The Chairman of the House of Lords Communications Committee has expressed concern about the effects of digital advertising by the tech giants. “The committee believes that digital markets pose significant challenges to competition regulators,” says Lord Gilbert of Panteg (pictured), “market power on the internet is concentrated in a small number of companies. These online ...
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A raft of OEMs are looking at moving some of their production out of China, reports the Nikkei. The motivation is not only tariffs but the rising labour costs in China. Among companies planning such moves are Acer, Asustek, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Amazon. Companies which have already moved production out of China ...
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Convert of Kent has designed a cable harness for a German automotive manufacturer’s all-electric sports car, recently completing pre-series development work. The next three years, according to Convert, could see is manufacturing more than 60,000 cable harness for the car, involving two million crimp connections per year and cable the length of 2,500 football pitches. ...
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Teledyne e2v and Logic-X have developed an FPGA mezzanine card incorporating GHz ADCs and DACs from Telydyne. The 12bit EV12DS460A DAC provides an analogue bandwidth extending beyond 7GHz “facilitating multi-band, direct digital synthesis up to 26.5GHz K-band with a latency of three clock cycles”, according to Logic-X. The 12bit EV12AS350B ADC combines 5.4Gsample/s, an input ...
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Over 100 students attended the OSCC, held at the University of Surrey on the 24th June. 17 teams from 11 schools created and submitted apps for the competition’s final. The event, now in its third year, was co-hosted by Red Hat, Lord Wandsworth College and the University of Surrey. Participating students were tasked with creating ...
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Sony and Davies Securities are to set up a $184 million jv VC fund focused on startups. IT startups are the initial target, with investments lasting up to a decade. Robotics, fintech and AI are seen as likely areas. Foreign company investments are envisaged as well as Japanese ones. Sony’s job is to provide the technical expertise ...
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Imec and 19 other research and industrial partners are combining to enable applications that now need servers to be performed by mobile devices at the edge. The prohect will investigate the emerging memory technologies which will be needed for neuromorphic computing. Called TEMPO, the three year initiative aims to deliver mobile devices that run complex ...
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Nexperia, the former standard products division of NXP, has qualified its SOT-23 packaged switching diodes BAS16/21 and BC870/817 general purpose transistors to operate at up to 175°C degrees. The 175°C SOT23 devices also feature a 25% higher Ptot (total power dissipation) than basic 150°C rated parts. This enables customers to realise a high-temperature design for under-the-hood ...
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What are the seven ethics of robotics? A whitepaper from the UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network seeks to answer that challenge.
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The MLPerf consortium, made up of over 40 companies and university researchers, has introduced MLPerf Inference v0.5, the first industry standard machine learning benchmark suite for measuring system performance and power efficiency. The benchmark covers applications including autonomous driving and natural language processing on different form factors such as smartphones, PCs, edge servers, and ...
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