Simon Rockman

2 days ago | politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Simon Rockman

6 min read It was billed as the solution to poor or absent mobile coverage, but in five years the £1bn Shared Rural Network has built just one tower in a total not-spot. Simon Rockman argues it should be abandoned: there is a better solution available. Illustration by Tracy Worrall The UK has the worst mobile coverage in Europe. And with the closure of 2G and 3G, and replacement of Chinese equipment with inferior Scandinavian apparatus, the problem is getting worse.

Dec 8, 2024 | slashgear.com | Simon Rockman

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but Hertz are slow. One Kilohertz (KHz) is 1,000 cycles a second or 60,000 bpm; one Megahertz (MHz) is 1,000 times that; and one Gigahertz (GHz) is 1,000 times that. Far too fast to hear.

Dec 7, 2024 | msn.com | Simon Rockman

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Dec 7, 2024 | slashgear.com | Simon Rockman

The short answer is that Apple makes its own chips: The A18 and A18 pro are designed in Cupertino, but looking a bit harder takes us to Taiwan, England, and beyond. There is the design of the chips themselves, which is handled by Apple. Then the design of the cores that those Apple designers use comes from ARM — and the fabrication, which is handled by TSMC. AdvertisementPretty much whatever phone you use will have several ARM cores — the Apple A18 Pro chip has six ARM cores.

Jan 26, 2024 | linkedin.com | Simon Rockman

I’ve been following The Post Office scandal for more than a decade. I know my GLO from my JFSA, but it has taken reading Dan Ariely’s book “Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things”, for me to understand it. The biggest failure isn’t Government, The Post Office, or Fujitsu. It’s culture. Culture which went so wrong that caused The Post Office Limited to declare war on the Sub Postmasters.