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- Rail Live 2020 postponed to September... (01/05/2020)
  
  With over 250 exhibitors & 5,000 visitors each year, plus real rolling stock on display in a real-world environment, Rail Live is the only exhibition to bring the entire rail industry together in a real railway environment. Originally scheduled for June 17-18 at Quinton Rail Technology Centre (QRTC), due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the show has now been postponed to Wednesday 9th-Thursday 10th September 2020.
- Hackster.io partners with UN to rally global engineering community against COVID-19 (23/04/2020)
  
  In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Hackster.io, with its partners including Amazon Web Services, Arduino, Arm, Google & Microsoft, is leading efforts to bring forward low-cost, deployable solutions to detect & protect from coronavirus in developing regions, through its COVID-19 ‘Detect & Protect Challenge’.
- Advantech partners with Trell Technologies to provide smart monitoring for buildings (23/04/2020)
  
  Advantech, an expert in IoT & embedded computing, has announced its successful collaboration with Trell Technologies, which delivered a truly open, flexible & scalable smart building solution.
- Samsung & Xilinx team up to increase performance of worldwide 5G commercial deployments (15/04/2020)
  
  Xilinx has announced that its Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) will be utilised by Samsung Electronics for worldwide 5G commercial deployments. Xilinx Versal ACAPs provide a universal, flexible & scalable platform that can address multiple operator requirements across multiple geographies.
- Component production & shipping vital for consumer electronics during COVID-19 crisis, says GlobalData (15/04/2020)
  
  When COVID-19 broke out in China, the country was quick to slow down its production, eventually ceasing all manufacturing as it went into lockdown. This had a drastic impact on global supply chains, as many industries, including consumer electronics, are heavily reliant on components manufactured in China, according to data & analytics firm, GlobalData.
- Funding available for UK Space companies to support Coronavirus response (14/04/2020)
  
  A new drive to fund space-enabled technology & services that can strengthen the NHS response to coronavirus has been launched today by the UK Space Agency in a joint initiative with the European Space Agency (ESA).
- Why 5G conspiracy theory is physically impossible: debunking coronavirus fake news (09/04/2020)
  
  NHS GP, Dr Gero Baiarda is one of hundreds of GPs currently on-call at GP-on-demand service, GPDQ. Since launching his ‘myth-busting’ series 10 days ago, Dr Baiarda has become a media ‘go-to’ for information on what to believe, or not, in the interest of our health during the COVID-19 pandemic – including 5G conspiracy theories.
- Semtech LoRa devices integrated into Polysense smart infrared temperature sensors, helping address COVID-19 crisis (07/04/2020)
  
  Smart human body sensors enable healthcare workers to identify individuals with a high temperature. Ideal for coronavirus COVID-19 response efforts, the solution has recently shipped to Italy to aid its containment efforts.
- EPDT April 2020 issue (inc. Power & Automotive features) now available online (03/04/2020)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Power technologies & Automotive applications, as well as editorial on coronavirus, obsolescence and, for STEM Matters, an interview with NMITE's President & CEO.

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