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Mid-February, President Obama signed a new FAA re-authorization bill that allows the use of drones into commercial U.S. skies. Here, Robert Dewar, AdaCore’s CEO, explains that it’s time to take security seriously and to let people know that the technology to do this currently exists.

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By downgrading the professional status of engineers, societies wordwide have lost control over who ...

This is not fiction. Flying cars are moving closer to reality.

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Agreed. The hope of getting a fuel efficient vehicle that can both fly and drive will likely be a ...

The new FAA bill paves the way for use of UAVs into commercial US skies, opening up new market opportunities for technology vendors that now operate in the government and defense industry.

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In my local area (Washington/Baltimore), hobbyist “radio controlled aircraft” already require a ...

Cypress's Dhwani Vyas put it best, "Finally [we] have the part I have been waiting for!" He was referring to the company's new Gen4 family of touchscreen controllers that are the first to feature an ARM 32-bit core, along with proprietary LCD noise cancellation technology called DisplayArmor that eliminates the need for an extra shield layer of glass and its associated air gap, thereby reducing display thickness by up to 1 mm and lowering overall cost and weight.

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In fact this an invention of physics not electronics, but LCD Noise Reduction Armour in deed proves ...

With the launch of Datasheets.com, EDN and UBM Electronics provide engineers access to over 185 million parts, with features such as comparison, parametric search, search save, and alerts.

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It seems like the next phase of this effort needs to be driven by suggestions from users on the ...

Teams from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and New Auburn (Wisc.) School won the 2011 Rube Goldberg Machine competition

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I believe you're thinking of Junior Achievement

Motion sensing and control is clearly going to be the enabling technology for a whole new generation of consumer devices, just how easy is it to implement in practice?

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While I take comfort in the fact that technology is moving forward in this area, it could become ...

The year is young, but it doesn’t seem premature to go ahead and crown 2011 the year of the passive component.

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Everything was fine, except for the 'correct' position. That's when things got challenging.

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This is a great sharing , i m glad to read such article. i appreciate the writer for sharing good ...

3DTV was all the rage at the 2011 CES, but it will never catch on

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There been a theory floating around for some time that porn drives the massive up-tick in content ...

Having worked for one of the Big Three, I would say that the main problem is that there were not ...
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The portability of the electronics has become one of the consideration points in recent times as ...
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Some books that might be of interest for the virutal or non-virtual walker: A Walk Across America, ...
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