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After three years, with the collaboration of 11 international partners and EUR 4 million funded by the European Commission, transmission speeds that achieved 10 Gbps (when the normal is 1 Gbps) were demonstrated for the first time at a global level. All thanks to some devices called resonant tunneling diode (RTDs), which are new wireless transceiver technologies that resembles small, low-cost and energy-efficient chips that allow the ultra-fast data transmission integrated with the optical fibre network.

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Margarida Carvalho is the first Portuguese woman awarded the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award, a distinction that recognises outstanding doctoral dissertations in the operational research (OR) field. This is the first time that a Portuguese researcher wins this award that assesses the uniqueness and novelty of the thesis, the relevance for the OR field, the range and depth of the results, the inputs in the research areas and the quality of the corresponding publications.

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The city of Porto will receive next Monday and Tuesday (9 and 10 July), 17 world experts on blockchains from academics to business experts from countries such as USA, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Switzerland, Austria and, of course, Portugal. In addition to the current situation of the existing solutions, the experts also will disclose new solutions in the field. The challenges of the blockchain technology that involves academia, industry and laboratories and research centres will also be on the agenda. The name of the conference is “Chain-in: The International Industrial & Academic Conference on Blockchain Technology” and it was organised by the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC).

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The new Portuguese news aggregation platform is called “Conta-me histórias” and has just received EUR 10 thousand for the first place under the Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018. The award ceremony took place yesterday afternoon, 3 July , at the Science Summit 2018, in the plenary session "New frontiers of the digital age in Europe and in the world", which was attended by the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation of the European Commission, Carlos Moedas.

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The European Union, especially the Mediterranean countries, have been facing a number of challenges with illegal border crossing. The need of enhancing the border security in order to control migrations and especially the fight against crime that occurs during these crossings, has caused the EU to fund the project SUNNY at almost EUR 10 million. The project, which involved 16 European entities, developed a smart sensors network that are carried on-board of unmanned aircraft. These aircraft, best known as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or RPAS (remote piloted aircraft systems), aims to monitor the border areas which, when it comes to SUNNY, are especially the areas related to the ocean environment.