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Revolutionizing Smart Tagging in IoT Applications with Integrated NFC Technology in Entry-Level MCUs

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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...
- 20 Aug 2018
NFC Tandem concept: combine NFC reader and connected tag solution

mubeen.abbas

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...
- 17 Aug 2018
Motorola stays true to Moto Mods with latest 5G modem mod

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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...
- 16 Aug 2018
Artificial Intelligence to Track You At Work

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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...
- 15 Aug 2018
D-Wave Successfully Demonstrates Physical System on Quantum Computer

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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...
- 14 Aug 2018
Google brings it AI TPU chips to consumers

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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...
- 6 Aug 2018
Facial Recognition Tech - AMS Posts Second Quarter Revenue Loss but Gain Increased Orders

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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...
- 27 Jul 2018
AI’s Rise, How Things Change

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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...
- 20 Jul 2018
Rethink safety for autonomous vehicles

yoSoyTono

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...
- 18 Jul 2018
Niantic opens its Real World AR Platform to third-party developers

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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 ...
- 12 Jul 2018
Swann cameras may be worth avoiding for a while..

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Rather shocking security issue, reported here:https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44628399 Long story short, users are seeing video captured from cameras they don't own.Quite pathetic how come the system would allow such a situation to occur so ...
- 27 Jun 2018
Celebrating women in engineering

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I found out this week that Saturday 23rd June is International Women in Engineering Day. I only see one side of engineering (working in Marketing) which is quite a blinkered view, so I thought I would catch up with our resident female engineer a...
- 22 Jun 2018
Rapid Prototyping is opening innovation

yoSoyTono

Engineers face a challenge when presenting the product concept they are building to stakeholders (managers, clients, investors, or board members) who need to understand and approve how it works. Explaining functional aspects of the conceptualized des...
- 18 Jun 2018
Engineers are transforming how they work with Model-Based Design

yoSoyTono

Stringent high-performance requirements for reliable products are rising design complexity both in hardware and software; because of this, embedded systems are becoming a key differentiating factor for (technological and commercial) success. This dem...
- 7 Jun 2018
Microsoft purchases Github for $7.5 billion

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The company's open source project development will be beneficial to both Microsoft and Github (image via Github) Microsoft is buying GitHub for a price valued at $7.5 billion, as announced on Monday. The software-coding sharing platform was ...
- 5 Jun 2018
Microsoft Looks to Use AI for Helping People with Disabilities and for Azure Development

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Anne Taylor, part of the Microsoft Accessibility team, is looking to use AI to benefit disabled people. (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is going on an AI kick as of late and one of their most significant announcements at this year’s Build (...
- 31 May 2018
Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller Lets Disabled Players Get in the Game

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The Adaptive Controller features a pair of large programmable buttons and a host of ports to connect virtually any Joystick, buttons, switches or other controllers to help those with disabilities play games. (Image credit: Xbox) This is a great...
- 24 May 2018
Microsoft: Financial Incentive to Attract More Developers

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Microsoft is using its developers conference to announce a new compensation plan that the company hopes will attract more developers to its platform. Joe Belfiore at the Microsoft Developer Conference (Image via Microsoft Build 2018) Earlier in ...
- 22 May 2018
HTC's Developing a Blockchain Phone

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HTC's new Exodus phone, the blockchain phone. (Image via HTC) HTC has just announced the creation of a new smartphone called "Exodus" - which comes just before the release of their new phone on May 23rd. The device is meant to be f...
- 17 May 2018
AI in the medical field has a bigger role

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Artificial Intelligence is playing a bigger role in the medical care industry. It has expanded on its role by detecting more severe and life-threatening conditions that the usual diagnostic tools can't. AliveCor, a company known for branding Kard...
- 15 May 2018
California to make solar panels mandatory on newly constructed homes

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A brand new proposal has just sought approval in California that requires solar panels to be built on newly constructed homes. The aim of this is to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions even though it will have the extra cost tied to it when co...
- 11 May 2018
Recycling Electronics: Benefits and Gains

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Old radios, almost a shame to recycle them! (Image via free use) Recycling is a movement that took off in the 1970s, but people have been recycling for thousands of years. Initially, early Americans recycled because goods were rare, and products...
- 4 May 2018
Startups are disrupting the Automotive and Mobility industry

yoSoyTono

The automotive industry is in the middle of a massive transformation due to evolving business models and mobility preferences, but also because of technological developments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Over the Air (OTA) algorithms, Machine Lea...
- 3 May 2018
Google Brings AI, Voice and Imaging to Raspberry Pi

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The introduction of Google's do-it-yourself kit has a gentle introduction to learning about artificial intelligence and Google has already come out with two separate projects to support this idea. The first one, known as the AIY Voice Kit is a vo...
- 24 Apr 2018
Magic Leap Augmented Reality Glasses, Closer To Affordable

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Magic Leap Inc is slowly introducing its new products to the world step by step. Some developers will get to test the products while others only get to develop an app for the platform. The Magic Leap One glasses (Image via Magic Leap) Secrecy, a...
- 20 Apr 2018