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Popzara.com, Nathan Evans, Managing EditorThroughout Popzara you’ll find views on gaming, movies, technology, cultural icons and so much more. Reviews and previews, in-depth analyses, opinion pieces, conversations, and a regularly updated Podcast keep things interesting and always entertaining. Our diverse editorial staff is committed to bringing this cornucopia of editorial goodness in fair-minded and positive ways, with minimal snark and maximum fun. A little bit of everything for the discriminating reader and curious listener is what you’ll find at Popzara.Topics: Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520 million in record-breaking FTC settlementhttps://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/tech/fortnite-epic-ftc-settlement/index.htmlAmazon Luna lets Prime members play Ubisoft PC games they own for freehttps://www.engadget.com/amazon-luna-ubisoft-pc-game-share-175013720.htmlAlso: Amazon getting into more games-to-movies with God of War and Warhammerhttps://movieweb.com/god-of-war-series-will-stay-incredibly-true-to-the-source-material-amazon-assures/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/henry-cavill-warhammer-40000-amazon-1235283251/Atari pulls the plug on Atari VCS console manufacturinghttps://liliputing.com/atari-pulls-the-plug-on-atari-vcs-console-manufacturing/Tie into the fabulous Atari 50 Collection:https://www.popzara.com/games/game-reviews/atari-50-the-anniversary-celebration/Misc.CES 2023Avatar: The Way of Water3 hours, 3D Imax, 48 HFRThe State of Gaming December 2022: Callisto Protocol, NFS Unbound, High on Life, Dragon Quest Treasures, Crisis Core FF7, Amazon Gaming and NPDhttps://www.popzara.com/podcast/the-state-of-gaming-december-2022-callisto-protocol-nfs-unbound-high-on-life-dragon-quest-treasures-crisis-core-ff7-amazon-gaming-and-npd/For more info, interviews, reviews, news, radio, podcasts, video, and more, check out ComputerAmerica.com!

Story 1: Today marks the 75th anniversary of the first successful test of the transistorOn this day, December 16, in 1947, scientists at Bell Labs conducted the first successful test of their semiconductor amplifier, the transistor.Over time, the transistor totally revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for all the electronic devices in our lives today.As one of the most important building blocks of modern electronics, many historians contend it stands as one of the most important scientific inventions in world history.But first, what is a transistor?In the most fundamental terms, a transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.Another definition is a transistor is a semiconductor device for amplifying, controlling, and generating electrical signals. Transistors are the active components of integrated circuits, or “microchips,” which often contain billions of these minuscule devices etched into their shiny surfaces.In its role as a switch, the transistor either prevents or allows current to flow through.Here’s what motivated the researchers at Bell Labs to create the transistor 75 years ago:An amazing team of scientists at Bell Labs, most notably John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley, wanted to replace the unreliable and hot vacuum tubes [as well as slow electromechanical relays] used in long-distance telephone service equipment with something much more reliable and cost effective.The ideal substitute they created to replace vacuum tubes used to amplify weak electrical signals and produce audible sounds was a highly reliable solid-state transistor which offered dramatically smaller size and significantly less power consumption.Although today we’re celebrating the first successful test of the transistor, but the team demonstrated the discovery a week later on December 23, often considered the date the transistor was invented.In terms of sharing the news with the world officially, it was not until June 30, 1948, at a press conference that Bell Labs publicly announced their invention.At the event a spokesman for the Labs claimed that “it may have far-reaching significance in electronics and electrical communication.”Nine years later, Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for the first transistor.The first commercial applications for transistors were for hearing aids and “pocket” radios in the 1950s.In 1959 scientists Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs invented the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor the most widely used type of transistor – this was another major step in the advancement of transistor technology which ultimately laid the foundation for the development of semiconductor chipsOver time scientists, like those at Fairchild Semiconductors [which was founded in 1957 by scientists who came to California to work with Shockley in Palo Alto but left to start their own venture] and Intel and others, figured out how to super miniaturize transistors and perfect manufacturing of transistors and integrated circuits.A semiconductor chip [also called an integrated circuit] is an electric circuit with many components such as transistors and wiring formed on a semiconductor wafer.Fast forward to today, and the silicon chips in our smartphones, computers, TVs, cars, you name it, may contain millions if not billions of microscopic transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail, or smaller!And recently Intel announced their will be one trillion transistors on their chips by 2030! That’s ten times the number of transistors currently available on modern Central Processing Units, or “brain chips” like the ones that power your laptop, smartphone, etc.And here’s how the 75th anniversary of the transistor is of personal family history interest for me.My maternal grandfather, Gustave Charles de Coutouly, was on the team at Bell Labs working with William Shockley.He was a French scientist who was recruited by the US Army during the first world war to help develop our military’s radio technology.He met and married my American maternal grandmother, became an American citizen, the contributed to the field of electronics for decades.And regarding William Shockley, after work, my grandfather and Shockley would sometimes go up into the attic of my grandfather’s home in Madison, New Jersey and do research and experiments!Unfortunately, Shockley was an ardent eugenicist whose theories of black racial inferiority eventually made him an academic pariah.To my knowledge my grandfather did not share his beliefs. I do know from my mother’s stories that my grandmother did not like Shockley – who was famous for having a very difficult personality.I’ll never forget the day in the late 1950s [when I was maybe 7 years old] when he was visiting us in California, and he was so excited to give me a “transistor” pocket radio. I was old enough to be thrilled to get this amazing gadget, but too young to understand the significance.Story 2: Airbus plans to test a hydrogen fuel cell engine on a modified superjumbo jetSource: Futurism.com Story by Victor TangermannLink: https://futurism.com/the-byte/airbus-hydrogen-fuel-cell-jetSource: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Story by

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Popzara.com. Nathan Evans, Managing EditorThroughout Popzara you’ll find views on gaming, movies, technology, cultural icons and so much more. Reviews and previews, in-depth analyses, opinion pieces, conversations, and a regularly updated Podcast keep things interesting and always entertaining. Our diverse editorial staff is committed to bringing this cornucopia of editorial goodness in fair-minded and positive ways, with minimal snark and maximum fun. A little bit of everything for the discriminating reader and curious listener is what you’ll find at Popzara.Topics:Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are the fastest-selling games in Nintendo history | GamesIndustry.bizGod of War: Ragnarok is Sony’s fastest-selling first-party title | EngadgetMicrosoft admits “many” PlayStation exclusives “better quality” than those on Xbox | Eurogamer.netThe State of Gaming November 2022: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, Sonic Frontiers, Harvestella, God of War Ragnarok, Atari 50, and NPD | Popzara PodcastMercedes locks faster acceleration behind a yearly $1,200 subscription – The VergeTheranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to over 11 years in prisonAmazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year | Ars TechnicaElon Musk Says Child Sexual Exploitation Content Is a Top PriorityMovie Time! Dare to Be Stupid: UHF (1989) and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | Popzara PodcastFor more info, interviews, reviews, news, radio, podcasts, video, and more, check out ComputerAmerica.com!

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Edgewater Wireless. Andrew Skafel, President/CEO.Edgewater Wireless is the industry leader in innovative Spectrum Slicing technology for residential and commercial markets. We develop advanced Wi-Fi silicon solutions, Access Points, and IP licensing designed to meet the high-density and high quality-of-service needs of service providers and their customers. With 25+ patents, Edgewater’s Multi-Channel, Single Radio technology revolutionizes Wi-Fi, delivering next-generation Wi-Fi today.Edgewater’s physical layer Spectrum Slicing allows a frequency band to be divided, or sliced, to enable more radios to operate in a given area. Think of Spectrum Slicing like moving from a single-lane road to a multi-lane highway — regardless of Wi-Fi technology.In a large-scale Proof of Concept (PoC) with a major Tier 1 Service Provider — looking at 6 million devices in 750,000 homes, Spectrum Slicing showed 7 to 18 times performance gains in 75% of homes. Interestingly, homes with the most devices saw the most significant improvements.For more info, interviews, reviews, news, radio, podcasts, video, and more, check out ComputerAmerica.com!