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CIMCON Lighting, a leading global provider of smart cities technologies, announced the closing of a $33 million financing led by Digital Alpha, which includes $23 million in Series C funding and a $10 million revenue-sharing facility. Energy Impact Partners (EIP), who led the Series B also participated in the round. These funds will enable CIMCON to extend its technology lead
There are many options out there for media playback, we've come a long way since Windows Media Player and Quicktime. Alternatives abound, and some of them quite compelling. Take the Video Lan Client, better known to everyone as VLC, which is capable playing almost any format a user can throw at it. Like any software, however, there are always bugs,
5G launched today in six UK cities on the EE mobile network, offering "gigabit" speed levels for mobile device users. The lucky six cities are London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester, with further rollouts to Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield later in the year. In 2020, ten more towns and cities will get
The US Trade Department added Huawei and 70 affiliates to its "Entity List" in mid-May. Membership of the Entity List effectively bans US companies from dealing with these foreign businesses without explicit approval from the US government. The move came after increasing trade tensions between the US and China, and security concerns about Huawei's role in the provision of equipment
Reuters reported that Poland has submitted a complaint to the European Court of Justice against copyright rules adopted by the bloc in April of 2019. The EU feels the copyright rules will protect Europe's creative industries. The EU copyright rules, according to Reuters, requires Google to pay publishers for news snippets. It requires Facebook to filter out protected content under
Amazon wants its employees to quit, give them a three months severance package and $10k in cash to start a business that would have the prior employee drive for them. Quite incredible if you think about it. But I look at the math on it and wonder if someone can actually make a full-time living working for Amazon as an
It's been 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquillity and there are many commemorative events coming up to the anniversary on 21st July. As expected, NASA is celebrating and there's a whole raft of information and historical footage on a special Apollo 50th section of its website. I particularly like the mission audio