Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - August 2020 |
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U.S. Space Force Tests New Anti-Jamming Capability • Carbon-Nanotube "Forest" Yields Flexible Supercapacitors • Verizon Fights for Timely C-Band Transition • No Limit Yet for Carbon Nanotube Fibers 8/27/2020 • Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Projected to Grow Dramatically • Small Cell 5G Network Market >$2.4 Billion by 2025 • Rethinking Electronic Product Design • U.S. Clamps down on Huawei's Efforts to Circumvent Export Rules • No Roaming Charges Between Central African Countries in 2021 8/26/2020 • Hurricane Watch Net Firms up Wednesday Activation Plans • NB-IoT Chipset Market to Be Worth $2.5B by 2025 • Next Steps for 5G Survey Report • UK Ultra Broadband Delivers 178 Tbps 8/25/2020 • 5G Mast Vandals Sprayed by SmartWater's Forensic Frap • New Contest for Portable Stations to Debut in October • Backup GPS Needed to Protect the U.S. and Spur Innovation • What Public Safety Users Are Saying About Mobile Device Use • Calculating Properties of Quantum Materials 8/24/2020 • Electronics Supply Chains Splitting Between China and U.S. • Connected Devices Will Generate 79 Zettabytes of Data by 2025 • 5G Rollout Includes Challenges to Supply Chain • Lockheed Martin & USC Build Smart CubeSats • Shorter Call Signs Popular with Australian Foundation Licensees 8/21/2020 • Private Networks Get Boost from FCC Ruling on 900 MHz Band • Amazon Alexa Bug Exposed Voice Data (again) • October 23 is NASA's Target Date for 1st Operational Crew Dragon Launch • Cayman Islands Considers New Subsea Cable • Zuckerberg Is Least Trusted Big Tech CEO 8/20/2020 • Courts Side with FCC in Red Tape Cutting Plan • China Launches Beidou GPS Equivalent • IARU Announces HF Digital Mode Band Plan Review • Forgery-Proof Liquid Crystal Material Developed • White House Announces 100 MHz of Additional Mid-Band for 5G 8/19/2020 • Court Rules in Favor of FCC in Small Cell Case • Army Wants to Reduce Electronic Signatures of Command Posts • CommScope Claims Rosenberger Infringing on Base Station Antennas Patents • FCC Updates Smart Device Speed Test App 8/18/2020 • Arecibo Observatory Reflector Dish Damaged after Cable Snaps (ET sabotage to prevent detection) • Navy Completes 1st Flight Test of New EW Jamming Pod • 5G Deployments Boost China Towers H1 Financial Results • Global Trade Trends to Watch 8/17/2020 • DoD to Share 3450-3550 MHz with 5G Commercial Operations • PALs (Priority Access License) Auction: $3B and Counting • Wi-Fi 6 Becoming More Like 5G • NGMN Alliance Publishes Its 2nd 5G White Paper • UK Celebrates ½-Million Gbit Broadband Milestone 8/14/2020 • Top Supply Chain Tech Trends for 2020 • USAF Air Force Holds EW Exercise with Classified Stealth Drone • Wuhan Pandemic Widens Engineering Gender Gap Amongst Young People • Apple Finds Itself on Wrong Side of Russia's Competition Rules • Czech Spectrum Auction Leaves Space for New Players 8/13/2020 • Digital Bits Soon to Outnumber Atoms on Earth • U.S. Frees More Midband Spectrum as C-Band Auction Falls Short • FCC Commissioner O'Rielly's Renomination on Hold Due to Ligado • Nokia's New CEO Working on Setting Strategy in "Dream Job" • Qualcomm Seeks License to Sell 5G Chips to Huawei 8/12/2020 • CBRS Auction Surpasses $1B Threshold • Tax Holiday for China's 28nm Manufacturers • Tesla Sets 5-1 Stock Split as Stock Soars • Strategies to Prevent Component Shortages During a Crisis • IEEE: 5G Just Got Weird 8/11/2020 • The New Tech Cold War • FCC Approves C-Band Auction Procedures • NSA Warns Mobile Devices Can Expose User Locations to Adversaries • European Commission Probes Google's Fitbit Acquisition 8/10/2020 • Global E-Waste Increases 21% in Last 5 Years (even eco-warriors won't give up stuff) • Engineers More Harried, But Still Happy with Their Jobs • Driverless Guru Goes to Jail • China's Hunan to Reach 22,000 5G Base Stations by End-2020 • UK Broadband Gets a Boost in £900mn Government Project 8/7/2020 • Subsea Cable Linking Chile to Australia Snubs Chinese Connection • USAF Experimental Navigation Satellite Cleared for Fabrication • Amazon Gets FCC Approval for Project Kuiper Satellite Constellation • Semiconductor Rebound Around the Next Corner? • Micro/Mini-LED Revenue to Reach $4.2B in 2024 8/6/2020 • Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei Dominance Fading • T-Mobile Claims World's 1st for 5G Standalone Deployment • Wuhan Virus Blamed for 15.7% YoY Smartphone Shipments Decline • White House Partnership to Boost Quantum Science Education • Telstra 5G to Cover 75% of Aussie Population by June 2021 8/5/2020 • GaAs RF Front End Revenue Falls by 3.8% in 2020 • Korean Carriers to Share 5G Infra in Small Towns • Use This AI to Find Your Next Engineering Gig • Myth Debunked: Young People Do Listen to Radio • Beijing Installs 5,135 5G Base Stations in H1 8/4/2020 • Wi-Fi Alliance Mandates WPA3 for Device Certification • China Chips Lag Government Targets • AirFuel Alliance Invites Participation in Global RF Wireless Charging Standard • TVA CEO Highest Paid Federal Employee @$8M/yr - Replacing Americans w/H1B 8/3/2020 • 5G Smartphone Production to Exceed 200M Units in 2020 • BAE Systems Acquires Raytheon's Military GPS for $1.9B (another U.S. business gone) • FCC Shuts Down Boston Area Pirate Radio Stations • Huawei Leads in Smartphone Shipments for 1st Time • Big Tech into Advocacy Overdrive from Trump Immigration Order |
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