30/10/2018
Last week Apple and Samsung were fined for building ‘planned obsolescence’ into their smartphones by the Italian competition authority, after it found that certain smartphone software updates had a negative effect on the performance of devices.
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25/10/2018
Qualcomm's 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong this week, suggested that it and the many companies investing in, and developing the technology to support, 5G are increasingly optimistic that next year will see the commercial roll out of devices.
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25/10/2018
Compared to an ailing steel industry, just a few years ago, the semiconductor industry is now enjoying booming conditions.
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16/10/2018
News that Dialog Semiconductor has struck a $600 million deal with Apple to license its power management technologies and to transfer some assets and 300 R&D staff, appears to have gone down well.
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11/10/2018
Being able to provide mission critical communications to the UK’s emergency services is essential and the UK government, back in 2015, decided to replace the existing Airwave Network with a new Emergency Service Network (ESN).
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10/10/2018
Nearly a year after the government announced the creation of an Industry Council it’s finally announced the appointment of Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, as chair. It’s been a long time in coming.
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10/10/2018
After a week in which the UK government directly accused Russian military intelligence of being behind a spate of what is described as “reckless and indiscriminate cyber-attacks”, comes news of a far more subtle cybercrime.
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02/10/2018
A new survey from the EEF manufacturers’ body has found that British manufacturers are pulling back sharply on their investment plans due to fears over the possibility of a hard Brexit and of a global trade war.
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01/10/2018
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AI has shaken the automotive industry to its core, inspiring a revolution. Every car manufacture wants to be number one and be the first to deliver an autonomous vehicle (AV). However, in 2018 designing a car isn’t just about getting people from A to B. It’s about safety, the experience, infotainment, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), the environment and reducing emissions, and so much more. But who will win the race and be the first to cross the chequered flag?
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28/09/2018
Since the launch of the Model 3, Elon Musk has been under significant pressure to scale up Tesla’s manufacturing capacity and overcome its current struggle with meeting demand. Currently, the electronic component supply chain is trying to tackle a similar challenge.
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28/09/2018
With the world on the cusp of the “fourth industrial revolution”, and such rapid change that driverless cars have gone from science fiction to government policy in under a decade, the engineering sector needs new approaches to more – and more diverse - graduates to meet the growing demand for engineering expertise.
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26/09/2018
News that the Chinese tech giant, Alibaba, is pushing into leading-edge technologies is being viewed by many as the latest twist in the accelerating technological arms race between China and the US.
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24/09/2018
The link between academia and business needs to be encouraged and extended.
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18/09/2018
Another week, another report on the impact of machines, robots and algorithms on the working world.
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11/09/2018
The latest quarterly report from the EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, shows a sector in relatively rude health, following two years of uninterrupted growth.
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10/09/2018
Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health, has announced a £200million investment in technology to bring the NHS into the 21st Century.
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21/08/2018
Ireland is one of the major tech capitals in the world with nine of the top ten US technology companies including Google and Apple operating there.
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15/08/2018
I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked to fix an EMC problem, only to find that a shielding box has been designed or purchased to provide XdB up to fMAX.
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14/08/2018
The distribution of research funding is heavily biased against women, according to data obtained from a freedom of information request by a national newspaper.
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10/08/2018
It seems that if you have anything to say tweet it. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, did just that when he announced he was looking to take Tesla private.
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07/08/2018
The UK’s education secretary, Damian Hinds, has said that he wants UK and Silicon Valley firms to help put tech at heart of UK classrooms.
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01/08/2018
With Apple reporting better than expected results it seems set to become the world’s first company to be valued at $1trillion.
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31/07/2018
Matt Hancock, the UK’s new health and social care secretary, has said that the NHS is set to experience a technology transformation.
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26/07/2018
A new report from CrowdStrike, a specialist in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, raises the prospect that software supply chain attacks have the potential to become one of the biggest cyber threats in the next few years.
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23/07/2018
UK manufacturing has a lot to contend with. Coming to terms with the digitalisation of the factory process, recruiting skilled labour, providing adequate training, boosting productivity and investment, let alone regulation and trade barriers. Manufacturers are faced with a very challenging economic environment.
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