[ad_1] November is traditionally the month when the best mobile phone deals are available online so it’s a great time to buy a new smartphone. Black Friday takes place on the 25th November so between now and then there’ll be plenty of cheap deals to snap up! On this page you can compare and filterRead more about The best mobile phone deals on Black Friday 2016[…]

[ad_1] But it will also see £100m invested in the development of infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, the much talked about ‘driverless cars’. The Chancellor ear-marked £390m for transport technology, including £80m for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and £100m for new connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) testing infrastructure. There was £150m in support for low emission buses and taxis,Read more about Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech[…]

[ad_1] If you’re not already familiar with Thunderbird, we bet you know about its sibling: it’s part of the same project that created the Firefox web browser, and Thunderbird uses Firefox to render content. But where Firefox is all about websites, Thunderbird is all about email and newsgroups. It’s overkill for the occasional Gmail orRead more about Download of the day: Mozilla Thunderbird[…]

[ad_1] InSe crystals can be made only a few atoms thick and are a better semiconductor than graphene. “Ultra-thin InSe seems to offer the golden middle between silicon and graphene,” says Nobel Laureate Sir Andre Geim co-discoverer of graphene, “similar to graphene, InSe offers a naturally thin body, allowing scaling to the true nanometre dimensions.Read more about Manchester and Nottingham universities find graphene-beater[…]

[ad_1] UPDATE: Love the movie Almost Famous? Well, the newest entry on our list of the 25 best shows on Stan feels like a weekly dose of that classic movie – read on to find out why you should be watching Roadies! Anyone who’s used the streaming service Stan knows that there’s a veritable smorgasbordRead more about The 25 best shows on Stan[…]

[ad_1] Add to Bookmarks By David Manners 23rd November 2016 Liverpool Belfast Edinburgh Manchester Sheffield Coventry Leicester Birmingham Nottingham London Bristol Leeds & Bradford Newcastle Glasgow Cardiff Hull Recommended Articles 2016-11-23 Get Electronics Weekly every dayRead more about Top 10 (+6) Best Cities For Mobile Coverage[…]

[ad_1] At long last, the wait is finally over for the UMi Plus E powerhouse of a smartphone. That’s because, on November 11, subscriptions went live to reserve UMI’s premium quality handset for the low cost of $199.99 (about £160, AU$267). Thanks to the new 2.3Ghz Helio P20 chipset, the UMi Plus E is capableRead more about You can now reserve the uniquely capable UMi Plus E for only $199[…]

[ad_1] To do this, the firm is replacing the cone and dome diaphragms of loudspeakers with a composite consisting of 95% graphene, 5% binder and possibly other materials. The result has been dubbed a ‘nanocomposite’ and branded ‘Grapheneq’. The composite is both stiff and light, company founder Ari Pinkas told Electronics Weekly – which areRead more about Graphene: the ultimate loudspeaker cone material?[…]

[ad_1] It’s surprising it hasn’t happened before now, but Google has announced that it will stop supporting two of its oldest Android operating system generation following an upcoming update to Google Play Services.  That means in early 2017 we can wave a fond farewell to Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb, arguably two ofRead more about Google says RIP to Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb[…]

[ad_1] The Leti-coordinated COSMICC project will combine CMOS electronics and Si-photonics with high-throughput, fiber-attachment techniques. These scalable solutions will provide performance improvement an order of magnitude better than current VCSELs transceivers, and the COSMICC-developed technology will address future data-transmission needs with a target cost per bit that traditional wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transceivers cannot meet. ForRead more about Southampton and St Andrews universities join Leti Si photonics project[…]