[ad_1] Nantero has raised $21 million bringing its total VC backing to $110m. The company currently has more than a dozen partners and customers in the consumer electronics, enterprise systems, and semiconductor industries actively working on CNT-based NRAM. The new funding will enable the company to support these partners in bringing multiple products into the market,Read more about Nantero raises $21m for CNT memory production[…]

[ad_1] Want the best Samsung Galaxy S7 deals this month? Well, it’s almost Christmas and it’s the best time to be buying a new phone, with a great range of deals on offer thanks to retailers falling over themselves to grab your hard-earned cash. It can be tricky to work out the best phone toRead more about The best Samsung Galaxy S7 deals for Christmas 2016[…]

[ad_1] A few large deals are pulling up average sizes and there were five $30M+ Series A rounds in Q3’16. In 2016, early-stage US tech funding saw $6.9 billion invested across 2,488 deals. Despite a quarterly increase in Q3’16, deal activity is down 21% when compared the same quarter in 2015, which saw 1,028 deals.Read more about Fewer But Bigger US Early- Stage VC Funding Deals[…]

[ad_1] Sandi Thom’s “I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)” was a flop when it was released in October 2005. That it ended up topping the charts after it was re-released eight months later was down to the novelty of livestreaming. Her 21 Nights From Tooting tour was, as theRead more about Capturing the mundanity of humanity: the rapid rise of live-streaming[…]

[ad_1] The US Department of Energy’s revision to its EISA 2007 external power supply (EPS) efficiency standard, which came into effect this year, increased the minimum efficiency requirements as well as expanding the range of products applicable under the new standard. In Europe, the EU’s proposed CoC Tier 2 directive, which is even more stringent, looks setRead more about Digi-Key offers DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2 power supplies[…]

[ad_1] Just a few years ago, pundits were predicting the beginning of the end for traditional desktop PCs. Though not as prevalent as they once were, desktop computers are still kicking, even with the rise of devices speculated to “replace” them. What many of us overlooked was the appeal of the desktop on a fundamentalRead more about The 10 best computers of 2016: the best PCs ranked[…]

[ad_1] A group of MPs in the the British Infrastructure Group (BIG) have proposed in a report titled: “Mobile Coverage: A good call for Britain?” compulsory roaming on mobile operators, as a means of improving rural coverage. However, ip.access argues that spectrum sharing offers a better alternative to national roaming, and would also provide a blueprint for otherRead more about Compulsory roaming is not the best way to improve mobile coverage[…]

[ad_1] Seeing the full version of Doom played solely on the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar was pretty cool, if a little pointless. But, if you’ve been holding out on picking up Apple’s latest laptop for fear of a Touch Bar doomed to being forgotten, consider those fears assuaged. Someone made a tiny piano for theRead more about The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar just got its killer app: a tiny piano[…]

[ad_1] The first thing that registers is that Nougat, version 7.0, still barely registers on the radar, up from just 0.3 to 0.4, an increase almost irrelevant statistically. (Google started the rollout of the new version before the end of August, and the launch of the LG V20 flagship with Nougat pre-installed should have helped. Elsewhere, MarshmallowRead more about Nougat barely nudges up in Android platform stats[…]

[ad_1] Some people are still hanging onto their Galaxy Note 7 phones and Samsung wants them to stop using it so it will restrict battery levels to just 30% very soon. Samsung has previously restricted battery to 60% across the UK, US and Australia, but this is the first time the company has said itRead more about Samsung is restricting Galaxy Note 7 batteries to 30% in Europe[…]