How to build your own simple laser trip wire alarm. The author of ‘Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects’ takes us through the steps.

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Rambus is to license its Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures IP to Idaho Scientific to use in security IP Cores for FPGAs and defense ASICs.

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Rockchip, the telecom IC company, has licensed the CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision DSP to enhance the imaging and computer vision capabilities of its SoC product lines targeting smartphones, ADAS, drones, robotics and other smart camera devices.

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High-Tech Harassment may have to go onto the Statute Book as an offence if a capability unveiled at the Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference becomes prevalent. In Las Vegas a couple of Kiwi hackers showed how they’d hacked a vibrator. This vibrator is made by a company called Standard Innovation and is branded We-Vibe …

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Linear Tech has launched a general-purpose power management solution for systems requiring multiple low voltage power supplies.

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As everyone knows unhackability doesn’t exist. You pay for the level of security which you can afford but no level of security is wholly secure. Def Con, the hacking conference, showed how universally this is true. Locks epitomise security but, in a talk called “Picking Bluetooth Low Energy Locks from a Quarter Mile Away” two …

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A 16% plunge in DRAM ASP is expected to lead to a 19% DRAM market decline this year, reports IC Insights, with 2016 not expected to be good for memory

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‘Transient electronics’ is an increasingly important route for R&D as one answer to the growing problem of disposing of unwanted electronic kit.

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Samsung intends to ship a 32TB SSD using 64-layer, 512Gb 3D NAND chips next year. The chips are triple level cell with 800Mbps IO and fit in a 2.5 inch slot.

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Visitors to the Rio Olympics will fall under the gaze of NEC’s face recognition system which can check faces against 1.6 million faces in 0.3 seconds.

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