The answers include software defined radio for the Raspberry Pi, a Korg Nutube Amplifier for your guitar, a Samsung Galaxy S9 teardown, an Arduino-based plant monitor and a voice recognition kit from Google, also involving a Pi...

What's new to Android Studio 3.1? Changes include improved support for database coding and a C++ performance profiler for troubleshooting performance bottlenecks in application code.

In 1996 a long-serving managing director handed over to a new guy who went on a spending spree. He spent the company’s £3 billion of cash reserves. He spent another £8 billion raised from disposals of businesses. He spent another £3 billion which he had borrowed. Between September 2000 and July 2001 the company’s shares fell from 1250p to 100p ...

Peerless Electronics of New York is unusual for a component distributor because it is an employee-owned company. The distributor, which was founded in 1945, sells switches, relays and circuit breaker products offers military packaging, custom circuit breaker panels and custom cable assemblies. It is also certified to AS9100 inclusive of value added services. Peerless Electronics’ latest supplier agreement is with ...

Amplicon has introduced the ICP DAS iP-8000-MTCP series of Modbus TCP I/O expansion units. They will be used in custom data acquisition systems that require the measurement and control of a large number of process signals over an Ethernet network. The iP-8841-MTCP and iP-8441-MTCP have been specifically designed to withstand harsh and noisy environments; its wide input range (10 – ...

Teddington, the Cornish engineering and manufacturing firm, has appointed Oman-based Defence Electronic System Integration (DESI) to represent its interests in the Gulf States. This is part of an international sales drive which will give Teddington a presence in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Teddington managing ...

Sales of optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discrete semiconductors (known collectively as O-S-D) increased 11% in 2017—more than 1.5 times the average annual growth rate in the past 20 years—to reach an eighth consecutive record-high level of $75.3 billion, according to IC Insights’ new O-S-D market report. O-S-D sales growth is expected to ease back in 2018 but still rise by an ...

Young Sohn, former CEO of Inphi, now Chief Strategy Officer at Samsung, pitches a proposal to the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace. Sohn is reported to have undertaken to make France Samsung’s third main location for AI R&D after Korea and California. Sohn is said to have undertaken to base 100 AI researchers in France. Samsung’s ...

The semiconductor industry closed out 2017 in blockbuster fashion, posting the highest year-over-year growth in 14 years, reports IHS Markit. Semiconductor revenue grew 21.7%, reaching $429.1 billion. Recording year-over-year growth of 53.6%, and its highest semiconductor revenue ever, Samsung replaced Intel as the new market leader of the semiconductor industry in 2017. Intel was followed by Hynix, in third position. ...

Ultrahaptics, the haptic touch specialist, has  launched STRATOS Explore, the first development kit based on its new STRATOS platform. STRATOS Explore is available to buy through Ultrahaptics’ worldwide distribution network. Ultrahaptics’ core mid-air haptic technology creates the sense of touch in mid-air by using arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands. STRATOS Explore has been ...