Andrew Faden has come up with a tutorial on how to get a HomePod, which Apple has limited to playing iTunes, to work with Spotify, Pandora and other voice assistants. Faden calls the transformed HomePod a ‘BabelPod’. You’ll need a Raspberry Pi Zero W ($34.50 for a Budget Pack), or a larger and more expensive ...
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London Tech Week opens today and the Prime Minister is expected to announce £1.2 billion worth of foreign investment in the sector. Speaking at London Tech Week, the Prime Minister will make a number of ambitious commitments that will ensure the UK remains the largest tech hub in Europe. Investments totalling £1.2 billion include: £153 ...
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Toray Industries of Japan may have done what scandal-hit Silicon Valley firm Theranos failed to do – found a way of detecting cancer from a single drop of blood. Toray has developed an IC that can detect certain microRNA that occurs with cancer. Cancer cells produce different kinds of microRNA which are specific to a ...
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Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science, Riken, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Suranaree University and Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology fabricated a novel solid-state spin filtering device that sandwiches a thin layer of artificial molecular motors (Figure 1). Because the artificial molecular motors demonstrate 4 times chirality inversion by light irradiation ...
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Imperial College spin-out Slamcore is developing artificial intelligence based tools to help robots both map their environment and navigate through it – ‘slam’ in the name comes from ‘simultaneous localisation and mapping’. “We are experts in the probabilistic fusion of multiple types of sensor,” Slamcore CEO Owen Nicholson told Electronics Weekly. “Our AI algorithms have ...
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Keysight has revealed the next generation of its multi-purpose handheld FieldFox microwave analyzers – the B-series, including a combination spectrum and vector network analyser with 100MHz real-time bandwidth. “FieldFox B-series analysers offer measurement capabilities that enable 5G network testing in the field,” said the firm. “In addition, these capabilities enable customers to locate and identify the ...
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Q1 semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings fell 8% sequentially and 19% y-o-y to $13.79 billion, says SEMI. Taiwan Q1 billings grew 36% sequentially and grew 68% y-o-y to $3.81 billion. Korea’s QI billings dropped 8% sequentially and dropped 54% y-oy to $2.89 billion. China’s Q1 billings were down 13% sequentially and dropped 11% y-o-y at $2.36 billion. America’s ...
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Berlin researchers have have created a 2D semiconductor with an unusual property – it conducts better (65x better) perpendicular to is planes than along its planes – the opposite to graphene. It is called Triazine-based graphitic carbon nitride (TGCN), was created by Humboldt-Universität and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and “should be highly suitable for applications in ...
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Banning Chinese 5G switchgear will cost Europe $62 billion says the GSMA. The GSMA estimates the cost of installing 5G in Europe to be $568 billion. The GSMA says that half of the $62 billion additional cost “would be due to European operators being impacted by higher input costs following significant loss of competition in the ...
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Soitec and Globalfoundries have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300mm SOI wafers to secure supplies to meet the growing demand for RF-SOI, FD-SOI and photonics ICs. RF-SOI chips are used in all smartphones and FD-SOI has become the standard technology for cost-effective, low-power devices in high-volume consumer and IoT applications as well as for mission ...
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