With a homemade radio costing £30 to make, many of VW’s cars can be remotely unlocked, say researchers from Birmingham University and Kasper & Oswald in a paper to be delivered today at a cyber security conference in Austin Texas VW cars made between 1995 and 2016 are vulnerable including Skodas, Seats and Udis. Hackers …

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Jack Gifford, CEO of Intersil and founding CEO of Maxim, was one of the IC industry’s outstanding leaders. He inspired the trust of the industry’s greatest engineers, Bob Widlar refused to report to anyone else when at Fairchild, and Gifford reserved especial esteem for Fairchild co-founder Jean Hoerni. “Imagine the guy who started five companies …

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Luminaires and the LED lighting infrastructure gain more eyes with “computer vision” designs from smart city firm Eutecus Inc.

36 years ago an engineer at Toshiba was moonlighting. He was supposed to be working on DRAM development but he was also developing another, very different, memory. In 1984 the engineer gave a paper at IEDM describing a new memory which became a $25 billion a year product. In 1988, Intel put the first chip …

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The books are coming thick and fast – see also The Arduino Project Handbook and Exploring Raspberry Pi – and here’s another electronics book relevant to (proto) Gadget Masters: it’s called Electronics for Kids.

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The memory industry is becoming as exciting as it used to be in the 1980s when the Americans were fighting for their lives against the Japanese while the Koreans prepared a massive assault – simultaneously building fabs and products for the 64k, 256k and Mbit generations. 30 years on, and the leading-edge is no longer …

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Award winning architectural space at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam will be able to map out different lighting areas using wireless LED lighting technology.

Smart lighting for the home can now easily flash Twitter alerts, sports scores, weather changes, and more via IFTTT.

We are excited to announce general availability of Amazon Kinesis Analytics, a fully managed service for continuously querying streaming data using standard SQL. With Kinesis Analytics, you can write standard SQL queries on streaming data and gain actionable insights in real-time, without having to learn any new programming skills.

Amazon S3 now supports the IPv6 protocol, so applications can connect to Amazon S3 for object storage over IPv6. You can meet IPv6 compliance requirements, more easily integrate with existing IPv6-based on-premises applications, and remove the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. You can also now utilize the existing source address filtering features in IAM policies and bucket policies with IPv6 addresses, expanding your options to secure applications interacting with Amazon S3.