Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - June 2017

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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6/30/2017

ARRL Foundation Announces 2 New Scholarships

BT Offering Free 1-Gbps Public WiFi in London

Dermatologist Recommends Wearing Sunscreen When Using Cellphones

Samsung Overtakes Intel to Be #1

Google Launches Go-To Job Aggregation Site

6/29/2017

Moore's Law's End Reboots Industry

Amateur Radio Poised to Retain Full 76-81 GHz Band, Sharing with Vehicular Radars

$6,000 of Electronics in Car by 2022

Cellphone IC Sales Will Top Total Personal Computing in 2017

Purple-Emitting LEDs Get Closer to the Sun

6/28/2017

EU Slaps Google with $2.7B Fine for Search Manipulation

China Will Spend $411B on 5G from 2020 to 2030

5G to Lift Crown Castle, American Tower, Many Others

Indian Technology Workers Worry About a Job Threat: Technology

Optical Phased Array Replaces Camera Lens

6/27/2017

Electric Vehicles Inefficient Way to Reduce CO2 Emissions (blasphemy to AGW faithful)

Cellphone IC Sales to Top Total Personal Computing in 2017

Search for the Next Super Material

Raytheon Secures $$Billion Homeland Security Cyber Contract

Lockheed Martin Wins USAF Contract for Future Radar Threat System

20 Great Brainteasers for Engineers (most not so hard)

6/26/2017

Sea-Based X-Band Radar Program Revived with New Contract

FCC's Ajit Pai at Tech Week: How the U.S. Can Win the Digital Future

Cray Moves to Lasso 'Big Data Deluge' (they're still around?)

Ulrich Rohde, N1UL, Wins Prestigious W.G. Cady Award

7 Great NASA Technologies You Don't Know About

6/23/2017

Foxconn, Sharp Considering Manufacturing in U.S.

LED Manufacturer to Pay $90k Fine for AM/FM Radio Interference

FCC Chairman to Appoint New Enforcement Bureau Chief

U.S. (now 4th) Slips in New TOP500 Supercomputer Ranking

Instantly Rechargeable Battery Drives New Electric Car Possibilities

1.4M Illegals Working Under Stolen Social Security Numbers

6/22/2017

25 Global Electronics Distributors Win Revenue Wresting Match

W1AW Announces Field Day Bulletin Schedule

GE's Pension Shortfall Time Bomb: $31B and Rising

China Has 7 out of Top 10 Smartphone Vendors

U.S. Military Data Found Unprotected on Amazon Web Server

6/21/2017

USAF Launches New Space War Effort

5G World Speakers Ask: What's the Point of 5G?

China Launches Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio Transponders

INSPIRE-2 CubeSat Rescued by Amateur Radio

SEMI Billings up 42%

6/20/2017

Cellphone, Internet Outages Reported Across the U.S.

Hamvention Reports 2nd-Largest Attendance Ever for 2017 Show

IMS 2017: 10 Things Not 5G (evissaP is one of them)

Analog Devices Shuffles Executives to Accommodate Linear Technology

The Rise and Fall of Job Numbers at Telcos

6/19/2017

FCC Updates Personal Radio Service Rules

Will 'Limited Innovation' Among 5G Vendors Slow Deployment?

Cellphone Roaming Charges End in Europe

China May Become No. 2 Fab Spender by 2018

Verizon Has Finally Bought Yahoo for $4.5B (good luck with that)

6/16/2017

EC Mobile Operators Brace for End of Roaming Charges

Canada's Trudeau Under Pressure to Reject China Bid for Satellite Firm

Antenna Modernization Empowers Mobile Broadband Evolution

Fibre-Linked Atomic Clocks Put Special Relativity to the Test

Supply Chain Needs Paradigm Shift in How to Look at Defect Control

6/15/2017

Indian Electronics Market Expected to Reach $400B

Centenarian ARRL Member Claiming Oldest Active Radio Amateur Crown

UK Tech Business Fears for Future Political Stability

Big Job Cuts Coming after $4.5B Verizon-Yahoo Deal Closes

Apple Mac Computers Targeted by Ransomware and Spyware

6/14/2017

Without Government Subsidies, Tesla Sales Implode

Support ARRL as You Shop for Father's Day

Technology Shares Lead Global Declines

Analog Devices Lays Foundation for 4G to 5G Migration with Expanded RadioVerse™

EC Opposes Qualcomm-NXP Deal

Ham Receives International Astronomical League's Gold Certification in Radio Astronomy

6/13/2017

U.S. Ranked 28th in Mobile Web Speeds in Q1

W1AW Building to bBe Closed Briefly

Japan Arrests 14-Year-Old for Creating Ransomware Similar to WannaCry

Breaking Newton's Law

Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America's Schools

6/12/2017

Expectations Rise as Chip Sales Keep Climbing

Tech Stocks Tumble, Taking Down Nasdaq as Big Names Sink

Record Fab Spending for 2017 and 2018

5 nm Only a Few Years Away, Say IBM Research Scientists

Did Trump Create the Bump in Reshoring?

6/9/2017

'Facelook' - Facebook Wants to Spy on People via Their Smartphone Camera

Samsung's 'Peeping Tom' Phones Can Listen, Watch Your Web Activity & E-Mails

ZTE and Telenet partner on IoT and 5G

AT&T Still in Talks with Wireless Workers

U.S.-China Space Freeze May Thaw with New Commercial Pathway

6/8/2017

Chip Industry's 'Billion Dollar Capex Club' Expands

LTE Subscriptions to Account for 50% of All Global Mobile Subscriptions by 2024

Volatility in Electronic Equipment Supply Chain

Ariane 5 Launches Its 1st All-Electric Satellite

ITER Fusion Magnet Built in Europe

6/7/2017

DoJ Sued for Records on 2015 FBI Training of Best Buy Geek Squad Spies

Buildout of Nationwide First Responder Broadband Network Could Drive ARES Changes

Google's Chrome Browser to Soon Start Blocking Bad Ads (inc'l autoplay video w/sound - yay!)

Quantum Entanglement at 2 Meters

Colour E-Paper Runs Video at 50 Hz

6/6/2017

Ham Radio Aviator Set to Depart on Round-the-World Flight

Process Improves Production of Biodiesel from Coffee Waste (the miracle substance)

Google Unveils Plans for £1B London HQ

Qualcomm to Pay BlackBerry $940M to Settle Royalties Fight

Walmart Tests Delivery by Store Employees

6/5/2017

Jordan's 1st CubeSat Set for Early 2018 Launch

Mexico's Carlos Slim Mulling Telesites Stake Sale

Exceptional Talent Visa Scheme Gains Traction

FCC Says Cochise Must Donate 10 Stations

Researcher to Develop Unique Radar to Study Glaciers

Budget Proposal Puts NASA Satellite Servicing Mission in Doubt

6/2/2017

QB-50 Constellation Satellites Deployed from ISS

EMP Attack on Hawaii Would Devastate the State (look up who gave NK, Iran nuke tech)

Budget Proposal Puts NASA Satellite Servicing Mission in Doubt

Smartphone Sales Grew 9% in Q1

Tesla Fires Female Engineer Who Alleged Sexual Harassment

6/1/2017

Operators Plead with Europe to Deregulate

Asia Communication Awards 2017

Raytheon's GaN-Based AESA Upgrade to Patriot Radar Surpasses 1,000 Hours

Russia Launches Military Satellite for Missile Warnings

Man Ticketed for Hitting 88 mph in His DeLorean (I love "Back to the Future")