"Everything has become an admin nightmare" due to Brexit say UK designers
Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients. Read more Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Bre.....»»
Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers
Vaclav Smil, writing at IEEE Spectrum: There is a fundamental difference between what can be designed and built and what makes sense. History provides a lesson in the shape of record-setting behemoths that have never since been equaled. The Egyptian.....»»
South Korean chip designers pressured by semiconductor IP price hike
The continuing price hike of overseas semiconductor intellectual property (IP) could force small- and medium-sized IC design houses in South Korea to give up cutting-edge process design, according to an ET News report......»»
Boeing, Airbus wade into 5G scuffle, ask Biden admin to delay rollout
Aircraft manufacturers claim 5G radio signals will interfere with altimeters. Enlarge / Aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus claim that an upcoming C-band 5G rollout will interfere with airplane instrumentation. Boeing an.....»»
Leading Taiwan IC designers to thrive in 2022
Leading Taiwan-based IC design companies MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor have come under frequent speculation that their business will weaken, but related supply chain sources have noted that the three firms' performances.....»»
Citroen introduces the adventure-ready My Ami Buggy concept EV
Based on the original Citroen Ami, the My Ami Buggy concept illustrates what the car manufacturer's designers can do, showcasing a leisure-oriented EV full of color and style. Like any buggy, this one doesn't have any doors, instead featuring transpa.....»»
How to Plan for an Application Development Project?
Entrepreneurs, designers, and developers all share the same exciting energy at the start of a software development project. They’ve been briefed and think the idea is excellent. They want to get stuck in and start building this thing! The details w.....»»
Adobe Creative Cloud Express allows non-designers to create professional multimedia content
Adobe's Creative Cloud Express is a new creative app that aims to simplify creating multimedia content, making it an attractive solution for small businesses, students, influencers and social media managers. Adobe's new app enables users to create co.....»»
IC designers zero in on peripheral chips for WBG semiconductor modules
Taiwanese IC design houses have gradually expanded their deployments in the segment of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, but will place R&D focus on peripheral driver ICs rather than modules made with new-generation semiconductors, according to sour.....»»
Foundry capacity to stay tight in 2022 as global IC shortage lingers
Foundry capacity supply will remain tight in 2022 as global IC shortage has yet to ease and IC designers continue to seek more capacity support, although demand for certain chips like consumer MCUs is slowing down and their inventories are rising, ac.....»»
EliteSingles is a career-oriented dating site with hit or miss results
It doesn't matter what year you graduated — dating in university is almost always a nightmare. Aside from the small percentage who can thank their uni for putting their future spouse on the same campus, most of the degree-holding population is.....»»
New AI tool eliminates a common nightmare for hard drive users
QNAP has partnered with ULINK on new software that predicts when hard drives will fail......»»
Sounding off on Seattle Space Needle renovation
The Seattle Space Needle, a city landmark for nearly 60 years, recently underwent a renovation to enhance the visitor experience. Acoustic designers were tasked with ensuring that the new design is a quiet one......»»
Qualcomm"s New Always-On Smartphone Camera Is a Privacy Nightmare
At the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2021 yesterday, Qualcomm introduced their new always-on camera capabilities in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, which is expected to arrive in high-end Android phones early next year. The company says this new feature w.....»»
Lawsuit: Google employees were fired for upholding “Don’t be evil” code
Google fired three employees who protested work with Trump admin's border agency. Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | The Tonight Show) Three former Google software engineers who sued the company yesterday claim th.....»»
An unreleased Mortal Kombat game has popped up on eBay
A copy of an unreleased Mortal Kombat spinoff game is currently being sold on eBay by one of its original designers......»»
How a Dream Job Streaming on Twitch Can Become a Burnout Nightmare
"Streamers are not really known for hard partying..." writes the Guardian's videogames editor, after meeting the up-and-coming stars of Twitch. "I was instead astonished — and, honestly, worried — by how hard they worked." The woman s.....»»
Biden Admin Announces Travel Ban for South Africa and 7 Other Countries, Citing New Variant
The Biden administration announced plans on Friday to ban travel to the United States from South Africa and seven other countries, just hours after a new coronavirus variant was deemed a highly transmissible virus of concern. From a report: The trave.....»»
Samsung looks to involve domestic IC designers in 3nm foundry ecosystem
Samsung Electronics has introduced a new strategy to quickly involve South Korean IC designers in the 3nm foundry ecosystem by strengthening its 3nm semiconductor foundry design support infrastructure......»»
Intel is already shipping mobile Alder Lake-P chips to hardware designers
Following the launch of its Alder Lake processors for desktops, Intel has announced that it has began shipping Alder Lake-P mobile CPUs to laptop manufacturers......»»
New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin
A security researcher has publicly disclosed an exploit for a new Windows zero-day local privilege elevation vulnerability that gives admin privileges in Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server. BleepingComputer reports: As part of the November 20.....»»