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One of those persistent problems that has never fully been overcome in electronics is thermal management. At the moment the best we can do is try design more efficient products that give out less heat in combination with trying dissipate any heat generated effectively. These methods can range from a simple vent in a
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09/22/2021
Honor CEO Zhao Ming. His company faces a possible U.S. blacklist over their former association with Huawei.
It’s been awhile since we talked about Huawei, but it seems they’re back in the news – tangentially this time. According to The Verge, the U.S. Government is apparently split on whether to blacklist Honor, formerly of Huawei.
That “former” is important – in November of last year, the smartp
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09/21/2021
It’s coming on two years now that we have had to live under pandemic conditions. At first the whole world basically shut down apart from those doing front line work in our hospitals and our food supply chains. Now, most of the developed world is coming out of lockdowns and trying to get back to normality. This is bei
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09/15/2021
Teslas wouldn't be eligible for an EV tax credit under the proposed budget reconciliation bill.
If the proposed budget reconciliation bill passes, it would include a huge electric vehicle tax credit, though it’s not without some stipulations.
The $3.5 trillion “Budget Reconciliation Legislative Recommendations Relating to Infrastructure Financing, Green Energy, Social Safety Net, and Prescription Drug P
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09/14/2021
CHRIS RICHARDS / UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
It’s funny how often life mirrors art at times. A few years ago, I used to play a computer game called Eve Online. It was a fascinating game that was set in space. It had an economy almost like the real world, and at one stage the developers, CCP, hired a real economist to study the game economy. All the spaceships in
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09/08/2021
The mini LED-backlit MacBook Pros could be delayed by the global semiconductor shortage.
Apparently, no one is safe from the global semiconductor shortage – including one of the world’s most valuable and recognizable consumer brands.
DigiTimesAsia is reporting that the chip shortage could delay the launch of Apple’s mini LED-backlit MacBook Pros. The consensus seems to be that it’ll launch in October or November, though all of this seems uncertain and contingent on a number of factors (like no more COVID-related work stoppage
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09/05/2021
Last weekend I had to take a trip from the south west of Scotland to the north west of England. It is a fairly unpopulated area along the M6 motorway for most of that distance. One thing that did surprise me was the amount of wind turbine installations. I had read a lot of news articles on installations, but it
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Date:
09/01/2021
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