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Smart Home “Assistant” Aims to Manage Everyday Life
L.U.C.Y. is a 17-inch touchscreen display with a microphone, speakers and HD camera that learns homeowners’ preferences.
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UMC Strikes MEMS Partnership with APM
The partnership will allow UMC to broaden its reach in the MEMS sector to applications in the Internet of Things.
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Volvo and Autoliv Partner for Autonomous Driving Software
A jointly owned company will be created to develop ADAS and self-driving technology.
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New Ideas Arise for Virtual Reality Tech in the Workplace
VR actually helps companies save money when it comes to testing new technologies and enables trainees and students to quickly and intensively learn on-the-job skills.
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Square Kilometer Array: the World's Largest Radiotelescope
The $1.5 billion Square Kilometer Array will consist of 3,000 telescope dishes to produce radio images at high frequencies with an angular resolving power equivalent to a single 200 km wide dish.
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Nissan Stadium Using LG’s LEDs for Lighting Retrofit
The lighting will be installed in time for the Tennessee Titans home opener on Sept. 11.
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Fujitsu Gambles to Replace DRAM with NRAM Using Carbon Nanotubes
NRAM achieves several thousand times faster rewrites and many thousands of more rewrite cycles compared to embedded flash memory.
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Xiaomi Looks for Clean Sweep in Smart Home With Robo-Vacuum
The Mi Robot Vacuum will compete against other robotic cleaners, such as the Roomba.
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TSMC and Renesas Team Up to Develop 28 nm MCUs for Autonomous Vehicles
The collaboration will result in microcontrollers ready for mass production by 2020.
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Safety, Privacy and Ethics—The Dilemma of the Electronics Engineer
Where do engineers get their understanding of their ethical obligations—or do they? Where are the boundaries of privacy, safety and ethics, and how do we ensure they aren’t crossed?
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AMD to Partner with GlobalFoundries Through 2020
The agreement will give AMD access to 14 nm and 7 nm technology nodes for future semiconductor products.
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Littelfuse Completes Acquisition of Automotive Components from ON Semiconductor
Littelfuse has acquired several lines of TVS diodes, switching thyristors and IGBTs from ON Semiconductor to strengthen its automotive market presence.
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Heavy-Duty Connector Replaces Splices
Amphenol’s ATHD connector has size 12 contacts and can replace splices in industrial applications.
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Uber Plans All-Electric Car-Hailing Fleet in U.K.
The pilot program will involve using 20 Nissan Leaf vehicles to tackle pollution problems.
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Video: Department of Energy Produces World’s Largest 3-D-Printed Object
Oak Ridge National Laboratory creates special tool for Boeing.
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Sony’s 4K Streaming Service Powered by Intel Processors
Computers powered by Intel Core 7th-Generation processors will be able to access 4K content through the service.
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Weaponry – From Atlas and Bugs to MAHEM
Weapons newly delivered and on the drawing board, are designed to be high-powered, modular, frightening in capability, remotely operated and even sometimes quite odd. Here is a look at just a few examples for land, sea and air.
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Digital Antenna Speeds Up Data Transfer, Improves Reception on Mobile Phones
Researchers have combined several antenna elements into a single antenna to speed up data transfer and improve reception and efficiency.
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Reference Design for Battery-Free, Solar-Powered Sensor Beacon
Cypress Semiconductor's CYALKIT-E02 reference design kit lets IoT developers easily create tiny, solar-powered sensor beacons that acquire and wirelessly transmit data in their surrounding environment.
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Explosion-Proof Linear Position Sensor Serves in Hazardous Areas
Balluff's Micropulse BTL7 TA12 carries worldwide Class I, Div 1/Class I, Zone 1 hazardous area approvals, for global applicability.
