Back Market announced today that it has raised €276m, as it seeks to expand the global footprint of its marketplace for refurbished consumer electronics.

Don’t buy new gadgets. Used or refurbished is just smarter - and greener

A couple of years ago, I made a conscious decision to stop buying new phones. While I used to always stay on the cutting edge when choosing a new iPhone or Android phone, I realized that buying used or refurbished devices made more sense. These days, one- or two-year-old phones aren’t much different from the latest models, and buying them second-hand lets you save money without getting locked into long-term wireless carrier contracts.

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Dan is joined by Pim Tuyls, founder and CEO of Intrinsic ID. Pim provides background on what a physically unclonable function (PUF) is and how Intrinsic ID developed the technology around SRAMs that are found on virtually all chips. Pim discusses the multiple applications for SRAM PUFs and how they are implemented. He concludes with a view of the future in this area.

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Some high-end televisions already cost 30 percent more than they did last summer. As the crunch continues, expect more gadget prices to spike.

TELEVISIONS, LAPTOPS, AND tablets have been in high demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, as people worked and learned via Zoom, socialized over Skype, and binged on Netflix to alleviate the lockdown blues. But all that extra screen time also helped set in motion a semiconductor supply crunch that is causing prices for some gadgets to spike—starting with TVs.

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Minute inconsistencies introduced in manufacturing make every chip different from the rest and can be used for authentication.

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Anyone who believes vision-based driver monitoring systems (DMS) are unnecessary or obsolete has not been paying attention to the recent market developments covered in EE Times.

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Where science and art intersect

Imagine you’re a professional with decades of experience, generally recognized in your field as having ample competence.

Now imagine that all of a sudden, you’re being asked to provide references to prove you know what you’re doing.

That is one side-effect of a global supply chain mess that has caused companies in chip land not to trust one another.

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Prophesee launches HD Event-Based Vision evaluation kit, enabling for access to breakthrough engineering revision of Gen 4.1 sensor

Comprehensive evaluation kit enables full performance evaluation of Gen 4.1 HD Event-Based vision sensor co-developed with Sony Semiconductor Solutions, featuring the industry’s smallest pixels and superior HDR performance.

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You have to treat your internal users as if they are customers because, in a sense, they are.

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If You Want to Gather Insights on Consumers, go Where they Hang Out: How Social Media is Changing Research

There’s an old joke that asks, “Why do people rob banks? Because that’s where the money is.” Corny as it is, we can apply the same thought to consumer research.

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