on China with an urge to its allies not to buy Huawei switchgear. The latest move follows the banning of Huawei from US government procurement, a ban on component sales to ZTE (now lifted) and a ban on selling components to China’s fledgling DRAM company Fujian ...
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A meeting at City Hall yesterday hosted by London Assembly Transport Committee member Keith Prince initiated a Drones Club for drone industry stakeholders. Commenting on today’s meeting, Robert Garbett, Founder of Drone Major Group Ltd and Chairman of the BSI Committee on Drone Standards, explained: “Today’s gathering of the UK drone industry’s leading figures has ...
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A piezoelectric absolute pressure sensor which is so accurate and stable that manufacturers can eliminate one-point calibration (OPC) after soldering Is offered by ST. With a pressure noise equivalent to 5cm, ST’s LPS22HH enhances controls such as collision avoidance for drones or other unmanned vehicles. In addition, temperature compensation is built in, relieving the load ...
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Ah, wonderful to see you again, sir. The usual? Kool-Aid Grain Alcohol Martini with a twisty straw. Of course. And I see you’re wearing a new watch. The MQT Essential Mirror. Quite striking.
I see the watch has a quartz ETA movement – an acceptable movement by any standard – and a very elegant face and hands combination. What’s that? It has a quickset date? Of course, no watch over $200 would skimp on that simple complication. $251 you say? On a silver mesh band, also known as a Milanese? A relative bargain, given its pedigree.
Of course, sir. I’ve spoken with the chef and she’s preparing your Ritz crackers with Easy Cheese as we speak. Do tell me more about this watch. It seems to be one of your only redeeming features.
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What was that? No, I said nothing under my breath. Do go on.
Made in Berne, Switzerland, you say, by a pair of watchmakers, Hanna and Tom Heer, who left their high-paying jobs to make watches? And their goal is not to create a beautiful quartz piece that is eminently wearable yet quite delicate? Laudable, sir, laudable. I especially like the thin 41mm case. It’s so light and airy! Not unlike your Supreme baseball cap.
No, of course sir, we still give away all the mints you can eat after the meal. If you’d like I can tie that lobster bib around your neck. There we are. Nice and snug.
And they make a marble version? Wonderful! That hearkens back to the Tissot Rock Watches of yore. A delight, truly.
You’ve got a bit of cheese in your beard. Let me get… oh. I’m sorry to say that my hand got into the way of your pendulous tongue. I’m very sorry, sir.
Well, it’s been wonderful chatting with you. I’ll leave you to your Rick and Morty comics. What’s that? Caviar in an ice cream cone? With sprinkles? Of course. I’ll see what I can do. I do commend you, sir, all things being equal, on your taste in watches.
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Heraeus Electronic Chemicals of Germany is promoting its Clevios HY E conductive film for foldable touchscreen use. It is a hybrid material, of silver nanowires (to raise conductivity) and conductive PEDOT polymers. “In tests, films coated with Clevios HY E have been folded more than 300,000 times with a bending radius of 1mm with no impairment ...
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An electronic copy of human skin can detect force, and the direction of that force. When griping with thumb and fingers, a robot hand using this could sense both the weight of an object and the force applied to it, allowing more sophisticated manipulation. “This technology puts us on a path to one day giving robots ...
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plasmonic receiver that can convert millimetre waves directly into light for an optical fibre. “Our modulator is completely independent of external power supplies and, on top of that, extremely small so that it can, in principle, be mounted on any lamppost. From there, it can then receive data ...
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Renesas has come up with a new IO-Link master development kit to accelerate IO-Link-based application development for industrial networked devices in a smart factory. The development kit includes a board and pre-qualified sample software provided by TMG. The board has eight IO-Link connecters allowing developers to immediately connect IO-Link slave devices and start the evaluation ...
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The German component distribution market reported solid but sluggish growth for the third quarter of 2018. According to the distribution companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.), sales during the period July to September 2018 grew by 4.7% to reach 980 million euros. The pattern of orders continued the trend of previous quarters, ...
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Plextek RFI, the Cambridge design house specialising in microwave and millimetre-wave IC design, has designed and supplied a microwave power amplifier (PA) module for California-based satellite manufacturer and space mission operator Astro Digital. The module designed by Plextek RFI incorporates a power GaN output device and a GaAs driver circuit. It will form part of a propulsion system ...
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