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End-to-end encryption for the masses
End-to-end encryption for the masses
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When Facebook bought WhatsApp last year, Swiss company Threema saw millions of secure messaging WhatsApp users flee to adopt its…
Will a silicon sphere become the new kilogram standard?
Will a silicon sphere become the new kilogram standard?
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Since years, scientists around the globe ponder how a new definition for the kilogram could look like A definition less…
WDM specification for intra data center connectivity
WDM specification for intra data center connectivity
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RANOVUS Inc., a provider of multi-terabit interconnect solutions for data center and communications networks, has announced the OpenOptics MSA publication…
Wireless power transfer breaks all connections, Part 2
Wireless power transfer breaks all connections, Part 2
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Sanjaya Maniktala offers a second part of a high-level review of the current state of wireless power transfer (WPT).

WPT breaks all connections, Part 2
WPT breaks all connections, Part 2
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Sanjaya Maniktala offers a second part of a high-level review of the current state of wireless power transfer (WPT).
A new kilogram standard made of silicon?
A new kilogram standard made of silicon?
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For years, scientists around the globe ponder how a new definition for the kilogram could look like A definition less prone to aging and impermanence than the current standard kilogram,…
Sensor network on board of ISS secures air quality
Sensor network on board of ISS secures air quality
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Environmental conditions like temperature, atmospheric pressure and air composition are vital for the life at the International Space Station ISS. To collect these data at high accuracy and reliability, the…
Cut landfill: Transform packing materials to rechargeable batteries
Cut landfill: Transform packing materials to rechargeable batteries
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Researchers at Purdue University have developed a way to turn discarded peanut-shaped packing materials into components for rechargeable batteries that could outperform the ones currently used.
1.5-A LDO plus regulator monitors current and temperature
1.5-A LDO plus regulator monitors current and temperature
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LDO+ regulators do more than just regulate. They include monitor and control functions as well as regulation. The LT3081 has a wide safe area, allowing operation with high currents at…
Real-time power GaN waveform monitoring
Real-time power GaN waveform monitoring
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Grant Smith, Business Development Manager, Texas Instruments compares the degradation mechanisms of GaN FETs with silicon FETs and discuss the need for waveform monitoring.
Nvidia computer as processing hub for self-driving cars
Nvidia computer as processing hub for self-driving cars
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The capability of processing awesome amounts of data, combined with deep learning instead of fixed algorithms will be characterize the computers that eventually control robot cars. Even next-generation driver assistance…
Latest Low Voltage Directive includes risk assessment
Latest Low Voltage Directive includes risk assessment
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The new Low Voltage Directive (LVD) 2014/35/EU, harmonising the legal requirements of the EU's member-states with regard to the supply of electrical equipment for use within certain voltage limits on…
Bosch CEO predicts cheaper batteries, networked traffic
Bosch CEO predicts cheaper batteries, networked traffic
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Within the decade ahead, the price level for traction batteries will decline by 75 percent, predicted Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner at the technology congress of the German Automotive Industry Association…
Bi-directional RF doubles cellular capacity
Bi-directional RF doubles cellular capacity
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In electrical engineering school you were taught that full-duplex (sending and receiving) had to be done on different frequencies or at different times (technically half-duplex).
Accommodating the needs of ISO26262 in MEMS Gyro based automotive applications
Accommodating the needs of ISO26262 in MEMS Gyro based automotive applications
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MEMS gyros and accelerometers are finding their way into many consumer and industrial applications today. From smartphones to domestic appliances “white goods” more and more designs are using these miniature…
Roll-to-roll printing of organic solar cells and LEDs
Roll-to-roll printing of organic solar cells and LEDs
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An EU-funded research project is claiming a number of successes at its mid-term review of technologies being developed to facilitate roll-to-roll (R2R) production of organic optoelectronic devices such as solar…
Cathode discovery unlocks performance potential of lithium-sulfur batteries
Cathode discovery unlocks performance potential of lithium-sulfur batteries
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Researchers from Drexel University partnering colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France, have discovered a high performance cathode material for use in next generation lithium-sulfur batteries that could one day be…
Tests highlight nanoceramic substrate’s best-in-class thermal conductivity performance
Tests highlight nanoceramic substrate’s best-in-class thermal conductivity performance
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Tests conducted by The LIA Laboratories (part of The LIA - Europe's largest lighting trade association) have shown that Cambridge Nanotherm's novel nanoceramic-based thermal management technology outperforms all the thermal…
Data structures have an influence on the speed of quantum search
Data structures have an influence on the speed of quantum search
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Using the quantum property of superposition, quantum computers will be able to find target items within large piles of data far faster than conventional computers ever could. But the speed…
Cadence and ARM strategic partners on IP
Cadence and ARM strategic partners on IP
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Striking a broad Intellectual Property (IP) interoperability agreement, IC design tool provider Cadence and number one IP provider ARM are reinforcing their relationship with a multiyear agreement that gives them…
Opel develops headlight control through eye-tracking
Opel develops headlight control through eye-tracking
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Controlling your headlamp with a move of your eyes: What sounds like Sci-Fi can soon be reality. Carmaker Opel is developing a technology that controls direction and brightness of the…
Graphene-based solar cells and LEDs take step closer
Graphene-based solar cells and LEDs take step closer
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Caltech has invented a technique to produce graphene at room temperature which could help pave the way for commercially feasible graphene-based solar cells and light-emitting diodes, large-panel displays and flexible…
Four-Channel PA IC with digital phase control targets emerging 5G
Four-Channel PA IC with digital phase control targets emerging 5G
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Plextek RFI has presented details of a 4-channel 28-GHz power amplifier with 4-bit digital phase control for 5G RF front ends’ at the prestigious 5G Radio Technology Seminar organised by…
BMW connects car, smart home with smartphone app
BMW connects car, smart home with smartphone app
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Turning on the heating in the home from the car while en route is one of the functions the Qivicon smart home platform offers to its users. At Cebit, BMW…
BMW connects car, home with smartphone app
BMW connects car, home with smartphone app
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Turning on the heating in the home from the car while en route is one of the functions the Qivicon smart home platform offers to its users. At Cebit, BMW…
KIT packs more Lithium for higher energy storage densities
KIT packs more Lithium for higher energy storage densities
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A team of researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and KIT-founded Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) have developed a cathode material based on a new storage principle which increases energy…
Producing cheap ultrathin perovskite solar cells
Producing cheap ultrathin perovskite solar cells
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Researchers at Brown University have developed a a faster, more straightforward method for making solar cells from perovskite which can produce flexible, high-efficiency, thinner cells.
Printed NFC for context-aware gameplay
Printed NFC for context-aware gameplay
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European companies Cartamundi, Van Genechten Packaging, PragmatIC, SMARTRAC, TNO and imec have joined forces to launch PING (Printed Intelligent NFC Game cards and packaging), a consortium to bring flexible electronics…


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