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Nanowire LED Innovator Aledia Announces €30 ($36M) Million Series-C Financing

The company is developing a new generation of LEDs that are manufactured on large-diameter silicon wafers and targeted at mobile display applications.

Maxim Integrated Introduces a New Low-Noise LDO Linear Regulators

Nowadays power and communication applications require regulators that produce extremely low output noise and very low dropout voltage (LDO).

Design for Manufacturability Tips for Miniature Biomedical Sensor Circuits

The combination of flexible material and thin-film circuit geometries is leading medical designers to consider how far they can go in an attempt to enhance their sensors for advanced procedures and improved patient care.

Video: Samsung Expands its Bixby Artificial Intelligence Assistant to the Smart Home and Beyond

Now the assistant can be used with appliances, the cloud, televisions and more.

Fitness Tracker for Your Ears

The HearingFitness app from Oticon works similarly to an exercise tracker, monitoring the impact of hearing on the wearer’s overall health and providing advice.

Electronics Vaporize in Response to Radio Waves

A silicon-dioxide microchip self-destructs by vaporizing – an action that can be remotely triggered – without releasing harmful byproducts.

Behold the Elon Musk Flamethrower

The CEO of The Boring Company mentioned that if they sold enough hats, the device would come out and here is the first image.

Video: New Speeds and Scales Attained by Emerging 3D Printing Technologies

Additive manufacturing — also referred to as 3D printing — has advanced past initial applications involving production of plastic prototypes for engineers and designers.

Strong AI Principles Now — Less Dystopia Later

Even if strong AI is still decades away, discussions around principles and ethics must happen now.

Aquatic Drones to Set Sail Off Australia

The solar- and wind-powered drones will collect information about sea-surface temperature, salinity and ocean carbon.

This Electric Car Charging Station is Designed to Chill You Out While Filling Up

It looks like a tree and is meant to relax drivers as well as recharge vehicles.

New 64-layer SATA 3D NAND SSD Launched for Enterprise Market

Micron’s new drives are optimized to perform faster and have a larger capacity than previous generations.

Skyworks Collaborates with Broadcom on 802.11ax Max WiFi Platforms

Skyworks’ 2.4 and 5.0 GHz 802.11ax modules and Broadcom’s Max WiFi solutions provide four times faster download speeds, six times faster upload speeds, enhanced coverage and up to seven times longer battery life when compared to 802.11ac Wi-Fi products available.

Earn a Degree in Flying Cars, Yes Really

Udacity is offering an online program teaching the fundamentals of aerial robotics and intelligent air systems.

Video: Augmented Reality System for Health Care that Moves with the Patient

The system could be used in teaching, physiotherapy, laparoscopic surgery and even surgical planning.

Teaching the :MOVE Mini Buggy New Tricks

A range of new add-ons are available to extend the potential of the :MOVE Mini Buggy, a device designed to provide an accessible introduction to robotics for kids.

Assembling Memristors with Multibit Memory Operation

A new memristor technology can store up to 128 discernible memory states per switch, almost four times more than previously reported.

Video: Using Lasers to Project 3D Images with Better Quality than Holograms

Researchers have developed a volumetric display that steers laser beams in order to create an image.

A Cloud Data Solutions Service for Dataloggers

CI’s newest product is their Cloud Data Solution, released in early December 2017. It allows all of CI’s Wi-Fi-enabled dataloggers to report captured data straight to the cloud.