After launching its gender balance in computing (GBIC) programme this April and running trials within a small group of schools around England, Raspberry Pi has announced it’s opening general recruitment for the project. This means that all primary and secondary schools in England can take part in upcoming trials for the programme. Young women are ...
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Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex, which treats some 2,500 patients each year, is to equip all its aircraft with RDT Tempus devices in collaboration with ESA. The equipment enables paramedics to live stream patient medical information including electrocardiogram, body temperature, heart rhythm, pulse and respiration rate and blood pressure via satellite or mobile phone network ...
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Economic headwinds and geo-political events have created new challenges for everyone in the electronics market, and changes in customer buying habits have resulted in a widespread slow-down since the second half of 2018, writes Rob Rospedzihowski, President, Sales, EMEA, Farnell. While this period of uncertainty looks like it will remain for a time, customers’ expectations ...
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Arm CEO Simon Segars (pictured) says the company will meet the commitment to double its UK headcount made when Softbank bought Arm in July 2016. The commitment still stands despite Arm becoming loss-making. In Q3 Arm made an operating loss of $11.3 million while Softbank made a loss of $6.4 billion. Arm’s Q3 revenues fell ...
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MIT’s dacing, prancing, jumping footballing cheetahs weigh 20lb and can run at 6mph. The machines can perform a 360deg back-flip from a standing position. ‘When it’s running, its feet are only on the ground for something like 150 milliseconds at a time, during which a computer tells it to increase the force on the foot, ...
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It has now been a few months since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, writes Jenny List on Hackaday. While significantly faster than the Pi 3 on paper, its propensity for overheating would end up throttling down the CPU clock even with the plethora of aftermarketheatsinks and fans. The Raspberry Pi folks have been working ...
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Applied Materials has opened its Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), aimed at speeding customer prototyping of new materials, process technologies and devices. Located at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) campus in Albany, New York, the META Center’s cleanroom provides customers and partners access to state-of-the-art process systems to help ...
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The Prince of Wales met the President and Chief Executive Officer, of NMiTE (New Model in Engineering and Technology) Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon and NMiTE Trial Learner Samuel Whitby during a visit, last week, to Herefordshire based technology company, ETL Systems. Photo shows: Ian Hilditch, ETL Systems; HRH Prince Charles; Dr Esen Bayar, ETL Systems The Prince of ...
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