He held three patents relating to loos, one of which was for his invention of the floating ballcock. He opened a loo showroom in the King’s Road and King Edward VII gave him the job of installing 30 ...

Alun Williams, web editor What caught my eye was the EIB (European Investment Bank) is backing the Spanish startup PLD Space with €30 million of funding to develop its MIURA 5 satellite launcher ...

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Vishay is releasing a magnetically shielded, low profile, high current inductor in the compact 1212 case size: the Vishay Dale IHLP1212-EZ-1Z. Aimed at space-constrained applications, the ...

Turion, a space domain awareness startup, has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round led ...

Private Wireless RAN revenue increased 16% in 2025, says Dell’Oro, however the rate of growth in 2005 was 2.5x down on the rate of growth in 2004.

DARPA is evaluating whether a useful quantum computer can be built by 2033. There are three stages to DARPA’s evaluation A, B and C. Stage A is to describe a utility-scale quantum computer concept ...

Farnell has expanded its industrial automation offering with the addition of Lovato Electric’s comprehensive portfolio, including contactors, switch disconnectors, and motor protection relays — all ...

Q1 smartphone shipments fell 4.1% – the first decline since 2023, says IDC. However Samsung and Apple each increased shipments by 3%+ as their control over memory supplies gave them an advantage over ...

Open Cosmos, the satellite manufacturer, is collaborating with Ubotica Technologies on the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous MEasurement (FAME) – a project led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Dividing the average national price of US gasoline by the average hourly earnings of U.S. workers shows that, at the current price of more than $4 per gallon, Americans have to work 7.7 minutes to ...

The EIB (European Investment Bank) is backing the Spanish startup PLD Space with €30 million of funding to develop its MIURA ...