Google is adding a Digital Ink Recognition API for both Android and iOS to allow developers to create apps where stylus and touch act as primary inputs. In June, in the realm of machine learning, the company announced updates to its ML Kit’s APIs, which are built for tackling common challenges in the Vision and ...
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The UK Space Agency has announced £3.4 million of new funding for 10 space-related projects. They involve UK academics using space to tackle global development problems, from the spread of malaria to human trafficking and forced labour. Among the ten projects are ones that will help protect wildlife habitats in Kenya and will improve resilience ...
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Arduino has announced the official release of Arduino IoT Cloud, an “Internet of Things Application Platform” enabling you to easily develop and manage IoT apps. The system first emerged back in February. Previously, Arduino boards would require programming via a sketch, but the Arduino IoT Cloud now provides an alternative route. It will, says Arduino, quickly ...
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Arduino and Google have agreed that the Google Science Journal will be transferring over to Arduino control from this September. The journal was originally a Google initiative to encourage students to explore the world around them and record their observations as they conduct their own experiments. It was an open source project, and with ...
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Northrop Grumman and Seatrec have been announced as winners of an Explorer Prize sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States. The competition sought to encourage innovative technology in marine renewable energy, to enable “more persistent and pervasive ocean observing”. The two companies together ...
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Google has announced version 1.20 of Flutter, its system for creating – in native ARM code – embedded graphic components for both iOS and Android from a single codebase. As well as promised performance improvements, the release includes some UI enhancements. For example, support for autofill, a new way to layer widgets to support pan ...
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given Amazon approval for its Project Kuiper low orbit satellite constellation, to provide Internet access.
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BAE Systems has formally completed its acquisition of the Collins Aerospace Military Global Positioning System (GPS) business from Raytheon Technologies Corporation. First announced in January, BAE describes the $1.9 billion move as a unique opportunity to acquire “a high-quality, technology-based business that augments the existing BAE Systems Electronic Systems portfolio”. It highlights the addition of ...
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Google and Apple have updated their Bluetooth-based pandemic tracing Exposure Notifications System (ENS), incorporating feedback from early implementations by health authorities tackling Covid-19. They’ve also published extra technical details about how ENS works. You can, see for example, the source code of an example system (via the Github repository). The update to the API includes ...
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Nick Hill, CEO at the engineering and design consultancy Plextek, laments the currently disadvantaged position of students affected by the Covid-19 pandemic due to exam cancellations, and shines a light at the end of the tunnel by reintroducing internships. When the history of the UK’s response to coronavirus is written, I’m confident that the cancellation of ...
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