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Measuring resistance is usually quite straightforward. You take the Device Under Test (DUT) connect both wires from the Digital Multimetre (DMM) to it and read the result on the screen.  Guest blog by Phil Ebbert, VP of Engineering, Riedon.

With so much talk in the news about the autonomous vehicles that will soon be taking over the streets we drive on, let’s take a look at how autonomous vehicles have overwhelmed our Earth’s oceans too. Nicolette Emmino explains.

  Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page.

In the form of a brake chopper, incorporated into the device, many drives manufacturers actually design and build their products with a seventh Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT). Global Business Development Manager of Maintenance and Repair Specialist at CP Automation, John Mitchell is going to look at the dangers of taking the IGBT for granted.

Back in the 1960s, animated sitcom The Jetsons depicted the car of the future as a levitating capsule that flew through the air to drop main character, George Jetson, at the office before folding up into his briefcase. While flying cars are still out of reach, the adoption of cloud computing in automotive manufacturing is helping create a new car of the future. 

  Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have always been a problem for popular hosted sites, but the ones from the last few weeks are different. Guest blog by Alex deVries and Tim Skutt.

The 80s: an era of double denim, floppy disks and such classics as Don't You Want Me, by The Human League. Back then, the concept of storing the vinyl collection of your standard new romantic and enough movies to rival the local video shop on a ‘cloud’ was unimaginable and let’s be honest, ridiculous. Today, data storage for consumer and industrial technology is advancing rapidly, but what does this mean for older industrial dev...

Vinod Vasudevan, Co-Founder and CTO of Paladion, had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on the Internet of Things (IOT) and Cybersecurity at CyberSEED. CyberSEED being a platform pioneered by Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation at the University of Connecticut to bring together cybersecurity leaders, business leaders, government and universities.

It’s fair to say that the smartphone is to blame for many everyday technologies including the calculator, the torch and the camera slowly entering the realms of obsolescence. However, not even this disruptive technology can go on ruling our lives forever. A study by Ericsson found that one in two people believe the smartphone will be obsolete in five years time. 

A whitepaper investigating the state of security in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector has been released by COPA-DATA. The whitepaper includes, the reasons why the pharmaceutical industry is so much more vulnerable to attacks and examines some of the most effective security tools that companies have at their disposal in the era of Industry 4.0.