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I've heard a lot about graphene and carbon nanotubes, but today was my first visit to the "molybdenum disulfide" Wikipedia entry. Researchers at Tu Wien in Austria have developed a microprocessor that uses 2D molybdenum disulfide as the semiconductor (via KurzweilAI). "2D" materials are materials built out of a thin layer of atoms — sometimes they’re a single atom thick....

Today, internet of things devices outnumber humans. Internet-enabled children’s toys, household appliances, automobiles, industrial control systems and medical devices—new IoT devices are being designed and released every day but many of these devices are built with little-to-no security in place. Given the rapid growth of these devices and unregulated market, it’s no surprise that these devices represent a growing...

April 2017: Hacking used to require a distinct set of skills and capabilities. These days, attack services are bought and sold via marketplaces on the Clearnet and Darknet—a phenomenon that’s closing the gap between skilled and amateur hackers and fueling an exponential increase in threats. Thanks to the growing array of online marketplaces, it’s now possible to wreak havoc even if...

The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), which takes effect on 25 May 2018,requires that any businesses dealing with the European Union (EU) will need to comply with the new laws. The EU continues to be a significant market for the IT/BPO industry in India. The top two EU member states—Germany and France—represent nearly half of the European...

OSLO, Norway – 27 April, 2017 – The Vivaldi browser adds Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, to its latest version. Today’s release of Vivaldi 1.9 also includes security fixes, ability to shuffle extensions, sorting of notes and other enhancements. Helping the planet, one search at a time As a result of partnership with Ecosia, Vivaldi users can turn their web...

Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, in association with Weltrend Semiconductor Inc. (TWSE:2436), the leader in USB Type-C™ Power Delivery (PD) controllers, today announced a joint reference design describing an 18 W, USB PD compliant, AC-DC power converter targeted at chargers for smart mobile devices. The design, titled DER-567, pairs the...

Zurich, Switzerland 27/04/2017 - Big data analytics company and ETH Zurich spin-off Teralytics, Telefónica NEXT and sustainability solution provider South Pole Group conducted a study in Nuremberg, Germany that reveals the analysis of mobile network data as an effective way to estimate CO2 and NOX emissions in urban areas at very low cost. To achieve this, Teralytics examined aggregated...

Geneva, 26 April 2017 - Two UNCTAD studies show that in order to enable an environment for investment in the digital economy, there is a need for better policy coordination between investment authorities, ministries and the public institutions managing digital development. Investment in the digital economy is one of the topics being discussed on day two of UNCTAD's E-commerce week,...

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — April 26, 2017— Alliance Memory today introduced a new 1Gb high-speed CMOS double data rate synchronous DRAM (DDR SDRAM) in the 66-pin TSOP II package. Offered in an industrial temperature range from -40°C to +85°C, the AS4C128M8D1-6TIN features a hard-to-find internal configuration of four banks of 32M word x 8 bits. With a clock frequency...

According to a report published by Research and Markets, a market research company, Global IoT in Agriculture market expected to grow at a CAGR of 16% by 2022. Agriculture has been one of the most significant activities in the countries like India, china and USA, has gradually shifted from manual farming to highly mechanized and smart farming. Seeing the growth...