The $1 billion fund recently revealed seven more startups it will invest in to help solve energy problems. The fund features investments from Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg. (Photo from Getty Images) Some of the biggest and most l...
You can always expect to see some amazing homemade projects at the Maker Faire. The 9th Annual Maker Faire in NYC did not disappoint. Check out some of my highlights below. 1. Rideable Robot Horse 2. Stellar Star Wars Cosplay (Rey) &...
According to this year’s Maker Faire, the future will bring living spaces that actually reflect how we live, smart urban planning, LED-embedded fashion, and so much more. (Image, original) The 9th Annual Maker Faire took place in The New Y...
This post entry provides a detailed description of how a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) pairing solution via NFC was developed using two of our reference development boards:The NTAG I2C plus kit for Arduino pinoutThe Freedom KW41Z board.This document has...
LittleBits founder Ayah Bdeir reflected on the road to littleBits with Maker Media founder Dale Dougherty during the 2018 Maker Faire. (Image via Forbes Middle East) The 2018 Maker Faire held endless surprises for the hundreds of thousand...
Near Field Communication (NFC) is hot. It is available in hundreds of millions of smartphones, tablets, and other consumer electronics, and enters more and more the industrial space as well.This article shows how to implement the demos of our "Indust...
Microsoft recently launched the AI for Humanitarian Action program, which will make their technology available to those working on various humanitarian efforts. The tech giant wants to use its AI technology for good causes. (Image is of the Microsoft...
This post entry provides a detailed description of how to port the NFC Reader Library to Kinetis K64F MCU. It is used a real porting example exercise to show the steps required to adapt the NFC Reader Library to a sample target MCU. The goal of this ...
DARPA launches a new program called Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHIRMP) to develop swarm bots to use in disaster relief efforts. DARPA hopes to employ these tiny guys for their disaster relief programs. (Photo via DARPA) Tiny...
Near Field Communication (NFC) is already present in more than 1.5 Billion smartphones. Well-known applications like payment and access control are enabled by NFC, but also emerging and innovative use cases which are just appearing on the horizon now...
Three Square Market’s RFID chip can be programmed for making payments, medical information, remote vehicle starting and more. (Image credit: 32chip) It’s been a year since Three Square Market tagged their (voluntary) employees with RFID chips, ...
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Overview Near Field Communications (NFC) technology isn’t exactly a household word, even though the wireless technology is incorporated in more than 1.5 billion smartphones*, forms the basis of secure wireless point-of-sale payment systems, and is pr...
NFC Tandem offers best of both worlds: An NFC reader and a passive connected tag sharing one antenna. A user can interact with the device when it is powered off (through the NTAG I²C plus); when the device is powered, it can interact with cards...
The future of Moto Mods was looking grim with low sales and controversies, but Motorola stays true to the brand with its latest mod. Moto Mods keeps hanging in there and hopes their next mod will be a big seller. (Photo via Motorola) I thought M...
Coursera’s Skills Benchmarking tool lets employers see how their employees are doing in courses and how their skills match up with competitors. A sample of how employers can track how employees are doing in their courses. (Image viam Coursera) C...
Scientists were able to simulate the traverse field lsing model (TFIM) using the D-Wave 2048-Qubit 2000Q Quantum Computer. (Image credit: D-Wave) D-Wave scientists have recently announced that they were successful in modeling a quantum system u...
Programmers can install TPU chips on their own machines in October, but it’ll cost you. These tiny chips help make AI tasks more efficient. (Photo via Google) A couple of years ago, Google revealed its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), specialize...
AMS reports an operating loss of $48.6-million but looks to facial recognition technology to help bolster revenues. (Image credit: AMS via Google+) There is both bad news and good news regarding Austrian sensor manufacturer AMS and their latest...
As technology improves, AI is taking over the further with more and more applications supposed to improve lives. However, the rise of AI also brings its own set of threats to the peace in the world. A view of things that NASNet identified during a te...
Nearly in every case of the accidents involving self-driving vehicles, unexpected circumstances not catered for by human programming was the cause of the problem —the Google shuttle in Las Vegas, some Ubers in Arizona, the Tesla car in Florida, and s...
The creators behind Pokemon Go will let a handful of developers take advantage of their AR platform. The company also spoke about ways they’re improving their AR technology. (Photo via Niantic) Niantic, the developers behind popular mobile game ...
