Mannerisms

Thanks to broadbandgenie.co.uk for this – the five best and worst countries for the cost of mobile data: BEST 1. Singapore Mobile data as a percentage of salary: 0.35% Phone plan cost: USD 17.13 Total tariffs measured: 454 2. Luxembourg Mobile data as a percentage of salary: 0.40% Phone plan cost: USD 21.16 Total tariffs measured: 174 3. Israel Mobile ...

Kamala Harris has had many leading figures within the Democratic Party endorse her Presidential candidacy including: Nancy Pelosi, Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Roy Cooper, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Clintons. According to a poll among Democrats or Democrat-leaning voters conducted after President Biden withdrew his candidacy, 60% say that Harris should be nominated as the Democratic candidate ...

“The fastest means of communication.” That is how the Post-master-General, the Rt. Hon. Reginald Bevins, M.P., described telex at the inauguration of the Automatic Telex Exchange in the Fleet Building, London, last week. This new exchange completes the conversion of Britain’s telex system to automatic working. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st ...

Builders of AI systems looking to poach data to train their systems are increasingly encountering a gamekeeper. A study by the MIT research group Data Provenance Initiative found that the owners of large databases are increasingly insulating their data from  outside use, 14,000 web domains used in the three most commonly used data sets  for training AI programmes were investigated, ...

I am now endorsing several commercial products thanks to the efforts of my US agent, Ed confides to his diary, the money is rolling in, the lifestyle on Venice Beach is most agreeable – apart from the odd shooting – and the woes of ministerial office seem far away. My agent has come up with the wheeze that anyone who ...

The Russian chip business has gone nowhere for 30 years. 19 years ago we heard why. Potential chip entrepreneurs in Russia are being deterred by their mistrust of government funding and by the reluctance of foreign investors to invest. “The scientific community is ahead of the government in understanding what needs to be done. They travel, they talk to venture ...

Emojis have become a staple of electronic communication since their inception in the 1990s and people of all ages and on all continents love to use them. While their number keeps on growing every year due to new releases by the Unicode Consortium, the pictograms are increasingly competing with gifs, stickers and avatars for users’ attention Emoji generation has been ...

192 years ago was born the inventor of this engine, which he named after himself and  which had a considerable effect on the transportation industry:   The inventor cut short his formal education and started his working life as a grocery salesman before his curiosity was aroused by the properties of  gases. Moral: Curiosity is a powerful spur .  

Amazon is well used in the UK with just over eight in ten people  saying that they had bought something from the online seller in the last 12 months. The UK and Germany even surpass Amazon’s home turf of the United States in terms of popularity, based on this data. The U.S. far outshines other markets in absolute figures though. ...

You don’t have to be Jereny Clarkson to have your  own pub – by supporting  iGulu on Kickstarter you could get on-track to turning your garden shed, garage or front room unto your  own boozer. The  iGulu S1 all-in-one smart brewing machine integrates fermentation, cooling, and dispensing. The crowdfunding price is $299, the super early bird price is $259, and ...

Thanks to Semiconductor Intelligence for this one – the top seven analysts’ forecasts for semiconductor market growth this year:

In ten days’  time, 10,500 athletes, 20,000 journos, 45,000 volunteers and millions of spectators will be in Paris for the July 26 Olympics opening ceremony. 9 million out of 10 million available tickets have been sold – an Olympic record – but can the French sell the remaining 1 million tickets? An Olympics ticket sell-out has never been achieved. With ...

RECENT numbers of the Soviet journal “Radiotekhnika i Elektronika” contain articles which reveal some indication of the course of Soviet research on tunnel diodes. So, 63 years ago started a story in  Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 3, 1961 The initiator of this work is Prof. V. L. Bonch-Bruyevich who may be fairly described as the doyen of Soviet electronics. ...

According the The Economist, the number of Chinese asylum-seekers worldwide has skyrocketed since current President Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012. Around 70 percent of these people try for asylum in the United States. As seen in the data by the Department of Homeland Security, more than 4,500 Chinese were granted asylum in the U.S. in e2022. The second ...

I have become a bit of a celeb across the pond thanks to my appearance in an ad promoting my AI-enabled toothbrush, Ed confides to his diary. Losing Ministerial Office means I am relieved of the obligation to avoid any (public) association with commercial activities. In anticipation of my new-found freedom from ministerial obligations,  I allowed myself to be filmed ...

Atoms don’t scale, and this is the ultimate barrier to the continuation of Moore’s Law, Dr Bernie Meyerson, chief technology officer of IBM, told the 2006 Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey. “Whether that barrier happens in 2016, or 2020, or 2024 is under debate,” said Meyerson, who was of the opinion that scaling would deliver 6nm processing in 2020. While ...

The Continentals are engaged in one of their perennial indulgences – being  bossy and dirigiste. From July 7th all new cars sold in  the EU have to have Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology. ISA uses satellite and digital mapping data to judge the speed of vehicles. If the speed is judged excessive, ISA will tell the car to either make ...

170 years ago a lady was born who the first woman to receive the Hughes Medal for her own work, the first woman to be elected to the IEE (now IET) and the first woman to be proposed for fellowship of the Royal Society. However, at that time, married women didn’t have a legal existence so she was not allowed ...

Provisional EU tariffs on Chinese EVs are additional to the existing 10% duty. A 20.8% additional duty is proposed for the 13 car manufacturers which co-operated with the EU’s investigation into production costs and subsidies, a 17.4% additional duty for BYD, 19.9% for Geely, 37.6% for SAIC,  zero on hybrids and 37.6% for everyone else. The situation remains fluid while ...

The French election on Sunday left the National Assembly in deadlock. The leftie New Popular Front got 180 seats. The right wing National Rally got 143 seats. The centrists got 163 seats. A majority in the Assembly requires 289 votes, so no one from one of  the Big Three parties can pass legislation without help from one of the other ...