Mannerisms

Provisional EU tariffs on Chinese EVs are additional to the existing 10% duty. A 20.8% additional duty is proposed for the 13 car manufacturers which co-operated with the EU’s investigation into production costs and subsidies, a 17.4% additional duty for BYD, 19.9% for Geely, 37.6% for SAIC,  zero on hybrids and 37.6% for everyone else. The situation remains fluid while ...

The French election on Sunday left the National Assembly in deadlock. The leftie New Popular Front got 180 seats. The right wing National Rally got 143 seats. The centrists got 163 seats. A majority in the Assembly requires 289 votes, so no one from one of  the Big Three parties can pass legislation without help from one of the other ...

Thanks to FatRank for this one – the top five businesses Brits most want to set up: Tailored Cleaning Services Premium Dog Walking Car Rental Escapes Artisanal Candle Crafting Green Thumb Gardening

Identification with the Democratic Party has fallen to the lowest recorded levels, according to a Gallup database. In June, before the first presidential debate, only 23 percent of U.S. respondents surveyed by Gallup said in June that they identified as Democrats. Identification with the Republican Party was not much higher in June at  25 percent The lowest Democratic party affiliation ...

A PROPERTY of many semiconductors which so far has not been exploited is that of piezoelectricity. So 63 years ago started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 3rd 1961 Many of the crystal structures, including those of gallium arsenide and cadmium sulphide, are of a type in which this effect might be expected. To date materials have been ...

Fresh from its dilemmas over whether to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs at the risk of offending the Germans, the EU now has to figure out how to protect Europe’s Big Three chip-makers against an expected flood of Chinese legacy chip imports. To help in its task, the EU has to find out how many  Chinese chips are actually being ...

With the horny-handed sons of toil now in charge of the Ship of State I shall shortly be shifting to the crossbenches in the House of Lords to prepare for a recall to power, Ed confides to his diary. There’s no guarantee the call will come, but I’ve had a hint or three that, if I can distance myself from ...

Startling financials from Nvidia are nothing new. Nearly 20 years ago, the company’s Q1 2006 figures were reported in these terms: ‘Silicon Valley-based graphics chipmaker Nvidia has reported that April quarterly revenue jumped 24 per cent year over year, while income nearly tripled.’ ’The company posted revenues of $583.8m for the quarter, it’s fiscal Q1 2006, compared to $471.9m posted ...

Earlier this week Belarus has joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), becoming its tenth member state. The intergovernmental cooperation mechanism was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to strengthen cooperation on the security, anti-terrorism, economic and energy fronts. India and Pakistan joined in 2017. However, India’s role in the SCO is questionable due to Prime ...

392 years ago the first man to see a microbe was born. He set up as a draper, opening a shop in 1654 and became a local politician before taking an interest in lenses. He moved on to making microscopes and was the first person to notice microbes which he described in letters to the Royal Society which published them in ...

It feels like one of those end-of-an-era elections, like when Blair came in, or Thatcher, or Wilson – all individuals with a strong idea of what they wanted to achieve in office. It’s been surprising to me how many people have told me recently they don’t know who they’re going to vote for but they aren’t going to vote Tory. ...

You’d think most peopke would be feminists by now, or at least too scared to say they’re not, but it seems that’s not the case. In a recent survey by Ipsos, only 39 percent of respondents from 31 mostly high and upper-middle income countries said that they identified as feminists, while an average of 51 percent disagreed with this description ...

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top five strategic trends for software engineering:

The body responds to extreme heat  with gradually worsening symptoms: heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heatstroke. Heatstroke occurs when the body’s heat-regulating system is overwhelmed. The expert medical platform Patient.info outlines the main symptoms of heat exhaustion and heatstroke. When a person experiences heat exhaustion, the core body temperature remains at less than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and is ...

Space scientists from throughout the world, including Russia, gathered recently in Florence for the annual meeting of COSPAR and a four-day symposium. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 3, 1961. The programme was, of course, a little disturbed by the announcement of Major Gagarin’s dramatic flight, but apart from a natural display of ...

While, on the surface, travellers are presented with a choice between different booking portals, they’re mainly using one of two companies. Booking.com and Expedia are the most widely used and trusted travel sites in the US, according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey. 28% and 30% of respondents have used Booking.com and Expedia, respectively, in the past 12 months. Six ...

Gullibility is the defining characteristic of our age, the internet has exposed how people will accept crazy  valuations for a dot.com suffix, a cryptocurrency, an NFT or an Nvidia share, Ed confides to his diary. I have spent my last remaining months in office setting up a final wheeze before I lose the contacts, the influence and the prestige of ...

When times are tight,  the fab is fully loaded and customers are clamouring for more wafers, what do you do? At its 2004 Technology Symposium in San Jose, TSMC said the answer is to run fab utilisation at over 100%, TSMC’s fabs were reaching more than 100 per cent utilisation rate, said Genda Hu, v-p of marketing. The rate was ...

The telecoms industry has had its Gerald Ratner moment. Network bosses are saying the network is crap. We all knew that, and we all know it’s getting worse because connections are slower, and we all know why – because investment in infrastructure is declining.  We all assumed the industry intended to sort it eventually, but it seems not.  “The absence ...

201 years ago was born a descendant of a famous Scottish warrior who came up with the theory of evolution based on natural selection. He wrote a paper on his idea and sent it to a contemporary who had similar ideas. The contemporary thereupon published his own theories which became an international sensation, associating forever his name with the theory. ...