A review and teardown of the Ledger Nano S crypto currency hardware wallet. Installation, setup, and transferring bitcoin cash, ethereum, and ripple.
And a comparison with the Trezor, which one is better?
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Dave finally puts an end to the idea of Solar Roadways.
We have the test results of the world’s biggest solar roadways project, the 1km long 336kW Colas Wattway project in Tourouvre France.
Stand in awe at how impractical and expensive it is!, and SPOILER, how it won’t usher in a new era of renewable solar technology.
TLDR; Impractical Folly
NREL Solar Industry Report with costs
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Softbank, Dragoneer and other investors are to pay existing Uber shareholders $10 billion for a stake of around 20% in Uber. The deal values Uber at $48 billion compared to the last valuation at which Uber raised money which was $68 billion. It is thought that Softbank will take 15% of the investment with Dragoneer ...
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Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has had its Milbeaut image signal processor, the SC2000, designed into the ORBI Prime, the first 360-degree video recording eyewear. ORBI Prime is equipped with four cameras and superior image stitching technology, the innovative, sunglass-type wearable device is capable of shooting total 360-degree video with no blind spots. The Milbeaut SC2000 ...
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Collibra, a Brussels start-up specialising in ‘data governance’, has raised €40 million. Collibra says: ‘Transforming your business to be data-driven is a top priority. But to achieve this goal, you must enable everyone across the business to find the data they need, understand its meaning, context, and lineage, and trust that it’s right. It sounds ...
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department, is looking into mobile NAND price fixing according to the China Daily newspaper. NAND prices increased by over 32% in 2017, says Trendforce, though there are currently signs of a slowdown in price rises and the possibility of over-supply in the New Year. There are only ...
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Since its inventors were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1956 commentators have observed the milestones in the development of the humble transistor. And while transistors may be regarded as humble now, because so many of the tiny semiconductors are used as switches or amplifiers in every electronic device, the impact of the ...
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NXP and Baidu have announced a cooperation in autonomous driving. Under the terms of the agreement, NXP will join Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform, Apollo, and provide semiconductor products including millimeter wave radar, V2X, security, smart connectivity and in-vehicle experience technologies. Apollo is Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform which provides a comprehensive, secure and reliable ...
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Today, the first 5G NR spec was completed. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, and ZTE say that the completion of the ...
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Today the 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary Meeting in Lisbon completed the first implementable 5G NR specification. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, ...
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Cree has upgraded its NanoOptic Precision Delivery Grid optical system to enhance the performance of Cree Streetlights across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) markets. The optics will be mounted on new orders of luminaires across the XSP, Urban, Square LED and RKT Series. The redesigned optics (Type 210, 275 and 2SH) deliver an ...
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Renesas has brought out the R-Car V3M Starter Kit to simplify and speed up the development of New Car Assessment Program (NCAP, Note 1) front camera applications, surround view systems, and LiDARs. The new starter kit is based on the R-Car V3M image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), delivering a combination of low power consumption and high ...
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There is a certain irony to the fact that as I sat down to write this opinion piece we had a power cut, writes Blane Judd. It was a Sunday morning so not as bad as it could have been, but still an inconvenience. While my article was protected because I was using the laptop, ...
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China is discussing a $1.8 billion investment in Japan Display, the cash-strapped, bailed-out, consortium of Japanese panel makers, reports Kyodo News. Three China companies are making the investment:BOE Technology Group Co, Tianma Microelectronics and Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology. Japan Display, formedfrom the failing panel operations of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba, has been loss-making for ...
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Amid reports that the China anti-trust regulator is looking askance at the presence of Hynix in the winning bid for Toshiba’s memory unit, comes a report from the Yonhap News Agency that Hynix is talking to Tsinghua Unigroup about licensing flash technology. Tsinghua is outfitting a massive memory fab at its Yangtze River Memory Storage ...
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The semiconductor market in 2017 will finish with annual growth of about 20%, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, making 2017 the highest annual change since 32% in 2010. Memory, specifically DRAM and NAND flash, is the major market driver. WSTS projects the memory market will grow 60% in 2017, while the semiconductor market excluding memory will ...
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Uber is a taxi service not an app, says the European Court of Justice which is the final court of appeal in Europe. Uber had argued it was a ‘mere intermediary’ in arranging taxi rides. “This ruling will not change things in most EU countries where we already operate under transportation law,” says Uber, “however, ...
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Samsung says it has begun mass producing 2nd-generation 10nm nanometer 8Gb DDR4 DRAM. The 2nd-generation delivers a 30% ‘productivity gain’ over the company’s 1st-generation 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4, says Samsung. Performance and power have been improved about 10% and 15%. respectively. The new 8Gb DDR4 can operate at 3,600Mbps per pin, compared to 3,200 Mbps of the ...
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Intel CEO Brisn Krzanich has sent a memo to employees urging them to take more risks and harking back to the examples of its three great founders, Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. Here is the text: Intel employees, As 2017 comes to a close, I want to reflect on this year and the ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Keysight Technologies. The Keysight product line available from Mouser Electronics includes oscilloscopes, benchtop power supplies, waveform generators, and digital multimeters. Keysight has oscilloscopes from high performance to extreme value and bandwidths ranging from 50 MHz to 200 MHz. Keysight’s InfiniiVision 1000/2000 X-Series oscilloscopes are engineered to provide ...
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Toshiba is sampling a new generation of 10,500rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission-critical servers and storage. The series has a 2,400GB capacity model. Built to deliver superior low-latency performance, the AL15SE Series supports 12Gbit/s[2] SAS dual-port interface to optimize the host transfer rate. All models utilize a space-efficient, power-saving 2.5 inch, 15mm form-factor. ...
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element14.com has announced the winners of its ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge, sponsored by STMicroelectronics. Over the course of 11 weeks, the participants focused on design, research, prototyping, coding and testing their IoT-connected transportation solutions and posted frequent blog posts throughout the process on their element14 project pages. To help build their projects, each participant ...
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X-FAB has availability of two new Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP solutions – a low power embedded Flash (eFlash) IP block and a NVRAM compiler. Both are based on the company’s proprietary 180 nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS technology and are targeted at applications requiring high reliability and field re-programmability while operating at low power and in ...
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Having uncovered the industry’s brightest young talent last year, the search is on for the BrightSparks of 2018.
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Seedstars World, the international start-up competition, held its Ukraine event in Kyiv last week when 12 start-ups won through to the next round of the competition. The 12 startups from Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv, will represent Ukraine at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 12th where they will compete with startups from 65+ ...
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Farnell has become the Gold Hardware Sponsor of Astonhack, a 24-hour Hackathon organised by Aston Computer Science Society and held at Aston University in Birmingham as part of Major League Hacking’s 18th season. The organisers define a Hackathon as “where teams of up to four people work together to build something over 24 hours. Challengers ...
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The LT8364 current mode, 2MHz step-up DC/DC converter has an internal 4A, 60V switch. It operates from an input voltage range of 2.8V to 60V, and is suitable for applications with input sources ranging from a single-cell Li-Ion battery to multicell battery stacks, automotive inputs, telecom power supplies and industrial power rails. The device can be ...
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The latest twist in the Toshiba saga is that China could derail the deal. China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) is reported by Bloomberg to have raised concern about Hynix’s presence in the winning consortium. With only four significant NAND producers in the world, the prospect of Hynix taking control of Toshiba will affect markets. Hynix’s ...
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China is to ramp up its EV ambitions by putting quotas on domestic vehicle producers which will oblige them to make a set percentage of their total vehicle production electric. A company producing 1.2 million EVs in China a year will be obliged to produce 20-30,000 EVs. The quotas are to take effect from 2019. ...
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Bad news for Qualcomm is that, if Broadcom succeeds in buying it, 30% of its employees may lose their jobs. Apparently, over the last four years and five acquisitions by Broadcom, around 30% of the employees of the five companies bought – some 5000 people – have lost their jobs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan (pictured) ...
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Thales is to buy Gemalto for €4.8 billion after topping a €4.3 billion offer made by Atos. “Combined with Gemalto’s unique leading digital security portfolio, Thales will be ideally positioned to offer an end-to-end solution, to secure the full critical digital decision chains, from data creation in sensors to real-time decision making,” said a joint ...
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It is currently taking four and a half hours to sell or buy a Bitcoin, reports Business Insider. Each sale or purchase has to be confirmed by six miners. Miners prioritise the highest priced transaction and they also charge a reported $26 per trade. When the crash comes, the time transactions take and the fees ...
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SEMI’s November billings figure was 1.6% up on October at $2.05 billion. The November figure is 27.2% higher than the $1.6 billion of billings in November 2016. . “November billings for North American equipment manufacturers increased modestly for the first time in four months,” said Dan Tracy, Senior Director, Industry Research and Statistics, at SEMI. ...
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Hitachi is to provide Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CUN) with its proton beam therapy (PBT) system. The PBT System will be installed at CUN’s facility in Madrid, Spain and is equipped with state of the art technology including spot scanning capability for treating certain forms of cancer. The system includes a compact synchrotron accelerator, full ...
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Bridgetek continues to expand on the scope of its pioneering PanL system level solutions, adding new hardware that will accelerate the implementation of ‘intelligent spaces’ within a broad spectrum of different sectors. These will include domestic, retail, hospitality, enterprise and utilities, right through to factory automation, agriculture and medicine. The whole premise of the PanL ...
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MVTec Software, a Munich-based machine vision specialist, says it it now possible to run deep learning functions on embedded boards with Nvidia Pascal architecture. The deep learning inference in the latest version of the firm’s Halcon machine vision software was successfully tested on Nvidia Jetson TX2 boards based on 64-bit Arm processors. The deep learning ...
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The MIPI mobile interface organisation is opening access to its sensor interface specification, called MIPI I3C. This is an important interface upgrade to the long-established I2C technology. MIPI I3C, initially released to the MIPI Alliance member community in January 2017, is the next generation interface for sensor networks currently using I2C and SPI. Companies, including those not ...
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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, today announced a new generation of in-vehicle network (IVN) protection diodes that offer a higher surge current, greater ESD robustness and a significant improvement in ESD clamping performance. The new AEC-Q101 qualified PESDxIVN series of surface mount devices is optimized for the latest generation of CAN, LIN, ...
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Online distributor Digi-Key has achieved sales growth of 40% for Harwin product lines over the last 12 months, and as a result has received the connector firm’s global distributor award for 2017. Doug Steele, v-p of sales at Harwin, writes: “This year Digi-Key have really stood out as a powerful force in progressing Harwin’s market ...
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Farnell has signed an agreement with the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) for the delivery of 45,000 BBC micro:bit in an official national rollout led by a privately financed nonprofit IRIM. As part of the national rollout, all students in Grade 6 will receive a BBC micro:bit to help them develop their skills in ...
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Google, AWS, Microsoft and Facebook are by far the biggest owners of servers dwarfing their China counterparts Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, The top server suppliers remain HPE, Dell and Lenovo with market shares of 17%, 16% and 7% respectively, according to DRAMeXchange, which expects the server market to grow 5.53% next year. Server DRAM is ...
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Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for ...
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A European directive on network and information security (NIS) comes into force next year. The aim of the NIS directive is to improve the member states’ cooperation and protection against attacks. The European Union’s directive on network and information security (NIS), was adopted in summer 2016, and national governments will have to implement the legislation ...
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Teledyne e2v has opened a new healthcare and security facility to support its growing business in China. The facility in Chaoyang District, Beijing will be customer facing for radiotherapy, security and other high-power RF applications. Ewan Livingstone, President RF Power: Commercial, officially opened the site on 4 December 2017, and Teledyne e2v is looking forward ...
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Panasonic’s latest electromechanical switch is a single side stable 16A relay. The normally open contact as well as the change-over contact can switch loads up to 16A/250V at ambient temperatures of up to 105°C. The clearance and creepage distance between contact and coil is min. 10mm despite the relay’s very compact dimensions of 12.5 x 28.8 ...
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