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- Editor’s comment: 50 not out… (03/08/2021)
  
  In August last year, I listened to a BBC Radio 2 show presented by Radio 1 breakfast show host, Greg James, titled 50 Not Out, celebrating radio legend, Bob Harris’s 50 years on air. As a lifelong music & radio devotee, I’m a huge Whispering Bob fan – though as I approach 50 years in age, I’m a little less familiar with Greg James…
- EPDT August 2021 issue (inc. Displays & Medical features) now available online (02/08/2021)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Displays technologies & Medical applications.
- New feature-rich BBC micro:bit now shipping from Farnell (23/11/2020)
  
  Updated BBC micro:bit provides new opportunities with built-in speaker & microphone plus capacitive touch sensor for sound & touch straight out-of-the-box.
- BBC Doctor Who HiFive Inventor launched by BBC Learning & Tynker on Dr Who Day (19/11/2020)
  
  BBC Learning & Tynker have collaborated on coding for kids with a next-generation education technology RISC-V mini-computer, the BBC Doctor Who HiFive Inventor, designed for IoT coding & available to purchase from November 23, 2020 – Doctor Who Day!
- COVID-19 educational online event watched by thousands of eager students & STEM fans (28/07/2020)
  
  'Big Bang Digital 2020 – science, engineering & Covid-19', the one-day digital STEM event which took place in mid-July, has given almost 50,000 young people the opportunity to listen to and speak with scientists, engineers, technicians, healthcare professionals & students about the essential role of science & engineering during a pandemic. Sessions from the day are now available to view on demand.
- On #ThisisEngineering Day: AI reveals misrepresentation of engineers online (06/11/2019)
  
  On today's first annual This is Engineering Day, the Royal Academy of Engineering & its partners, including leading consumer brands, are joining forces to change the face of engineering, after AI revealed misrepresentation of the profession online – as predominantly white men in hard hats.
- Top 15 stories on EPDT in September 2019... (03/10/2019)
  
  As October 2019 begins, we've reviewed the most popular stories – as determined by our readers – across EPDT’s website & newsletter during the last month...
- Bringing BBC micro:bit to millions of students across the globe via Farnell STEM programmes (19/09/2019)
  
  Latest Farnell programme to support STEM learning provides BBC micro:bit classroom technology to 2,400 secondary schools across Norway.
- Arduino Inventor’s Kit to help develop coding skills (23/04/2019)
  
  Following its successful Inventor’s Kit for the BBC micro:bit, Kitronik has developed an Arduino Inventor’s Kit to help take coding skills to the next level.
- UK distributor for DFRobot Education Products and Accessories for STEM and micro:bit announced (05/11/2018)
  
  Specialist distributors JPR Electronics have announced their appointment as UK distributor for DFRobot Education products and accessories for STEM and micro:bit.
- Get Kids Coding! Farnell Element14 begin shipping 65,000 micro:bit boards to Danish schools (11/10/2018)
  
  Element14.com, the online community for engineers, has launched a new competition that tasks members with building and blogging a Halloween-themed electronic project – for the chance to win a powerful 3D printer.
- Get Kids Coding! Premier Farnell to deliver 100,000 BBC micro:bit to Canada (22/02/2018)
  
  Premier Farnell, the Development Distributor, is helping KidsCode Jeunesse roll out 100,000 BBC micro:bit across Canada to support the country’s CanCode initiative.
- Get Kids Coding! Croatia to receive 45,000 BBC micro:bit (18/12/2017)
  
  Farnell element14 has signed an agreement with the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) for delivery of 45,000 BBC micro:bits in an official national roll-out.
- Ransomware vaccine (28/06/2017)
  
  Security researchers have discovered a ‘vaccine’ for the ransomware attack that hit organisations across the world on Tuesday.
- OneWeb for one whole world (28/06/2017)
  
  European aerospace giant Airbus and its partner, OneWeb, have begun the production of a satellite mega-constellation – with the aim to bring broadband links to every part of the globe.
- Kangaroos confuse driverless cars (27/06/2017)
  
  The Large Animal Detection system of Volvo's driverless cars may keep on top of deer and the like, but kangaroos move in a way that is hard for it (and us) to apprehend.
- NASA rename solar probe in honour of scientist (01/06/2017)
  
  The sun-exploring mission is now named in honour of Eugene Parker, who conducted pioneering work on the ‘solar wind’: a stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun's atmosphere.
- Hitting the kill switch: combatting the recent cyber-attack (15/05/2017)
  
  A UK security researcher reports he has "accidentally" halted the spread of the malicious ransomware that has affected hundreds of organisations, including the NHS.
- Learning computer coding at an early age (08/05/2017)
  
  The pocket-sized codeable computer with motion detection, a built-in compass and Bluetooth technology.
- Drones invade airspace (27/04/2017)
  
  Chinese drone maker DJI is offering up to one million yuan (£112,000) for information about drones that disrupted scores of flights at a Chinese airport.