The day of having a perimeter-based network within a business premise are long gone. To be more aligned with the global shift towards a borderless age, businesses are now expanding their network to enable more IT assets. Assets like servers, printers, fax machines, internet of things (IoT) devices and many more,
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In the latest update, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €50 million venture debt facility with the ride-hailing app Bolt from Estonia. The financing is supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the main pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe. The goal of the funding is to support
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The world's fastest-spinning object that can hit three hundred billion revolutions-per-minute (RPM) powered only by the force of light has been developed by scientists. The tiny dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle is spun at considerable speeds by two different light forces hitting it in a vacuum chamber. Researchers at Purdue University developed the whirling object
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A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose, or monitor GI disorders. Many of these have to be removed by endoscopic surgery once their job is done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk has made yet another outlandish announcement with an unrealistic timeline regarding his colonisation of Mars. In yet another ill-advised off the cuff tweet, the maverick billionaire proclaimed SpaceX will put a million people on Mars by 2050. His calculations rely on having Starship conduct around three flights a day
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An Israeli-made machine that creates fresh drinking water from air was named the “Energy Efficiency Product of the Year” in the 2020 Smart Home Mark of Excellence Awards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Presented annually during CES by the Consumer Technology Association, the Mark of Excellence
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Diodes has announced its family of quad- and dual-channel 4:1 and 2:1 bus switches are now available in a 3x3x0.65mm package. The package is designed to enable increased PCB density and reduce product dimensions when developing PC notebooks and tablets as well as networking and telecommunications equipment. Discrete logic devices, such as
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The lithium rush Global efforts to reduce emissions have driven demand for technology such as electric vehicles, which has increased demand for the lithium needed for batteries. According to analysis from Benchmark Minerals, demand for lithium ion batteries has tripled since 2015 to 180 gigawatt hours (GWh), reaching the levels initially predicted
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Founders with amazing ideas paired with amazing vision can make a real impact. But getting that seed of an idea off the ground requires a tremendous amount of planning and working capital — capital to market your concept, pay legal fees, finance production, and manufacturing, fund developers, hire employees and get
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As mobile banking security takes on new forms of authentication technology, a report by Juniper Research found that facial recognition will likely become the fastest-growing use of biometric hardware on smartphones. The report indicated that facial recognition will reach more than 800 million mobiles by the year 2024, up from an
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