Don McLean’s 1971 rock and roll classic, American Pie, is one of those rare works of art that manages to transcend the precepts of genre, place and even time. The opening refrain of its chorus – “Bye, ...
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For the past few years, the buzz around quantum computing has been growing steadily louder, but it has mostly been coming from university laboratories and advanced corporate R&D facilities. Now household ...
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As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications grows, so too does the number of protocols supporting this proliferation. While each protocol has its own strengths and weaknesses, the resulting ...
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There’s never been a better time for someone with an innovative idea to see it realised with a working design, but successfully launching a product in a crowded market has arguably never been harder. ...
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Hardly a day goes by that I don’t hear or read something about smart cities. Perhaps I’m only noticing it more because I’ve been doing some research into the topic and so it’s top of my mind. By nature ...
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Many of the most exciting and life-improving developments in electronics are happening on the biomedical and cybernetics fronts, but they also have the potential to be truly terrifying. Consider the ...
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I was fortunate to be invited to a business breakfast hosted by AREI (Association of Representatives for the Electronics Industry) at which the guest speaker was renowned businessman and entrepreneur, ...
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Anyone who’s designed and tested electronic circuits will tell you, having a circuit that doesn’t work is not the worst that can happen; it’s the intermittent faults that really hurt. For a product that’s ...
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2017 marks the 21st anniversary of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), an initiative of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to eliminate trade tariffs on hundreds of high-tech products. The acronym ...
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US President Donald Trump’s decision to drag his country out of the Paris Agreement on climate change has brought the issue into even sharper focus than usual. Many people from all walks of life still ...
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The virtual wall that protects the IoT from the trolls prowling outside is only as steadfast as the security that holds it together.
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I once mistakenly credited President Jacob Zuma with having an underrated, though diabolical, sense of humour. That was back when he decided to split the former Department of Communications into a new, ...
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