Mannerisms

On Thursday, Tesla is due to start a robotaxi service in Austin and Reuters has asked the city authorities to divulge two years of correspondence between the city and Tesla concerning the proposed rollout. Tesla has objected to this arguing that to reveal the information would be to unfairly benefit its competitors in the driverless car business. Historically, Tesla has ...

I’ve fallen in love, Ed confides to his diary, but there’s a bit of a problem with it. I met this fantastic girl at a French embassy party chic, smart and sexy. We’re having the best time possible. You know what they say about old dogs and new tricks? It ain’t true Then comes a phone call. “It’s MI6 we ...

16 years ago, Steve Cutler, Intel’s technical marketing manager, cane up with these ten predictions for the technology industry: Prediction One – new classes of portable devices with ten times more battery life Sub-threshold integrated circuit technology requires only 300mV to operate. Intel showed 4-way SIMD (single instruction multiple data) vector processing accelerator in 45nm in CMOS operated below its ...

European Champions PSG have been transformed from a mid-table club to a serial league winner since the takeover by Qatar Sports Investments in 2011. Defeated 2025 finalists Inter have won the Champions League (or the European Cup as it was previously called) three times. Real Madrid is in a league of its own with 15 Champions League titles, leading AC ...

135 years ago the candidate with the highest marks in the Cambridge Maths Tripos scored 13% better than the next best candidate but was denied the traditional title of Senior Wrangler because she was female. The lead story in next day’s Telegraph opened: “Once again has woman demonstrated her superiority in the face of an incredulous and somewhat unsympathetic world.”  ...

The ‘zero-mileage used car’ is not only a contradiction in terms but a new way to shift EV inventory in China. To create a zero-mileage used car a dealer registers a new EV to get the manufacturer’s rebate then re-registers it as a  second hand ‘zero mileage used car’ and drops the price. In April China’s collective inventory of unsold ...

After Tottenham beat Man U  1:0 to win the UEFA Europa League, Chelsea defeated Real Betis 4:1 to lift the UEFA Conference League trophy last week and Saturday’s riotous UEFA Champions League final between Inter and Paris Saint-Germain we’ve come to the end of the European football season. The Champions League final got the Saturday prime time treatment, while the ...

Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five enterprise WLAN vendors: WLAN vendors:  

Many years before Donald Trump exploded onto the world stage, Europe had its MEGA project. For all I know MEGA might have stood for ‘Make Europe Great Again’ – who knows, it might even have inspired the US President’s signature acronym – but a more mundane explanation is more likely –  that it referred to one of the goals of ...

‘A contiunuing of the technological revolution is that means of transportation are becoming more and more rapid and are shrinking the world’. So, 65 years ago, wrote McKinsey’s John G McDonald in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 12th 1960. His article continued: ‘Jets can now go from London to New York in less than seven hours. This makes for quicker ...

Here’s a priceless video with Jensen Huang talking about his attitude to pushing out into new areas like supercomputers. Nvidia is on a roll going from chips to servers, to datacentres, to supercomputers to robots. Here’s how he thinks that way and persuades bis team to follow.

I want to be an activist minister – a business catalyst – and one thing I’m doing is generating startup activity in photonics-based interconnection devices for datacentres, Ed confides to his diary, Huge figures are being touted around for the growth in this market  with startups sprouting prolifically and getting snapped up by big chip companies wanting expertise in the tech ...

15 years ago, our friend Mike Bryant, CTO of Future Horizons, gave a tour d’horizon of the future of semiconductor process technology at the IFS-MT2010 conference in London, First of all Bryant tackled the problems: “The cost of developing a process node is inversely proportional to the node length,” said Bryant, “so the cost of developing 22nm is twice that ...

Despite the enthusiasm of  POTUS, crypto is losing its shine with many  people around the world. According to Statista Consumer Insights, India, Brazil, the US and France are countries where the number of crypto users and owners decreased between 2023 and 2025. In India, the number of those “invested” in crypto fell by 7 percentage points, from 27 percent to ...

A Chief Engineer to the City of Liverpool, later to become President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was in the Anfield crowd on 26 October 1889 when Everton drew 2-2 with Accrington in a League match. Everton should have won. The engineer saw the ref wrongly disallow Alex Latta’s shot from an acute angle – the ref wasn’t convinced ...

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first international football tournament with representation of all regions, which took place on May 25, 1924, the UN General Assembly has declared May 25 World Football Day. The resolution, passed on May 7, 2024, acknowledges “the global reach of football and its impact in various spheres, including commerce, peace and diplomacy and recognizing ...

It must be daunting to the CEOs of Intel and Samsung semiconductor to see TSMC’s roadmap for the rest of the decade as laid out in Amsterdam yesterday.. It’s not the road map itself, anyone can compile a roadmap, it’s the fact that, alone of the three leading edge logic companies, TSMC is expected by the industry to meet its ...

Thanks to IDC for this one – the  market shares of the top five AR/VR headset suppliers: Meta 74.6%, Apple 5.2%, Sony 4.3%, ByteDance  4.1% XREAL  3.3%

Last Wednesday was International Tea Day. With a global market valued at nearly $50 billion in 2023, tea is said to be the second most consumed beverage in the world. However, coffee proved to be consumed by a higher share of adults in almost every country surveyed, save for Turkey, Morocco and India. In the United States a comparatively lower ...

The arrival of the solid state device on the domestic market has resulted in a concentration by the MO Valve Company on industrial devices up to a present limit of 6000 Mc/s said Mr J  Bell, who succeeds Mr. G. A. Marriott as managing direct the company on April 1. So, 64 years ago, started a  story in Electronics Weekly’s ...