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12/31/2014
China Zombie Factories Kept Open for Illusion of Prosperity
World's 400 Richest Add $92B in 2014
Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching
Wireless Week's 2014 State of the Networks Report
Raytheon Lands $½B Missile Job
Hundreds of Portuguese Buses and Taxis Also Wi-Fi Routers
Bank of
England Using Facebook and Twitter to Set Interest Rates
World's Most
Complex Crystal Simulated
2015 Could Be Year of the Hospital Hack
2014 a Good Year for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
12/30/2014
Christmas Returns Hit New High
Brazil: On the Brink
Gmail Blocked in China
Proton Lifts off with TV Broadcasting Satellite
Large Hadron Collider Set to Begin 2nd Run
Can Astronomy
Explain the Biblical Star of Bethlehem?
RCR Wireless News Top 100 Stories of 2014 (pt. 3)
Taking the Grunt
Work out of Web Development
Cities Brighten by 20% During Christmas Season (all lighting year-round is way
overdone and energy-wasting)
12/29/2014
Smartphone Thumb Skills are
Altering Our Brains
Fight Against Obsolescence Extended in 2015
Just Say No to Digital Hoarding
CTIA Argues Wireless Broadband Exempt from Net Neutrality Rules
Spectrum Allocations: Oil
and Water
10 Deals That Shaped
Analog, MEMS & Sensors in 2014
Elon Musk Has 'Exciting' Christmas Gift for 1st Tesla Roadster Owners
12/28/2014
Technophobia May Keep Seniors
from Using Apps to Manage Diabetes
GaN: Dawn of a New Era?
China, India Drive
Cellular Growth
Tiny Tracking Bugs Lurk in E-Mails
Huawei Signs 5 Year
Agreement with Telenor Group
12/26/2014
Xbox Live, PlayStation Network Offline in Apparent Hack Attack
Could Glitter Help Solve NASA's Giant Telescope Problem? (this is amazing tech)
Instant-Start Computers Possible with New Breakthrough
A Prototype Battery Could Double the Range of Electric Cars
Graphene 'Cut and
Paste' with Microwaves
Global Semiconductor Market Set for Strongest Growth in 4 Years
'Shooting the Moon' with Satellite Laser Ranging
What You Need to Know About Subprime Lending for Smartphones
How Electrons
Split: New Evidence of Exotic Behaviors
Could Playing Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' and Other Music Improve Kids' Brains?
12/25/2014
Sainsbury's Christmas Advert Recreates WWI Truce (a must-see video)
Google and MS Fight Hotels' Attempts to Block Personal WiFi
Mobile Moments That Mattered Most to Developers in 2014?
Piezoelectricity in a 2-D Semiconductor
12/24/2015
10 Tech Gifts to Buy Your
Engineer for Christmas
ARRL: Christmas Caroling in Antarctica via HF Set for December 24
Mobile
Shoppers Prefer Sundays
Positives and Negatives for 2015 IC Industry
Mmm! Unraveling the Chemistry of Christmas Cookies
GPS III and OCX Demonstrate Key Satellite Command and Control Capabilities
Quantum Physics
Just Got Less Complicated
3D ASIP: "It's
Complicated"
Mysterious Phase of
Matter Competes with High-Temp Superconductivity
Diamonds Are a Power IC’s Best Friend
10 Deals That Changed the IC Industry in 2014
North Korea Struggles to Stay Online
12/23/2014
Cyber Hack Attack Causes 'Massive
Damage' at Steel Works (don't worry, though, your 'Cloud' data is safe)
'Illusion Coatings' Are Like Futuristic Camouflage
Electron Spin Could Be Key to High-Temp Superconductivity
WiFi to Switch on IoT
Appliances
Breakthrough in
Optical Fiber Communications
Danish City Installs Bluetooth and WiFi Sensors to Track Shopper Behaviour (Storebror
= Big Brother in Danish, FYI)
7 Breakthrough Technologies from 2014
Attack Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses
Imec RF IC Runs 20 Years on AAA Battery (the battery likely won't last that
long)
Semi Industry Has Best Year Since 2010
Universality of
Charge Order in Cuprate Superconductors
Reshoring Is Happening, But So Is Outsourcing
12/22/2014
Holiday
Movies to Geek out About
These
Jeans Will Keep Hackers out of Your Pants
The Machine That Can Crack Almost Any Phone
SEMI Book-to-Bill Goes Positive
Aircraft
Laser Weapon Defenses
New Chip Points the Way Beyond Silicon (Ge redux)
1st Store Staffed Entirely by Telepresence Robots Opens in CA
McDonald's Introduces Bluetooth Beacon Offers
Intel Betting on Commodity Chips for Cloud Computing
12/21/2014
Winter Solstice Occurs Today at 23:03 UTC (6:03 pm EST)
Uber Launches Tesla Model S Service in Los Angeles
Army Installs First Sense-and-Avoid Radar for Drones
NASA E-mails Wrench to Space
Station
Limiting Internet Congestion a
Key Factor in Net Neutrality Debate
12/19/2014
Global Military Radar Market to Grow 2.9% YoY to $8.44B in 2019
Updating Activity Within Europe’s Ecodesign Directive
Army Set to Launch Aerostat for East Coast Missile Defense
New
Element 3 (General Class) Question Pool Released
Electronic Memories of Radio Shack (methinks Mr. Spiegel and I think alike)
By 2018 > 50% of Users Will Use
Tablet or Smartphone First for All Online Activities
Apple 'Failing to Protect Chinese
Factory Workers'
Mobile Broadband Facing Spectrum Crunch
Industrial IoT Framework
Near
Which Companies Making Biggest Waves in IoT?
Google Aiming to Go Straight into Car with Next Android
Microsoft Deluged with Support in Its E-mail Privacy Battle Against U.S. Government
(MS's never known such love before)
Teenager Pleads Guilty to Massive Spamhaus DDoS Attack
12/18/2014
Blackberry Classic Goes 'Back to
Company's Roots'
Investment in Equipment Grows As U.S. Manufacturing Booms
Modern Alchemy:
Turning Hydrogen into 'Graphene?'
Barclaycard Tests Contactless Payment Gloves (I hereby claim the Michael Jackson
NFC glove design)
ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, Conducts 1st ARISS School Contact
'Bullet-Looking Missile Thing' Turns Heads Along Highway South of Boulder
Vote for the 'Engineer of the
Year'
The Myth Called "Ground"
Successful Tech Requires Old-Fashioned Skill: Organizing People
LTE
TDD - What Comes Next?
American Airlines to Add
Inflight Internet Access to Nearly 250 Regional Jets
Tunable Photon-Pair
Spectrum Using RT Quantum Optics Silicon Chip
12/17/2014
Future
Batteries: Lithium-Sulfur with Graphene Wrapper
U.S. Preps to Increase Number of High Tech Work Visas in 2015 Due to Claimed Shortage
(oh, how I despise these elected cretins)
Your All-Electric Car May Not Be So Green
Reshoring Will Continue as U.S. Manufacturing Booms in 2015 (let us hope so)
Fraud-Proof
Credit Cards Possible with Quantum Physics (ha - quantum hackers will eventually
crack them)
Researchers Superconduct at 140°
Tablet Ownership Growing Faster
Than Any Other Connected Device
'Fibonacci
Quasiparticle' Could Form Basis of Future Quantum Computers
GaN Power Transistors on Standard PCB
Want to Keep Your Sensitive Data away from NSA? Use Google
Apple Found Not Guilty in iPod Antitrust Lawsuit
Tech Rivals Join Microsoft in Fight over
U.S. Data Demand
Robots Grow Smarter As American Workers Struggle to Keep Up (30M illiterate Illegals
will solve the problem)
12/16/2014
Claim: AM/FM Makes
More Money Before Lunch Than Pandora Has Ever Made
'Waze' Smartphone App Causes Traffic Jam in CA Neighborhoods
Navy Could Get Next-Gen Global Comms System a Bit Sooner
10 STEM Christmas Gifts for Kids
10 Tech Gadgets to Stuff in Your
Own Stocking This Christmas
Lead Islands in Sea of Graphene Magnetize the Material of Future
"Amateur Radio Parity Act" Campaign Will Resume in New Congress
How Electrons
Split: New Evidence of Exotic Behaviors
Nanoshaping Method
Points to Future Manufacturing Technology
Lawyers Say Sony Can't Keep Media from Reporting Hacked Details (ha, Hollweird
types can't stand the scrutiny they give everyone else)
1:5 Americans to Purchase a Wearable
Device in 2015
Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
12/15/2014
India to Sell 3G Spectrum in
February
FCC Seeks Input on 600 MHz Incentive Auction Procedures
Assessing
Scientific Research by 'Citation Wake' Detects Nobel Laureates' Papers
Murata Completes Acquisition of Peregrine Semiconductor
WTO Fails on High-Tech Tariff Deal
Terahertz
Radiation from Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
What Radio Managers
Can Learn from TV
Earth's Most Abundant
Mineral Finally Has a Name
12/14/2014
RadioShack Cost Cutting Likely
Not Enough to Prevent Debt Restructuring (aka bankruptcy)
Boy Scouts Recognize ARRL Amateur Radio Service to Scouting Award
Google Moves Engineers out of Russia
(communism only good when you're part of ruling class)
Airbus Shares Plummet on News of Superjumbo Cancellation
GOP Flicks the Bird to Mid-term Voters (Merry Christmas to Illegals)
12/12/2014
Canada Police 'Can Search Phones'
After Arrest
How to Find a Killer Patent Attorney
Tech Firms Claim $45.4B Investment Loss Tied to Title II
Scientists Measure Speedy Electrons in Silicon
NI President Given IEEE Fellow Award
Women in Tech: Change the
Conversation
O, Holy Nerd: Kickstarting the Christmas Decorating
Terahertz
Radiation from Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
Stacking 2-D Materials May Lower Cost of Semiconductor Devices
Google News to Shut Down in Spain (doesn't want to pay for news)
270,000 Tons of Plastic Floating in World's Oceans
Circuit Paradoxes – Or Are They?
12/11/2014
Laser Weapon
Kills Boats and UAVs in Gulf Tests
Smartphone Growth Forecast to Slow
As Prices Drop and Markets Mature
Online Deals for Holiday Shopping: Buyer Beware
New 'High-Entropy' Alloy Light as Aluminum, Strong as Titanium Alloys
Boy Scouts 2014 Jamboree on the Air Report Shows Drop in Participation
Communication App Works Without a Cellular Network
Basics of the IEEE Standardization Process
Facebook Launches Keyword Searching on Past Posts
MIT Unveils NFC Sensors That Detect Hazardous Chemicals
Physicists
Explain Puzzling Particle Collisions
DARPA Offers Free Watson-Like
Artificial Intelligence
Inside Verizon's Device Lab - How Devices Get Tested
Graphene and Semiconductor Research atNew Manchester Institute
12/10/2014
Lamborghini's 88 Tauri:
A $6,000 Phone for People with Money to Burn (I accept donations)
Top 10 Tech Gifts for Christmas
U.S. Consumers Warm to Wearable Tech, Europeans Cooler
Mobile Growth Surpasses Desktop
on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
AMSAT
Board Approves Technology Development Seed Funding
Ransomware: When Hackers Lock Your Files: To Pay Or Not to Pay?
Funding Cuts Delay Navy's Next Generation Jammer (need money for Illegals)
Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet
Internet Freedom Weakens Around the World
Telcos Can Leverage Customer
Relationships to Make Money from IoT
iPhone 6 Plus Captures 41% of U.S.
Phablet Sales
Orion's Test Flight Triumph Fuels Mars Hopes
12/9/2014
Navy's Nano-Satellites Could Boost Tactical Communications
Crackdown on Counterfeits as Grey Market Threat Spreads
Ofcom: UK Broadband Services Still Patchy
Antenna Designer WA3FET Says Ham Radio Led to His Electrical Engineering Career
Standardized Tests vs. Creativity
Freescale Charges 15W Wirelessly
(that's a lot of wireless watts)
Einstein
to Curie: Ignore the Haters
U.S. House Approves $584.2B Defense Bill for 2015
Do You Feel IoT Device Fatigue Yet?
Discarded Laptop Batteries Keep the Lights On (nice, but sad)
Stephen
Hawking Gets a Voice Upgrade
Ex-Apple Executive Jailed and Fined for
Selling Secrets
Video Game Pioneer Ralph Baer
Dies Aged 92
12/8/2014
Sci-Fi Writers Schooled in Science
India the Fastest Growing Smartphone
Market in Asia/Pacific in Q3 2014
Researchers
Demo Cyber Defenses for Drones
Research Shows Left-Handed People Make Less Money (hmmm... I'm a southpaw, so I
should receive disability checks)
Marines
to Switch G/ATOR Radar Software to Linux
MIT Spinoff Funded $143M
to Create Sentient Computers
Saudi-Born Navy Engineer Tried to Steal Blueprint for New Carrier Class (the country
that gave us the 9/11 terrorists)
12/7/2014
NASA Announces CubeQuest
Challenge
Raspberry Pi Rival Unveiled by Chipmaker
Imagination
Superconductivity Without
Cooling
Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in October
Hold on: Jobs Report Not So Great After All
(nearly always revised down)
12/5/2014
It's
Official: America's Economy Is Now #2 (no worries - 30M Illegals will soon put
us back into 1st place)
British Government Proposes a 'Google Tax'
Mobile Satellite Network Gives Army Swift Artillery Support
Researchers Develop World's 1st Solar Battery
Electron Pairs
on Demand
China Carriers Create Tower Company
Majority of Internet Users Believe
Affordable Access Should Be a Basic Human Right (as long as someone else pays for
it)
Apple 'Deleted' Rivals' Music from iPods
Graphene Centre Picks up Momentum
Electric Eels Deliver
Taser-Lke Shocks
Nanotubes May Restore Sight to Blind Retinas
Justice Department Plans New Cybercrime Team
12/4/2014
DOD Approves New Mobile Security Credentials
Japanese Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio Payloads Launched into Deep Space
FCD Grad Part of Robot Project with $20M Prize (local story)
Bluetooth
4.2 Spec Unvieled
No More Word Puzzles: Google Can Tell You're Human with One Click
Make High-Guality Double-Sided PCBs – At Home
Smartphones to Commoditize Like
PCs
64M LTE Cat 9-10 Smartphones to
Ship in 2019 w/Speeds to 450Mbps
Stretchable Inks for Wearable Electronics
'Stop Mega Comcast' Group Aims
to Kill the TW Merger
Stephen Hawking Warns AI Could End Mankind
(the
oblivions
amongst us will end it first)
Waking New Horizons Craft on Pluto's Doorstep
12/3/2014
Alpha Media Signs Deal
with Drone Company for News Coverage
Time Cloak Hides Messages
in Laser Light
Material Cools Buildings by Sending Heat into Space (interesting)
German Government May Say 'Nein' to After Work Emails
'Counterfeit' Domains Seized by Europol
1/3 of USA Adult Smartphone Users
Use Phones for Video Calling (probably 900 numbers)
Bad-Bulb
Finder Fixes Christmas Lights
Study Shows Way to Design
'Digital' Metamaterials
Space Engineer Designs Wireless Sticker Activated Padlock
Biologists Grow Living Circuits
Indian Tablet Market Reports Strongest
YTD Growth
Google "Translates" Pictures into Words Using Vector Space Mathematics (amazing)
12/2/2014
Largest Number
Factored on a Quantum Device Now 56,153
Moore's Law Competitor Wins $150k
Elevator Pitch Prize
Clues
to Ancient Greek Riddle Found in Antikythera Mechanism
20 Great Engineers of the Early 20th Century
Sound Loud Enough to Bend Light on Computer
Chip
QST Centennial Photo
Contest Begins
New Electrolyte for
Construction of Magnesium-Sulfur Batteries
Craigslist Back up and Running After DNS Hijack
High Value Contactless Payments Arrive in UK
Chip Market for Wireless
Sensor Networks on 23% CAGR
Star Witness in Apple Lawsuit Is Steve Jobs
Emergency Repairs for Cracked Phones
12/1/2014
Northrop
Grumman Aims Lasers at Enemy Missiles
90% of World Will Have Mobile Phone
by 2020
Market for Low-End Smartphones Is Looking Up
Smartphone Surveillance App Maker Fined $500,000
Why You Really Don't Want the Aisle Seat
Gyroscope Accuracy Beats
MEMS
There Is No More American Dream
Sony Makes Experimental E-Paper Wristwatch
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