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7/31/2015
World's 1st White Lasers
Demonstrated
Japan Develops 2 Petawatt 'Death Star' Laser
GaN Gaining
Traction
GaN-on-Silicon LED Solution Arrives
Facebook Builds Drone for Internet Access
Samsung's Slippage Stirs Smartphone
Angst
Sol-Gel Capacitor Dielectric Offers Record-High Energy Storage
Meet Windows 10, a Throwback with Upgrades in Software and Security
Qualcomm Enables Wireless Charging for Mobile Devices with Metal Cases
UK: Earth Will Only Have 12-Hour Warning for Massive Sun CME
Like Paper, Graphene
Twists and Folds into Nanoscale Machines
Race Is on
to Find Technologies to Counter Low-Cost Unmanned Aircraft (already exists - a shotgun)
7/30/3015
Assembly of World's Biggest Radio Telescope Gets Underway
1st Color-Tunable Graphene-Based LED Demonstrated
Amateur Radio Vanity Call Sign Fee to Disappear in September
Quantum Computing: Diode-Like Breakthrough
Surmounts Roadblock
Candle Power to Charge Smartphones
Android Bug Could Affect a Billion
Smartphones
Quantum Networks: Back
and Forth Are Not Equal Distances
Warfare 2050: Robots, Augmented Humans and Force Fields
NSA Sets Date for Purge of Surveillance Phone Records
GaN
Devices Market Growing at CAGR of 15.1%
Suppliers Challenge PVC Cables with Green Alternatives
NEC Deploys 176 km Microwave
Link Between the Islands of Sao Tome and Principe
7/29/2015
3D Xpoint Memory: Faster-Than-Flash Storage
Unveiled
Cellphones Can Steal Data from
'Air-Gapped Computers'
Satellite-Launching Drone Program Enters Next Phase
Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 Gains Momentum, Cosponsor List Tops 90
Demand for Radar Systems Boosts Infineon's Chip Production
'Seeing' Molecular Interactions
Could Give Boost to Organic Electronics
What You Need to Know About Conflict Minerals
Short Wavelength Plasmons Observed in Nanotubes
Electron Spins Cross over in Femtoseconds
Destructive High-Energy
Electrons Streaking into Earth's Atmosphere from Space
Researchers Predict Material with Record-Setting Melting Point
Apple HomeKit Requires Proprietary
ID Chip
7/28/2015
Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
India Planning Fresh Radio
Spectrum Auction
China Launches 2 Satellites as It Builds GPS Rival
Broadband 'Levy' for Super-Fast Net
(aka 'Tax')
Americans Admit to Constant Mobile Connectivity
90+ GHz Photonic Emitters on-Chip
UK Now Destination of Choice for Most of World's Super-Rich
Is Car Hacking the Future of Autos?
Pirate Rejected for LPFM
License
Electro-Optical Modulator Smaller Than a Lightwave
8% of Europe's Electricity Now Supplied by Wind Energy (lower or higher utility bills
now?)
FCC Proposes Fining Georgia Ham $1000 for Failing to Identify
7/27/2015
Clear Connection Between
Wireless Devices and Cancer
FCC Shows No Mercy, Sustains $22,000 Fine for Egregious On-Air Behavior by Michigan Licensee
DARPA
to Tackle Radar Target Recognition with TRACE
Chiral Property of Silicon Discovered, with Photonic Applications
Electronics Swapfest Brings
the Old and Not-So-Old
Cell Phone Notifications May Be
Driving You to Distraction
History of Jitter Part 4: Time-Interval Error (TIE)
7/26/2015
8-Hour
Work Day a Thing of the Past
Qualcomm Announces 4,500 Job
Losses
Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4M Cars After Jeep
Wireless Hack
Southampton University Holds Electronics Summer School
Nanotechnology Research Leads to Super-Elastic Conducting Fibers
7/24/2015
'Metasheet' Blocks a Narrow Band of Radiation, Letting the Rest Pass
Site Enables Detailed Component Comparisons
5G Still Needs Millimeter Wave
Work (next up:
6G)
China Mobile Tops Subscriber League
Apple
Gives Weak Forecast, Shares Fall Nearly 7%
Scalable Arrays of 'Building
Blocks' for Ultrathin Electronics
$100M
Initiative to Search for ET
Metal Foams Shield X-rays, Gamma Rays, Neutron Radiation
AlInGaN
Nanowire LEDs on Silicon (that's nearly the entire Periodic Table)
Simulations Lead to Design of Near-Frictionless Material
National Guard Seeks More Drones for Domestic Missions
Algorithm Designs Previously Unknown Optical Components
7/23/2015
Qualcomm May Split Itself, Cut Jobs
Commodore Is Being Resurrected as a Smartphone (I had a C-64 back in the 80's)
Hacks on
the Highway
Drones' Agenda: New Spectrum
GAO Warns DOD of 'Fragmented' Approach to Commercial Satellites
Party Balloon Carrying Ham Radio Payload Circles Southern Hemisphere 2nd Time
Location-Based Ads Need More
Than Closeness to Overcome Creepiness
Machine Triumphs over Man at Pictionary-Like
Sketch Recognition Task
Spintronics Just Got
Faster
Lick Observatory Joins Massive Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe (sadly,
many intage telescopes are slated for decommissioning)
3D Printed Electronics Are
Here
7/22/2015
Burglary Suspect Accidentally Takes His Own iPhone Selfie Video
Hacker Remotely Crashes Jeep from 10 Miles Away
Molecule Opens Window on Single-Electron Transistors
Constant Change
T-Mobile Hit with Record Fine
Following Emergency Number Outage
Drawing a Line Between
Quantum and Classical World
Physicists Build Universal Optics Chip
Easy, Scalable and Direct Method for Synthesizing Graphene in Silicon
Toshiba CEO Resigns over Accounting Scandal
Microsoft Patches 'Critical' Windows Bug
Huawei Revenues Jump 30% on Strong
Smartphone Sales
Your Supplier Is Not Your Friend
7/21/2015
Mobile
Phone SIM Cards Destined for Tech Scrap Heap
Breaking the THz Barrier
for Graphene Nanoelectronics
Physicist Who Brought Symmetry Breaking to Particle Physics Dies at 94
U.S. Army
Wants to Send Small, Cheap Satellites to Space
Sea-Based Radar
Market to Reach $13B over Next 10 Years
Germany Promises €400M Boost for Microelectronics
NSA Offers Block Ciphers to Help Secure
RFID Transmissions (and an unadvertised 'back door for NSA access?)
Bringing
Back the Magic in Metamaterials
Top 10 Things to See at ESC Silicon Valley
International Consortium Sets up Shop for Advanced Manufacturing Research
Irked by U.S.,
But EU Keeps Own Spy Projects Quiet
Polymer Mold Makes Perfect Silicon Nanostructures
7/20/2015
ARRL Complains to FCC About The Home Depot's Marketing of RF Lighting Devices
MACOM Divesting
Automotive Business to Autoliv
Dish Faces $3.3B Bill as FCC Reportedly
Rejects Spectrum Discounts
Google
Self-Driving CarInvolved in 1st Injury Accident
10 Great Inventors of the Late 20th Century
Platinum-Laden Asteroid UW-158 Worth $5T to Pass by Earth
Planetary Resources Begins Asteroid Prospecting Satellite Tests
7/19/2015
85-Year Search for Massless Particle Ends w/promise for Next-Generation Electronics
FCC Announces Enforcement Bureau Field Office Reorganization Plans
United Airlines Hackers Given 106
Free Flight Miles
Traffic from Mobile and Online
Messaging to Reach 438B/Day by 2019
Qualcomm's Sales Practices
Under Scrutiny
7/17/2015
Fastest-Ever
Flexible Diode Provides 'Last Missing Piece' Needed for Bendable Phones
Acoustical Metamaterial
with Near-Zero Density
Student Satellite Wins Green Light for Station Deployment
Nonmagnetic Elements Form Unique Magnet
The Appliance of Science
Toshiba Faces $3B in Charges over Accounting Scandal
Google Intros Eddystone, a New Open Format for BLE Beacons
Transparent
Conductive Oxides and Wafer Bonding of III-Vs and Silicon
Solving Mysteries of Conductivity
in Polymers
No Earth-Shaking Inventions from Indian Institutes (some might think otherwise)
U.S. Astronomers Call for New Space Telescope with 12 m Mirror
7/16/2015
Nokia Confirms Interest in Selling
Mobile Phones Again
The Internet of Things and the Next 50 Years of Moore's Law
'3D' White Graphene Could Revolutionize Gadget Cooling
What Stand-Alone GPS Devices Do That Smartphones Can't
Army
Connects VSATs to Speed up Battlefield Logistics Support
Galaxy A8 is Samsung's Slimmest Ever Phone
Lockheed
Martin Builds Ship Electronic Warfare
Dayton Hamvention Reports 2015 Attendance Rose Slightly over 2014
Battery Damage Grounds Solar Impulse 2 Until 2016
Combating Capacitor Corrosion for Long Life Applications
PC, Mobile Slump Hits Chips
Has China Silenced Its Bloggers?
7/15/2015
China Bids $23B for Micron
Phosphorene's 2 Dimensions
Could Beat Silicon
Skills Shortage Hitting Growth in Engineering Sector
Physicists Confirm Existence of Rare Pentaquarks Discovery
More Precise Estimate
of Avogadro's Number to Redefine Kilogram
Worldwide Semi Sales Expected
to Reach $348B in 2015
Russia's GLONASS Proves More Than a Match for America's GPS
Researcher Devises Method to
Untangle, Analyze 'Controlled Chaos' (Control, Chaos ... Maxwell Smart anyone?)
'Generation U' [Unprepared] Now Entering Workforce
Graphene-Based Film Can Super Cool LEDs
Avalanche Samples Spin Transfer
Torque Magnetic RAM
U.S.
Navy Lets $155M EW Contract to Lockheed Martin
7/14/2015
Addicted to Your Phone? There's Help for That
New Horizons Carries the Ashes of Pluto Discoverer Clyde Tombaugh (boldly go[ing]
where no man has gone before...)
Transistor Built from
a Molecule and a Few Atoms
Boeing
Patent Puts Pocus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System
DeorbitSail
CubeSat Put into Orbit, Heard in US
Mobile Connectivity Indoors
Has Just Got Better
Saudi Supercomputer Enters Top 10 List
The Engineer Shortage Is a Problem We All Can Solve (see GSKrasle response)
Tablet Shipments Experience Largest
Decline Since 2009 Category Inception
Tantalum Capacitor Benefits and Recent Advances
Windows
10 No Immediate Savior for PC Industry
Microsoft Lays off Thousands While Demanding More H1-B Visas (wasn't this stuff supposed
to end 7 years ago?)
Neutrons Find 'Missing'
Magnetism of Plutonium
Is Radio Really Losing
the Streaming Battle?
7/13/2015
Congressmen Want AM-Only
Translator Window
IBM-Led
Team Pulls off Major Chip Feat
Spanish Telcos to Launch 4G at
800 MHz from 20 July
Productivity Plan Aims to Make Britain Wealthiest Major Economy by 2030 (USA is aiding
goal by destroying itself voluntarily)
'Pac-Man' Satellite to Munch on Space Junk
Russia, Brazil to Track Space Junk with GLONASS Navigation System
Hawaii Limits Access to Mauna Kea Amid Telescope Protests (anti-science religious
types?)
7/12/2015
Samsung Back on Top of U.S. Smartphone
Vendor Ranking
Startup Revives Rear-Mounted Smartphone Joysticks
Graphene-Based Film for Efficient Cooling of Electronics
Vertical
Schottky Barrier Diodes on Free-Standing GaN
Friedrichshafen HAM RADIO 2015 Hosts International Youth Gathering
7/10/2015
IBM Announces Computer Chips More Powerful Than Any in Existence
Patent Filings by Women Have Risen Fastest in Academia
OPM Announces More Than 21M Affected by 2nd Data Breach
An Official Bluetooth 'Star Trek' Communicator
Amateur
Radio Becomes Primary on 1900-2000 kHz on August 6
Graphene-Based
Sensor That is Tunable and Highly Sensitive
Slowing Wireless Device Market
SEMI Updates Key Safety Guidelines for Semi Manufacturing Equipment
Deepening Dependency on Technology Raises Risk of Breakdowns
NSA's XKeyscore Collects Router Data, Skype Conversations, Webcam Images
High-Temperature
Recess for Normally-on GaN Transistors
Robocall Victim to Get Big Payout from
Time Warner Cable (probably $0 after appeal and lawyers paid)
7/9/2015
India's Tech Titans Grab Talent from Silicon Valley
China's Stock Market Heading for U.S. 1929-Style Crash?
Russia, India Cooperate on Space Exploration, Glonass Satellite System
$50SAT Amateur Radio PocketCube Closing in on 2 Years in Orbit and Still Ticking
TSMC Overtakes Intel in Chip
Capex Ranking
Omnidirectional Free Space
Wireless Charging Developed
New Horizons Back in Business After Weekend Dropout (whew, that was scary!)
Students' 2098
mpg Car Gets Top Score in Mileage Challenge
Today's Full-Featured Radio Modules Make Designing Web Connectivity Easy
Samsung Profit Guidance Suggests Costly S6 Miss
For Start-Ups, How Many Angels Is Too Many?
Apple Watch Sales Plunge 90%
7/8/2015
Russian 'Superweapon' Can Switch off Satellites, Equipment
UK Government Holds up Export of Early Amateur Radio-Related TV Archive
Transition from 3 to
2 Dimensions Increases Conduction
4G Rollout Spurs 124% Increase
in Pakistan's Smartphone Shipments
Samsung Boosts Batteries with
Graphene
Thin Film Solar Cells May Rival Silicon
NFC Mobile
Payments: An Industry Snapshot
BBC Micro Bit Computer's Final Design Revealed
How FreeConferenceCall.com Climbed to Collaboration Heights
8 Views of the Chip Horizon
Amazon to Stand
Trial for 'Confusing' Search Results
Fuel Cell Could Be Answer to Carbon Capture
7/7/2015
Careers Outside of Academia Richly Rewarding for Ph.D. Physicists
Faster, Cheaper Fiber Could Rev up Internet
Is Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing Foreshadowing Another Paradigm Shift?
Tech Companies Outsourcing Computer Work to [--- wait for it ---] Humans
Siberia Home to New Russian Space Monitoring Complex
China Nails
Samsung and Oppo over Smartphone Bloatware
Smartphone Sales Remain Important IC Market Driver in 2015
Apple Watch Tear Down Reveals
European Chips
Tube Tone Without
Tubes
Researchers Unveil Breakthrough in Weaving NFC Chips into Clothes (get ready to be
tracked everywhere)
Smartphone Anti-Theft "Kill Switch" Law Goes into Effect in California
Austrian Student's Privacy Battle Against Facebook Suffers Setback
7/6/2015
U.S. Survey Reveals High Value of Physicists to Industry
Job Market's New Normal: Smaller Workforce, Sluggish Pay (take a look at
U6 unemployment rate)
RFID Smart Shoes Lead to Clean Hands
Quantum Wave-Like Nature
Observed in Rotating Nitrogen Molecules
New Android Malware Sprouting Like Weeds
Neutral pH
Electrochemical Etching of Silicon-Doped GaN
Magnesium
Hydride May Give Boost to Hydrogen Cars
7/5/2015
Almost ½ of UK Engineers Considering Change of Job
GloFo Completes Acquisition of IBM Microelectronics
Alcatel-Lucent Bags €1.2B Worth
of China Deals
Soundproofing with
Quantum Physics
Space Base in New Zealand Picked to Start Private Trips to Orbit
7/3/2015
Jitters in Tech World over New Chinese Security Law
Siri Waxes Philosophical When Asked to Divide Zero by Zero
New Silver Fabrication Technology May Hold Key to Electronics Advances (alchemy?)
A Glimpse at the Future of Printed Electronics
Biodegradable Electronics Debut
To Conduct, Or to Insulate? That Is the
Question (whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous
current flow, or to take up insulation against a sea of electrons, and by opposing end them...)
Army Developing a 'Flying Motorcycle' for Battlefield
LED-Cooling Dielectric Beats Copper in Thermal Conductivity
Two Faces of Pluto Revealed in Color Imagery
CONELRAD Radios from Heathkit
Low-Cost Compact Quantum Dot Spectrometer
New Test of Hydrogen
Sulfide Backs Superconducting Claim
7/2/2015
Wood-Derived Substrate for Microwave Transistors
FCC Speedily Dismisses Petitions to Alter Amateur Service Rules
Engineers Need to Do More with Less (agree?)
Data Link Lets Even Small UAVs Serve as Secure Comm Nodes
FBI Hunts for Culprits
in California Internet Backbone Attack
Substrates Change
Nanoparticle Reactivity
South Korea Planning a 4th
Mobile Network License
Exploring Through-Wall Presence Detection
As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money
Producing
Spin-Entangled Electrons
Surveillance Court OKs NSA Phone Metadata Collection for 6 More Months (wasn't all
this supposed to stop after the 2008 election?)
Graphene
Flexes Its Electronic Muscles
7/1/2015
Ericsson Layoffs Target R&D,
Supply
Data Roaming Charges to End in EU Within
t Years
Building a Better
Semiconductor
10 U.S. State Engineering Facts You Probably Don't Know: New Mexico - South Carolina
Biodegradable,
Flexible Silicon Transistors
Electrical Properties
of Carbon Cones and Other Shapes
"Founders and Patriots of the Republic" is Theme of Annual 13 Colonies Event
New Quantum Entanglement
Packs Vastly More Data in Photon
Ad Spending on Local
Radio up 5%
Upgraded LIGO to Begin Hunt for Gravitational Waves Soon
Intense Radio Emission from Tiny Binary Star Calls for Stellar Model Rethink (oops,
more 'settled science' unsettled)
Ultrasonic MEMS Predicts Electric Vehicle Battery Failure
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