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10/30/2015
10 of the Scariest True Stories in Engineering History
Europe to Scrap Roaming Charges
World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 Starts on November 2
China Ranks Last of 65 Nations in Internet Freedom
Google's Project Loon internet Balloons to Circle Earth
LiO 'Superbattery' Could Give E-Cars Same Range as Full Tank of Gas
Missile-Defense Aerostat Goes Rogue, Brought down with Shotgun
Wireless Charging IC Targets IoT
Google Slaps Symantec for Issuing Fake Web Security Certificates
Light-Based Quantum Computers Will Come at Great Cost
10/29/2015
Now You Can See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi
Train Rider Has His Contactless Card e-Pickpocketed
Apple Reports Biggest Annual Profit in Corporate History: $53.4B
Ultracold Atoms Put New Spin on Neutron Dipole Measurements
Time Warner to Beta-Test Internet-Only TV in NYC
Library of Congress Relaxes Copyright Restrictions on Access to Vehicle Software
Taking the Brakes off Cuprate Superconductors
U.S. Navy Looking to X-Band Ship Self-Defense Radar
Ford Invites Developers to App Contest
Drone Crash Causes Hollywood Electricity Blackout
10/28/2015
Google Software Engineer Lives in Truck Company's Parking Lot (not for long now that word's out)
Mysterious UFO Dubbed 'WTF' on Collision Course with Earth
Russky Ships & Subs Near Data Cables Too Close for U.S. Comfort
Chip Mergers, Impacts Still Ahead
WLCSP Integrates 3 Metal Layers
Electronic Inks Work with Existing In-Mold Technologies for Printed Circuits
Millennial Consumers Look for Digital First Businesses
Darkest Material Ever Made Using Microscopic Rods and Spheres
Physicists Experimentally Realize a Quantum Hilbert Hotel
Ericsson Applies 5G Concept for up to 50% Higher Speed on LTE Smartphones
10/27/2015
It's Not Just VW: Internet Full of Vehicle Software 'Jailbreaking'
Proposed FCC Rules May Smooth Path to 5G Wireless Tech (then on to 6G)
Northrop Grumman to Build Shipboard Laser Weapon
Manipulating Wrinkles Could Lead to Graphene Semiconductors
Self-Driving Cars May Have to Be Programmed to Kill You (it's a Vulcan thing )
Apple Faces $5M Suit over WiFi Assist Data-Hogging Claim
Semi Book-to-Bill Improving
Twisty Reactor Hints at Future of Practical Fusion Power
New Method Developed for Scaling up Quantum Devices
Turkish Telecommunications Satellite Lifts off from Kazakhstan
10/26/2015
Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car or Smartphone
Lawmakers Push Bill Aimed at Soaring College Textbook Costs (jealous that books most of them write are worthless)
Cobalt Atoms on Graphene a Powerful Combo
U.S. Navy on to Next Phase of Laser Weapons
UK's TalkTalk Telecom Giant Hit by Cyberattack
Scientists Gain Insight into Origin of Tungsten-Ditelluride's Magnetoresistance
10/25/2015
Exciting Breakthrough in 2-D Lasers
Researchers Transform Slow Emitters into Fast Light Sources
Lease a Smartphone or Buy It? The Pros and Cons
Even After Hanging Up, Hands-Free Isn't Risk-Free for Distracted Drivers
10/23/2015
Lockheed Martin to Build Missile-Defense Radar
IC Insights Lowers Worldwide 2015 IC Market Forecast
Bell Canada Fined for Fake App Reviews
BT Reaches 5 Gbps over Copper with XG.Fast
Synthetic Batteries for Energy Revolution
Military Making Big Plans for Nanoscale Materials
Lowest Drift Bandgap Voltage Reference Ever
Discovering Start-Ups 2015, the Winners
Samsung Backs THz Pioneer for Chip Inspection
Further Details of FinFET ReRAM Released
10/22/2015
Groundbreaking Test Reveals Spooky 'Quantum Entanglement' Is Real
Electronics Get a Power Boost with Addition of a Simple Material
Truly Universal Wireless Charger
EU Court Decision Threatens U.S. Cloud Dominance
3UK Deploys Additional 1800-MHz Spectrum
Video Game Teaches MBA-Level Business Strategy Course As Well As Human Professor
A Resonator for Electrons
Apple Tells U.S. Judge iPhones are 'Impossible' to Unlock
Super-Slick Material Makes Steel Better, Stronger, Cleaner
Humans Have Been Sleeping 6.5 Hours a Night for Ages (more settled science - the 8-hour myth - unsettled)
10/21/2015
Shanghai Seeks 'More-than-Moore' in Silicon Valley
Lockheed Martin Secretly Testing Jet Fighter 'Supersonic' Laser Turret
Historic Era of Consolidation for Chip Makers
Girl, 17, on Facebook Seconds Before Running Red Light and Killing 2 People
Lasers Burn Holes in Quantum Security Systems
Solar-Electric Propulsion Goal of NASA Project
HS Student Claims to Have Hacked CIA Chief's Personal E-Mail
Facebook Will Now Tell You If a State Government Is Hacking Your Account
Huawei to Offer $1 Billion to Developers over 5 Years
Klikr – the Next Generation Modular Smartphone Case
10/20/2015
Graphene Based Inks for High-Speed Manufacturing of Printed Electronics
Sprint to Crawl Its Heavy Downloaders
Magnetically Controlled Battery Could Store Energy for Power Grids
The First Day That Radio Was Cool for Kids
IARU Region 3 Conference Urged to Focus on Youth as the Key to Amateur Radio Growth
Design Engineers Get Schooled on Manufacturing
SEMICON Japan 2015: Lineup of Speakers
On Semi Acquires Swiss RF Chip Firm
Is Facebook Killing Your Phone's Battery?
Silicon Radar Seeks Funds for 120 GHz Push
10/19/2015
Cellular, Wi-Fi Clash Heats Up
Amazon Sues 1,114 'Fake Reviewers'
Indian Customers Offered Compensation for Dropped Calls
Nominate Engineering Phenoms for the Design News 'Rising Engineering Star'
AI Breakthrough as Intuition Algorithm Beats Humans in Data Test
Saxony Leads Germany's Semis
10/18/2015
Children Getting 'Text Neck' and Hunchbacks from Slouching over Phones
New Chinese Space-Based Weapons Revealed
Tech Money Causes Waves on Silicon Beach
Apple's Newest Courtroom Foe is Patent-Savvy University
10/16/2015
Apple Facing Huge Chip Patent Bill After Losing Case
ARRL Asks FCC to Clarify that Hams May Modify Non-Amateur Gear for Amateur Use
Lifetime of Atoms Extended x10 by Using a Mirror
Preparing for Disaster: When Your Phone Is Gone
NFC Forum Issues New Tech Specs to Widen Tag Support & Enhance Interoperability
Time-of-Flight IC Detects Objects up to 2 Meters
U.S. Spends $1Bln Annually Protecting Vulnerable Space-Based Assets
Results of 1st Experiment in 2 Years from Large Hadron Collider
2nd Annual Survey of American Fears (#1 Is Corrupt Politicians)
Tesla's Autopilot Lets Cars Drive, Change Lanes Themselves
10/15/2015
Compulsive Texting Takes Toll on Teenagers
Say 'No' to Facebook's Internet.org, Says WWW Inventor Tim Berners-Lee
Tech Bubble: 'Money in Your Mattress' Time
France Names the Date for 700 MHz Sale
Smartphones Lend New Dynamic to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
'Nanohoops' Could Energize Future Devices
Apple News Goes Dark in China
Firm Wants to Put Facial Recognition Tech in Your Credit Card
Last of 12 GPS IIF Satellites Arrive at CCAFS for Processing
Launch Campaign Begins for Europe's Trailblazing Gravity Probe
10/14/2015
Tiny THz Accelerator Could Rival Huge Free-Electron Lasers
Quantum Electronics Painted with Beams of Light
Dielectric Film Has Refractive Index Close to Air
Mobile Small Cells Create New Network Challenge
Lasers Go Embedded
BAE Pursues Next-Gen Electronic Warfare
Harmonic Comb Generator for Power Integrity and EMI
Local Advertisers Moving Money to Mobile
California Approves Sweeping Digital Privacy Law
$850 Archos GranitePhone Promises to Keep All Your Data Secure
10/13/2015
Pepsi Confirms It Is Launching a Mobile Phone
Physicists Shrink Particle Accelerator
Mobile Ad-Blockers Could Wipe out Billions in Ad Revenue (ads pay for the 'free' Internet)
Cyberwar Ignites New Arms Race
IARU Stresses Importance of Antenna Systems for Amateur Radio
NASA Offers Licenses of Patented Technologies to Start-Up Companies
Chance Effect of Lab's Fluorescent Lights Leads to Discovery (the essence of serendipity)
JLR Wants Grads to Build Bridges from Newspaper
Electronics Get Power Boost with Addition of Simple Material
In Steve Jobs Tolerating Tech's Unpleasant Visionaries
10/12/2015
3D Printing Introducing a New World of Copyright Infringement
New Evaluation Method of Semiconductors Using THz Waves
Perfectly Accurate Clocks Turn out to Be Impossible
Scuttling of Safe Harbor Leaves Companies in Holding Pattern
10 Handy Apps for Engineering Sorts
Special Operations Awards $390M Radio Contract
10/11/2015
Car Radars Push Spectrum Analysis to Limits
Extending a Battery's Lifetime with Heat
Chip Market Decline Accelerated in August
iRing Apple's Tiniest Gadget Yet
10/9/2015
GaAs RF Revenue Record of $7B in 2015 to Peak of $8B in 2018
DoCoMo, Huawei Conduct 5G Field Trial
Math Story Time at Home Bolsters Achievement in School
Look out, Etsy; Amazon Just Launched a Handmade-Only Website
Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions for Digital Memory
Skyworks to Acquire PMC-Sierra for $2B
Quantum Simulator of Impossible Physics
Who Is Responsible for a Driverless Car Accident
Government Workers Make 78% More Than Private Sector
AM Radio Translator Plan on Hold Until 2017
10/8/2015
Increasingly, U.S. IT Workers Are Alleging Discrimination
Heavy Internet Use May Put Teens at Risk for High Blood Pressure
Organics to Extend Moore's Law
New ARRL Handbook, Antenna Book Editions Now Shipping
Prison Debate Team Victorious over Harvard Champs
Quantum Logic Gate Built in Silicon
Candle Soot to Power Electric Vehicles
Phone Thieves Facing Stiffer Sentences If Victims Lose Photos
New "Smart Window" Material Selectively Filters Light and Heat
Now Whole Milk Might Be Better Than Skim (more settled science unsettled)
10/7/2015
Organic Semiconductors Get Weird at the Edge
UK High Court Asked to Rule if Smartphones are Taximeters
Discovery About New Battery Overturns Decades of False Assumptions (amazing how often 'settled science' is proven wrong)
2 Danish CubeSats with Amateur Radio Payloads Launched from ISS
AT&T's WiFi Calling Nears Launch as FCC GrantsWaiver Request
Navy Awards $91.7M Deal for Next Phase of EW Program
Deriving Electricity from Photosynthesis
Quantum Cryptography Demos 200 Gbit/s over 100km Fibre
Microsoft Attacks Apple with Win 10
Back to the Future: Science Fiction Turns Science Fact
10/6/2015
Industry Veterans Seek Funding for NFC Payments Ring (jewelry)
Superconductor Induces Magnetism in Non-Magnetic Gold
Google Drops 'Don't Be Evil' Motto (too hard)
Prepare to Be Rated on a 5-Star Scale by 'Peeple', Like It or Not
GaN Diodes with High-Current Operations and Low Turn-on Voltage
NASA CubeSats to Test Laser Communication, Tandem Orbit
TV Transformed
A Different Type of 2D Semiconductor
Why The Home Depot Loves Radio
Merchants Now Responsible for Credit Card Theft When New Chip Feature Not Used (I hate having to leave the card in the machine rather than swiping)
10/5/2015
Texas Judge Throws out Claims on One Patent Owned by 'Troll'
IBM Reveals Carbon Nanotube Breakthrough That Could Obsolete Silicon
First Circularly Polarized Light Detector on a Silicon Chip
GSA Confirms Growing Traction for LTE Using 2.1 GHz Spectrum
Cyber Threats Against Cars Are Here to Stay
U.S. State Police Cars Hacked
LAPAN-A2 FM and APRS Satellite Launched
Army Testing Swarms of Small Drones
Kids Move Away from Home Computers for Gaming in Droves
Hamvention "Fully Committed" to Hold 2016 Show at Hara Arena
10/2/2015
Big Auto Look to Tech Companies to Fix Cars over the Air
GSA Confirms Growing Traction for LTE Using 2.1 GHz Spectrum
Carriers' Earnings Hit by Lack of Standardisation
Major Telcos to Spin off Network Operations
Digestible Batteries Needed to Power Electronic Pills (see below)
Making Batteries with Portabella Mushrooms
Measurement Technique Could Enhance Graphene Production
RAEng Urges More Action on Innovation
Characterizing the Forces That Hold Everything Together
Scientists Are Hard at Work Brewing Us New Beers (for the elbow benders out there)
