Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce Zhiyu, the first Mandarin Chinese voice. Zhiyu is a clear, bright, and natural-sounding female voice.

I’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s AIY kits (“Artifical-Intelligence yourself”) since they launched last year with Raspberry-Pi based designs, and here’s another: the AIY Edge TPU Boards.

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RS Components has unveiled a range of heavy-duty industrial connectors – particularly for robotics and machinery, and in sound and lighting applications. Called RS Pro the range includes rugged housings and inserts, that includes screw terminals and cage-clamp terminals with UL approvals – including UL90V0 flammability. Inserts come in contact-number sizes including 3 PE, 4 …

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Photonic sensors are increasingly being yet layout design is typically slow.

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Molex has shrunk its Fit family of wire-to-PCB connectors – to 3.5mm pin-pitch to produce the Ultra-Fit range – the size of the one pictured, looking straight into the pins, is 10 x 14mm. For single row parts (2-8pins) capacity is 14A per pin in tin plate versions and 12A for gold. In dual row …

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Diodes has announced a hot-swap chip for I2C and SMBus connections

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ACEINNA of Massachusetts has brought out OpenIMU – a professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications. Whether you are developing autonomously guided vehicles for industrial applications, autonomous cars, factory or industrial robots, drones, ROVs, any kind of smart machine which needs to move – fast or slow, on land, in …

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Cor strike a light. Listen to this company boss: ‘There is still more work to do, but under our new leadership we’re bringing in: Improvements for passengers — from new safety features to 24/7 telephone support; Improvements for drivers — including for the first time sickness, injury, maternity and paternity protections; And a new more …

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Birmingham University researchers see a way  to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium. Lithium is expensive and resources are unevenly distributed across the planet. Large amounts of drinking water are used in lithium extraction and extraction techniques are becoming more energy intensive. With the ever increasing demand for electric cars, the need for …

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Long-time LED and solid-state lighting industry executive Jacob Tarn had very publicly and proactively lauded the advancements made by LEDvance as a global and full-line lighting manufacturer, and now the company will seek a new CEO.