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‘A good first step’: European solar manufacturers welcome Green Deal Industrial Plan but call for more support
The European Commission unveiled the EU’s response to the Inflation Reduction Act and China’s dominance in the solar supply chain with the Green Deal Industrial Plan. PV Tech addresses how these solar initiatives compare and captures commentary from manufacturers across the value chain. NexWafe CEO offers his insights into what needed to establish a long-term solar manufacturing industry in Europe.
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Onshoring solar’s supply chain
With China strengthening its position in recent years to dominate the PV supply chain, efforts are gathering pace to onshore some manufacturing as governments aim to support domestic production and reduce their reliance on imports. NexWafe's partnership with Reliance is contributing to these efforts by building gigawatt-scale facilities in India using NexWafe's wafer manufacturing technology.
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Tech Improvements Key to Consumer Happiness, CX Research Shows
New research from Shekel Scales showed that 90% of consumers believe technology will significantly improve the overall shopping experience. While nearly 60% of consumers wanted technology that speeds up and simplifies the self-checkout process, more than 30% of respondents expressed a desire for technology that helps them get in and out of the store as fast and as easily as possible.
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Steakholder Foods Machine Prints Cultivated Fish That You Can Eat
Steakholder and Umami are using a $1 million grant from the Singapore Israel Industrial R&D Foundation to scale up a process for producing cultivated fish products, starting with eel and grouper. Also known as cultured meat, this is made from animal cells rather than slaughtered animals.
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Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways
A consumer shopping survey by Shekel Scales, advanced weighing technology, found that 90% of consumers believe technology will significantly improve the overall shopping experience, particularly tech that simplifies the self-checkout process, according to 60% of consumers.
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Consumers Believe Technology Will Improve Shopping Experience
A consumer shopping survey sponsored by Shekel Scales revealed that 90 percent of consumers believe technology will improve the overall shopping experience. While nearly 60 percent of consumers cited technology that speeds and simplifies the self-checkout process, more than 30 percent of respondents expressed a desire for technology that helps them get in and out of the store as fast and as easily as possible.
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Steakholder Foods Gets $1M Grant to Bioprint Cultured Eel
Steakholder Foods has received $1 million grant from the Singapore Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD), to develop 3D printed structured eel and grouper products with Singaporean cultivated seafood startup Umami Meats.
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Holiday Shopping with a “UWB Engineer”: The Saga Continues
As the smoke clears on the 2022 holiday season, our frazzled and notoriously shopping-impaired protagonist takes a much-needed breather and surveys what months of carefully considered holiday shopping has wrought. The results? Quite frankly the results could have been better. Here’s what transpired.
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SPARK Microsystems and UBITO Leverages UWB Technology by developing Wireless, Battery-less IoT Sensors
SPARK Microsystems and UBITO have partnered to develop a range of UWB-based wireless sensing and IoT solutions. This partnership will allow UBITO to leverage SPARK Microsystems’ UWB technology for wireless, battery-less sensor applications in multiple industries, including smart home, industrial automation, and condition monitoring.
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This Deep Tech Firm Is Positioned To Lead the Cultivated Meat Manufacturing Revolution
At a time when many of its peers are still at the development stage of cultivated meat technologies, Steakholder Foods is well-positioned to emerge as a pioneer in transforming the global food industry.
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KLA Advance Blog: KLA Celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the Transistor
Semiconductors chips – the heart of our modern electronic devices – are built atop a technology first introduced 75 years ago today: the transistor. In concert with our peers throughout the technology industry – including IEEE and the Electron Devices Society – KLA celebrates the innovation of John Bardeen and Walter Brattain whose lab demonstration of a point-contact transistor on Dec. 16, 1947, changed the course of modern electronics.
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Why big data isn’t enough for law enforcement: Investigating with critical thinking
Cognyte discusses combining decision intelligence methodologies with big data, AI and machine learning to help analysts make sense of data and analytics insights.
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Steakholder Foods develops temperature-controlled print bed
After an initial boom driving investor enthusiasm, many food tech companies are now having to face the challenges of cost-effectively scaling their production capabilities both in terms of material manufacturing and manufacturing process. Steakholder Foods developed a temperature-controlled print bed for its industrial-scale printer. This is another significant step forward on the company’s path toward mass production of cultivated meat using 3D printing technology.
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I’m Vegan, But This Ashton Kutcher-Backed Cultivated Meat Made Me Think Twice
Steakholder Foods' tasting event in San Francisco brought out vegans curious to taste cultivated meat. So how does cultivated meat fit into the vegan lifestyle, given that it is technically not even vegetarian? It has to do with the definition of veganism itself that tasks vegans to choose a path of as little harm as possible.
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Practical Advice For Organizing A Successful Open-Source Technical Certification Program
There are some important elements that can not only make a workshop much more successful than the typical labs that we often see available in the open source community today, but also much more accessible.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: For Wireless Gaming Mice, UWB Achieves New Performance Benchmarks on the Path to Seamlessly Interactive AR/VR
In order to architect the AR/VR connected devices of tomorrow, we must first solve the connectivity needs of wireless devices today. And for traditional gaming and audio apps, it’s clearer than ever that collectively we’re reaching the outer limits of what’s possible with legacy short-range connectivity platforms. The time for UWB is right now.
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AMD Blog: SolidRun Pioneers Ultra-Compact, High-Performance SOM-based IPC with AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000
SolidRun’s Bedrock IPCs are targeted for DIN rail-mounted, industrial applications. DIN rails – those ubiquitous steel rails found everywhere from production flows to utility cabinets – impose design challenges for industrial computers owing to the limited space/cooling typically afforded them. SolidRun is utilizing AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V3000 processors to meet these challenges
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This company is 3D printing meat. Is it sustainable?
Steakholder Foods finally answered the question we've all had about 3D printing: Yes, you can print a burger. The Examiner attended the company's recent tasting event in San Francisco and had an opportunity to sample cultured meat for themselves.
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Steakholder files printed fish patent
Steakholder Foods filed a provisional patent application to achieve the characteristic tender flakiness of cooked fish. The company believes that cultivated fish has the potential to help reduce anticipated supply-side shortages due to climate change, overfishing and ever increasing consumer demand.
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dbx-tv’s Total Cal Fine Tunes Sound for Soundbars and TVs
dbx-tv has announced that Total Cal, a patent-pending in-home audio tuning system, has been selected as a CES Innovation Award Honoree. Total Cal was selected for its ability to improve the sound of televisions, soundbars, and portable/home speakers.
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dbx-tv Total Cal In-Home Tuning System Recognized as 2023 CES Innovation Awards Honoree
Expanding on the company's range of loudness, volume and spatial enhancement DSP solutions already offered to consumer electronics manufacturers, dbx-tv’s Total Cal allows users to fine-tune the audio performance of their equipment - TV sound, soundbars, and home speakers - for their individual listening environment.
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DBX-TV Total Cal Sound Tuning System Receives 2023 CES Innovation Award
HD Guru discusses dbx-tv's CES 2023 Innovations Award for its new in-home audio calibration tuning system called “Total Cal” for TVs, soundbars and home speakers.
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Steakholder Foods holds first tasting event in United States
Steakholder Foods hosted its first tasting event in the United States. The event provided the opportunity for guests to 3D print personalized steaks, and sample cultured meat canapés, such as beef steamed buns, grilled beef kababs and Thai spicy beef lettuce wraps.
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Wireless Audio, Installation Audio, and Multiroom Improvements in audioXpress December 2022
In an audioXpress contributed article, SPARK Microsystems addresses the advantages of using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology to achieve high-quality wireless audio streaming and how UWB radios can be deployed effectively as a high speed and low latency data communication method, exceeding the performance of traditional narrowband devices and enabling uncompressed hi-res audio streams at 24-bit/96kHz with millisecond latency and very low power consumption.
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Machine Learning and Data Fusion Enable Improved Decision Intelligence to Screen Asylum-Seekers and Refugees
Data-driven decisions take some of the guesswork and bias out of immigration management processes and help to promote overall fairness. According to Cognyte, machine learning (ML) and data fusion technologies form the bedrock of this approach, with their combined ability to leverage big data and advanced analytics to manage the risk posed by potential asylum-seekers and refugees. This includes closer scrutiny of criminal and terrorist elements, with more efficient threat assessment and risk scoring – leading to improved prioritization.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: Good Citizenship Among Great Protocols - Planning for Future Interoperability Between UWB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
For applications like wireless gaming and audio, positioning/location awareness, and mobile AR/VR in the metaverse, it’s crucial that we work together to ensure UWB’s seamless coexistence among complementary short-range wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
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KubeCon: 14,000 More Engineers Have Their GitOps Basics Down
As GitOps grows in its ability to leverage DevOps practices via Infrastructure as Code, thousands of students get up to speed on GitOps fundamentals utilizing Codefresh’s GitOps for Argo CD certification course.
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KLA Advance Blog: New Orbotech Corus Offers Double-Sided Imaging for High-Density Interconnect PCBs and IC Substrates
The new Orbotech Corus 8M direct imaging (DI) system is the first solution built on KLA’s all-in-one revolutionary Orbotech Corus platform, combining optimized resolution, accuracy and efficiency for PCB manufacturers designing smaller, thinner devices for OEMs that pack ever-increasing functionality into increasingly small enclosures for high-end applications.
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Israel’s Steakholder Foods Files New ‘Fat’ Patent
Steakholder filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for fat differentiation. The patent includes a new and improved process for differentiating stem cells into fat which is more easily reproducible and cost-effective.
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Steakholder Foods Begins Bovine Cell Line Development Activity in the United States Using USDA-Approved Cattle
Steakholder is developing a bovine cell line in the United States, isolating cells sourced from live cattle raised on a farm approved by the USDA, moving the company forward on its path toward regulation.
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AMD Blog: Helping DFI Harness High-Performance Processing Power in Ultra Compact Single-board Computers
The processing advantage made possible by AMD Ryzen™ Embedded R-Series SoCs has been a major asset for DFI in its ongoing initiative to pack increasing amounts of computing horsepower into compact, thermally adept, ruggedized enclosures for industrial systems.
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Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Require Greater Multi-Sector Cooperation & Improved Decision Intelligence Capabilities
Across the globe, money laundering remains a key challenge to address organized crime. This is exacerbated by cryptocurrency, blockchain and the anonymity they afford bad actors who are trying to obscure the source of illicit funds. Rosa van Dam, decision intelligence platform product manager at Cognyte, sheds light on the importance of better multi-sector cooperation and decision intelligence capabilities to improve anti-money laundering investigations.
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Episode 13: Steakholder Foods’ Secret Sauce
Steakholder Foods CEO Arik Kaufman is interviewed on the Future Food Finance Podcast and talks cultured meat, the technological challenges that have been overcome and the obstacles that still need addressing.
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KLA Advance Blog: Achieve ‘Zero Tolerance’ Die Sorting with ICOS™ F260
KLA’s new ICOS™ F260 system addresses zero tolerance by delivering inspection and workflow enhancements on a platform that’s been redesigned from the ground up to deliver industry-leading accuracy and greater overall throughput to support high-volume manufacturing. The ICOS F260 offers the fully automated ability to detect both internal and superficial chip defects with extremely low overkill and underkill rates to help optimize yield.
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Lab-grown Wagyu beef morsels could be coming to a meat market near you
Although Wagyu beef is renowned for its richly marbled taste and texture, it does still come from slaughtered cattle. Steakholder Foods is developing an alternative in the form of its 3D-printed Omakase Beef Morsels. Made from a blend of lab-grown beef muscle and fat cells, their technology enables them to adjust the thickness, patterns marbling and nutritional content of the morsels according to consumer preference.
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Steakholder Foods announces Highly Marbled 3D-Printed 100% Cultured Beef Cut
Steakholder Foods introduced Omakase Beef Morsels, a richly marbled structured meat product developed using a unique 3D-printing process. This technological achievement follows a series of ongoing advancements in the company's development of printed whole cuts of meat, which will likely position Steakholder Foods on the frontline of the market once cultured meat reaches regulatory approval.
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Data Fusion and Analytics for Chief Investigators: Survey Report, August 2022
Our friends over at Cognyte have a second survey on data fusion and analytics – this time for chief investigators. In their last survey, the 2022 IT leaders in the Data Fusion/Analytics Domain, the company spoke to CIOs and IT executives about their challenges and investment priorities for data fusion.
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Steakholder Foods expands into cultured pork
Steakholder Foods is set to begin developing lab grown pork products from a new line of induced pluripotent porcine stem cells (iPS). The new induced pluripotent porcine stem cell line (iPS) will enable Steakholder Foods to continue diversifying its species portfolio and accelerate its market readiness for cultured pork production.
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Steakholder Foods eyes consumer market for cultivated meat: 'Our strategy has evolved from B2B to B2B2C
Steakholder Foods has evolved its commercialisation strategy and rebranded in what it describes as the ‘next logical step’ to position itself as ‘primarily a food company’. This journey has seen the company move from ‘strictly’ being a developer and B2B provider of 3D printing technology for cultured meat production to food manufacturers and retailers to ‘also being a producer of culture meat products in consumer-oriented markets’,
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Code-to-cloud: Codefresh democratises GitOps with Argo
Available in hosted, on-premises and hybrid deployment options for enterprise environments, Codefresh uses open source Argo in a code-to-cloud solution enabling visibility into CI/CD deployments. It provides an easy-to-use framework for implementing GitOps and a scalable solution for large teams targeting multi-cluster, multi-application deployments.
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Embedded Insiders Podcast: Unlocking Audio Breakthroughs in TWS
On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Paul Beckmann, CTO of DSP Concepts, takes Embedded Computing Design behind the scenes of true wireless stereo (TWS) to reveal what we can expect from the rapidly evolving audio technology in the years to come.
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Investigating Future Security Threats with AI, ML and Data Fusion
Cognyte discusses the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, which have been transformative for security organizations. With their arrival, organizations are no longer limited to reactively investigating and resolving criminal acts that have already been committed. AI and ML – complemented by sophisticated data fusion and analytics capabilities – have introduced a new era of proactive, predictive threat assessment that can help us identify and mitigate threats before they occur.
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Cultured Meat Leader Steakholder (Formerly MeaTech) Eyes $110b Seafood Industry and Asian Markets
Steakholder announced a collaboration with Umami Meats, a Singaporean cultured seafood company, to develop 3D-printed whole-cut seafood products. The two companies plan to develop species that are endangered because of climate change, strong consumer demand, and overfishing. Steakholder's stated aim is to leverage its leadership in 3D bioprinting to venture into this new business vertical and gain a first-mover advantage in the market.
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SPARK Microsystems Shows Way-Forward for Wireless Audio Over UWB
audioXpress covers the details of the joint SPARK Microsystems and UWB Alliance coexistence testing and aggregation capabilities of UWB technology in environments where other UWB or other wireless protocols and radio devices are in use.
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Codefresh Launches Its Hosted GitOps Solution
A hosted GitOps platform removes that barrier for users who want to change the way they are deploying while letting them keep their integration pipelines in place. And that, is very much in line with the company’s focus on integrating with third-party services to help its users deliver their software to customers.
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Can 3D-Printed Steak Fix The Broken Beef Industry?
Beef has a massive carbon footprint. Plant-based alternatives, like Beyond Meat, have grown into a $5.6 billion market. Still, scientists are trying to go a step further. This time, growing real meat in a lab without killing a cow. We head to Israel to see how a 3D-printed steak is made and if it could really make a dent in the busted beef industry.
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What's the Difference Between the Enterprise and Consumer Metaverses
The “enterprise metaverse”—the metaverse for commercial, industrial infrastructure, and manufacturing applications—will be far removed from the social, gaming, and entertainment ecosystem that many of us regard today as the “consumer metaverse,” where entities like Fortnite and Roblox have staked an early claim.
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MeaTech and Umami Meats collaboration to bolster 3D-printed cultured seafood in Asian markets
MeaTech has signed a partnership deal with Umami Meats to development of 3D-printed cultured seafood. The agreement is part of MeaTech’s strategy of collaboration with other players in the alternative protein space and opens a door for both companies into the Asian market and Singapore, which is currently the only country authorized to produce and distribute cultured meat.
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Alt-Meat Company MeaTech Set To Build First Cultured Fat Pilot Plant In Belgium
The rising demand of meat is driving the search for alternatives that could as well lower its carbon footprint. Although more environmentally friendly than traditional patties, plant based burgers and nuggets still do not fully satisfy consumers’ expectations as they lack juiciness and taste deriving from animal fat.
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Wasabi: The Fiery Wallet for Crypto Crime May be Cooling
Wasabi is essentially a wallet in which users keep their Bitcoins and transactions anonymous, making it popular with money launderers and other criminals. Omri David, head of product management and research, Cognyte, shares how cryptocurrency criminals are readying their weapons to battle secure digital wallets like Wasabi and what law enforcement can do to prevent attacks.
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AMD Blog: DFI’s “Industrial Pi” Single Board Computer leverages AMD Ryzen™ Embedded processors
The recent emergence of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications has again renewed interest in the Raspberry Pi concept, but with a greater focus on processing performance, durability and longevity suitable for industrial domains.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: Getting Started Quickly with SPARK UWB for IoT Sensors: Introducing SPARK’s New Wireless Sensor Kit
At the upcoming Sensors Converge event, SPARK will be on hand to highlight the many advantages that UWB delivers for sensor applications compared to legacy short-range wireless platforms like Bluetooth. For Smart Factory and Smart Home apps, among others, wireless sensors are proving increasingly advantageous.
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How Do You Make Whole-Cut Cultivated Meat? You Exercise It, Of Course.
IP Australia has granted MeaTech a patent for the development of systems that physically manipulate cultivated muscle tissue in a way that mimics cow movement without the cow.
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Losant Blog: The Business Value of IoT Data in a Smart Environment
The Losant team describes the business value of IoT data in a smart environment, including occupancy monitoring, smart parking, energy monitoring and optimization, and more.
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Velox Blog: Design of the Month – Digital Makes Customization Easy
Customized products are perceived as luxurious and special. They grab consumers’ attention while giving them the sense that extra thought was invested in them as individuals. It’s a powerful and effective marketing tool, though not often used due to the limitations of most current printing technologies.
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AMD Blog: AMD EPYC™ Processors Powering Cisco’s Secure Firewall 3100 Series
The rise of hybrid workforces – comprised of employees who work flexibly in remote and onsite settings – is transforming the way we work and how staff resources are utilized to maximize their potential. But as more and more data traffic traverses the open network, maintaining network security is becoming increasingly challenging.
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Survey on Data Fusion & Analytics for Investigation
To get greater insight into the technological challenges of fusing data for investigation purposes, and to learn from the CIO’s perspective what their wants and needs are in the market – our friends over at Cognyte went straight to the source. This new report Survey on Data Fusion & Analytics for Investigation takes the pulse of the industry in vital areas from investment priorities to cloud adoption, painting a clear picture of the state of data fusion for investigation purposes today.
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Bioprinted Meat and Fungi Could Result in New Hybrid Meat Products for MeaTech
Trying to convince meat eaters to eat less meat will take more than plant protein. Hybrid meats could become a true replacement for traditional beef. MeaTech and Enough’s hybrid foods would offer a meatier taste, which is closer to conventional meat.
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Shodan: Still the Scariest Search Engine on the Internet?
Cognyte explains how Shodan and other similar search engines can be used by bad actors to find anything from smart refrigerators to ships that are connected to the internet, but their power can also be used for good.
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MeaTech announces agreement between its subsidiary Peace of Meat and mycoprotein leader Enough
As part of the initiative, cultured avian fat biomass will provide the signature flavors, aromas, and textures of conventional meat while Enough’s mycoprotein will add high nutritional value with protein and fiber content and essential amino acids, zinc and iron.
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ENOUGH and MeaTech3D collaborate the next generation of meat alternatives... ‘Hybrid products with cultured meat’
Plant based meat analogues are still striving to deliver a genuine "meaty" taste, texture and mouthfeel. Could combining plant proteins with cultured animal fats offer a solution? Food Tech innovators ENOUGH and MeaTech3D have launched a collaboration to find out.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: UWB’s Sustainability Advantages: IoT Sensors with “No Wires, No Batteries”
Just as short-range wireless technology paved the way for deploying sensors without wires, UWB holds the promise for a future of sensors deployed without batteries. Power-sipping technology like UWB sets the stage for a future of battery-less IoT sensor devices that leverage energy harvesting technologies to derive their own power.
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Codefresh Announces Hosted Version of GitOps Platform
Codefresh has announced that its CD platform will be made available as a fully-hosted solution for GitOps teams looking to achieve frictionless, GitOps based continuous software delivery. This new hosted offering works to provide Argo CD as a Service and introduces new DORA dashboards and CI tool integrations.
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AMD Blog: Health and Beauty Retailer Gets an Exciting New Look with Advantech’s DS-082 Ultra-slim Digital Signage Players Powered by AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1000 and R1000 Processors
A major health and beauty retailer sought a space-optimized digital signage platform that would help entice customers and drive sales, while reducing the expense and waste of printed promotional materials. To satisfy these needs, Advantech needed a high-performance processing platform to service retail environments of all sizes and budgets.
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How Digital Twins Can Help Speed Up Innovation In Automotive, Smart Cities, Defence & Manufacturing
In this special report, Auto Futures talks with leaders in the field, like Duality Robotics, to define digital twins, and learn how they can help speed up future innovation.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: UWB Puts the Mobility in the Metaverse
SPARK UWB is the short-range wireless connectivity platform best optimized for metaverse enabling devices like AR glasses, gloves and other peripherals, providing the robust, high-quality data comms necessary for enabling seamless metaverse immersion on the fly – with the power efficiency to ensure long usage times between device charges.
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Duality Robotics Blog: Digital Twin Simulation for Personalized Marketing
Leveraging advanced digital twin simulation technology, Duality Robotics provides retailers with a personalized marketing solution to capture and hold consumers’ attention for as long as it takes to convert a momentary online interaction into a purchase.
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Velox Blog: Digital Direct-to-Shape Printing Is the Green Thing to Do
Not only does Velox's digital direct-to-shape printing for necked beverage cans eliminate the need for plastic sleeves or labels, it reduces the environmental footprint across the entire decoration process and beyond.
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KLA Advance Blog: KLA’s Frontline Cloud Services Sharply Reduces DFM Analysis Time
Frontline Cloud Services improves the DFM process with the cloud delivering almost infinite computational power on demand, which helps companies analyze more DFM checklists both serially and in parallel.
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With $7.1M in SDTC Funds, SPARK Microsystems Aims to Make Wireless Tech More Energy Efficient
Spark Microsystems has secured $7.1 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to accelerate the development and commercialization of its wireless UWB transceivers.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: UWB in the Multisensory Metaverse, Part III: Touch and Haptics
Immersion in the metaverse would be fundamentally incomplete absent our ability to touch objects, environments and other avatars, gathering the tactile information we rely on to fuse our full perception and complete the sensory loop. This SPARK Microsystems post focuses on touch and haptics in the metaverse.
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MeaTech subsidiary to open Belgian pilot plant in 2023
MeaTech 3D Ltd. has announced that its Belgian subsidiary, Peace of Meat B.V., will build a 21,530 sq. ft. pilot plant in Belgium, with construction expected to commence in 2022. The new facility will expand and accelerate MeaTech's cultured avian technology and R&D capabilities and help propel the company's market entry.
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MeaTech’s Subsidiary to Open 21,530 Square Foot Pilot Plant in Belgium in 2023
MeaTech today announced that its Belgian subsidiary, Peace of Meat B.V., will build a 21,530 sq. ft. pilot plant in Belgium, with construction expected to commence in 2022. The new facility will expand and accelerate MeaTech’s cultured avian technology and R&D capabilities and help propel the company’s market entry.
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With Recent US Expansion and Quarterly Growth, MeaTech is Ready to Dominate Cultivated Meat Industry
Can cultivated meat provide a solution to the vast issues surrounding the production of meat? MeaTech believes that it can, and they have the cultivated meat technologies to do it by simplifying the meat supply chain, reducing carbon footprint, and preventing the slaughtering of animals.
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American Solar Accelerates Path to Energy Independence for North Carolina Homeowners
American Solar helps North Carolina accelerate the pace of the state’s residential solar energy installations and, in 2022, plans to add approximately 5 megawatts of installed solar capacity, enough to power more than 600 residential homes.
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How the metaverse will let you simulate everything
Through technologies including VR, AR, and AI, the metaverse that futurists envision is an extension of the real world — albeit without the physical trappings. Some experts predict that the industrial metaverse will require IoT sensors to collect data from real-world devices, enabling companies to accurately model them in the digital world.
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5 Cultivated Meat Companies Pushing for U.S. Launch in 2022
Israeli foodtech MeaTech 3D is focused on two aspects of cultivated meat. The first is chicken fat that can be leveraged in a B2B scale, to add flavour to other cultivated developments. In addition, honing of industrial processes and technology to manufacture recognizable meat cuts. Steak and chicken breasts have both been slated for future unveiling.
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Cultured meat that looks and handles like real meat
MeaTech 3D Ltd., a relatively new international food technology company specializing in cultured meat, demonstrated a significant improvement in its differentiation process from stem cells to muscle fibers. The company has succeeded in accelerating the formation of real living muscle fibers and enhancing their quality to mirror key characteristics of farm-raised meat.
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MeaTech 3D Develops Novel Process to Create Better Muscle Fibres from Cultivated Stem Cells
MeaTech 3D, a company that combines cultured meat production with 3D printing technology, revealed significant improvement in its differentiation process from stem cells to mature muscle fibers. The novel technology allows muscle cells to fuse into fibers with improved density, thickness, and length, that better resemble those in whole cuts of farm-raised meat.
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MeaTech Achieves Cultured Meat Milestone by Developing Muscle Fibers from Stem Cells
MeaTech3D, an Israel-based cultured meat startup, announced this week that it had demonstrated progress in the differentiation process from stem cells to muscle fibers.
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Why famous people are joining food tech advisory boards
Hollywood A-listers including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher, former government officials and other household names are working with companies, lending their expertise and cachet.
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Codefresh Software Delivery Platform now generally available
Codefresh launched the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), which brings the Argo toolset, including Workflows, Events, CD, and Rollouts, into a single platform.
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Codefresh Launches the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform, the First and Only Enterprise Argo Platform for Deploying and Scaling Applications
Codefresh unveiled its flagship Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), powered by Argo. CSDP opens true DevOps potential.
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Designing with UWB: Short-Range Wireless Apps Reimagined with Performance Far Beyond Bluetooth
With 10x faster data throughput, 60x less latency, and 40x better energy efficiency, UWB prompts a fresh look at design considerations from payload sizing to testing/certification and antenna design.
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DARPA is Advancing UGV Simulation Platform
DARPA selects Duality Robotics to provide advanced environmental simulation technology to help bridge the gap from virtual to real-world environments through its Falcon platform for advanced digital twin simulation.
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World's largest lab-grown steak makes sizzling debut
An Israeli company has produced the world’s largest lab-grown steak. MeaTech 3D used bovine stem cells, or cow stem cells, to incorporate it into “bio-inks” in its 3D printer to create a nearly 4-oz steak. The company hopes to eventually produce and sell these printed meats for the same cost as traditional meat.
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Israeli firm is the latest to print out a "real beef" lab-grown steak
Earlier this year, we heard how two separate groups had developed the world's first lab-grown rib-eye steak and Waygu beef. Israeli startup MeaTech 3D is now joining their ranks, with a "cultivated steak" of its own.
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Codefresh: All In on Argo CD GitOps Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
For its part, Codefresh as been a leading force driving the development of Argo CD, providing leadership for the Argo CD community as well as committer resources driving development of the product. Codefresh is now building out an enterprise version of Argo CD for organizations that require more advanced security and other enterprise-level capabilities.
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What’s the Difference Between Bluetooth and UWB for High-Speed Data and Multimedia?
For nearly 20 years, Bluetooth has dominated as the short-range technology for wirelessly connected devices. But UWB’s latency and power-efficiency advantages position it as a compelling alternative with faster, freer dataflow and low power consumption.
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Auto free-form display ups and downs
Orbotech authors discuss the automotive market, which presents one of the greatest opportunities for free-form displays by allowing panel and automotive designers to use much more than square corners and straight lines.
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Reliance Industries to invest $29 million in NexWafe
Reliance New Energy Solar (RNES) has invested US$29 million in German wafer technology company NexWafe’s Series C financing round as it looks to establish wafer production facilities in India.
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Reliance invests US$29m in NexWafe, looks to establish ‘giga-scale’ wafer production in India
Reliance New Energy Solar (RNES) has invested US$29 million in German wafer technology company NexWafe’s Series C financing round as it looks to establish wafer production facilities in India.
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Ambani’s new energy business is on an investment spree to create Jio-like success
From two $1.14 billion acquisitions announced a few days ago to two more big-ticket deals in the past few hours, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) has been on an investment spree. Today (Oct. 13), the company formed in June, announced a $45 million investment in German firm Nexwafe.
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Ashton Kutcher Invests In ‘Innovative’ And Sustainable Slaughter-Free Meat Company
A group led by actor Ashton Kutcher and celebrity publicist Guy Oseary is joining forces with cell-based meat company MeaTech to develop 3D bioprinted meats.
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Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary partner with MeaTech to scale cultured meat production tech
A group led by actor Ashton Kutcher and celebrity publicist Guy Oseary is joining forces with cell-based meat company MeaTech to develop 3D bioprinted meats.
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Ashton Kutcher Joins Cell-Based Meat Company to Develop 3D Bioprinting
A group led by actor Ashton Kutcher and celebrity publicist Guy Oseary is joining forces with cell-based meat company MeaTech to develop 3D bioprinted meats.
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Collective Led By Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Announce Partnership With Cultivated Meat Leader MeaTech
A group led by actor Ashton Kutcher and celebrity publicist Guy Oseary is joining forces with cell-based meat company MeaTech to develop 3D bioprinted meats.
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Ashton Kutcher-led group invests in Israeli maker of lab-grown meat
A group led by actor Ashton Kutcher and celebrity publicist Guy Oseary is joining forces with cell-based meat company MeaTech to develop 3D bioprinted meats.
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Ashton Kutcher Invests in MeaTech to Help Push Israeli Cultivated Meat to Market
A group led by actor Ashton Kutcher and celebrity publicist Guy Oseary is joining forces with cell-based meat company MeaTech to develop 3D bioprinted meats.
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With Argo and GitOps Ascending, Continuous Software Delivery Demands a Major Open Source Commitment
The advent of microservices has afforded us tremendous agility in how we build and deploy cloud native software, and the open-source community’s focus on continuous improvement and innovation is manifesting in some really interesting ways.
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MeaTech Group Produces 700g of Cell-Cultured Chicken Fat in One Production Run
Israeli cell-cultured meat company MeaTech 3D has announced its subsidiary, Peace of Meat, has produced over half a kilogram of cultured chicken fat biomass in a single production run, is likely the first time such a large quantity of animal fat has been produced in one batch outside of an animal.
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MeaTech cultures 700 grams of chicken fat in meat-printing “breakthrough”
Israeli food-tech firm MeaTech has reached another landmark in its mission to develop a tasty yet eco-friendly 3D bioprinted alternative to organic meat products. In what's believed to be the first biomass 3D printing demo of its kind, the firm has managed to cultivate just over 700 grams of pure chicken fat, within a single run.
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MeaTech Announces Filing of Provisional Patent Application for Differentiation of Stem Cells to Produce Cultured Fat
MeaTech 3D Ltd. announced it has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) relating to methods that use purely plant-sourced inputs to guide targeted differentiation of embryonic mesenchymal stem cells into adipocytes, which are fat cells. MeaTech’s goal is to allow for production of intramuscular fat as is typically found in marbled meat like Wagyu beef.
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Tackling a New Human-Centric AI Paradigm: Startup Interview with AIR Cofounders
AIR is a Canadian startup focusing on a new AI training approach that allows the tackling of challenges that are too complex for traditional machine learning methods. Hackernoon interviews the company on its mission and purpose as part of the Hakernoon Start Up of the Year Series.
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Can We Print Meat? Simon Fried of MeaTech Explains on The Plantbased Business Hour
Can we print meat? Indeed, we can! Simon Fried of MeaTech explains on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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MeaTech Unveils Plans to 3D Print Pork and Enter Chicken Fat Production by 2022
Meat 3D bioprinting specialist MeaTech has revealed that it intends to enter premarket comestible production next year within its H2 2021 financial results.
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3DPOD Episode 75: 3D Printed Meat with MeaTech 3D Founder, Omri Schanin
In this 40 minute podcast, the professionals from 3DPrint.com interview Omri Schanin of MeaTech on the description and merits of cultivated meats, and the technologies behind this emerging technology.
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How GitOps Best Practices Could Take The Ransom Out Of Ransomware
IT owners can think about GitOps as standardizing best practices for operations for the industry at large. The GitOps Working Group distilled the best ideas of DevOps into a set of clear guidelines and principles for exactly how these kinds of situations can be avoided. If you run infrastructure, you need to understand a variety of principles to get started with GitOps, which are described in this article.
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Malvertising campaign uses mobile devices as springboard to target IoT devices
GeoEdge researchers are claiming to have found the first-ever instance of a malvertising campaign specifically targeting WiFi-connected smart home devices.
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Consider the Source, Part 2: Factoring in embodied carbon
One contender looking to reduce the carbon footprint of wafers is NexWafe. Spun out from Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in 2015, NexWafe’s Green Silicon EpiNex silicon wafers production eliminates intermediate steps and avoids mechanical machining from ingots.
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Growing Direct-to-Object Printing Market Shows Inkjet’s Versatility
From printing on tubes and cans to promotional items and even food, the use of direct-to-object printing is growing fast. Ink World discusses direct-to-object printing with Velox and others.
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Versasec joins FIDO Alliance
Versasec has been involved with FIDO for many years through its partners and credential manufacturers by supporting their PKI and FIDO tokens. As FIDO’s focus shifts beyond consumer authentication to now include enterprise customers, Versasec is joining the alliance.
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The 5 Growth Vectors That Optimize E-Commerce Acquisitions for Powerhouse Profitability, Part 2
TCM CTO Golan Manor examines three of five growth vectors that can turn an underperforming e-commerce prospect into a powerhouse of profitability.
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The 5 Growth Vectors That Optimize E-Commerce Acquisitions for Powerhouse Profitability, Part 1
TCM CTO Golan Manor examines two of five growth vectors that can turn an underperforming e-commerce prospect into a powerhouse of profitability.
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Reimagining Cloud-Native Storage For Modern Apps On Kubernetes
The evolution to cloud native naturally entails an evolution to container-based environments. To maintain consistent application performance, you need to maintain a consistent storage response and most modern applications deployed in Kubernetes recommend flash as the storage medium. But where to deploy it?
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Social media influencers with small followings can deliver a big impact
Systems that identify bloggers by their specialties and location, like TCM's NinjaOutreach, can help brands build cost-effective social media influencer campaigns. The role of influencers in digital marketing could become more important as online retargeting is increasingly restricted by the privacy policies of big tech platforms.
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The future of human-AI systems is already here – it’s just not evenly architected
The operational structure, strategies, technologies, and ethical concerns of the future remain unknowable, but they will undoubtedly need to include both human users and AI agents, and both need to be trained. Introducing a modular and flexible architectural layer that remains consistent – from military simulation and training requirements to real-life operational needs – decisively answers these challenges
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MeaTech Files Provisional Patent Application for Novel Bioprinting Method
Israeli food tech company MeaTech has filed a provisional patent application to the United States Patent Office (USPTO) for a novel bioprinting method that it believes has the potential to provide “exceptional control” of multi-layered bioink printing. MeaTech’s technology reportedly allows for significant control of the droplet size, volume and placement onto a sacrificial substrate layer during in-situ inkjet 3D printing, and could allow for highly advantageous bioprinting resolutions in its meat-emulating products.
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AI Redefined commits to better training models under new CEO
AI Redefined (AIR) is the developer behind an open source Cogment framework that makes it simpler for humans to train virtual agents created using AI models. Today the startup named G. Craig Vachon to be its CEO in place of Dorien Kieken, who will now assume the role of president.
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MeaTech to establish pilot chicken fat cellular production plant
MeaTech 3D, a technology company developing a suite of advanced manufacturing technologies to produce cultured meat products, is planning to establish, own, and operate a pilot plant to commence scaled-up cultured chicken fat production in 2022. The company’s European branch, MeaTech Europe, has also commenced food technology development activities, with an initial focus on hybrid foods, which are food offerings composed of both plant and cultured fat and/or protein ingredients.
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MeaTech 3D exec reveals cultured chicken fat scale-up plans for new pilot plant
MeaTech 3D, a technology company developing cultured meat products, has revealed its latest move to establish, own and operate a pilot plant to commence scaled-up cultured chicken fat production in 2022. Simon Fried, head of business development at MeaTech, speaks to FoodIngredientsFirst about the future plans and evolution, its latest acquisition and the technology behind the company’s success.
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MeaTech to Open Belgium Factory to 3D Print “Real Meat Cuts” Like Steak & Chicken Breast
MeaTech 3D Ltd., the first cell-cultured meat company to be publicly listed, yesterday announced its intention to establish, own, and operate a pilot plant in 2022, with the goal of producing cultured chicken fat for industry collaborations. Ultimately, MeaTech plans to produce real meat cuts, such as steak or chicken breast, using 3D bioprinting technology.
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MeaTech 3D Will Produce Cultivated Fat, Whole Steaks at Its Forthcoming Pilot Facility
Israeli bioprinting startup MeaTech 3D this week became the latest cultivated meat company to announce a pilot production facility, which the company intends to have operational in 2022. The plant’s location is yet to be announced. MeaTech said they will use the facility to increase the production of cultured chicken fat from Peace of Meat, a Belgian company MeaTech acquired in December of 2020.
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Israeli Cultured Meat Company MeaTech to Open PilotPlant in Belgium
Israeli cultured meat bioprinting company MeaTech, listed on the Nasdaq and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, announced plans this week to launch a pilot plant in Belgium next year that would produce cultured chicken fat at scale.
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Leveraging Data to Acquire FBA Private Label Brands
With thousands of new FBA private label brands hitting the market each year, there has never been more data and information available to both sellers and investors. However, many aggregators don’t know how to leverage this data to accurately pinpoint and evaluate a profitable brand. So, how can you avoid getting lost in this influx of data on Amazon? TCM's Gabi Bar explains.
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Device Makers Seek Etching, Printing Innovation
EE Times discusses how Orbotech is addressing efficiency for electronics companies with a focus on enabling high quality, high yield, and cost-effective mass production of ultra-thin flexible printed circuits (FPCs).
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New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security
Discusses how Intel invested in and collaborated with Lightbits Labs last September to optimize the startup’s composable software-defined storage for its Xeon Scalable processors, second-generation Optane dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), QLC-based 3D NAND SSDs, Ethernet 800 Series network adapters and field programmable gate arrays.
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New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security
Discusses Intel's Ice Lake and how Intel partner Lightbits Labs has shown Ice Lake-equipped servers could meet a customer's requirements for 9 M IOPS and 2 PB of capacity with five storage servers compared to eight nodes with the prior Cascade Lake processors. Lightbits' LightOS software-defined storage lets customers pool fast NVMe-based PCIe flash drives in a cluster of Ethernet-networked x86 servers.
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Amazon Briefing: Private equity is zeroing in on the Amazon ecosystem
TCM, an Israeli acquirer that runs an algorithm to identify — and optimize — growing businesses, said that, in the coming year, 30% of its new acquisitions will be off-Amazon e-commerce businesses. Of those, most will be centered on Shopify.
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RadSee unveils 4D imaging radar for ADAS and self-driving cars
RadSee Technologies Ltd has announced availability of what it claims is the first 4D imaging radar for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles.
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RadSee launches high-performance automotive 4D imaging radar; lower cost, low-risk integration
Israel-based RadSee Technologies Ltd. announced the availability of the automotive industry’s first 4D imaging radar for ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) and autonomous vehicles.
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Rapid-Action Coronavirus and Bacteria Disinfection Technology for Passenger Luggage at Airports Stops Local Outbreaks from Becoming Global Pandemics
WarpUV launches AirFort ultraviolet "disinfection firewall" for biosecurity at airports with a focus on luggage disinfection
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ams introduces VCSEL IR emitter family for industrial mass market 2/3D sensing
ams's new family of infrared VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Sur-face-Emitting Laser) flood illuminators help industrial manufacturers to develop new and innovative applications for robots, cobots, autonomous guided vehicles, and smart devices which perform 2D and 3D optical sensing.
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Fuel-Cell-Powered Drones to Fly Long-Duration Humanitarian, Commercial Missions
Applying several innovative technologies and techniques, Doosan built a hydrogen-fuel-cell drone that could literally change the course for expanded-range drone usage. The onboard power electronics architecture - made possible by Vicor - was a critical design element.
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Super-efficient power converters help hovering drones take flight
DPI’s tethered multirotor drones are designed to follow ships, boats, trucks, and other unmanned ground/surface vehicles, offering several benefits over fixed-wing drones, including vertical takeoff/landing capabilities, and the ability to achieve persistent, stationary positioning – even during inclement weather. Power system design is crucial to the development of these helicopter-like drones.
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Fixed Ratio Converters Boost Battery Powered Systems
Fixed-ratio converters have power density, efficiency and flexibility attributes that can enable higher-performing power delivery networks (PDNs). Unlike more popular, mainstream regulated DC-DC converters, fixed-ratio converters allow designers to architect and optimize their PDN for higher system performance.
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Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.1 expanding scale out disaggregated storage capabilities for private hybrid and edge deployments
Lightbits Labs announced advancements to its cloud-native storage solution, enabling customers to confidently scale their private, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments.
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Lightbits Expand Scale Out Disaggregated Storage Capabilities for Private, Hybrid, and Edge Deployments
Lightbits Labs announced advancements to its cloud-native storage solution, enabling customers to confidently scale their private, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments. Lightbits, recently backed by Intel Capital, has extended its solution’s capabilities with the delivery of LightOS™ 2.1.
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Shekel Brainweigh Teams with Parlevel Systems, Imbera on Smart Cooler
Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, is teaming up with Parlevel Systems, a software provider, and Imbera, a provider of commercial refrigeration equipment, to introduce hubz, a cooler that offers a secure way to sell any product, anywhere and anytime, according to a press release.
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Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks launch the GitOps Working Group
As the GitOps trend continues to take hold of the software development community, a group of technology companies are banding together to provide developers with the necessary skills.
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French retailer Monoprix teams with Shekel Brainweigh on cashierless store
Monoprix S.A., a Clichy, France-based retailer, has teamed with Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., an Israel-based weighing technology provider, to introduce an AI-powered autonomous shopping system on a self-service retail concept to offer 24/7 service.
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Groupe Casino enlists Shekel Brainweigh for automated store pilot
French retailer Groupe Casino is working with Shekel Brainweigh on an automated store situated at its Monoprix HQ in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris.
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Autonomous Wireless Charging Keeps Robots Running
Logistics, delivery and inspection industries increasingly rely on mobile robotic fleets. These fleets have become large enough that their users are trying to find ways of recharging them that don’t rely on human operators.
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Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs
Intel Corp. and Israeli startup Lightbit Labs today announced an agreement to speed up development of disaggregated storage solutions for data center operators. This strategic partnership includes technical co-engineering, go-to-market collaboration and an Intel Capital investment in Lightbits Labs.
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Solving Key Power Challenges for AI and Supercomputing
Power management challenges will be top of mind among the AI, supercomputing and cloud datacenter communities as we head into 2021. Where previously they were regarded as entirely distinct entities, recent history has shown us that when it comes to power and cooling, they have more in common than previously thought.
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ams Says New Sensor Can Monitor Blood-Oxygen Levels in Wearable Designs
The new ams AS7038RB offers an additional diagnostic tool, enabling the creation of wearable and disposable equipment for monitoring blood oxygen saturation accurately and safely, without requiring the presence of a medical practitioner.
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Ultra-thin sensor for blood-oxygen monitoring fits tiny devices
ams has claimed the industry’s thinnest sensor designed for blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurement. The new blood-oxygen monitoring sensor enables OEMs of small consumer devices such as earbuds, smart watches, and wristbands to add the capability for remote monitoring.
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Meet GitOps, the key to launching effective software releases in the cloud-native era
The automation story behind DevOps centers on CI/CD, the continuous integration and continuous deployment that results in working code ready for production. Deployment isn’t the end of the process, however. Releasing code is the missing step — putting new software in front of customers and end-users while ensuring it meets the ongoing objectives of the business.
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Codefresh Runner Fixes Kubernetes’ Performance Problem
Codefresh recently launched Codefresh Runner, a flexible solution that allows engineers to selectively run pipelines on their own Kubernetes clusters, including private clusters that are behind the company firewall. It sounds great because there is no management overhead but what exactly is Codefresh Runner?
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Shekel Brainweigh integrates Nayax payment solutions for micro market coolers
Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, has integrated Nayax payment solutions as a standard payment method for its Innovendi machines.
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Some people never let BlackBerry go. Their reward? A 2021 comeback
It was nearly all over on August 31. BlackBerry owners had known it was coming for six months. TCL, which had been making Android phones under the BlackBerry name since 2017, was out, “no longer selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices”. Then, just 12 days before the deadline and the latest in a long line of blows to BB phone fans, in steps Texas tech company Onward Mobility with promises of a new 5G Android BlackBerry in 2021.
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Fake Video Election? Deepfake Videos ‘Grew 20X’ Since 2019
Deepfake videos are proliferating on social media and the internet, and most of them are focused on politics and the coming U.S. election, according to a study by an AI-powered “synthetic media” hunting startup CREOpoint.
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Synthetic media targets politics ahead of U.S. presidential election
As the U.S. presidential election season swings into high gear, the amount of synthetic media targeting politicians is soaring. According to a new report from brand protection startup Creopoint, the number of manipulated videos shared online grew 20 times over the past year.
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Why the New BlackBerry 5G Could be a Striking Success
A new BlackBerry smartphone has just been announced and it promises things no previous BlackBerry has had, such as 5G connectivity. The new phone comes from a Texas-based company called OnwardMobility (no, I hadn’t heard of it either) which has reached agreements with BlackBerry and a subsidiary of Foxconn called FIH Mobile.
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The 5G BlackBerry could be 'the most American-made phone out there'
BlackBerry faithful were dealt a harsh blow earlier this year when TCL, the biggest company to build phones for the brand, said it would stop. That left enthusiasts clinging to their KEY2s, wondering about would-be replacements, and raising glasses to the good old days — at least until an upstart Texas outfit announced plans to pick up where TCL left off.
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CrackBerry Podcast: Onward BlackBerry!
Following the announcement from BlackBerry, OnwardMobility, and FIH Mobile that a new 5G BlackBerry would be arriving in the first half of 2021, you know we had to get the CrackBerry crew together to talk discuss it. With that in mind, we invited Peter Franklin, CEO at OnwardMobility to join us to talk about the announcement, their vision for BlackBerry, and plenty more.
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BlackBerry phones are coming back in 2021, packing 5G too
It turns out that the BlackBerry name is poised to come back to the smartphone space courtesy of little-known mobile security brand Onward Mobility. More specifically, the US brand’s website notes that “new Blackberry 5G phones” are coming next year.
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New BlackBerry With Keyboard Coming in 2021
A new company called OnwardMobility says it has made a deal with the BlackBerry software company to use its name and intellectual property to create a new keyboarded Android smartphone, coming to the US and Europe in 2021.
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Earbuds Consumer Survey Identifies Key Takeaways for Manufacturers
ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance sensor solutions, shared the results of its ‘Comfortable, Smart, High-performing Earbuds Survey’ conducted in Spring 2020 with 2000-plus consumers around the world on their audio earbud uses, habits and preferences.
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Sensor supplier AMS wins Great Wall business
ams technology, developed in cooperation with Germany's Ibeo Automotive Systems, a specialist for optical sensors that use lasers to produce 3D pictures of a car's environment, or lidar, will be a core component of a new generation of Great Wall Motor's vehicles.
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VCSEL LIDAR and Level 3 Autonomy
High-performer sensor supplier ams has announced that a LIDAR system from Ibeo Automotive Systems, ibeoNEXT, which uses ams Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology, will be used in Level 3 automated driving systems for vehicles built by Chinese OEM Great Wall Motor in 2022.
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NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering
Lightbits Labs added high availability to its software-defined block storage in version 2.0, giving it a "real enterprise" NVMe flash product with no single point of failure.
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5 Tech Trends Expected To Shape Retail Through The End Of The Year As Result Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
Technology firm Shekel Brainweigh said 87% of respondents to its global consumer survey indicated they would choose stores with self-checkout over those with only cashier lines.
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Codefresh just raised $27 million to help developers release code faster for apps that run on the Google-born cloud computing project Kubernetes
Interview with Codefresh CEO Raziel Tabib and Shasta Ventures Partner Issac Roth about $27M funding round.
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WattIQ Uses Its Power for Good
Enter WattIQ, a 12-person company that previously went by the name Ibis Networks. The rebranded firm is now in the asset-management business, with a particular focus on pharma labs. They essentially retrofit a monitoring network onto all that shiny expensive lab equipment.
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KLA Forms KLA Instruments
KLA Corp. formed KLA Instruments, a group that develops, markets and services measurement and defect inspection systems used primarily by research and development departments in universities and industrial labs. KLA Instruments offers optical and stylus profilometers, nanoindenters, benchtop film metrology systems and specialized defect inspection systems.
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As protests spread, misinformation in Facebook Groups tears small towns apart
Jean-Claude Goldenstein, founder and CEO of CREOPoint, discusses how the spread of fake news about the protests is reminiscent of what happened with coronavirus misinformation.
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Boosting sustainability through mass production DTS digital decoration
Velox describes its cutting-edge, eco-friendly digital decoration solution including the added bonus of being a more sustainable technology compared to traditional solutions.
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#159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O’Hare from Everspin
Storage Unpacked hosts dig deeper into storage media and look at magneto-resistive RAM, commonly known as MRAM in this conversation with Joe O’Hare, Director of Distribution and Product Marketing at Everspin Technologies.
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Manufacturing advances solve free-form display design challenges
Orbotech FPD experts discuss leveraging new manufacturing inspection and testing advances that enable designers to include features, such as cameras and sensors, in free-form display designs.
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How self-service equipment helps define the 'new normal' against COVID-19
Shekel, a provider of AI-powered advanced weighing solutions, has introduced Fast Track, a touchless machine-learning, cloudless self-checkout solution for supermarkets. Shekel's Fast Track eliminates the need for consumers to enter product codes via touchscreens by automatically recognizing produce, bakery and specialty items.
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Shekel's Fast Track answers urgent call for touchless self-checkout
With social distancing driving an urgent consumer demand for touchless grocery self-checkout, Shekel, the leader in AI-powered advanced weighing solutions, brings to market the Fast Track – the first touchless machine-learning, cloudless self-checkout solution enabler.
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Waves MaxxAudio Mobile Powers Stereo Speaker Sound on New Premium Phones From Motorola Mobility
Waves Audio has teamed up with Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo company) to bring mobile sound to the next level in the new Motorola edge premium smartphones.
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Embedded Executives: Patrick Wadden, Global VP, Automotive Business Development, Vicor
Decentralized power is a phenomenon that’s starting to hit the automotive sector. Is it better to have lower power levels in more places in the car, as opposed to one centralized place?
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Bubble-wrap maker Sealed Air and Simplehuman CEOs are prepping for a touchless future after coronavirus pandemic
A study by Shekel Brainweigh, an Israeli company specializing in advanced weighing systems, shows that 87% of U.S. consumers would prefer a shopping experience with more touchless and self-checkout options. Nearly three-quarters of shoppers use self-checkout frequently.
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The 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2020 Storage 100
Lightbits Labs named a one of the 40 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology.
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Everspin with Partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Developed Toggle MRAM for Space Applications
Everspin Technologies, Inc.‘s partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) presented a technical case study describing the versatility and performance of their jointly developed Toggle MRAM for space applications.
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The consumer after COVID-19
Nearly two-thirds of consumers are changing their grocery shopping habits in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent consumer survey from Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technologies.
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Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation
Key investment areas include performance-based object storage, cloud and new storage media. Recent investments include startups NVMe over Fabrics company Lightbits Labs, chipmaker Nuvia and all-flash specialist Vast Data.
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How Increasing Power and Advanced Cooling Techniques Are Converging for AI, Supercomputing and Cloud Data Centers
Where previously these markets were regarded as distinct entities, recent history has shown us that when it comes to power and cooling, they have more in common than previously thought.
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Data Storage and Transport: Headaches and Possible Remedies
Nearly every research institution in the healthcare and life sciences space faces the need to distribute large and frequently changing data sets, explained Seth Noble, founder and CEO of Data Expedition, which provides software solutions for network performance and reliability.
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On a roll: New manufacturing processes inspired by flex
Meny Gantz of Orbotech discusses how the market demand for highly innovative circuits has roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing emerging as a truly effective means for printing FPCs in high volumes, with minimum handling damage, with high yield, and at high speeds.
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Energy Outlook: US Battery Financing Nears Watershed Moment
“We see tenfold interest in commercial storage than what we saw the year before," says Lior Handelsman, founder of SolarEdge Technologies, a listed energy storage and solar company. This growth is being driven by increasing electricity prices and grid instability. So, commercial business owners who are looking to improve their bottom lines are doing so by generating and storing their own energy.”
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Investments in data storage vendors topped $2B in 2019
The Israel-based startup created the SuperSSD array for NVMe flash. The Lightbits software stack converts generic in-the-box TCP/IP into a switched Ethernet fabric, presenting all storage as a single giant SSD. Dell EMC led Lightbits' funding, with contributions from Cisco and Micron Technology.
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Everspin Releases Design Guide for using 1 Gb STT-MRAM with Xilinx DDR4 FPGA Controller
Xilinx, Inc., the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, has been supporting Everspin’s STT-MRAM for two generations and enables the 1 Gb STT-MRAM solution using its DDR4 controller in the Xilinx Vivado development environment.
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Hitachi, Shekel Brainweigh team on autonomous shopping solution
Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, and Hitachi today unveiled Capsule, a framework for an autonomous micro-market solution based on Hitachi's LiDAR sensors and Shekel's Product Aware Shelves, according to a press release.
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The 3 biggest storage trends of the next decade
I've been watching storage for some 40 years. And each decade has seen accelerating change, and none more so than the the past 10 years. That trend will continue. Here's the biggest trends I expect to affect all who use storage, whether they know it or not.
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When Combining Competing Storage Architectures Drives True Digital Transformation
For the past decade, “digital transformation” has been a key business goal for many -- applying technology for improved efficiency, increased revenue and enhanced customer experiences. This goal is not easily achieved. Digital transformation requires rethinking storage infrastructure to manage and access all the additional data it brings.
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Codefresh 2020 Predictions: DevOps Trends for 2020
The DevOps community has a lot to look forward to in 2020, especially as Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools make great gains. CI/CD software is the backbone of the modern DevOps environment and bridges the gap between development and operations teams by automating build, test, and deployment of applications. At Codefresh, we predict the following eight DevOps trends will take root in 2020.
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Lightbits Brings Clustered Storage to On-Premises Data Centers
Lightbits Labs, a relatively new company focused on storage for cloud-scale data centers, has introduced what it says is the first NVMe/TCP clustered storage solution.
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6 data storage startups to watch in 2020
Venture capitalists showed less interest in funding storage hardware startups in 2019 than previous years. But while most of the investments for data storage startups in 2019 went to mature data protection vendors, a few newcomers picked up enough funding to get on the map.
Lightbits Labs enables native Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to serve as a switched fabric for shared NVMe flash across server racks.
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Inverters: The Unsung Hero Of The Global Emerging Energy Economy
To better understand the role of the inverter and how it adds value to the equation, I lined up a conversation with Lior Handelsman, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy and Co-Founder of Israeli-based inverter company SolarEdge. SolarEdge is one of the leading inverter companies in the world, with close to $940 million in 2018 revenues, and over 1.5 million inverters and 40 million power optimizers across 130 countries, so Handelsman knows a thing or two about inverters.
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Industry 4.0 Drives New Perspective on PCB Manufacturing
“PCB users and AI systems want to know everything they can about every PCB coming off the production line. New advanced traceability techniques associated with process control and visualization capabilities can tell them a lot."
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Codefresh to chuck 100 million reasons to develop open source at huddled dev masses
Kubecon 2019 CI/CD darling Codefresh took to the high seas of Kubecon to announce that it would be flinging $100m at the open-source ecosystem, as well as adding a free tier for its Kube-friendly pipeline tech.
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PCB factories embrace AI
The evolution of PCBs from large and antiquated “printed wiring boards” to today’s fine-line designs on high-density interconnect PCBs, IC substrates and more, has been matched by manufacturing processes that have evolved from manual assembly to highly automated production. As manufacturing technology further develops, processes become more complex and more sophisticated, including the ability to inspect and then shape defects that would once have resulted in scrapped panels. A significant opportunity is now emerging for the PCB manufacturing industry to capitalize on artificial intelligence (AI) and optimize production processes and, ultimately, the entire PCB manufacturing facility.
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3 emerging memory technologies that will change how you handle data
A couple of years back, IDC predicted that by 2025 the average person will interact with connected devices 4,800 times per day. Information pouring in from those sensors will fuel machine learning, language processing, and artificial intelligence, all requiring fast storage and more compute horsepower. The next generation of memory technologies will address gaps in today’s storage hierarchy, delivering data where it’s needed for real-time processing. MRAM shows promise at the edge.
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When Persistence is a Virtue, MRAM is an Alternative to DRAM and SRAM
Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) is one of those technologies that is often talked about as having the potential to change the computer memory landscape. But in actuality, MRAM has been commercially available since 2006 and is already displacing static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), and flash NAND in number of applications inside and outside the datacenter.
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Here's what you need to know about the California power outages
Major utilities were cutting power to millions of Californians due to predicted high winds that could down power lines and spark wildfires. Here's what you need to know. Though utilities have warned for months that preemptive cutoffs were a possibility, the outages appeared to be catching many consumers by surprise. While many Florida and East Coast residents have long learned to cope with power outages from hurricanes, weather-related outages could be considered a new phenomenon in the Golden State.
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Move it! The Great Migration Heats Up
You can thank Microsoft and Satya Nadella’s vision for the fact that cloud computing is now top-of-mind for business leaders everywhere these days. Their focus on Azure pushed the whole market past its tipping point. Now, the question is: How to manage this multi-cloud reality? That’s no small task, but lots of companies are finding creative ways. Check out this episode of DM Radio to learn more!
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Cleveland, OH announces smart streetlight overhaul
As part of a campaign to replace 61,000 streetlights with more energy-efficient LED bulbs, the City of Cleveland, OH will adopt a wireless network to convert its streetlights into a smart network. The T-Light Galaxy Network from ST Engineering Telematics Wireless is an end-to-end solution that will allow city officials to set different light intensities for neighborhoods or individual lights in real time, preprogram schedules for special events and get maintenance alerts.
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Cleveland upgrades and connects entire streetlight network in just three days
The city of Cleveland, in Ohio, has upgraded its network of 61,000 streetlights with connected LED lights. The work, which took just three business days, has also included installation of 1,000 cameras on the lighting infrastructure. These will be operated by the Cleveland Police Department. Further smart city applications will be hung off the lighting network, the city said.
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Cleveland getting 61k LED streetlights with network control
The city of Cleveland has deployed a control network for the city’s 61,000 streetlights that serve 400,000 residents and businesses. ST Engineering Telematics Wireless provided the T-Light Galaxy communications infrastructure for the streetlights in only three business days over FCC licensed frequencies. Cleveland Public Power is the city-owned utility behind the project.
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Cleveland launches citywide network to control cameras, streetlights
To prepare for an influx of internet-connected devices, officials in Cleveland introduced a $35 million communications system on Monday that will connect thousands of police cameras and streetlights to a network that can be controlled by public safety officials at any time. The city installed the network through Singapore Technologies’ Telematics Wireless, a connected-device and software manufacturer that has already installed three “gateways,” or network control stations, across the city.
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Cleveland's smart streetlights project builds smart city backbone
The streets of Cleveland, Ohio are going to be a whole lot smarter when city leaders flip the switch on Smart, Safe CLE. Cleveland and ST Engineering Telematics Wireless are working on a plan to convert the city's 61,000 street lights into a smart network.
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Could 3D Printing Disrupt the Electronics Industry?
More companies and universities are integrating 3D printing with their electronic design. The non-traditional process was well-received as it moved from the aerospace to automotive to medical industries. Electronics could be next on the list to benefit from 3D printing, according to Ernst and Young. Today, many people say we will never 3D-print phones and other complex, multi-material products. However, with so many companies pushing to develop a magical all-encompassing printer, will we see electronics being manufactured with 3D printing?
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3D Printing Spotlight On: Hila Elimelech, Vice President of Materials, Nano Dimension
Israel-based Nano Dimension is seeking to change the way things are made, with their flagship DragonFly 2020 3D printer catching attention from many quarters for its ability to 3D print electronics including printed circuit boards (PCBs).
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PHYTEC enjoys reduction in time and cost with Nano Dimension DragonFly 2020 3D printer
In November 2016, Nano Dimension Technologies delivered a beta DragonFly 2020 to its third customer: PHYTEC, a German microprocessor solutions provider. The deal came about as PHYTEC tackled an increasing demand for prototypes from its customer base. PHYTEC needed a solution which could reduce development time, while maintaining the quality of its products and service. It decided to take on Nano Dimension’s flagship 3D printing technology, and today is publishing the results.
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VMWorld 2019 News Bits
This week VMworld 2019 took place in San Francisco, California. While we covered the major announcements from the VMware and Dell Technologies, there were several other smaller announcements. These announcements come from vendors such as Apstra, Lightbits Labs, Cohesity, Rackspace, Supermicro, and Check Point.
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Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMWorld
Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let’s look at some of the products on show at VMworld in San Francisco this week.
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Power supply management in quantum computers
In 2016, the first quantum computers were able to be programmed from a high level user interface to run arbitrary quantum algorithms. The design architectures were small in scale, with just a handful of qubits each. Some of the big players like IBM, Google, Microsoft, as well as several start-ups have an ultimate goal to create a larger scale device of commercial viability sometime in the near future.
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GitHub gets a CI/CD service
Microsoft’s GitHub today launched the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with full continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities built right into the service. General availability is planned for November 13. The company also today announced that it now has more than 40 million developers on its platform.
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Phison Brings Everspin’s 1Gb STT-MRAM To Next-Gen SSD Controllers
The technology that never goes mainstream even after 30 years of advancement is advancing even farther into the enterprise market, thanks to a partnership that pairs Everspin's latest 1Gb ICs with Phison’s next-gen SSD controller.
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Lights-out digital manufacturing delivers first 3D printed electronics
Additive electronics provider Nano Dimension Ltd. has unveiled its new DragonFly Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing (LDM) printing technology, which the company presents as the industry’s only comprehensive additive manufacturing platform for round-the-clock 3D printing of electronic circuitry. The initial deployment took place at the Munich premises of sensor and defense electronics provider Hensoldt.
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Nano Dimension introduced low-volume, continuous additive manufacturing system for electronics production
Additively manufacturing functional circuits round-the-clock with little or no operator intervention is possible with the new DragonFly LDM precision additive manufacturing system from Nano Dimension. This 3D printer will build electronic components such as multilayer Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), antennas, sensors and so on, round-the-clock, enabling Nano Dimension to shift from developing prototyping printers to systems that handle one-off prototypes as well as low-volume manufacturing of printed electronics.
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INTERVIEW: Nano Dimension CEO Amit Dror on the launch of the 24 hour DragonFly LDM 3D printer
Designed for 24 hour electronics production, the DragonFly LDM (standing for Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing) is a new 3D printer and DragonFly Pro upgrade from Israeli 3D printed electronics company Nano Dimension. Hinted at in a corporate update earlier this month, the machine was launched today through the company’s global sales channel and requires minimal operator intervention, representing a significant advance for 3D printed electronics.
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Packaging Decoration Goes Direct
Advancement in the manufacturing world is often viewed through a lens of efficiency, as new technology makes essential process steps faster. However, in many instances, it’s the removal of steps entirely that can provide the highest-impact results. Historically, label and package printing has been a two-dimensional process, with sheets or a web passing through a press, to then be converted into three-dimensional objects. But, with the rise of direct-to-shape and direct-to-object printing becoming increasingly viable technologies, package decoration can be viewed in a whole new light.
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48 Volts DC is the new 12 Volts DC.
Could it also be the new 120 Volts AC? ...whenever I talk about Direct Current vs Alternating current I come away singed and shocked by the comments, like my last one, where even fans noted, "This is about the most wrong article I've seen you write, Lloyd." But to this day, I do not understand why we have a system where every single light bulb now has to have a little transformer and rectifier to feed it DC, and almost everything we plug into the wall now has a transformer brick on it. Our domestic world now pretty much runs on DC.
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10 Coolest Flash Storage and SSD Technologies of 2019 So Far
Lightbits Labs in April introduced SuperSSD, calling it the industry’s first scalable, Ethernet-attached SSD offering targeting the storage performance, capacity and reliability requirements for artificial intelligence and machine-learning training systems. SuperSSD was purpose-built for fast and massive parallel access to data. The technology virtualizes and manages a large pool of NVMe SSDs with a global flash translation layer (GFTL) for efficient storage utilization and wire-speed access to very large data sets across existing network and compute infrastructures.
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Delivering on Solar's Promise - Podcast
As Ronen Faier recalls the career-building ups-and-downs of being an entrepreneurial CFO, few memories appear to be more vivid than that of a meeting with Guy Sella, a seasoned Israeli entrepreneur, who invited Faier to lead the finance team of his solar start-up. Not yet a midsize firm, SolarEdge Technologies had only about $9 million in annual sales, with roughly 100 employees, when Faier received Sella’s invitation.
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How to deliver software faster
Data from a new survey by Codefresh exposed the relentless pressure, with 32 percent reporting they were not using any CI/CD tools at all, and about 60 percent agreeing that their organizations are “not using the right amount of automation to enable individual developers to increase velocity, including DevOps, Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh recently answered some questions for us about the survey and the over-arching theme of code delivery.
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Network Growth And Enterprise Storage
This blog presents survey results indicating telco perceptions of the growth and use of 5G networks and particularly the growth of edge computing. We also talk about some recently announced solutions for enterprise storage, including the Seagate Exos platform and its integration with Cloudian Software. We also talk about Lightbits and NVMe over TCP and new SSDs from Toshiba that have been certified with Excelero’s NVMesh software defined block storage.
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Everspin Begins Production of 1 Gb STT-MRAM
Everspin recently announced they have begun pilot production of their 1Gb STT-MRAM (Spin-transfer Torque Magnetoresistive RAM) nonvolatile memory, after shipping the first pre-production samples in December. The new MRAM parts are fabbed on a GlobalFoundries 28nm process and are a significant advance in density and capacity compared to their current 40nm 256Mb parts. Production will be ramping up through the second half of this year.
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Several California Counties Move Toward Next-Gen 911
Several counties in California are moving forward with phasing out their decades-old emergency 911 systems, and replacing them with digital versions capable of moving more data faster for improved location accuracy. The new technology can more quickly route first responders to the scene of an emergency, improving response times, said Robert Bustichi, systems management supervisor for San Mateo County Public Safety Communications.
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Summer School for Buyers: HDI & Auto Design
Today’s automotive industry is changing at an incredibly fast pace, moving from combustion engine-based designs with human drivers to driverless, electronics-based systems. This automotive transformation presents some clear electronic design challenges in the inevitable shift toward the design and production of semi- and fully autonomous vehicles.
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Tapit introduces self-order restaurant kiosk
Tapit is a new kiosk solution that touts itself as the Wix of kiosks because it provides easy to use templates for restaurant owners to control and design their user interface. (Wix is a do-it-yourself website builder).
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Engineering Teams are struggling because they're missing the right automation
Data from a new survey by Codefresh exposes the relentless pressure, with 32 percent reporting they were not using any CI/CD tools at all, and about 60 percent agreeing that their organizations are "not using the right amount of automation to enable individual developers to increase velocity."
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California counties ink GIS contracts to build next-generation 911
San Mateo County and Merced County announced that they will pay Datamark, a developer for GIS platforms for public-safety agencies, $400,000 and $109,000 respectively, to prepare municipal address and road data as they prepare to implement next-generation 911 systems.
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Tapit introduces self-order restaurant kiosk
Tapit, a restaurant and retail-focused software vendor, has launched SELFIT, a self-ordering kiosk platform with accompanying online ordering via a mobile app and interface to the restaurant's website.
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Lightbits Labs soups up NVMe fabric with all-flash SuperSSD
One month after launching its disaggregated NVMe storage software, Lightbits Labs is jumping into the hardware game. The startup this week introduced SuperSSD, an NVMe-oF all-flash array targeted at AI and cloud applications. The 2U form factor hosts the Lightbits LightOS operating system and 24 NVMe SSDs.
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Advanced Antenna Architectures and RF Semiconductors at the Intersection of SATCOM and 5G Technologies
The demand for high speed, broadband data connectivity continues unabated, and we are seeing revolutionary changes in fixed wired networks such as HFC and Fiber along with terrestrial wireless networks—from 4G to 5G—in order to meet this demand. As such, it was only a matter of time before we saw the same transformation in satellite networks. The ever increasing need for high-speed mobile Internet services, rural/remote Internet access and ubiquitous IoT connectivity are driving significant growth in the VSAT and SATCOM markets.
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Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined 'disaggregated' server technology
Datacenters with servers directly attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) often suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute: Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of daily data transfer operations. Four-year-old startup Lightbits Labs claims it has the solution to the perennial underutilization problem, and it’s raising money to prove out its approach. The company today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding led by strategic partners Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron, SquarePeg Capital.
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NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. NVM-Express started out as an important interconnect inside of storage systems, but its extension across network fabrics is very likely going to have a more transformative effect on datacenters as it allows for storage to be disaggregated from compute, enabling the kind of disaggregation and composability that, thus far, only the biggest cloud builders and hyperscalers could afford to create for yourself.
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Let there be Lightbits: Hardware-software tag team touts block-level storage at SSD latencies
Israeli startup Lightbits Labs has launched storage software to run NVMe over TCP with optional hardware acceleration. The system is said to support scale-out shared external block access storage at latencies similar to direct-attached SSDs.
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Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage
Lightbits Labs capped more than three years of product development with introductory offerings that turn the mature Transmission Control Protocol into a switched fabric for shared NVMe flash storage. The startup launched three products for NVMe over fabrics: LightOS disaggregated storage software, the LightBox NVMe all-flash array and an optional LightField accelerator card to offload data services.
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Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m
Israeli data storage center company Lightbits Labs has raised $50 million in funding led by DellEMC and with the participation of Cisco, Micron, Square Peg Capital and Walden International. this is the company's third financing round after a seed round of several million dollars in 2016 and more than $10 million in 2017.
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Versasec unveils vSEC:CMS S-Series v5.4
Versasec, the leader in smart card management systems, rolled out the latest generation of its flagship identity and access management (IAM) solution. vSEC:CMS S-Series v5.4 incorporates a variety of important new features, including new console capabilities and support for Gemalto eToken 5300 and the Matica 8300 card printer.
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Can Automakers Catch Up with Google in Driverless Cars?
General Motors celebrated being the world’s largest carmaker for the 76th straight year in 2007. It was sitting on $25 billion in cash. Eighteen months later, it was bankrupt. The automotive industry is among the most capital intensive in the world: If the economy sours, assets turn into liabilities overnight as factories churning out thousands of cars begin to hemorrhage cash. So when toxic mortgage securities blew up in 2008, causing a recession, banks performed terribly — but carmakers fared even worse. (Article originally appeared in Financial Times)
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The case for digital
Digital decoration technology has made the packaging industry more exciting than ever before, igniting new creative possibilities for brands, allowing more operational agility for manufacturers, and encouraging leading industry players to explore new directions. (Appears on Page 22)
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Cities looking to get smart take a lesson from an iconic shopping mall
It’s a small world, after all — at least when it comes to leveraging technologies to create a smarter community experience. From Disney World to the Mall of America, public venues are turning out to be microcosms for smart city projects. Cities and towns looking to up their infrastructure game can extrapolate from the experience of major sports stadiums, for example, as demonstrations of what happens when you offer free Wi-Fi to 70,000 people. And metropolitan areas can learn from shopping hubs that have installed Bluetooth to pinpoint consumers.
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AzureDevOps Collaborative Remote Debugging with OzCode
The rise of microservices and containers, cloud-hosted CI/CD systems and serverless platforms give developers more opportunities to build rich and powerful services. But debugging those services is becoming increasingly complicated, and as deployment frequency goes up the mean time to recovery from problems tends to go up. Part of that is the complexity of the environment and the time it takes to deploy a developer environment that accurately mimics the production environment.
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U.S. Armed Forces Invests in Additive Electronics
Two different branches of the U.S. Armed Forces have bought a DragonFly Pro 3D printer from Nano Dimensions, a move that points to the potential benefit that the technology has for defense applications.
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This technology is trying to bring high-speed internet to underserved areas
Fiber optic internet cables can bring crazy-fast internet connections to everyone in the United States. Theoretically.
In practice, the people who could most use a new high-speed connection -- low-income residents of both urban and rural areas -- are the ones least likely to get it.
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Codefresh looks to make Kubernetes orchestration easier for enterprises
Fresh off an $8 million funding round led by Microsoft Corp.’s venture capital arm, Israeli startup Codefresh Inc. today released an enterprise version of its namesake software for managing continuous integration and development on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform.
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Codefresh raises $8M Series B round for its container-centric CI/CD platform
Codefresh, a continuous integration and delivery platform built for the Kubernetes container ecosystem, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series B round led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. Viola Ventures, Hillsven and CEIF also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $15.1 million.
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Codefresh Kubernetes-Native CI/CD Platform Lures Microsoft Cash
Codefresh, which offers a Kubernetes-native continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, more than doubled its total funding haul through an $8 million Series B. The round was notably led by Microsoft’s M12 venture fund.
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Device Protection, Management and Secured OTA
From embedded to cloud¸ NanoLock Security provides the industry’s only lightweight¸ unbreakable¸ low-cost security and management solution for connected edge devices. Using virtually zero computing and power resources¸ NanoLock Security protects firmware and sensitive information stored on connected IoT devices¸ preventing attacks ranging from ransomware to malicious manipulation of stored code.
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NanoLock Launches Platform to Protect IoT Devices From Production Through End-of-Life
Cybersecurity start-up NanoLock Security today announced a new lightweight security platform designed to add security into the small connected devices better known as the internet of things, rather than to overlay security around those devices.
This is security designed to safeguard small devices from the production line through to the end of life and beyond; to allow secure updates but to prevent hacking and tampering; and to ensure the integrity of data from the device outwards.
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Indoor-positioning technology helps save workplace time and energy
Using technology to improve the workplace environment is not a new concept, but the reasons, the goals and technology itself constantly change. Today, the focus is employee-centric, and companies seek smart solutions that are intuitive and that make sense financially.
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Gathering Workplace Data? As Easy As IPS
In the quest for a more productive workplace environment, establishing a ground truth is key to guiding the evolution of office spaces. Understanding what works is as important as knowing what doesn’t. Answering those questions effectively and efficiently is key. In conversations with commercial real estate and facilities management professionals over the last year, I’ve asked the question about what works every time and heard as many different answers as the number of people I’ve queried. Self-reported employee surveys, manual pen-and-paper observations, and room booking history are some of the more common ways for understanding how a particular corporate office is being used.
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6 hidden bottlenecks in cloud data migration
Moving terabytes or even petabytes of data to the cloud is a daunting task. But it is important to look beyond the number of bytes. You probably know that your applications are going to behave differently when accessed in the cloud, that cost structures will be different (hopefully better), and that it will take time to move all that data. Because my company, Data Expedition, is in the business of high-performance data transfer, customers come to us when they expect network speed to be a problem. But in the process of helping companies overcome that problem, we have seen many other factors that threaten to derail cloud migrations if left overlooked.
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Data Center Services Provider vXchnge Launches First-Ever Partner Program; The 'Channel Is In Our Blood'
Data center services provider vXchnge is betting big on the channel to drive sales in high-growth markets by launching its first-ever channel partner program, which includes a compensation program, training and bonuses for bringing in net new deals.
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Tips from the Shelves: Proven Methods for Boosting Data Warehouse Speeds
In this special guest feature, Jason Harris, Evangelist at Panoply, discusses how data collection and analysis are further enhanced when including methods for disseminating, analyzing, and distributing data. Jason is Panoply’s Evangelist and works to serve the data community within Panoply. He’s a former DBA, report developer and code monkey; and now manages Panoply’s social media and events strategy so if you haven’t seen him in person yet, you will likely soon.
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2018 CES TECH: Six Budget LIDAR Systems
Autonomy requires gobs of sensors, and although Elon Musk and Tesla have publicly said "no thanks" to laser-based lidar sensing in favor of cameras, most of the rest of the industry expects to augment cameras with this "light detection and ranging" technology. For the past few years, the race has been on to replace those spendy spinny laser scanners festooning the roofs of the current crop of robo-taxis and autonomous prototype test vehicles with cheaper, smaller, lighter designs that are easier to integrate into the bodywork. At CES, plenty of options were found featuring lasers that still move, mirrors that move, and completely solid-state flash lidar concepts.
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What Driving Will Look Like in the Year 2028
A company called Foresight, which listed on the Nasdaq in the spring of 2017 has seen its shares jump and drop since going public. But in the last month the stock has seen a dramatic turn around, rising 35 percent in the month before the signature electronics show on the Vegas strip. Israel based Foresight gave CNBC a test drive, to demonstrate what it's like behind the wheel.
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The Myth of Network Speed: Speed in networks is actually difficult to measure
Speed is the most common network metric, yet it does not actually exist as a well-defined scalar. Speed is a statistic whose value and significance changes depending how it is observed. Network problems are most often characterized as speed problems, but finding the cause requires an understanding of the ways speed can be measured and what they mean.
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Iguazio releases high-speed serverless platform to open source
Iguazio Systems Ltd. has raised $48 million and a lot of interest for its platform-independent approach to data analytics. Now the company is releasing some of the underlying serverless computing technology under an open-source license.
Called nuclio, the platform is claimed to operate at faster-than-bare-metal speed, processing up to 400,000 events per second compared with 2,000 on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Lambda platform, according to Yaron Haviv, founder and chief technology officer of Iguazio.
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Indoor positioning systems guide customers into better shopping experiences
The ability to guide customers in a shopping center through their smartphones became possible for mall owners in 2012. Now the infrastructure is expanding into a growing number of major malls and is being tested by big retailers, all to increase customer convenience and gain greater customer insights. StepInside uses location services on mobile devices to enable real-time integration with a mall or a store’s smartphone app, connecting visitors with special retail offers and information about mall events.
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CEO: 'Claying the ongoing continuous chaos of info into one logical masterpiece'
Panoply emerged from stealth in late 2016 and now wants to announce general availability of its data warehouse product. It exclaims that, after four decades of stagnation in the data management industry – is this a realistic claim by the way? – it has the world's only Smart Cloud Data Warehouse, which is cloud-native, fully self-driving and autonomous.
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Mission-critical power start-up demands perfect performance every time
Design of a mission-critical, rapid-start, isolated power system needs to be flawless. These systems, leveraged in mission-critical military applications, need to start in milliseconds - every time.
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Sckipio Demonstrates Gfast Speeds of 3.1 Gbps Downstream over Copper, Calix Takes Advantage
Manufacturers continue to enhance the broadband speeds that copper phone wiring can support using the Gfast standard. Sckipio today said it demonstrated Gfast speeds of 3.1 Gbps downstream and 900 Mbps upstream at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin. The demonstration used two copper pairs bonded together.
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Commercial and Military Innovation at a Crossroads for Radar and Wireless Networking Applications
From the modern battlefield to commercial wireless infrastructure, bandwidth demands are growing exponentially. In the aerospace and defense (A&D) market, these demands are being driven by the need for low-latency communication and enhanced situational awareness and responsiveness among warfighters deployed across ground, sea and air domains, serviced by sophisticated radar systems deployed in manned and unmanned vehicles, operations centers and outposts.
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Wireless startups: Announcing FierceWireless' Fierce 15 for 2017
The Fierce editing team is constantly on the lookout for interesting startups and emerging companies in wireless. We’ve tracked a long list of potential candidates over the last year and whittled candidates down to 15 selections, including B.Yond.
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For Canada's tech to thrive, startups must grow up
When Microsoft Corp. offered to buy his software startup for more than $10-million (U.S.), Carl Rodrigues agonized about the decision for three days.
It was 2006 and his firm, SOTI Inc., had nine employees and $800,000 in revenue. Friends and family urged him to sell, convinced the giant from Redmond, Wash., would crush him if he said no. Saying yes would have made the Pakistan-born Canadian immigrant a multimillionaire – but he wanted to keep building.
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The evolution of industry 4.0, through the eyes of the PCB manufacturer
Industry 4.0—known to some as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or smart factory—promises to transform the manufacturing and production infrastructure in profound ways. Its name derives from its potential to usher in the fourth industrial revolution—a bold objective when one considers the magnitude of the revolutions in steam power, assembly-line production, and computer automation that preceded it.
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Flash array startup E8 whips out benchmarks, everyone will complain
NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup E8 says its box out-performs Dell EMC and Pure arrays by up to 20 times.
E8 is now selling and shipping a 2U by 24 NVMe SSD and NVMe over Fabrics-accessed array, with dual controllers and some logic agents in the accessing servers. It provides a claimed 10 million IOPS with 100 microsecond latency. The array is actually just a bunch of flash drives and uses dual-port 6.4TB NVMe SSDs, the first such array in the storage business.
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A persective on digital ANC solutions in a low latency dominated world
Active noise cancelling (ANC) technology was used typically in pricey headsets to attenuate the engine noise of an aircraft. The technique to attenuate the unwanted ambient noise is rather old and was invented in the last century. Meanwhile, the headset industry noticed the advantages of ANC with its enhanced listening experience to differentiate from commodity headsets. Since ANC was a niche market to the semiconductor industry, the typical technical implementations used to be discrete with stand-alone headphone amplifiers, operational amplifiers, and microphone pre-amplifiers.
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Shared Data Migration Mitigates Supply Chain Cost of Electronics Counterfeiting
Electronics counterfeiting is gaining attention as evidenced by the recent IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust chaired by Professor Mark Tehranipoor. More than 250 industry and academic leaders attended the conference to address the growing threat that counterfeit devices are posing to the security of the electronics supply chain. Inadvertent use of recycled, refurbished, or re-marked components can result in significant business risk for a manufacturer’s customers, resulting in unwanted returns and damage to their brand value.
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Meeting the power demands of battery supplied automotive electronics
Have you driven a new automobile recently? It can be an almost futuristic experience, with sophisticated gauges, touch screens, connected entertainment systems, and lighting—all of which need power. Behind all these electronics are battery regulators and battery chargers that manage the power both into and out of 12V, 24V, and 48V batteries. Each year the ‘must have’ list of supported accessories and electronic systems grows with the expectation that the size, weight and number of supporting power components will keep pace with the increased power demands.
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Nexius Software-Focused Subsidiary Targets Cisco and Ericsson
Nexius wants to use its expertise in network software to take on vendor heavyweights like Cisco and Ericsson.
The company, which supplies telecommunications network deployment services, is launching a subsidiary called B.Yond to focus on software. B.Yond’s goal is to provide a more flexible, software-based approach to meet network demands.
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PCIM 2017 in a nutshell
It was the year that saw the evolution of wide-bandgap technology and its uptake by design engineers into actual products. Yes, there are concerns that SiC is more expensive at the device level than Si but that’s not true at the system level when the frequency is increased from 10 kHz to 40 kHz, according to Infineon. Automotive appeared to be the primary target for most wideband gap devices, but certainly there were plenty of products that targeted photovoltaics, EV charging, traction control, and motor drives.
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5G Wireless: MArket Opportunities and Technical Challenges, from Sub-6 GHz to Millimeter Wave
The evolution to 5G mobile networks continues to accelerate, promising breakthrough gains in wireless throughput and capacity. In the near term, we’ll see sub-6 GHz wireless infrastructure begin to be deployed to bridge the bandwidth gap between existing 4G LTE networks and future millimeter wave (mmW) 5G implementations that leverage frequencies significantly higher than 6 GHz.
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CSO: State-of-the-art multifactor authentication (MFA) technologies
Enterprises authenticate users based on their knowledge, possession, or inherence of some evidence that they are the party with the given right of access. Some experts see the context of the user’s authentication such as the time, their network IP and device, and their location as the fourth factor of authentication..
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TCP/IP Outdated for Big Data Transport, Quiet Company Says
In network technology circles there’s a joke about “never underestimating the bandwidth capacity of a station wagon full of tapes driving down the highway.” In the same vein, at re:Invent last fall, Amazon Web Services announced with fanfare – and some humor – a service for transferring up to 100PB of data to AWS in a 45-foot long shipping container pulled by an 18-wheeler truck.
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Five 3-D printing breakthroughs everyone needs to know about
The world of 3-D printing is changing fast. New materials are announced and new systems are proposed almost every month. And as with any fast-growing technology, there is a lot of hype. When something is announced it will get a lot of press and attention, but what do you really need to know to follow the industry? Below are five recent events that anyone that uses or follows additive manufacturing should know about. They impact not only the technology, but also the business side of the industry.
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The Struggle to Shrink System Size: Innovative Technologies Driving the Next Generation of Mobile Devices
Consumer electronics designers and manufacturers are in a constant balancing act to stay competitive with the addition of new innovative functionality while maintaining high yields at a competitive cost. Whether they’re smartphones or wearables, IoT devices or automotive electronics, there inevitably comes a point in the design process where designers just can’t cram any additional components or circuitry into the device without adding undesirable bulk or cost. Try as they might, they’ve reached the limit. Or have they?
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Data Expedition bring its FTP data transfer alternative to the cloud
A self-described “quiet software company” that has taken no funding while building a base of more than 200 enterprise customers over the course of 17 years is hoping to make some noise today with the launch of a version of its high-performance data transport software for the major cloud infrastructure platforms.
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Iguazio Re-Architects the Stack for Continuous Analytics
When it comes to modern big data architectures, you will typically find lots of different components, engines, and moving parts, each of which tackles part of the problem. One vendor with bold vision of re-architecting the stack with a more streamlined approach is Iguazio, which is building a singular product based on Flash that delivers continues analytics on big and fast data.
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Dual Ports Drive NVMe SSD Uptick
Solid state drives (SSDs) that use the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) interface haven't been adopted as quickly as expected, but one storage startup sees the advent of dual port functionality as an opportunity to make inroads the enterprise storage market.
Zivan Ori, CEO and co-founder of E8 Storage, told EE Times in a telephone interview that he sees the industry shifting toward NVMe on both the client and enterprise side. "There's no longer a premium associated with NVMe," Ori said.
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Cross-Organizational Data Sharing in the Auto Supply Chain Reduces Defects
For years, semiconductor manufacturers have leveraged manufacturing data throughout their globally-dispersed supply chains to improve quality and reduce return material authorizations (RMAs). Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers are now working to meet the similar challenge of reducing defective parts per million (DPPM) and beyond in vehicle production. The ability to share and connect data backwards and forwards throughout the supply chain is now seen as a key capability to address this challenge. How can sharing data throughout the automotive supply chain reduce DPPM?
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SOTI's MobiControl Update 13.3 Adds Android Remote View
SOTI’s MobiControl update 13.3 adds the Remote View feature for Android for Work devices and introduces several other functionalities to this enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution, the Canadian company announced on Monday. The latest version of MobiControl is available for download from SOTI’s website, while its Android clients can be found on the Google Play Store. The EMM firm is offering a 30-day trial of its product that’s available as a subscription service, with prices starting at $4 monthly per device.
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When your mobile-first operations are mission critical and IoT optimized
The problem: As we hurriedly enter the “mobile-first” era, companies are transforming their operations by leveraging mobile technology. Reduction in the costs of highly capable mobile devices, sophistication and proliferation of mobile apps, and growth of mobile-supported cloud services have put mobile technology at the forefront of business transformation. But as we reinvent business in this new mobile-first world, we often forget about a very important detail, and that is: How do we effectively support these now “work from anyplace and anytime” mobile workers?
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Meet the Channel: Roula Vrsic, SOTI
This week we sat down with Roula Vrsic, chief marketing officer at SOTI, a company that develops enterprise mobility management (EMM) and other mobile security solutions for enterprise businesses. Vrsic has been with SOTI since 2013, and previously worked in several executive-level roles at companies including WatchGuard Technologies and BorderWare Technologies.
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11 Myths About XYZ Color Sensing
With the recent application of nano-photonic interference filter technology, XYZ color sensing is moving out of the realm of laboratory instrument into more mainstream applications, including in-situ spectral sensing and lighting. In this article, we tackle 11 of the most common misconceptions about XYZ and its applications.
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The 10 Coolest Storage Startups of 2016
E8 Storage
CEO and Co-Founder: Zivan Ori
Tel Aviv-based E8 Storage came out of stealth in May when it said it received $12 million in B-round funding. E8 Storage is developing software-defined NVMe-based storage solutions that will leverage NVMe flash storage for high-performance applications.
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14 Ways Israel Inspired the World in 2016
ISRAEL21c brings you daily reports of Israeli inventions, innovations, discoveries and altruistic initiatives. Here we’ve chosen 15 of many that made a remarkable impact in the year 2016, including Nano Dimension's 3D printed human tissue.
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Internet of Things Smart Sensors Are Driving Smart Buildings
Basically, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of interconnected devices embedded with sensors, software, network connectivity, and electronics that enable them to collect and exchange data. Sensors, therefore, are key elements in the "things" of the IoT. They are a crucial part of what we conceive to be the next industrial revolution and will affect the way businesses, governments, and consumers interact with the physical world.
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Hot data storage technology trends for 2017
As in past years, there's nothing bleeding-edge or impractical here, only newer storage tech that's been proven practical. Hence, while our list of storage technology trends represents the best and brightest the storage industry has to offer, it only includes technologies you can buy and deploy today.
Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelts and get ready to discover our take on what technologies will have the most profound effect on storage shops in 2017.
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Move ICs from defects per million to defects per billion
Defective Parts Per Million (DPPM) is one of the key metrics used to measure quality in many semiconductor segments. With electronics becoming more and more a part of everyday life (wearable electronics and semi-autonomous vehicles), there's increasing pressure to improve quality across all semiconductor market segments. For mission-critical segments such as automotive and medical, market forces are driving improvements in quality into the Defective Parts Per Billion (DPPB) range.
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3D Printed Circuit Boards: First PCB 3D Printers Available Soon
For makers, 3D printed circuit boards are no longer a mere dream. 3D printers, which can do DIY PCB printing, will become commercially available soon. The making of DIY circuit boards is a complex task. First, you’ll have to plan the PCB, make a 2D print of the layout, cut a copper plate, transfer the PCB layout to the copper plate, iron the circuit, go through the process of etching, cleaning, disposing… and after some hours of manual labor, you should be ready.
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Power & Analog 2017 Forecast: What Experts Are Saying
Representatives from major players in the semiconductor industry share their predictions for 2017 regarding power modules, wireless power, data converters, wireless sensing, and more. Pierre Laboisse, executive vice president, global sales and marketing, ams, offers his perspective on where the sensor market will focus in 2017.
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Security Automation Is More Than Automation
It’s no secret that security operations is under fire. In most enterprises, the only thing standing between a normal day and a financially devastating data breach is the security analyst. Yet, despite decades of investment in cyber security protection, detection, and intelligence tools, the analyst lacks a centralized software platform to operationalize all of this data in time to effectively prevent breaches from occurring. Drowning in a sea of alerts, and with the business on the line, SOC analysts are desperately seeking solutions. Automation is being hailed as the answer. But what does "security automation" really mean?
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Storage newbie: You need COTS to really rock that NVMe baby
NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics to give shared arrays the data access latency killing benefits of NVMe. Unlike Nimble architect Dimitris Krekoukias, storage startup E8 believes putting NVMe SSDs in today's all-flash arrays will be futile; it claims we need NVMe fabrics to get the NVMe performance boost.
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Siemplify raises $10M to improve corporate security coordination
Cybersecurity professionals usually divide their attention between several different tools, but according to Siemplify Inc., that doesn't have to mean they should be constatnly switching between tabs and shuffling data around. The New York-based startup is pursuing a centralized approach to breach prevention that has attracted a $10 million investment from 83North, G20 Ventures and several of its existing backers.
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Siemplify Scores $10M to Streamline Cybersecurity Operations
Siemplify, a cyber-threat management and analysis firm with outposts in both Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York City, announced a $10 million round of Series A financing Tuesday, continuing what has been a busy month for cybersecurity investments across the country.
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15 Data Storage Startups
The data storage market has become a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship. Here are 15 data storage startups that are generating excitement, including E8 Storage.
Software defined networking, the cloud, solid state storage: there are many reasons why the days of buying an expensive storage system from an established vendor may well be numbered. Here are 15 innovative startups that may provide a better way to meet your storage needs.
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Display Inspection: Flexible OLED displays drive market disruption, manufacturing innovation
Consumer electronics manufacturers reside between a rock and a hard place. They must continuously innovate in order to compete in the mass market, yet they’re tightly constrained by unrelenting cost pressures. The recent emergence of flexible OLED displays is a prime example of a cutting-edge technology that electronics manufacturers must pursue to maintain market relevance—but producing these displays is expensive, and the number-one reason for this is yield.
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Philips Lighting joins $7 million round for smart building sensor maker PointGrab
Israel’s PointGrab has raised $7 million in funding for its sensors for smart buildings. The investors include lighting company Philips Lighting; Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co. (MUCAP), a venture capital arm of Japan’s largest financial group; and existing investors ABB Technology Ventures (ATV).
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Sckipio touts fibre-like symmetrical G.fast kit
Fabless G.fast silicon house Sckipio hopes to give the fibre-most-of-the-way, copper to the home market a kick along with silicon that gets close to symmetric performance, at whatever data rate the copper can support.
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Why it's so difficult for SOC teams to trust automation
In the complex corporate security environment, automation is increasingly the "go-to" answer for organizations lost in a sea of alerts, logs and data. For many, it's the only way to address their most critical processes and it's what keeps them moving from task to task in a fluid manner. But there is a danger in putting too much faith into automation and orchestration alone.
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Disruptive Technology, Monotonous Marketing At Strata+Hadoop World
When I attend tech conferences, I’m usually content to find a half dozen sufficiently disruptive stories for a Forbes article. At Strata, in contrast, virtually every vendor on my list made the cut. Here, then, are the 15 disruptive vendor stories that made my (not so) short list.
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Catching up with SOTI on Android for Work, remote control, and RMAD
Earlier this year I wrote We haven’t covered them much at BrianMadden.com, but they do have a significant presence in the mobile space going back 20 years, so they should definitely be on our radar. Among other things, they specialize in managing ruggedized devices and Android.
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Magnetic Angle Position Sensors Elicit Efficient, Energy-Saving Motor Control
In the seemingly endless quest for higher motor performance and improved system cost efficiencies, motor manufacturers are increasingly adopting a new trend: Replacing multiple magnetic Hall-effect latch sensor devices with a single Hall-effect magnetic angle sensor device for motor-commutation feedback. This trend is particularly evident in the automotive and industrial markets, where use of brushless direct-current (BLDC) motors is on the rise.
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CenturyLink G.fast Strategy Begins with Largest North American G.fast Deployment to Date
A CenturyLink G.fast strategy began in Platteville, Wisconsin, where the broadband carrier has deployed what it claims to be the largest G.fast deployment in North America. That strategy will include deploying G.fast to MDUs, MTUs, and neighborhoods where fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) is present.
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Nano Dimension ships first 3D printer for PCBs
Nano Dimension Ltd. (Ness Ziona, Israel), has supplied the first DragonFly 2020 printer for 3D circuitry and PCBs to an Israeli defense electronics company. The unit is for evaluation purposes and is expected to be installed at the partner’s site in the next few days.
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7 Startups Driving Innovation in 3D Printing
The hype of consumer 3D printing might be fizzling, but the excitement continues to build for industrial applications. It’s a market still ripe for innovation and as expected there has been a surge of startup activity in the field of additive manufacturing.
Below we round up seven startups that are developing novel technologies and aspiring to be the next big thing in 3D printing.
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Smart Sensors’ Role in the Digital Ceiling
The Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced large-scale networking and digitization to commercial buildings and opens a whole new range of solutions and services for construction and building management executives that are too compelling to ignore. This innovation will yield true smart buildings that are efficient, save energy, optimize facility management, enhance safety and security, generate business intelligence and improve occupants’ experience.
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ams Goes All In On Sensors
Most of the acquisitions we report on in the tech community have diversification as the end goal of the deal. For example, a large and established LED maker may acquire, or at least partner with, a maker of flat-panel displays to get a piece of the LED-TV/Display market.
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SOCs Require More Than a Band-Aid Approach
The “health” of security operations centers (SOC) is declining: it is becoming harder and harder for security teams to successfully prevent and remediate breaches. Everyone in the industry intuitively understands that breaches are unavoidable. The goal is to find and terminate the attacker’s actions as fast as possible, shortening the time from breach to mitigation of the threat.
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CRN Exclusive: Security Startup Siemplify Launches First Partner Program
Security startup Siemplify is diving into the channel, announcing the launch of its first partner program to help solution providers build a better security operations center business. Based in New York City, Siemplify offers an end-to-end platform for security teams in the security operations center (SOC), including threat management and incident response. Its ThreatNexus platform helps security analysts index alerts, events, and provide business context and threat intelligence data in a single pane of glass.
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E8 Storage Unveils NVM Express Array
At the Flash Memory Summit 2016 conference today, E8 Storage unveiled a storage array built using solid-state drives (SSDs) based on a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Express interface that when attached to a high-speed network provides access to shared storage at speeds that are comparable to a locally attached SSD.
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E8 Storage brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array
E8 Storage is entering the all-flash storage market with an appliance that will cram 24 NVMe SSDs into a 2U box. The vendor promises its SSDs will perform with the same latency and throughput as those attached directly to a host.
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New products of the week 7.25.16
ThreatNexus
Key features: A new orchestration module for the Siemplify ThreatNexus security operations platform that reduces incident response times from days to minutes, fulfilling the demand for a complete end-to-end SOC solution.
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Siemplfy Helps Set Up Security Playbooks
Startup Siemplify is giving users the ability to build an automated playbook of responses to network intrusions.
The company is announcing general availability of an orchestration feature for ThreatNexus, its security operations platform. Orchestration had been available in beta; today’s announcement makes the feature more official.
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Q&A: What the future holds for mobile technology and trucking
Better navigation is clearly one benefit gain by trucking via the wider use of mobile technology solutions. But how about getting higher freight rates? Is that possible as well? Fleet Owner recently conducted an email question and answer session with Ron Hassanwalia, COO of Mississauga, Ontario-based enterprise management firm SOTI, Inc. to delve into those and other opportunities presented by mobile technology in the trucking and logistics spheres.
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Mobility Management Solutions Add Value For Field Workers
Mobility – from drivers with smartphones and dispatchers with tracking software to field workers with tablets – is everywhere in field operations, transportation and logistics. But most companies use just a fraction of the data being gathered by these mobile devices, and even fewer are spending time analyzing the data in ways that can improve their businesses, customer satisfaction and profitability.
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Editor's Choice - SOTI MobiControl Review
4.5 Stars, Editor Rating: Excellent
SOTI MobiControl (which begins at $48 per device per year) has been around since 2004, starting as a Windows PC/CE management tool and then expanding to take on the broader role of mobile device management (MDM). With deep Windows roots, it's no surprise that SOTI MobiControl has tight integration with Active Directory (AD) and incorporates the concepts of multi-level privileges based on group membership. The latest version (v.13) includes a wide range of features such as remote device control, which works just as you would expect if you were remotely connecting to a PC.
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Enable Supply Chain Security Through an Authentication Data Network
Electronics counterfeiting is gaining attention as evidenced by the recent IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security & Trust (HOST). More than 250 industry and academic leaders attended the conference to address the growing threat that counterfeit devices are posing to the security of the electronics supply chain. Inadvertent use of recycled, refurbished, or re-marked components can result in significant business risk for a manufacturer's customers, resulting in unwanted returns and damage to their brand value.
