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ESA awards OHB Sweden the EPS‑Sterna constellation contract

Alun Williams — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:31:24 +0000

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected OHB Sweden to build 20 small satellites for the EUMETSAT Polar System – Sterna (EPS‑Sterna) constellation. EUMETSAT is the European Organisation for the ...

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Tria Technologies extends multi-OS support for Qualcomm hardware

Alun Williams — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:13:33 +0000

Tria Technologies, the embedded compute board specialist, is expanding operating system support across its Qualcomm-based hardware. Yocto Linux, Windows 11 IoT, and Android are all now available, it announces. Android ...

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Mistral raises $830m

David Manners — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:28:16 +0000

Mistral AI, the French AI developer, says it has taken on debt of $830 million to run a datacentre. The datacentre, at Bruyeres-le-Chatel near Paris, is used to train of ...

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Greeks launch satellites for D2D comms

David Manners — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:27:25 +0000

OQ Technology, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator pioneering 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity through its direct-to-device (D2D) global satellite network, has launched two satellites – ERMIS-1 and ERMIS-2 – aboard SpaceX’s ...

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Starcloud raises $170m; plans to put 88,000 datacentre satellites in LEO

David Manners — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:18:57 +0000

Two-year-old startup Starcloud has raised $170m at a $1.1bn valuation to put datacentres in space. “By moving AI compute to space, we unlock access to unlimited solar power and completely ...

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Government reviews EV quota policy

David Manners — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:28:46 +0000

A ministerial review of EV quotas is underway with civil servants talking to car companies about revising the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, reports the Sunday Times. Car companies are reported ...

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Rohm, Toshiba, Mitsubishi talk about power semi merger

David Manners — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:28:06 +0000

Rohm, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric are to start talks to integrate their power semiconductor businesses, reports the Nikkei The talks come shortly after Denso made an $8.3 billion bid to ...

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Imec gives lifetime achievement award to Jensen Huang

David Manners — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:27:48 +0000

Imec has given Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, its 2026 Lifetime of Innovation Award. The honour recognises Huang’s instrumental role in enabling accelerated computing technologies and empowering critical ...

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Q4 cloud spend up 29% y-o-y

David Manners — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:21:41 +0000

Q4 spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $110.9bn, led by AWS, MS and Google, for y-o-y growth of 29%, says Omdia. Q4 was the sixth consecutive quarter in which the ...

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Septentrio multifrequency GNSS receiver

David Manners — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:07:50 +0000

Septentrio, the GNSS specialist, has brought out an enclosed multi-frequency GNSS receiver: AsteRx EB. It delivers high-accuracy positioning and GNSS heading for industrial robots, port logistics, marine, and scalable automation ...

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