LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman invests in UK seed investor

Entrepreneur First, the London-based start-up seed investor, has secured £9.5m in funding and its backers include California-based venture capital firm Greylock Partners led by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Entrepreneur First (EF) was founded by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford in 2012, and it has helped seed over 120 technology companies. Most notably London-based artificial intelligence start-up, ...

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JEDEC committee formed for wide bandgap semis

JEDEC  has formed a new  committee –  JC-70 Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Conversion Semiconductors. Led by interim chairs from Infineon, TI, and Wolfspeed, the JC-70 committee will initially have two subcommittees: GaN and SiC and focus on Reliability and Qualification Procedures; Datasheet Elements and Parameters; and Test and Characterisation Methods. JC-70’s first committee meeting will be ...

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NXP launches scalable connected car chip.

NXP has brought out a single-chip DSRC modem for connecting vehicles. The chip, designated SAF5400, has a scalable architecture, uses RFCMOS and SDR  technologies and delivers flexible options for cross-regional secure V2X adoption and field upgradeability. V2X technology allows vehicles to communicate with other cars, infrastructure and vulnerable road users to increase driver safety and smooth out the ...

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Brainchip accelerator board

BrainChip Holdings has brought out a hardware acceleration board, BrainChip Accelerator. BrainChip Accelerator is an 8-lane, PCI-Express add-in card that increases the speed and accuracy of the object recognition function of BrainChip Studio software by up to six times, while increasing the simultaneous video channels of a system to 16 per card. The card is very ...

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Rohde & Schwarz adds 5GHz bandwidth option for analysers

Rohde & Schwarz is offering a wideband extension for its RTO2064 digital oscilloscope and FSW85 signal and spectrum analyser. The FSW-B5000 extension module, with equalised 5GHz signal analysis bandwidth, can be used to capture IEEE 802.11ay wideband signals for post-processing and to perform measurements on waveform candidates for the future 5G standard. The amplitude and ...

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Recom has EN60335-certified power converter for smart homes

A range of 3W and 4W power converters from Recom is designed for powering sensor and actuator nodes in smart home systems. The RACxx-GA range of converters is certified to EN60335 for household equipment. They have a specified no-load power consumption of only 75mW. The voltage outputs are  3.3, 5, 12, 15 and 24VDC. The ...

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Stanford facial recognition software spots gay people

Stanford University has caused a social storm by producing facial recognition technology that can spot gay people.   The university says its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers. Researchers used the photos of more than 14,000 white Americans. “Gay faces tended to be gender atypical,” the ...

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