A system allowing drones to be controlled from anywhere in the world using only an intrrnet connection has been developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory run by the US Department of Energy. The technology is being licensed by Horizon31, of Knoxville, Tennessee. The founding team of Horizon31 developed the technology at Oak Ridge. “To ...

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Infineon and Fingerprint Sensors have combined to make biometric payment cards with integrated fingerprint sensors. This allows contactless cards to remain in the hands of the cardholder throughout a payment transaction, while eliminating the need for PIN entries or signatures to authorize even high-value payments. The fingerprint information is stored on the card’s embedded secure ...

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Avnet is shipping a specialised sensor HAT for Raspberry Pi. The Avnet-designed evaluation, development and quick-prototyping tool is intended for engineering professionals who need quick development of commercial, industrial, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning products requiring advanced indoor air quality measurement capabilities. The HAT has an on-board calibrated Renesas ZMOD4410 sensor that measures the ...

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Blaize, the Californian AI developer, has launched its first products called Pathfinder and Xplorer. “Blaize AI edge computing products overcome limitations of power, complexity and cost to unleash the adoption of AI at the edge,” says CEO and co-founder Dinakar Munagala. The Blaize embedded and accelerator platforms are built on the the Blaize Graph Streaming ...

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Intel is saying that its next generation CPUs will have a 20% performance improvement over the current generation. The increase in performance will come not from process but from two design improvements – a new material for the capacitors and the use of what Intel calls SuperFin transistors. “It is 20%, the largest intra-node jump ...

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Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,  the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, the A M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of RAS, Skoltech, the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk State University, Stuttgart University, the Prague Institute of Physics, and the University of  Tokyo have discovered a new phase of nanoconfined water: separate water molecules that are ...

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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an AI system that recognises hand gestures by combining skin-like electronics with computer vision. The recognition of human hand gestures by AI systems has been a valuable development over the last decade and has been adopted in high-precision surgical robots, health monitoring equipment and in ...

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