MTN mmWave Trials Show Promise for Extending 5G Broadband Reach
MTN South Africa and US‑based Pivotal Commware completed field trials of the Pivot 5G mmWave repeater at three sites in Gauteng and Limpopo. The repeaters redirected and amplified millimetre‑wave signals, delivering download speeds two to five times faster than without the equipment. By overcoming foliage and building blockage, the technology extended fixed‑wireless access coverage without new macro‑cell towers. The trials, approved by regulator Icasa, demonstrate a practical high‑capacity layer for 5G broadband in underserved communities.
This 2-in-1 Strap Holds Your Watch and Smartwatch at the Same Time
The Smartlet One is a 2‑in‑1 watch strap that lets users wear a traditional mechanical watch and a smartwatch or fitness tracker on the same wrist. It supports 18‑24 mm lug watches and popular wearables such as the Apple Watch, Whoop and...
Renesas Launches RH850/U2C Automotive Controller
Renesas Electronics introduced the RH850/U2C, a 32‑bit automotive microcontroller built on a 28 nm process. The MCU features four cores running up to 320 MHz, including dual lockstep cores, and offers up to 8 MB of on‑chip flash. It supports Ethernet TSN, CAN‑XL,...
AI Workloads Force a Fundamental Redesign of Middle East Datacentres
AI workloads are prompting a fundamental redesign of Middle East data centres, shifting from legacy digital architectures to AI‑centric designs. Huawei’s SuperPoD solution, announced at MWC 2026, delivers up to 96.6% UPS efficiency and a 25% smaller footprint to meet soaring...
Force Testing Adapts to Smaller, Smarter, and More Connected Products
Force testing is shifting from a simple verification step to an integrated, data‑driven function as products become smaller, more complex, and digitally connected. Manufacturers now demand low‑force, high‑precision sensors, semi‑automated test sequences, and software that standardizes methods across multiple labs....
4 Bluetooth Gadgets You Can Connect To Your Fire TV Stick
The article outlines how Amazon Fire TV Stick users can expand their streaming setup by pairing Bluetooth speakers, headphones, game controllers, and keyboards or mice. It provides step‑by‑step pairing instructions via the Settings menu and highlights specific product recommendations such...
Flexure-Guided Piezo Stages Deliver Frictionless Motion for Nanopositioning, Scanning, and Alignment Applications
Physik Instrumente (PI) unveiled its flexure‑guided piezo stages, which combine friction‑free flexure guidance with high‑force PICMA multilayer piezo actuators to deliver sub‑nanometer resolution, millisecond response times, and virtually wear‑free operation. The monolithic flexure design eliminates backlash and stiction, while the...
OLED Or LED – Which TV Type Lasts Longer?
TV buyers often keep sets for five to ten years, making longevity a key purchase factor. Manufacturers claim OLED and LED panels last 30,000‑100,000 hours, but real‑world tests reveal divergent failure modes. RTINGS’ 10,000‑hour endurance study found 64% of edge‑lit...
Poking a Nanostring: Scientists Uncover Energy Cascades in Tiny Resonators
Scientists at TU Delft have engineered a nanostring that channels vibrational energy from its fundamental mode into higher-order modes, creating an internal cascade that reaches the fifth mode. The effect relies on a soft‑clamping design that lets the string flex...
I Did This to Make My Smart TV Faster and You Should Too
Author Shimul Sood shows how simple maintenance steps can revive an aging Android smart TV. By power‑cycling, clearing app caches, installing firmware updates, and disabling system animations via Developer Options, the TV feels noticeably faster. These tweaks require no extra...
Broadcom Inc (AVGO) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Broadcom reported record Q4 2025 results and set an aggressive Q1 2026 outlook, driven by explosive AI semiconductor demand. Consolidated revenue reached $18 billion, up 28% YoY, with AI revenue climbing 74% to $6.5 billion and an AI‑related order backlog exceeding $73 billion....
Magnachip Semiconductor Corp (MX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Magnachip Semiconductor reported Q4 2025 revenue of $40.6 million, a 17% year‑over‑year decline, and a gross margin of 9.3% after a one‑time $2.7 million sales incentive reduced profitability. Adjusted operating loss widened to $11.9 million and adjusted EBITDA turned negative...
Daktronics Inc (DAKT) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Daktronics reported a 12% year‑over‑year increase in orders and a 36% jump in its product backlog to $321 million, delivering three straight quarters of top‑line growth. Net income rose 25% on an adjusted basis to $17.5 million, while operating margin edged toward...
X86 and ARM Architectures Comparison Thread.
A recent community thread highlighted that Apple’s M4 Pro outperforms comparable AMD and Intel notebook CPUs by 52% in speed and roughly 400% in power efficiency, according to Notebookcheck data. ARM‑based designs now account for about 50% of the compute...
How Nvidia Turned a Steal of a Deal Into Its Secret Weapon
Nvidia leveraged its 2020 $7 billion acquisition of Mellanox to transform its networking business into a major growth engine. In the most recent fiscal quarter the company reported $11 billion in networking revenue, a 263 % increase year‑over‑year, positioning it as the world’s...
Optics Planet Deals: Save on Trail Cameras From Tactacam, Bushnell, Stealth Cam, and Cuddeback
Optics Planet is running a limited‑time promotion on a wide selection of trail cameras, featuring discounts up to 78% across top brands such as Tactacam, Bushnell, Stealth Cam, Wildgame Innovations and Cuddeback. The Tactacam Ultra, Outdoor Life’s 2025 editor’s choice,...
Hardware for Humanoid Robots: New Perspectives for Industrial Value Creation in Europe
Humanoid robots are emerging as a high‑growth market that could outpace the automotive sector, especially in Europe where manufacturers are seeking new value streams. A Fraunhofer‑IPA and P3 white paper reveals a fragmented hardware landscape lacking standardized architectures, with key...
United Semiconductors Reserves Payload Space with Starlab to Advance Commercial-Scale In-Space Semiconductor Manufacturing
United Semiconductors has secured payload space on Starlab’s commercial space station to transition its micro‑gravity semiconductor crystal growth from the International Space Station to sustained, commercial‑scale production in low Earth orbit. The partnership leverages Starlab’s rapid, no‑assembly launch architecture and...
Syndicate of Sounds Announces Telos Integrations
Syndicate of Sounds announced that its Deja Vu stereo‑to‑5.1 upmixer is now embedded in three Telos Alliance platforms – the ZipStream R/20, Linear Acoustic LA‑5300 and UpMax ISC. The integration aligns with the company’s OEM strategy, allowing broadcasters to automatically...
Photonis Defense Secures $352.6m US Army Contract for BiNOD
Photonis Defense, the U.S. subsidiary of Exosens, won a firm‑fixed‑price IDIQ contract worth up to $352.6 million to develop, produce, and test the Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) for the U.S. Army, with work scheduled through February 2033. The award follows a...
Pleora Launches eBUS SDK 7.0, Delivering a Unified, High-Performance Platform for Next-Generation Imaging Systems
Pleora Technologies announced the release of eBUS SDK 7.0, a unified platform for high‑performance image acquisition, display, and transmission across Windows, Linux and embedded systems. The SDK adds .NET 8, GStreamer, ROS2, ROS‑Industrial, expanded GenDC support, and memory‑optimized GigE Vision transmission, enabling...
Allied Vision Helps Reset the Speed Barrier for Thin-Film Quality Control in Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing
Allied Vision and TU Wien have introduced the first inline imaging‑ellipsometer for roll‑to‑roll (R2R) production, using the EXO250ZU3 polarized camera to deliver real‑time, full‑area thickness maps at line speeds over 100 m min⁻¹. The system replaces bulky refractive optics with large‑aperture Fresnel...
Best Sky Glass TV New Customer Deals for March 2026
Sky Glass launched its Gen 2 and Air TV sets with price tiers ranging from £309 for the entry‑level Air model to £1,199 for the 65‑inch Gen 2. Customers can purchase the hardware outright or spread the cost over 24‑ or 48‑month interest‑free...
KRYTAR Announces New Compact 3 dB, 90-Degree ULTRA+ Hybrid Coupler Covers 2 to 18 GHz
KRYTAR, Inc. introduced the ULTRA1830, a 90‑degree ULTRA+ hybrid coupler that provides 3 dB coupling from 2 GHz to 18 GHz in a compact form factor. The device offers tight amplitude (±0.3 dB) and phase (±4°) balance, >17 dB isolation, and low insertion loss (<1.2 dB)....
Roadside Radar Sensors Could Reduce Blind Spots in AV Operations
Autonomous‑vehicle safety could be boosted by mounting low‑power millimeter‑wave radar sensors on existing roadside infrastructure. The Eyedar sensor, roughly the size of an orange, uses a 3D‑printed Luneburg lens and antenna array to capture reflected radar signals that vehicle‑mounted radars...
Nvidia RTX 5070 Mobile GPU Looks Set to Get More VRAM Despite Global Memory Crisis — 8GB Could Be Boosted...
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5070 mobile GPU is being listed with a 12 GB GDDR7 memory configuration, up from the initially announced 8 GB. The upgrade appears in Lenovo’s Yoga Pro 7i Aura and Asus’s ROG Zephyrus G14 2026 listings, suggesting an official SKU despite the...
Noble Machines Emerges From Stealth, Ships and Deploys Industrial General-Purpose Robots
Noble Machines Inc., founded by engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA and Caltech, has emerged from stealth and shipped its first industrial general‑purpose robots to a Fortune Global 500 customer within 18 months of launch. The company’s integrated AI‑hardware stack lets...
Kongsberg Discovery and Silicon Sensing Unveil Tactical-Grade North-Seeking MEMS Gyroscope
Silicon Sensing and Kongsberg Discovery have unveiled a tactical‑grade north‑seeking MEMS gyroscope, the SGH03, delivering navigation‑grade performance in a compact, solid‑state package. The device operates without GNSS or magnetometer assistance, making it resilient in GPS‑denied or magnetically hostile environments. Developed...
Honeywell, Researcher Clash Over Impact of Building Controller Vulnerability
Security researcher Gjoko Krstic disclosed a high‑risk flaw in Honeywell's IQ4 building‑management controller, claiming the web‑based HMI is unauthenticated by default and can be exploited to create admin accounts. He identified roughly 7,500 internet‑exposed devices, with about 20% lacking authentication,...
Corvus Robotics Deploys Autonomous Inventory System at Dermalogica Global Headquarters
Corvus Robotics has rolled out its Corvus One autonomous inventory system at Dermalogica’s global headquarters and distribution hub in Carson, California. The drone fleet conducts 52 aerial scans per year, boosting inventory imaging frequency by 600 percent while freeing roughly...
Anschütz Delivers SYNAPSIS Integrated Navigation System for First Newbuild Tanker
Anschütz has delivered its SYNAPSIS Integrated Navigation System on the first new‑build tanker, TMS Seadevil, for German Tanker Shipping, constructed at Xiamen Shipbuilding. The 41,000 dwt vessel leads a series of six modern oil and chemical tankers designed for global deployment. SYNAPSIS...
Analyst Claims New Xbox Console Is ‘Already Dead’ as Microsoft Backs Game Pass
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter warned that Microsoft’s aggressive push toward Game Pass could render the next Xbox console “already dead.” He argues the company’s focus on high‑priced subscription tiers, especially a rumored $30 Ultimate plan, undermines traditional hardware sales. While...
Motorola Unveils the Moto Buds 2, Buds 2 Plus with Hi-Res Sound and Long Battery Life
Motorola launched the Moto Buds 2 and Moto Buds 2 Plus at MWC 2026. The Buds 2 target the sub‑$100 market with 11‑hour ear‑bud battery life, ANC and hi‑res audio, while the Plus version, priced under $200, adds Bose‑tuned sound, CrystalTalk AI and a 9‑hour...
Amphenol RF Introduces Additional Non-Magnetic SMPM Connector Configurations
Amphenol RF has expanded its non‑magnetic RF connector portfolio by adding new SMPM configurations. The connectors are offered in smooth‑bore and full‑detent styles that mate with existing non‑magnetic bullet adapters for board‑to‑board applications. Their gold‑plated beryllium‑copper contacts and PTFE insulators...
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Accumold announced its participation at OFC 2026, the leading optical networking exhibition, where it will showcase micro‑molded plastic components for fiber‑optic and photonics hardware. The company will demonstrate how its precision‑molded parts support tight‑tolerance requirements in connectors, transceivers, and optical modules...
A Flash of Laser Light Flips a Magnet in Major Light-Control Breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Basel and ETH Zurich used a focused laser pulse to reverse the polarity of a specialized ferromagnet made from twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, achieving the switch without any temperature rise. The experiment, published in Nature,...
Forefront RF to Unveil Industry’s First Commercial Low-Band Tunable Duplexer at Mobile World Congress 2026
Forefront RF announced the FFM51010, the industry’s first commercially available low‑band tunable duplexer, at Mobile World Congress 2026. The module leverages the company’s proprietary Foretune adaptive passive cancellation to replace multiple fixed filters with a single configurable component, covering 612‑960 MHz...
Will 2026 Be the Year of Data Center Restructuring?
Edge computing is accelerating, prompting a shift from centralized data centers to distributed micro data centers at the edge. Grand View Research forecasts the U.S. edge‑computing market to hit $327.79 billion by 2033, growing at a 33 % CAGR. This restructuring creates...
How to Understand the Circular Dealmaking Fueling the AI Boom
AI firms are deepening a web of reciprocal investments as the sector races for compute power. OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round, with Amazon contributing $50 billion and Nvidia $30 billion. AMD will deploy 6 GW of GPUs to Meta’s data centers and...
Low‐Voltage, High‐Sensitivity NIR Ambipolar Organic Phototransistor Based on a Non‐Fullerene Acceptor
Researchers have created a low‑voltage near‑infrared (NIR) organic phototransistor using the non‑fullerene acceptor Y6 as an ambipolar channel and an Al2O3 gate dielectric modified with an ODPA self‑assembled monolayer. Interface engineering with the ODPA SAM enhances Y6 film crystallinity, reduces...
Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green
The author retrofits a 1999‑era Linux gaming PC with an old GeForce2 MX 400 and Nvidia’s 1.0‑4191 proprietary driver from 2002. Using the RPM‑packaged driver instead of newer installers restores stable OpenGL support and eliminates crashes in titles such as Quake 2 and...
Flex Expands U.S. Manufacturing of AMD Instinct Platform
Flex announced the expansion of its partnership with AMD to manufacture the Instinct MI355X AI accelerator at its Austin, Texas headquarters. Production is already underway with a volume ramp slated for the next quarter, and Flex will also support the...
Smart Glasses with Privacy in Mind
Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic, and TheStage AI announced a partnership to embed frontier AI directly into Brilliant’s upcoming Halo smart glasses, moving inference from the cloud to the edge. The collaboration combines Brilliant’s open‑source eyewear platform, Neuphonic’s on‑device conversational AI, and...
Netac ZX20 II Portable SSD 2TB Review - Going for 2GB/Sec
Netac has launched the ZX20 II, a 2 TB portable SSD that swaps its predecessor's plastic shell for a metal enclosure and adds magnetic mounting for direct attachment to devices like USB‑C iPhones. It retains a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 interface, promising up to 2 GB/s...
Rio Tinto to Progress Gallium R&D Project by Constructing Pilot Plant in Québec
Rio Tinto announced the construction of a pilot plant in Quebec to extract primary gallium from its alumina refining stream, following a successful test extraction with Indium Corp in May 2025. The project receives up to CDN $18.95 million from the Canadian...
Binder Introduces NCC Circular Connector Family
Binder has launched its Not Connected Closed (NCC) circular connector family, offering subminiature (Series 670) and miniature (Series 770) options with built‑in spring‑loaded covers that seal the interface when unmated. The connectors achieve IP54 protection unmated and IP67 when mated for Series 670,...
Soitec and NTU Singapore Reporting Results of Research Program Into 6G Connectivity
At Mobile World Congress 2026, Soitec and Nanyang Technological University unveiled the results of a four‑year research program targeting 6G connectivity. The collaboration produced three technical papers showing that gallium‑nitride (GaN) devices on Soitec’s epitaxial wafers deliver record power‑added efficiency...
Hisense VIDAA TVs Reportedly Add Unskippable Startup Ads Before Live TV
Hisense Smart TVs running the VIDAA platform are now showing a full‑screen, unskippable advertisement immediately after power‑on, before users can reach live broadcast channels. The same behavior has been reported on Toshiba and JVC TVs that share the VIDAA OS,...
UniFi U7 Mesh Arrives: Compact Wi-Fi 7, IPX6, 2.5GbE Uplink
Ubiquiti has introduced the UniFi U7 Mesh, a compact Wi‑Fi 7 access point that supports dual‑band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz operation. Designed for flexible placement, it offers wall, pole and tabletop mounting with an IPX6 weather‑resistance rating for semi‑outdoor use. The device...
MSI and Blizzard Launch Limited Edition RTX 5070 Cards for WoW Darkest Night
MSI has unveiled a World of Warcraft‑themed GeForce RTX 5070 “Midnight Void Edition,” priced at $767 and marketed as a limited‑edition collector’s card. The GPU features a 338 mm triple‑fan “Storm 7” cooler, Wave Curved Fin 4.0 heat‑pipe design, and a metal backplate, targeting...