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ELECTRONICS 
August 20, 2019 This Genius ‘Heat Shield’ For Electronics Is Just 10 Atoms Thick And Uses Graphene
Researchers have developed an electronics heat shield just 10 atoms thick, a shield that has the potential to make our gadgets both safer to use and more compact in the future. Heat and electronics don’t mix well, which is why you might find your laptop shutting down in protest if you use it in the […]
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COMPUTERS 
May 26, 2019 RFID Is as Important as Computers
May 26, 2019— The radio frequency identification industry has not done a good job of communicating how important RFID technology is to the future of business. The reason, I believe, is that RFID can do many things, both large and small, and so companies focus on selling products and applications for specific industries. The press and technology analysts haven’t grasped the […]
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ELECTRONICS 
May 18, 2019 Donald Trump is short-circuiting the electronics industry
For more than a year now, President Donald Trump has been playing chicken with China, instituting increasingly expensive tariffs to add pressure for a trade deal that never seems to materialize. So far, those tariffs have kept clear of consumer goods like smartphones or televisions, with the most damaging taxes restricted to intermediary products like […]
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CLOTHING 
April 1, 2019 If Rental Is the Future of Clothing, This Woman-Led Company Will Power How We All Dress
It’s 2019, and Christine Hunsicker finally admits that her company, Gwynnie Bee, was a massive experiment. The company, which was founded in 2011 as a plus-size clothing subscription rental service, and has now shipped more than five million boxes of clothing sized 0-32, was Hunsicker’s way of testing her more ambitious business hypothesis: Could you build a technology and warehouse engine […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 25, 2019 Why Quantum Computing’s Time Is Now
DEPOSITPHOTOS ENHANCED BY COGWORLD Most technologists have some basic understanding of quantum computing. Quantum bits are represented by qubits, and information isn’t simply a zero or one, it can be both at the same time, representing much more information. A quantum effect known as entanglement linking two particles allows instantaneous communication. Ultimately, quantum computing promises to be a disruptive technology […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2019 Behind every great cloud is a whole bunch of expensive computers
As we saw in tech company earnings over the last couple of weeks, tech giants are making a lot of money on cloud computing. Amazon, Google and Microsoft rent out computer storage and computing power to smaller companies for lots of profit, and they spend a lot of money on it themselves, too. “Cloud” is […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 5, 2019 Is this a wind-up? Planet Computing calls time on ZX Spectrum reboot firm
Retro Computers Ltd, which absorbed £513,000 of backers’ money to produce ZX Spectrum-themed game consoles it then failed to deliver, has been wound up – by Planet Computing, makers of the Gemini PDA. RCL, whose fortunes have been chronicled on El Reg, was wound up on 1 February 2019 by Private Planet Ltd, which trades as […]
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ELECTRONICS 
January 4, 2019 Is The Global Economy Half The Apple It Used To Be?
For the first firm to crack the trillion-dollar valuation ceiling, Apple’s performance is usually a bellwether of broader market confidence and conspicuous consumption among fawning technophiles. It should worry more than Apple investors that the usually reticent firm when it comes to company performance has warned the world of economic deceleration in “Greater China,” a […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
December 16, 2018 Stranded In Airport For 7 Months, Syrian Man Is Granted Asylum In Canada
Hassan al-Kontar, 37, left his home in Syria for the United Arab Emirates in 2006. For seven months, Hassan al-Kontar was trapped in air-conditioned purgatory. Stranded in Terminal 2 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, he slept under stairwells and lived off leftover chicken-and-rice dinners from AirAsia flights. He documented his daily life in video […]
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COMPUTERS 
December 9, 2018 Snapdragon 8cx Is Qualcomm’s Latest Chip for Always-On, Always-Connected Windows 10 Machines
Qualcomm, the biggest supplier of chips for mobile phones, on Thursday pushed further into the PC market with a line of chips designed to power business machines. Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon” processor chips historically have been at the heart of mobile phones like Alphabet’s Google Pixel phone and many Samsung Electronics Co devices. Over the past year, though, Qualcomm […]
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NEWS 
June 21, 2018 Chicago Airport Plan Is Just One of Many Elon Musk Dream Projects
A newly announced project by billionaire innovator Elon Musk for a tunnel transit system that would carry travellers to and from Chicago O’Hare International Airport at up to 150 mph (241 kmph) is just another project on a growing list of Musk dream projects. A look at some of the SpaceX and Tesla CEO’s most ambitious projects, where they stand now […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
June 16, 2018 Amazon’s Alexa is now at home in new subdivisions, hotels
Armida Rosales and her husband, Arnold, had not thought much about voice-activated technology in their new Maple Valley home, but Amazon’s Alexa was included and the family likes the convenience. Rosales is seen in an Echo “Spot” camera. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times) Amazon is working with homebuilders and hoteliers to make its smart speaker and […]