Pre-Switch appoints Foxy Power as global sales partner

Pre-Switch, the company which developed a artificial intelligence (AI) DC-AC, AC-DC soft switching controller has announced that Foxy Power will be its exclusive sales partner. The Berlin-based business development specialist will promote Pre-Switch’s technology to minimise switching losses in industrial, automotive and alternative energy applications as well a in appliances. Pre-Switch’s technology uses AI to ...

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8.5% of phone apps have backdoors

Apps on mobile phones might have hidden or harmful behaviours about which end-users know little to nothing, according to Ohio State University researcher Zhiqiang Lin. For this study, the research team evaluated 150,000 apps: the top 100,000 based on the number of downloads from the Google Play store, the top 20,000 from an alternative market, ...

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Trackwise acquires Stevenage Circuits

Trackwise Designs has acquired Stevenage Circuits, the designer and manufacturer of short flex and rigid printed circuit boards “for up to £2.5m”, according to Trackwise.”The deal enables Trackwise to increase production of its ‘improved harness technology [IHT], as well as expand its customer base and boost technical, sales, and operational expertise.” Remaining proceeds of a ...

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AI reconstructs realistic 3D face from phone camera video

An accurate 3D face model that “doesn’t look creepy” can be reconstructed from smartphone video if AI is allowed to post-process the point cloud, according to Carnegie Mellon University. No laser scanned is required. “Building a 3D reconstruction of the face has been an open problem in computer vision and graphics because people are very sensitive ...

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Government still seeks help from UK companies over covid-19

The UK Government is still asking companies for help to tackle covid-19 It seeks support from organisations on: medical testing equipment medical equipment design spare stocks of masks, gowns and sanitiser for healthcare workers transport and logistics manufacturing equipment warehouse or office space, for medical use or storage expertise on IT, manufacturing, project management, procurement ...

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Silicon Integration Initiative adopts compact model for FD-SoI

The Compact Model Coalition (CMC) has adopted a model from French lab Leti for fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SoI) chip simulation. Called L-UTSOI, it was “proven by the industry and its standardisation will ensure long-term access and maintenance in EDA tools for FD-SOI designers”, according to Leti. Available to Coalition members now, it will be implemented in major versions ...

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Non-invasive brain pressure measurement treats brain as a tuned circuit

Japanese scientist have treated the brain like a tuned circuit to get accurate intracranial pressure (ICP) measurements without invasive surgery. ICP is a valuable parameter, for example in neurosurgery, neurology and emergency medicine. It can only usually be measured by inserting an intracranial catheter. Medical Doctors at Shinshu University have found a way to deduce the ...

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