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In the same week the EU congratulated itself on winning a couple of court cases (in European courts) against Apple and Alphabet, Mario Draghi presents a report saying Europe is doomed if it sticks to regulation rather than innovation. Draghi says that Europe must spend €800 billion a year to catch up with the US and China in digital technologies. ...

One to note: the UK Bebras Challenge, a STEM computing competition, is now open for registrations for 2024. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team for highlighting this one.

The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) of Gateway – which is planned as NASA’s orbiting outpost around the Moon, and critical infrastructure for its Artemis mission – is in the middle of several electric propulsion system tests. Nasa is highlighting the progress of the system, which is being manufactured by Maxar Technologies. Not only will it provide the Gateway platform ...

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A bit of fun for a Friday – possible collective nouns for tech components, sparked by a recent Raspberry Pi story… I recently clocked a reference to an AI model zoo of all things. This was a collection of various pre-trained neural network models, ready to be run on a particular bit of hardware. Zoo The story was about the ...

Just received the BeagleBoard Foundation Newsletter - the August "Easy AI Edition" - and a case study on building automation caught my eye.

We covered the camera system used in the Sphere Entertainment dome only recently, and it already has a rival...

It would be remiss of me not to flag a new Raspberry Pi board on Gadget Master. So, welcome a new version of the current flagship, Raspberry Pi 5, which now comes with 2GB of RAM.

This is what NASA’s Cold Atom Lab looks like. It’s aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and has recently demonstrated the use of a tool called an atom interferometer, the agency shares. 

The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize shortlist has just been announced, featuring six recently published titles. We're talking AI, Mars City, Bayes' theorem, and death...