6/30/2015
Reminder: June 30 Will Be Precisely 1 Second Longer
China's Beidou Navigation System More Resistant to Jamming
Quantum Cryptography Set for Lift-off
Global 4G Data Traffic to
Reach 79% of the Total Data Consumption by 2020
Widespread Backing for UK Robotics Network
Conductive Ink Turns Textiles into Stretchable Electronics
Wireless Charging Awareness
Surging
Creating
Heterojunctions Between Black Phosphorous and GaAs
Privacy Outcry over Proposal to Reveal Website Owners' Identities
The Peaks and
Valleys of Silicon
New Nanogenerator Harvests Power from Rolling Tires
Google Earth Gets Two New Features for Its 10th Birthday
6/29/2015
iPhones Hit with 'Blue Screens of Death'
ARRL Continues Efforts to Secure U.S. Senate Sponsorship for the Amateur Radio Parity Act
The Hotel That Lets You Kill the Internet
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes on Way to ISS (idea: how about letting NASA do
it again?)
AT&T to Spend $3B on Mobile
Broadband in Mexico
Many Big Companies Live in Fear for Their Future in Digital Age
0-Emissions Liquid Air Engine Tested at UK R&D Facility
6/28/2015
Silicon Valley Housing: Small Tent Near Google Renting for $965/Month
The Explosive Growth
of Audio on Demand Radio
Qualcomm, Broadcom Partner with Chinese Tech Vendors
Towards Graphene
Biosensors
Advance May Double Capabilities of Fiber Optics
6/26/2015
Russian Satellite-Gagging
Jammer Field Tests Announced
Start-Ups Find the Best Employees Are Already Employed
Thin Semiconductors Go Through the Mott Transition
Pattern of Contact Padding Prompts Disqualifications, CQ Review of All Past Contest Logs
(is no venue untouched by corruption?)
Group Calls
for More Transparency in Science Research, Announces Guidelines
Survey Finds 65% of IoT Applications
Generate Revenue Today
Bill Would Mandate a Streamlined Satellite Program
Auto Focus Liquid Lens Magnifies up to 5x
U.S. Navy Pays Millions to Cling to Windows XP
Beware of Hidden Antennas
UAE to Allow Foreign Investors
to Buy Stake in Etisalat
Samsung Accused of Disabling Microsoft
Security Updates
6/25/2015
Pentagon Rushing to Open Space-War Center to Counter China, Russia
Cardiac Device Wearers Should
Keep Distance from Smartphones
Happy
Birthday to the Motorola 'Batwing' Logo
10 U.S. State Engineering Facts You Probably Don't Know
Tech Company Finds Stolen Government Log-Ins All over Web
ITU Defines Vision and
Roadmap for 5G Mobile Development
Google Exec
Dies at Cannes Lions Festival (G-guys
dropping
like flies these days)
Most-Wanted Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S. from Germany
New World Distance Records Set on 2.3 and 3.4 GHz Ham Bands
Can Heat Be Controlled
as Waves?
Top 10 List for RFID
U.S.
Embassy in Paris 'Home to Secret Spy Nest' (duh, all embassies everywhere are
spy headquarters - that's why they're located on 'sovereign ground')
6/24/2015
Geomagnetic
Storming Reaches Severe Level
'Pregnancy Wi-Fi' Router Causes Controversy
in China
Germany Raises $5.75B from
Spectrum Auction
RF Power Transistors to Reach Consumers' Dishes
Qualcomm in Venture with Chinese Chip Maker
Process Forms 3-D
Shapes from Flat Sheets of Graphene
New Light in Terahertz
Window
Nielsen: Radio Reaches
93% of Adults
DOD Set to 'Double Down' on Geospatial Intelligence
State Department Computer Glitch Creates Visa Nightmare (eso no es problema -
simply cross any time at U.S. southern border)
Tampering with U.S. Voting Machine as Easy as 'abcde'
Imec Initiates 'Intuitive IoT'
6/23/2015
Manufacturers and Companies Struggling with 'Conflict Minerals' Reporting
Wireless Switches Need No Batteries (this is like the old R/C toy car controllers,
only better)
New Spin on 'Silicon Valleytronics' Could Revolutionize Future Technologies
GCHQ 'Broke Rules' When Spying on NGOs
New Space Race Is on to Bring Internet to Whole World (we get to pay for it)
Millions of Fake Online Reviews Gumming up the Joy of Buying Stuff
Police Use Stingray Tool to Intercept Cell Phone Signals
Flexible PCBs Now in Pool Production
Does Time Dilation Destroy Quantum Superposition? (a question we've all asked)
DISA: We Need Industry More Than Ever
Silicon Photonics: Will the Hare Finally Catch the Tortoise?
Structural Origin
of Glass Transition
6/22/2015
WiFi at Bangkok Airport World's Fastest
Could We One Day
Control Path of Lightning?
First Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmion Bubbles Created
N. American Semi Equipment Industry Posts May 2015 Book-to-Bill of 0.99
Chinese Firms
Pour Money into U.S. R&D in Shift to Innovation
If You Want Broadband Done
Right, Do It Yourself
Engineers Seek to Stabilize Radio Link with Comet Lander
DC to Probe
City Traffic Lights After Man Hacked into System
6/21/2015
Airborne 'Stealth Launch' of CubeSat Underway
IHS: Moore's Law Added Trillion$ to Global Economy (and to
Gordon Moore's personal net worth
of $6.6 billion)
Counterfeit Parts Persist Despite Arrests and Convictions
IR Cameras to Become Commodity
Former Googler Fights Adblockers with Adblocker Blocker
6/19/2015
Paris Jamboree for Europe's Inventors
OneWeb Selects Airbus to Build 900 Internet Satellites
Research Simplifies
Recycling of Rare-Earth Magnets
Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight
New Cars
Make Tapping Battery Power Tough
Mobile Phone Shipment Grows
in Maturing Australian Market
Intel Cutting Jobs in Wake of Reduced Sales Expectations
Keysight to Buy 4G LTE Test Firm Anite
X-ray Imaging
Reveals Secrets in Battery Materials
Vertical
Schottky Barrier Diodes on Free-Standing n-Type AlN
Senators Aim to Ground FBI's Warrantless Spy Planes
High School Student Discovers Alien Planet
6/18/2015
Utah University Adds Texting and Walking Lane to Its Stairs
Canadian Government Websites Go
Dark After Cyber Attack
Navy
Awards a Second $478.6M Contract for Joint Tactical Radios (that's a heap of
connectors!)
H1B
Visa Expansion Undermining American Tech Workers
Engineers Find Simple
Yet Clever Way to Boost IC Speeds
Smart Palm Brings Cool Oasis of Wi-Fi Comms (pity the women in that searing heat)
Einstein Saves the Quantum
Cat
FCC to Fine AT&T
$100M
Is
Military Drawdown Happening Too Fast and at Wrong Time?
Privacy Groups Walk out of Talks on Facial Recognition Guidelines
Windows 10 for Mobile to Debut After July 29 Desktop Launch
IC Manufacturers Close or Repurpose 83 Wafer Fabs from 2009-2014
6/17/2015
Radar Designed
to Reject Interference from Wind Farms, 4G Cellphone Networks
Mobile Blackspots Around UK 'Will Disappear
Soon'
Indian Mobile Networks in
Merger Talks
Fairchild Out "Smarts"
Dumb MEMS
Graphene
Heat-Transfer Riddle Unraveled
Solar Satellite Leads the Way
High-Power
Electronics for Carrier Catapults
Gimbal Aims to Turn Any Bluetooth Low Energy Device into Beacon
Electrochemical
Potentiostatic Activation of p-Gallium Nitride
Used Electric Car Batteries Get New Life as Static Storage
Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time
Unemployment?
More Than 17 Million Millionaires
Worldwide (oh, to be part of that club)
6/16/2015
LTE Subscriber Base to Grow
to 1.4B Globally by Year-End 2015
Air Force Accelerates Development of Military GPS Receivers
Every Federal Employee's Data Stolen (the better to blackmail and create spies
with)
Chip, PC Demand Continues Decline
Smart Meter Chip for Multi-Standard Power Line Comms
Larger Smartphone Screens Drive Mobile Ad Growth
World's
Thinnest Light Bulb Developed
Startups Find Strategic Investors at SEMICON West 2015
Colorado to Host U.S. Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships in August
Electrical Enclosures Market to Hit Nearly $6B in 2020
Daimler, Bosch Develop Driverless Car Parking System
Elon Musk Wants Your Hyperloop Ideas
Tesco Puts Beacons in 270 London Stores
6/15/2015
Semi
Fabs Trim Spending Plans
Return Path Discontinuities and EMI
Ricoh Invents 'Energy Generating Rubber' for Flexible Sensors
Blue Nano-Graphene OLED iStable in Air
BlackBerry May Run Android
Android Needs Hero Flagship
Device to Regain OS Market Share
Comet Lander Philae Awakes from Hibernation
6/14/2015
Twitter to Forgo 140-Character Restriction for Direct Messages
Space 'Buoy' May Help Protect Power Grid from Sun's Fury
AT&T, Verizon 'Swarming
FCC' over Spectrum Auction
New Internet Rules Take Effect After Court Rejects Stay
Jack King, 'Voice of NASA,' Dies at 84 (I remember those countdowns)
6/12/2015
Keysight Technologies Donates Spectrum Analysis Software to ARRL Lab
Full-Duplex Sans Multiplex
Comms Almost Here
Einstein's Personal Letters Discussing God, Toys, Geometry, Other Being Auctioned
Explosive IoT Spending to
Reach $1.7T in 2020
Stagger
Tuning (what's old is new again)
New Net Neutrality Nules
Take Effect Friday
Bacteria Pattery is Printed on Paper
How Streaming Stacks
Up to Radio & TV
40-Year-Old Algorithm
Proven Best Possible
Broadband Subscribers Helped to Quit
Slow Providers
Fatal A400M Crash Linked to Data-Wipe
Mistake
Smooth or Bumpy Surfaces
on Demand
6/11/2015
Mass Snooping Fake Mobile Towers 'Uncovered
in UK'
Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks U.S. Army Website (how about less time & money
on military social engineering and more on security?)
"Collegiate Ham Radio Operators" Facebook Group Created
DARPA Eyes CubeSat Communications Data Links
Table-Top Spectroscopy Technique Tracks Phonons
3-D Printing with Metals Achieved
Google's Plan to Fix Big
Cities Starts with Sidewalk Labs (what could possibly go wrong with that?)
Ink and Foil-Based Sensors, Light and Flexible
MIT
Team Creates Ultracold Molecules
Graphene and Diamonds Prove a Slippery Combination
Intel Memo on Layoffs Reported
Shooting for Industry 3.5
6/10/2015
TV Signals Used to Track Aircraft as
Alternative to Radar
Liquid Droplets Create Logic Circuits
Wi-Fi Signals Help Count People in a Crowd
Current Mobile Contracts Damaging
Environment, Research Finds
FCC Backs Off on
Field Office Closings
Charging Batteries Rapidly and Safely
Canada Greenlights Anti-Terror
Law That Hurts Internet Privacy
TV5 Monde Attack 'by Russia-Based
Hackers'
Infineon Heads Electric Car Projects
NanoRAM's Time Is Here
5 Ways to Set up Your Project for Success
Expert Witnesses on High Alert over Negative Interest Rates (outrageous)
6/9/2015
Engineering
Shortage Persists
China Drives RF Power Amplifier
Sales for Wireless Infrastructure to Nearly US$5B
Homebuilt Laser Shotgun
Is Every Bit as Dangerous as It Sounds
U.S. Naval
Academy CubeSats Get OSCAR Numbers
Army Tests Satellite-Independent Battlefield Radio
Apple Recruits Engineers
for "Next Big Thing" in Sensors
Harvard, MIT Students Cycle X-Country Hosting Science Workshops for STEM
4 Factors That Determine I a Robot Can Do Your Job (interesting)
Vacuum Improves 3-D Vapor-Phase Soldering Process
Solar Sail Unfurls in Space
Bucharest Buses Use Bluetooth Beacons to Guide the Blind
Windows 10 Maximizes Screen Real Estate for 4K Era
6/8/2015
Power Beamed to Camera Via Ambient
Wi-Fi Signals
Go Fail in the Real World: Google[x]'s Advice to Engineers
Innovations
to Sustain Silicon's 87% Share of Power Electronics Market
California Law Requires Warrant to Search Computers & Cellphones
Small, Discreet Data
Glasses for Every Day Use
The Most Accurate Quantum Thermometers
What the New FCC
EAS Order Means to You
6/7/2015
Study: DOD Needs to Field Laser Weapons ASAP
Thank Einstein for GPS
South Koreans Win DARPA Robotics Challenge
PC Shipments Will Continue
to Decline in 2015
Tablet Growth Will Continue
to Slow in 2015
6/5/2015
Banning Mobile Phones
Leads to Rise in Student Test Scores
Australian Balloon with Ham Radio Payload Circumnavigates Earth
Working 9-to-5 Becoming Less Popular Way to Make a Living
Millions of U.S. Government Workers
Hit by Data Breach
European Chip Market Shows 18% Annual Growth in April
Canadians Able to Terminate
Long Contracts Without Penalty
Pirate Radio Still
Alive & Well in England
Single-Molecule Diode Has Record-Breaking Current
Thermal
Management Is Large & Growing Pain for Military PCB Makers
Navy's
3rd High-Bandwidth Satellite Ready for Duty
Fab
Equipment Growth Continues into 2015
Solar Impulse 2 Forced to Abort Transpacific Flight
6/4/2015
Top 25 Distributors and Impact on Electronics Supply Chain
Recovering Rare Metal
from LCDs to Avoid Depleting Key Resource
NASA &
Verizon to Monitor Drones with Cell Towers
Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don't Be Like Me
LightSail Spacecraft Restored After Being Silenced by Software Issue
Detroit Hopes to Drive Tech Startups Away from Silicon Valley
World's Smallest Spirals Could Guard Against Identity Theft
'New Era'
in Physics As LHC Cranks Back Up
Breakthrough Heralds Super-Efficient Light-Based Computers
RFID Market for Retailers Forecast
to Grow 39% Annually
Indian Government to Clamp
Down on Dropped Calls
Over-the-Air Platform Keeps
Automotive Software Current
6/3/2015
New 5G Innovations Boost
Mobile Data Speeds
Major Advance in Extraordinary Properties of Emerging Semiconductor
Driving
a Stake Through the Heart of POTS? (it still has best quality)
1st Observation Made of Pushing
Pressure of Light
Navy Awards Nearly $B/2 Contract to ViaSat for MIDS JTRS Tactical Networking
'Designer Carbon' to Boost Batteries and Supercapacitors?
First 6 Students Graduate from IBM's P-TECH School
Senate Approves USA Freedom Act
RFID Market for Retailers Forecast
to Grow 39% Annually
Digi-Key Has a Change at the Top
Customer Satisfaction with TV, Internet and Phone Service at 7-Year Low
Online Ad Spending
to Pass TV
6/2/2015
Google Gestures at 60 GHz
Radar Probes Through 2 Miles of Antarctic Ice
Global Smartphone Growth Expected
to Slow to 11.3% in 2015
Shedding Light on Untapped Information in Photons
SP12T
RF-MEMS Ohmic Switch Passes 1B Operations Milestone
Graphene
Layer Could Quadruple Rate Heat Transfer
Infrared Detector to Free up Internet of Tomorrow
Radio Executives
Expect Revenue Growth
North America a Critical Player in Advanced Semi Market
Google Unveils Smart Fabric
Program
Sales of Non-smartphone Connected
Devices Will Exceed 112M in 2015
Windows 10 to Be Released in July
6/1/2015
Patriot Act Phone Snooping Expires Midnight Sunday
Deutsche Telekom Leads Germany
Spectrum Auction Spending
Single-Molecule Diode is Ultimate in Miniaturisation
Avago Technologies to Acquire Broadcom for $37B
X-37B
Spaceplane's Orbit Discovered by Amateurs (as if the Commies didn't already know)
Retrofitting Old for New
in the Internet of Things
$100k Check Awaits Mystery Apple 1 Computer Recycler