Drones co-operate to defend against adversaries

Non-centralised mutual control is key to a team of drones that can defend a place against attack, according to researchers in Saudi Arabia. Performance of the scheme was judged in a capture-the-flag game, where the team of defender drones worked together within a defined area to intercept a human-controlled intruder drone and prevent it from reaching ...

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Computer predicts human behaviour minutes ahead

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed software that can predict human behaviour a few minutes into the future, demonstrated by asking ‘what happens next’ when people make salads. The training data included 40 videos of people making different salads, each around six minutes long and containing 20 different actions on average, lasting ...

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Woman engineer debunks myths about working in industry

The theme for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2018, which takes place on 23 June, is to raise the bar for women in engineering.  It sees a need to heighten expectations for female engineers, there are still a plenty of myths and misconceptions to quash about working in the industry.  So Emma Cygan, design ...

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Smiths Interconnect has space-qualified coaxial cable assemblies

Smiths Interconnect has introduced a range of flexible coaxial cable assemblies which are pre-tested and qualified for the space orbit environment. The SpaceNXT Q series are available as cut to length and dual-terminated assemblies. The range currently consists of the 105Q, 190Q, and 200Q cable models which cover key performance characteristics at various frequency bands ...

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Samsung commits to 100% renewable energy by 2020

Samsung Electronics has  announced today its plan to commit to 100% renewable energy in the United States, Europe and China by 2020. This major commitment – the first by an electronics manufacturing company in Asia – comes after months of campaigning and global protests calling on Samsung to urgently set a clear renewable energy goal ...

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Farnell

Farnell has launched a five-week competition for customers in Europe to celebrate the summer of football 2018. Customers in Europe can visit football.farnell.com to guess the score in key games, test their football predictions against friends and colleagues on a live leader board and tell Farnell element14 about their top-scoring products to get the chance ...

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Dutch start-up IPOs and gets $15bn valuation

Adyen, the 12 year-old Dutch PayPal, IPO’d on the Amsterdam exchange yesterday and saw its shares soar to nearly double the IPO pricing valuing the company at $15.8 billion. Adyen processes payments. Customers include Netflix, Facebook and Spotify. It also supplies sales systems for shops for physical transactions. It processed $127 billion worth of payments in ...

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ADI launches SOI 44GHz single pole, double-throw switches

ADI has launched two 44 GHz single-pole, double-throw switches made on an SOI process. The switches are broadband, with the ADRF5024 yielding flat frequency response from 100 MHz to 44 GHz, while the ADRF5025 from 9 kHz to 44 GHz, with repeatable characteristics better than 1.7 dB insertion loss and 35 dB channel to channel ...

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Harwin adds to Sycamore Contact line

Harwin has added to its Sycamore Contact (https://www.harwin.com/product-highlights/sycamore-contact/) product offering. While this series was initially capable of accommodating 1mm and 1.5mm diameter contact pins, it now covers pin sizes from 0.80 to 1.90mm. There are a wide variety of scenarios where electronic devices/modules will require replacement over time (such as depleted gas sensors or worn-out ...

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