Embroidery with 100μm precision could create brain implants, or integrate electronics into wearable items, claims a team from Ohio State University. “A revolution is happening in the textile industry,” said engineer Professor John Volakis. “We believe that functional textiles are an enabling technology for communications and sensing, and even medical applications like imaging and health …

Embroidery makes wearable antennas

Cambridge Pixel has won the contract to supply radar acquisition hardware and scan conversion software to Cemtrol, the Californian manufacturer of rugged control and monitoring systems. Cemtrol is using Cambridge Pixel’s HPx-200e PCI Express (PCIe) radar input card and SPx software library to provide its Radar Display Console (RDC) with a radar acquisition and display capability. The console is designed for use …

Cambridge radar specialist wins US contract for PCI Express system

Computer scientists at Columbia University and Google have demonstrating that geotagged posts on just two social media apps are enough to link accounts held by the same person – identifying individuals with a high degree of confidence. Location metadata is the key. “If you look unique in how you make phone calls, it is possible …

Geotagged posts on just two phone apps can reveal your identify

Kaspersky Lab has brought out a protection system for industrial infrastructure. “The cybersecurity of industrial systems and critical infrastructures is of vital importance,” says Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs, “an increasing number of such systems are using devices and channels that interact with the outside world. Sometimes they use equipment that was …

Kaspersky system protects critical infrastructure

ARM and UMC are to develop multiple physical IP platforms, enabling UMC customers to easily implement ARM Artisan physical IP into SoC designs and reduce time-to-market. The agreement spans applications in automotive, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile, from a 55ULP platform for IoT applications to a 14nm FinFET test chip for leading-edge mobile applications. …

ARM and UMC tie up for physical IP

ARM and UMC are to develop multiple physical IP platforms, enabling UMC customers to easily implement ARM® Artisan physical IP into SoC designs and reduce time-to-market. The agreement spans applications in automotive, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile, from a 55ULP platform for IoT applications to a 14nm FinFET test chip for leading-edge mobile applications. …

ARM and UMC tie up for physical IP

As if we didn’t know it from the procession of Intel exitees, the new President brought in from Qualcomm for $25 million is kicking ass. “Over the last three months I have conducted numerous project reviews with our execution teams, and there is a clear trend that has emerged in these reviews – a lack …

Intel President Kicks Ass

No nation has enough engineers to protect its infrastructure against cyberattacks, Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs, told a meeting in London yesterday. “We’re living at a time of growing numbers of attacks on infrastructure,” said Kaspersky, ‘ we have seen a case where petrol deliveries were heated above the temperature at which …

Governments Must Regulate Against Cyberattacks, says Kaspersky

Movement in the hand and fingers of a paralysed man have been temporarily restored using a brain implant linked to electrodes on his forearm. The system has been developed by teams at not-for-profit research firm Battelle and the Wexner Medical Center of Ohio State University, and has been dubbed NeuroLife. Ian Burkhart is the subject. “He participates …

Brain implant restores arm movement to paralysed hand

The organisers of Droidcon London – which is described as the largest Android developer conference in Europe – are calling for papers. The 2016 event runs at the Business Design Centre, in Angel, on October 27th and 28th 2016, which are a Thursday and Friday. The organisers write: We’re putting on two days of expert …

Droidcon London 2016 opens Call for Papers