4/30/2015
Apple Watch Failing on Tattooed Wrists
Cyclotron
Radiation from Single Electrons Measured Directly for 1st Time
Chemists Strike
Nano-Gold: 4 New Atomic Structures for Gold Nanoparticle Clusters
Faulty Taptic Engine Slows Apple Watch Rollout
Nokia Denies Plans to Sell
Mobile Phones Again (official denial = already plans in the works)
Apple Warns of ‘Material’ Financial Damage from Irish Tax Probe
Starwood Guests Unlock Hotel Rooms with Apple Watch App
Armed Forces Day 2015 Crossband Communications Test to Offer New Modes
Disney Replaces American IT Staff with H-1B
Workers (continuing dilution of American heritage everywhere)
Hackers’ New Weapons: Routers and Printers
DARPA
Eyes Affordable New Smart Weapons Seeker
Tracking Exploding Lithium-Ion Batteries in Real-Time
4/29/2015
Global Study Finds 58% of Generation
Mobile Suffering from Mobile Guilt
5G Makes Waves for Asia
Giants (6G
on the horizon)
Radio Still Dominates
Car and Music Discovery
FCC Proposes to Permit Amateur Access to 2200 and 630 Meters (now that's long
wave!)
Radar Modules Aimed at Smart-Home Sensing
From Metal
to Insulator and Back Again
2-D Semiconductor
Comes Clean
Tesla's New Battery Will Supply Energy for Your Home
HKT and Huawei Demonstrate
450 Mbps Download Speeds over LTE-A
New Magnetic Phase
Confirms Predictions Related to Unconventional Superconductivity
Nichia's
White LED Patents Ruled Invalid in Germany and USA Following Lawsuits
Graphene-Based Technique Creates Smallest Gaps in Nanostructures
4/28/2015
Parents Sound off on Mobile
Device Use by Children
Wireless Charging Gets Universal
Antenna
Tesla and Elon Musk Twitter Accounts and Website Hijacked, Free Teslas Offered
Amateur Radio Volunteers in Nepal, India Continue to Aid Earthquake Response
Texas A&M Study Finds We Think Better on Our Feet, Literally (as
evidenced by all the witty cashiers in KMart)
Google to Hold Patent Purchase Program Next Month
Lenovo, Acer Smartphones Pack Huge Batteries
Hawaii's 30 Meter Telescope Website Taken down in Apparent Cyberattack
Downside of Police Body Cameras: Your Arrest Hits YouTube
Technology
and Persuasion
European Space Agency to Send Ultracapacitors into Orbit
Rich
Get Richer in UK Index of Wealthiest People
4/27/2016
What Does the Norwegian
FM Shutdown Mean For the U.S.? (I can't pick them up from here, anyway)
Rapid Single-Electron Sensor Has Promise for Quantum Devices
Amateur Radio Payload Could Share Space on Geostationary Satellite
The 10 Greatest Inventors of the Mid-20th Century
Peregrine Semiconductor Introduces Glitch-less RF Digital Step Attenuators
Generating
Broadband THz Radiation from Microplasma in Air
NASA 3-D Prints 1st Full-Scale Copper Rocket Engine Part
4/26/2015
Rail Signaling Upgrade 'Could Be Hacked
to Cause Crashes'
Babies As Young As 6 Months Using
Mobile Media
Undersea
GPS Could Guide Submerged Drones in the Deep
House Committee Asks FCC for Documents Related to Proposed Enforcement Bureau Closures
(how can Gov't be short on $$$ with all the taxes it collects?)
Tear
Down: The Propagating Plane Wave
4/24/2015
Metamaterials Shine
Bright as New Terahertz Source
Chinese Mobile App Used for Hiring Thugs to Beat up People
Huge Reduction of Heat Conduction Observed in Flat Silicon Channels
Pentagon’s New Cyber Strategy Cites U.S. Ability to Retaliate
Indium GaAs
on Insulator Transistors with Buried Yttrium Oxide
Iron Fluoride to Triple Energy
Storage?
Pseudoparticle Discovery Spotlights Energy Conversion Processes for Photovoltaics
Google Sets up Own Mobile
Network
Lab
Making Star Trek's Transparent Armor a Reality
Raytheon to Provide Submarine SATCOM Antennas
Radio Royalty Bill
Reintroduced
Scientists Create the Sensation of Invisibility (I do that every time I walk
into a room)
4/23/2015
Steerable Beam Antenna Brings Movement
Data to Retailers
Why Do Measurements
of Gravitational Constant Vary So Much?
Google's New Search Algorithm Stokes Fears of 'Mobilegeddon'
Connecting 3 Atomic
Layers Puts Semiconducting Science on Its Edge
Amateur Radio Special Events to Mark International Marconi Day, April 25
Google Introduces Wireless Service Called Project Fi
What Do Advertisers
Really Think About Radio?
New Tabletop Detector 'Sees' Single Electrons
Honeywell Gives ESA New Satellite Technology
Newest
GPS Satellite Goes into Service
Electronic Paper Could
Make Inexpensive Electronic Displays
1,500 iOS Apps Vulnerable to an HTTPS-Crippling Bug
Census: Record 51M Immigrants in 8 Years to Account for 82% of U.S. Growth (we're
sunk, finito, caput, terminado)
4/22/2015
Enraged Man Shoots His Malfunctioning
Computer
Giant Magnetic Effects
Induced in Hybrid Materials
Police Use Lost Phone to Post Selfies on Woman's Facebook Account
NFC Inventors Nominated for Patent Office Award
Smartphone Shipments Set to
Hit 2B in 2019
New Source of Hydrogen for Fuel-Cell Vehicles
WSTS Marks America up for 2015
Boom
Army Awards $36M Deal for Tactical Communications Support
Japan Maglev Train Breaks World Speed
Record - Again
Proto-Quantum Computer Addresses Boson Sampling
De-Embed Transmission Lines with FIR Filters
Trader Charged with Manipulation That Contributed to 2010 ‘Flash Crash’
4/21/20145
Norway to
Become 1st Country to Switch off FM Radio in 2017 (all state-controlled DAB)
Woman Sues Google When In-App Purchases Drain Her Bank Account
Engineer-Backed Competition Envisions Woman on TV as 'The Next MacGyver'
Mattel Hopes You'll Design
3D-Printed Toys
The EV Taxpayer Shakedown: Time to Reconsider?
Medical Devices: Where Wireless Charging Has Real Impact
Amateur Radio Heads into WRC-15 “With Every Possibility of Success”
Resistive RAM
Memory Finally Here
Sprint Expected to Help Provide Free Wi-Fi for Smart City Project in Kansas City
Electronics
Adhesive Epoxy That Resists Extremes in Temperature
Missile-Maker Raytheon Buys Websense for $1.9B
Nigeria Privatises State-Owned
Telco - Again
4/20/2015
Win $10k Value in Silicon Labs and Digi-Key Challenge Developer Innovation with “Your IoT” Design Competition
Mountain of Electrical
Waste Reaches New Peak (all Church of Green faithful should stop buying electronics
stuff)
Why Astronomers Hate the Lawn-Mowing Roomba
Clearing Space Debris
with a Laser
100' Asteroid Could Hit Earth in October 2017
Riding in Driverless Cars Could Be Sickening (so is riding with many human drivers)
OneWeb Aims at Global Internet Access by 2019
4/19/2015
Australian Ham’s “PicoSpace” Balloon Circumnavigates Globe
FCC Proposes to Make Past Amateur Radio Address Information Private
Moore's Law: Beyond the1st Law of Computing
China Overtakes U.S. to Become
World's Largest LTE SIM Market (yay, more hope & change!)
Dynamic Software Aims at Eliminating Updates by Responding to Environment
4/17/2015
Majority of Telecoms Firms
Set to Create New Roles in 2015
Japan Bumps China as Top Holder of U.S. Treasury Debt
Nootropic Brain Drugs Rise in Popularity
for Today’s Cutthroat Corporate Climbers
An Unexpected Source of Mobile Security: Ada (haven't seen Ada in news since Y2K
scare)
Teen Charged For Using Teacher's Admin Password to Access School Computer
Moore’s Law Hits Middle Age
Indian Companies Withdraw from Facebook's
Internet.org
Vodafone Recovering from Network
Outage
Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes Allow Gandgap Tuning
FCC to Pirates: We're
Still Hunting You
EU accuses Google of Abusing Search Dominance, Opens Android Investigation
TSMC Cuts Capex by $1B
Local Broadcasters Could Reap Billions in Airwaves Auction
Defense
Electronics Industry Concerned over Cyber Security
4/16/2015
IEEE 2015 International Microwave Symposium (MTT-S) to Include Amateur Radio Presence
Nokia Buys Alcatel-Lucent for
$16.5B
2015 Salaries for 10 Engineering Disciplines
Patents
Forecast Technological Change (duh)
Space-X Rocket Tips over after ISS Delivery
Printed Circuits Can Stretch the Wearable Boundaries
Musk Wants Mars, Branson & Allen Seek Earth Orbit
IBM vs. Intel in Supercomputer
Bout
Frustrated That FCC
Cannot Fix AM Radio Quicker
Case Against Google May Be Undercut by Rapid Changes in Technology
½ of UK Population Now
Uses Tablets
ISS
Getting Italian Espresso Maker
4/15/2015
Sprint Fined $15.5M for Billing
Government for Spy Upgrades
Engineers Work to Prevent E-Vehicle Charging from Overloading Grids
Local Radio and TV
More Relevant Than Ever
Solution-Grown
Nanowires Make the Best Lasers
Podcast 'Patent Troll' Faces Blow After
U.S. Ruling
Global Semi Sales Increase in February vs. 2014
It's Time to Investigate the H-1B Mess
DARPA Programs Simultaneously Test Limits of Technology, Credulity
Switching Power Supplies a More Common Noise Source Than Power Lines, ARRL Lab
Microscopy Combo Sheds
New Light on Trace Elements
Qualcomm Reportedly Urged to Reorganize
Frenemies U.S. and China
Join Forces to Fight Cybercrime (a bit hypocritical on both sides?)
4/14/2015
“Thinking Day” Activity Gets Girl Scouts Thinking About Ham Radio
Towards Taster-Than-Light Transmission by Slowing Down Light
China to
Comprise ½ of All LED Epi & Chip Equipment Spending in 2015-2016
EU Court Challenge to UK Surveillance
Russian Telco Investors Move to London
with $16B to Spend
Guardians of the Galaxy: Russia Creates International Space Patrol
Insulator-to-Metal
Transition of Vanadium Dioxide
New Material Set to Change
Cooling Industry
EEuropeans Back Banks for Mobile Payments
Significant Step for Artificial Intelligence
Maine
Police Pay Ransom to Hackers to Get Files Back
Government 'Rewrites' Law to Get Overseas Microsoft Emails
4/13/2015
Intel Blocked from Selling Supercomputer
Chips to China
No More Exploding Phone Batteries
Promise Researchers (you're safe now - trust us)
Attacks
Reveal China's 'Great Cannon' Cyber Weapon
Chinese-Backed Cyber-Attacks Found in S.E. Asia, India
EE Times
Quiz: Near-Field Communications
Electrical Control of Qbits in Silicon Paves Way to Large Quantum Computers
Radio's Battle with
Congress Starts Monday
ISPs Ordered to Hand over Names, Addresses of Illegal File Sharers
4/12/2015
Judge Allows N.Y. Woman to Serve Divorce Notice Using Facebook
World Amateur Radio
Day is April 18!
New Kind of Smart-Glass
Changes Color and Produces Electricity
DARPA
Seeks to Create Software Immune to Changes in OSs and Web Browsers
RTOS Evolves to Ease Wireless
IoT Device Design
4/10/2015
'Symmetry
Breaking' Could Enable 'Antennas on a Chip' (no mention of frequency)
Kickstarter Transparency
Report Shows Crowdfunding's Copyright Woes
Army
to Create a Marketplace for Manpack Radios
Consumers to Automakers:
We Love AM/FM Radio. Leave It!
Nokia Demos 10 Gbits on High
Frequency
WWV’s 25 MHz Signal Still Going Strong After 1 Year Back on the Air
Physicists
Show 'Quantum Freezing Phenomenon' Is Universal
DARPA Asks Teens to Determine Future Societal Impact of Robots
Quantum Teleportation on a Chip
Siemens’ Electric Airplane Motor
UK Research Project for Secure Data Transactions
Researchers Pluck Hair to Grow
Hair (not relevant, but quite interesting)
4/9/2015
'Unparticles'
May Provide a New Path to Superconductivity
Patent
Case Could Shift Power Balance in Tech Industry
'Stingray' System Used by Law Enforcement to Track Cellphone Users
New .[dot]Sucks Internet Domain: Extortion Or Free Speech?
Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
Future Electronics Based on Carbon
Nanotubes
AT&T Data Breaches Revealed: 280K US Customers
Exposed
Indium
Tin Oxide Cladding for Semi-Polar InGaN Laser Diodes
Tunneling
Across a Tiny Gap
Small Cells for Big Customers in Mexico
Can Radio Grow Its
Revenue?
Wireless LAN Gear Nears $5 Billion
in 2014; 802.11ac Access Points Take Off
4/8/2015
Metamaterial Radar Coming to Car and Drone Vision
Smart Meters Used to Bust Water Abusers
Overheating Datacenter Knocks
out Three Ireland Network
Court Might Force U.S. to Reveal Details of Secret WiFi Kill Switch
Open Systems Architectures for RF and Microwave Systems
Chinese Tower Assets Company
Could Start with Nearly Million Towers
5 Don’ts & Do’s When Working with a Contract Manufacturer
ARRL to FCC: Amateurs and Vehicular Radars Can Play Nicely Together on 77-81 GHz
VoLTE Needed to Support Voice Roaming with CDMA Carriers at 700 MHz
IC Insights Halves Sensor
Growth Forecast
Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Set to Lift off Later This Year
Samsung Attacks Galaxy S6 Edge Bend-and-Break
Tests
4/7/2015
USAF Begins Construction of Space Fence Tracking System
Australians Breaking Their Wallets to Stay on Top of Technology
Astronics
Test Systems to Build Radio Signal-Routing Systems for Submarine Fleet
Stanford's
Aluminum Battery Fully Charges in Just 1 Minute
Far from Silicon Valley, A Disruptive Startup Hub
$16 Billion Investment Fund Set
up for Telecoms Investments
Small Cells Are Finally Taking Off
Robots Assemble in Silicon Valley
Planes Without Pilots
Slow-Scan TV Transmissions from ISS Scheduled for April 11
Google Gmail Users Hit by Software Glitch
Gates, Allen and Nadella Commemorate 40 Years of Microsoft
4/6/2015
Cambridge ET Firm Targets Gigabit Wi-Fi
Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech’s Least Friended Man
Power Grids - How Many EVs Can Be Charged Simultaneously?
TEN-TEC and
Alpha Purchased from RF Concepts
CCD Image Sensors are Dead
HTC One M9 Flagship Smartphone Makes For Very Expensive Portable Radio
'Proof' That the Laplace Transform is Nothing
4/5/2015
The Pentagon’s $10-Billion Bet Gone
Bad
ARRL Teachers Institutes Want to Equip Teachers to Meet the STEM Challenge
Tech Titans’ Latest Project: Defy Death
Breakthrough
in Thermoelectric Materials
Except
for Rich, Americans' Incomes Fell Last Year (Bush's fault, right?)
4/3/2015
Standard General Affiliate Acquires 1743 RadioShack Stores (see
Standard General LP info)
Sprint to Take over 1/3 of the Space in 1,400 RadioShack Stores
DOD Projects Didn’t Go Unscathed on April Fools' Day
GPS Tracking Counts as a "Search", Says U.S. Supreme Court
Android Apps to Run on Windows, Macs
and Linux
'Smartphone-Dependents' Often Have No Backup Plan for Web Access
Hybrid Supercapacitor Trumps
Thin-Film Lithium Battery
Royal Academy of Engineering Backs University Projects with Entrepreneurial Training
Will H-1B Visas Kill Jobs or Ensure Survival of the Fittest?
Antitrust and Other Inquiries in Europe Target U.S. Tech Giants
Top 50 Contract Manufacturers Ranked
Google May Soon Face Formal Antitrust Charges in EU
4/2/2015
The 10 Greatest Hoaxes in the History of Engineering (#6 is a hoot!)
Facebook Accused of Tracking All Users - Even Deleted & No Follows
AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
Small Cells Take over the Mobile World
LTE Pushes Mobile Infrastructure
Market to $47B in 2014; Big Drop Coming
NAB Criticizes FCC
Field Office Closures
FTC Sets Watch on the Internet of Things
2 More Radio Amateurs Join International Space Station Crew
Graphene's First Commercial
Success: Energy-Saving Light Bulbs?
How an Airborne 'System of Systems' Attack Would Work
European Project Develops 3D LEDs in GaN
Americans Work Through
April 24 Just to Pay Taxes (CT worst state - May 13th)
4/1/2015
Man Escapes from Jail After Sending Fake Bail Email
Metals Used in High-Tech
Products Face Future Supply Risks
Qorvo
Boosts Optical BW w/90 nm GaAs pHEMT Process for Next-Gen High-Frequency Amplifiers
Chinese Scientists Mull Power Station in Space
Quantum Computers Could
Greatly Accelerate Machine Learning
Online Measurement
Takes Another Big Step Forward
Imec Demonstrates 50 GHz Ge Waveguide Electro-Absorption Modulator
New Technology with
Potential for Sub-Micron Optical Switches
Stress-Testing LTE Diameter Signaling
Probing the Whole Internet for Weak Spots
Mira Supercomputer
Used to Peer Inside High-Temperature Superconductors
