8/31/2015
Cellular, Wi-Fi Spar over Spectrum
Silicon Valley Wary as Pentagon Chief to Court Innovators
4G Smartphones Market Share More Than 2x, Capturing 58% in Q2 2015
Creative Simulations Help Test New Weather Radar
Record-High Pressure Reveals Secrets of Matter
AVX Moves into Implantable Capacitors
NSA Acknowledges Quantum Computing Threat
8/30/2015
Phone Feared Drowned Posts Selfies of Adventures with Firefighters
Marines Make Transition from GaAs to GaN in Air-Defense Radar
Superconductivity Temperature Record Achieved
The Upside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley
Send Your Name (and Call Sign) to Mars!
8/28/2015
Parents Suing School Because Wi-Fi is Making Son Sick
GSMA Launches Low Power WAN Initiative to Accelerate Growth of IoT
280 Million "Mobile Addicts" Worldwide
5G Will Need Radio Technology Change
Magnetoelastic Waves Can Drive Magnetic Bubbles Through Photoexcitation
Another Fusion Reactor Breakthrough
GaN Nanoelectronics-Transistor Blocking Voltage Exceeds 1 kV
Outcome for 5 MHz at WRC-15 Remains in Limbo
Upturn in PC Market Won't Come Until 2017
Wireless Charging Visits the Hospital
Amazing 'Red Lightning' Photographed from Space
Americans Think Staying Glued to Phone is Rude but Do It Anyway
8/27/2015
Mobile Phone Joke Voted Funniest (a little
levity)
Startup Wants Better IoT Radios
Launch Date Set for AMSAT Fox-1A
Electrical Circuit Made of Gel Repairs Itself
Flexible Encapsulation to Enable Flexible Electronics
FTC: To Combat Robocalls, 'Just Hang Up'
iPhone6 Powered by Hydrogen
J. Keller: How Could I Be So Wrong About UAV Market?
Microsoft's Cortana Lands on Android Phones
½ the Population of Earth at Standstill if Internet Goes
Down
Walmart Partners with Reshoring Initiative as Made in USA Gets Real
Navy Makes Largest Federal Purchase of Solar Power
(remember when the military budget was used to secure our
freedoms?)
8/26/2016
At PGA
Tournaments, Bluetooth Beacons Are Par for the Course
Thailand Starts Cutting off Unregistered SIM Cards
Mobile Device Security Ignored by Federal Workers
IARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within
International Band Plans
Researchers Take High-Bandwidth Communications to the South Pole
2D Transistor Made from Dual-Phase Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide
Crystal (sounds like some to power a starship by)
Light Interaction Leaves Quantum Physicists Beaming
Mobile Transactions to Top 125B by 2018
Hot Tech Start-ups May Face a Long and Bumpy Fall
Teen Nabbed After Attacks on UK Government and FBI Sites
AMS to Spend $2B on New York Wafer Fab
Government Spends Big on Radio
8/25/2015
The Stock Market Carnage Cometh for Tech
Optical Tunneling of Electron from Atom Can Occur Instantaneously
Laser-Burned Graphene Gains Metallic Powers
Ofcom Issues Fine for Silent and Abandoned Calls
Publisher Retracts 64 Articles for Fake Peer Reviews
Frictionless Quantum Highways
FCC Universal Licensing System Down for Maintenance in September
Graphene Oxide's Secret Properties Revealed at Atomic Level
Photon Processor Tests Quantum Computing Theory
Tesla Engineer Joins Apple's Growing Team of Automated Car Experts
Navy Awards 2 Huge Deals for Tactical Radios
Tracks
Power Poles, Transformers with RFID
8/24/2015
IEEE 802.11ah: Wi-Fi Below 1 GHz (great
idea)
Middle-Aged Drivers Using Cellphones While Driving, Even with Children
in the Car
5G the Free WiFi Killer
Small Electronics Companies Spent $78.3B on Semiconductors in 2014
Earth May Hold More Helium Than We Thought
(just like oil, and natural gas, and...)
Open Source Effort Targets the Trouble with Joint Avionics
Ex-Google Engineers Promise Ultra-Low Cost Android PC
8/23/2015
Researchers Reveal New, Stable 2-D Materials
If a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth...
Undergrad Radio Amateur Uses Reverse Beacon Network in Research
Project
Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web
As Utilities Get Smarter, Smart Meter Semiconductors Rise
8/21/2015
FCC Fines Company $750,000 for Disabling Conference Hotspots
MIT Reveals Small 'Iron Man' Fusion Reactor
Google
Loses Data as Lightning Strikes
China Gives Its Homegrown GPS Rival Another Push
Dish Network Loses Out on $3.3B of Spectrum Discounts
Huawei Wins Deal to Swap Entire Indian Network's Base Stations
Natcore Takes Silver out of Photovoltaic Landscape
More Must Be Done to Overcome Challenges to Reshoring
Warp Speed Could Be Reality in Next 100 Years
Why Are Plastic Film Capacitors Making a Comeback?
20% off ARRL Operating Books and Resources
Longer Work Hours Linked to Increased Stroke Risk
8/20/2015
Million-Year Error-Corrected Digital Data Storage in DNA Now Possible
(reader comment: "Maybe we should be running these algorithms
on existing DNA. Perhaps somebody has already left a message in the bottle.")
Drexel Engineers Sandwich Atomic Layers to Make New Materials for
Energy Storage
Qualcomm Lays off American Engineers While Hiring H1B Visa Holders
Slow Load Times Lead to Mobile Transaction Abandonment
Facebook Founder Challenged on H1B Visa Policy
Changes to Radio Rules
In-Building Location Services: The Next Big Bluetooth App?
A farmer Built His Own 4G Mast to Fix Rural Broadband
Lightweight Braid System for Aerospace
Depiction of Amazon Stirs a Debate About Work Culture
Hydrogen Sulfide Becomes Superconductive Under High Pressure at
-70°C
Meet Daniel's New Oscilloscope
8/19/2015
Constantly Checking Mobile Phone Can Lead to 'Cognitive Failures'
Black Phosphorus Surges Ahead of Graphene
Airbus to Build Low Cost Flexi-Satellites in UK
5G Expectations Soar (6G coming)
Samsung Imagines Earth-Wide internet Through 4,600 Satellites
(the shadow could usher in new Ice Age)
Apple Rumored to Be Developing Massive Head-Up Display
Physicists Get Surprise When Watching Quasicrystals Grow
Faulty Mobile Devices Play Major Role in Carrier Churn
Georgia Tech Finds 11 Security Flaws in Popular Internet Browsers
(KA's alma mater)
Boeing Joins Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to Develop Multi-Warhead
Killer Missile Defense
Smarter, Lighter Car Battery Replaces Lead Acid Types
Company Receives Patent for 'Space Elevator'
8/18/2015
Latest Devices Allow Employers to Track Behaviour of Their Workers
Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to Local Police
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
(interesting & scary)
TV Flickers as Viewers Find New Screens
AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on Vast Scale
(think they had a choice?)
Which Engineering Disciplines Have the Most Job Openings?
Rockwell Collins to End Mechanical Filter Production
University of Arkansas Receives $200,000 NSF Grant to Study GaN
Device Modeling
Nokia Networks Completes World's 1st Shared GSM, 3G and LTE Radio
Network
RT Logic and Spaceflight to Enhanced Small Satellite Ground Support
The Evolution of Beer
NASA Tests the 'Ferrari of Rocket Engines' for Mission to Mars
8/17/2015
Man Looking for Lost Cellphone Hit by Roller Coaster
AM Radio on Track for Revitalization
Nanoribbon Growth Method Compatible with Electronic Production
New Diamond Laser 20x More Powerful
UK Hails Superfast Broadband Progress
Protons and Antiprotons Appear to Be True Mirror Images
Slideshow: Current Engineer Job Openings by Discipline
Philly School Registers 800 Students from 70 Countries Speaking
40 Languages (we're basically an occupied nation now)
8/16/2015
Microscopic Rake Doubles Efficiency of Low-Cost Solar Cells
Facebook Axed Internship for Student Who Exposed Location Flaw
Greenwich Prime Meridian Has Moved 334 Feet (102 Meters)
Quick Quiz:
Would You Make a Good Entrepreneur?
Intel Said to Unseat Qualcomm in iPhone
8/14/2015
England
to Test Charge-As-You-Drive 'Electric Motorways'
Back to the Future: Next-Generation Vacuum Tubes
Attosecond Electron Catapult
Stingray-Like Phone Spying Machine Used to Blackmail and Rig State
Tenders
5G Service Revenues Forecast to Exceed $65B Globally by 2025
New Tools for Predicting Arrival, Impact of Solar Storms
LEDs Spot Quantum Dots Ready for Nanophotonic Devices
Taking out Many Ballistic Warheads with One Shot
Neutrino-Mass Measurements Could Benefit from Holmium-Trapping Result
NSA Funding a 'Safer' Internet of Things
Quantum Computing Advance Locates Neutral Atoms
Electronic DC Load Returns 94% of Load Test Energy to the Grid
8/13/2015
'Funtenna' Hack Turns IoT Devices into Radios
Graphene Nanoribbon Could Enable Faster, More Efficient Electronics
Apple Bullish on Chinese Market Growth
Boosting Solid-State Memory Technology
CMR Induced in Pure Lanthanum Manganite
World-Circling Danish Radio Amateur-Cyclist Now in the U.S.
A New Day for Rad-Hardened Space Parts
Conductive Ink Market Finds New Growth Channels
Worldwide Record Silicon Wafer Shipments in Q2
New Hybrid Microscope Offers Unparalleled Capabilities
32 Charged
over 'Insider Trading Hack' Scheme
Alibaba to Invest $4.6B in China Electronics Retailer Suning
8/12/2015
Perseid Meteor Show Expected to Be Spectacular This Year
(late Wednesday evening)
New Device Converts DC Electric Field to Terahertz Radiation
Electricity Meter Sticks on Circuit Breakers
New Design Could Finally Help Bring Fusion Power to Reality
Target Tests Bluetooth Beacons in 50 U.S. Stores
Investors Find Ways to Indirectly Profit from Valuable Start-Ups
Samsung's 256-Gb IC Puts Multi-Tb Flash Drives in Your PC
Tesla Loses >$4k on Every Car Sold
Italy Makes First €2.2B Available for Ultrafast Broadband
Portable Ultra-Broadband Lasers Key to Next-Gen Sensors
Back to the Future: Nokia Prepares for Mobile Comeback
Caltech Announces Discovery in Fundamental Physics - Correlated
Electrons
Tiny Particles Dance Around Each Other in Near-Zero Gravity
8/11/2015
Dog Days of Summer End
Google Becomes Alphabet
ZigBee-Sniffing Drone Maps Hackable IoT Devices
'Inevitable' Ethernet Moving Slowly into Cars
Navy Adds $29M Worth of Radios for Global Satellite System
Building-Integrated Photovoltaics About to Take Off
Counterterrorism Expert Wants to Arm U.S. Companies with Hack-Back
Capabilities (interesting concept)
Wi-Fi in the Sky
Sprint Challenges T-Mobile's International Plans with 'Open World'
PCB Layout: Design In-House, or Outsource?
Moon-Bound Spacecraft Could Use GPS for Navigation
Telcos Eye New Opportunities as Turkey Gears up for 4G Rollout
8/10/2015
Molecular Diode with 200:1 Conduction Ratio
Implantable RF Module Only 5.5x4.5x1.5mm
Coleford Ham Makes International Space Station Contact
Highlights of National Instruments' NIWeek 2015
Ericsson and SK Telecom to Collaborate on 5G Network Slicing
(6G specification
announced)
U.S. Suspects Russia in 'Most Sophisticated' Joint Staff Hack
Fermilab Experiment Sees Neutrinos Change over 500 Miles
8/9/2015
Federal Aid's Role in Driving up Tuitions Gains Credence
IARU Raises Satellite Frequency-Coordination Concerns
Consumer Sentiment Toward Tech Spending Rises in July
100% of Female Employment Gains Since 2007 Taken by Foreigners
Record
83 Million American Residents 20+ Years Old Not in Labor Force in July
8/7/2015
Stanene: 2-Dimensional Tin (a la graphene
is 2-D carbon)
Washing Machine, Printer Can Steal Files from Your Computer
Hackers Turn off Tesla Model S at Low Speed
Smartphones Overtake Laptops as UK's Preferred Web Device
Ultra-Fast Electron Camera
Mobile Backhaul Equipment to Generate $39B of Revenue over Next
5 Years
Hiram Percy Maxim Award Recipient is Anna Veal, W0ANT
(call sign = want nothing? ;-)
Intel to Collaborate with Georgia Tech
Tellurium Doping for n-Type InGaAn
Labor Department Ignores Years of Cybersecurity Warnings
Tesla Trims Delivery Outlook, Sending Stock Down
NFC Mobile Payments: An Industry Snapshot
8/6/2015
New 'Gig' Economy Spells End to Lifetime Careers
Molecular Trick Alters Rules of Attraction for Non-Magnetic Metals
CoolCube Circuit Stacking Moves to FinFET Process
#ILookLikeAnEngineer
'Concentration Rehab Camp' for Net-Junkie Youths
Dream of Free and Open Internet Dying
(more Hope and Change)
WWV's 25 MHz Signal Back on Original Vertical Dipole
Energy Storage Unit Combines Truck Battery, Ultracaps
Bad News on Apple's Stock Only Beginning
Time Stands Still for No Tech
Britons
'Love Smartphones and Selfies'
World's Quietest Gas Lets Physicists Hear Faint Quantum Effects (SBD?)
8/5/2015
Terahertz Optical Transistors Beat Silicon
How a Deeper Dive by Apple Could Crush This Market
Air Force Wants New Electronics Thermal Management Techniques for
Fighter Aircraft
Army Releases Manpack Radio Request for Proposals
Automotive Electronics Complexity at Tipping Point
'IoT' Connected Devices to Almost Triple to over 38 Billion Units
by 2020
FDA Approves Drug Made Using 3D Printing
X-Ray Development Allows 3D Studies Without Synchrotron
Magnetism at Nanoscale
German Carmakers Buy Nokia's 'Here' Mapping Unit for $3 Billion
Wi-Fi-Enabled Sniper Rifle Hacked to Change Target
8/4/2015
U.S. Navy's Reign in Patent Rankings Continues
Drones
and Powerful ICs Face China Export Limit
Small Tilt in Magnets Makes Them Viable Memory Chips
Suppliers Are Joining the Design Team
Plan for Supersized Entanglement Unveiled
Global Smartphone Shipments Growth Slows to 15% in Q2 2015
CoolCube Circuit Stacking Moves to FinFET Process
Mid-Year Global Semiconductor Sales YoY up 4%
EMI Antennas Come in Many Shapes & Sizes
ICANN Posts Proposal to End U.S. Oversight of Internet
(more death to America)
Rollup for Android Studio 1.3
Is Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Hope for Deep-Space Travel?
8/3/2015
Study: Cellphone Radiation Does Increase Cancer Risk
EETimes' Friday Quiz: Oscilloscopes
Navy Awards $97M Deal for Radar Jammers
Are You Bored with Your [PC]Board?
HAARP Facility Will Be Transferred to U. of Alaska-Fairbanks
Water Repellent Coating Improves Capacitor Reliability
Patents: Exercises in Futility and Incomprehensibility?
8/2/2015
NASA's Passive Wi-Fi Saves 80% Power
Lockheed Martin Begins Layoffs at NORAD
Reservoir of Ultracold Atoms Filled Continuously
'Plasmonic' Material Could Bring Ultrafast All-Optical Communications
Politics Overshadows U.S. Tech Firms' Hopes for Entering Iran
(pesky things like being world's largest supporter of terrorism)
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