Stanford University has caused a social storm by producing facial recognition technology that can spot gay people.   The university says its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers. Researchers used the photos of more than 14,000 white Americans. “Gay faces tended to be gender atypical,” the ...

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 Meridian, an accelerator for connected and driverless car technology, has been launched by the government. Meridian will bring together established UK-leading start-ups, OEMs and SMEs from a number of industries to encourage cross-sector collaboration – including, Artificial Intelligence, Insurance, Legal, Telecommunications, Gaming, Mobility and the Financial Services Sectors – to pitch their CAV innovations and ...

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Toshiba is in volume production of  two mid-voltage, high current photorelays, the 100V TLP3823 with a 3A drive current, and the 200V TLP3825 with a 1.5A drive current. The new products will extend the range of large current photorelays to replace mechanical relays, alongside Toshiba’s current 60V, 5A TLP3547. Toshiba is supporting and promoting the ...

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SEMI reports record Q2 billings of $14.1 billion – up 8% on Q1 and up 35% on Q2 2016. Korea grew the strongest, followed by Taiwan and China. Regional Q2 billings were: Korea 4.79 Taiwan 2.76 China 2.51 Japan 1.55 North America 1.23 Europe 0.66 Rest of World 0.62 Total 14.11

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Murata is sampling a RAIN RFID tag designed for use on metal components and surfaces. Placing such tags on to metal has been challenging because metal surfaces reflect the signal emitted from the reader and interfere with communication between the tag and reader. To overcome this, Murata has patented various technologies that allow RFID tags ...

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The LT8711 is a multitopology current mode PWM controller that can easily be configured as a synchronous buck, boost, SEPIC and ZETA DC/DC converter, or as a nonsynchronous buck-boost converter. This device replaces the output diode with a high efficiency P-channel MOSFET, thereby increasing efficiency and maximum output current up to 10A, making the LT8711 ...

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Microchip’s  MPLAB Harmony 2.0, the firmware development framework for PIC32 microcontrollers, is available as a free download at www.microchip.com/mplab/mplab-harmony. The significant update to the software platform enables customers to create smaller and more efficient code for faster and more cost-effective devices. In addition to better quality code, the update has added numerous new tools that work ...

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Qualcomm and Nokia are to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on the 5G New Radio (NR) Release-15 specifications being developed by 3GPP. The testing and trials intend to drive the mobile ecosystem toward rapid validation and commercialization of 5G NR technologies at scale, enabling timely commercial network launches in 2019 based on ...

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The last two standing in the Toshiba saga are squaring up to eachother with revised bids. In the blue corner is an expanded Bain/Hynix consortium which has upped its bid to $23 billion of which around $3 billion is for investment in the business. The total 20.9 billion Yen price will be split: 567.5 billion yen ...

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