Three year-old Arctic Sand, the MIT spin-out which raised $19 million in Series B funding in February, is sampling a small, efficient LED driver for Ultrabooks.

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The Raspberry Pi foundation announces Pixel. A new desktop UI that will ship with the Foundation’s Raspbian image from now on.

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Nissan has developed a pretty brilliant idea for queue-ers – the autonomous self-driving chair. Here’s the link. http://www2.nissan.co.jp/BRAND/TFL/SP/PPC/?rstid=20160905rst000000023 Nissan has adapted its autonomous car technology to develop “self-driving” chairs that give queue-ers a chance to rest their plstes of meat while autojaticallyn moving them up the queue. The ChairPilot detects when the spot at the …

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NI has demonstrated a millimetre-wave radar test system for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) at European Microwave Week in London this week. The test set-up is designed for short- and long-range radar in the 76–81GHz range, and is based around the firm’s PXIe-5840 second-generation vector signal transceiver (VST). According to Stefano Concezzi, vice president of …

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Intepro Systems is offering a 50MHz bandwidth load for testing point-of-load power converters. The stand-alone unit, called EL 2000 HS, works up to 40W, has a rise-time of 40A/µs, and can sink 20A from under 1V. To minimise inductance, wires to the unit-under-test are avoided. “Ever-higher switching speeds and lower operating voltages present unique challenges …

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Imec and Holst Centre have developed a new sensor-hub-on-chip intended for a broad range of wearable health devices and applications.

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Memory shortages could be on the way. Micron CEO says that distie stocks of memory are “very very tight” while DRAMeXchange expects a 30% rise in DRAM contract prices in Q4 and reports a 7.4% hike in September.

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How does this guy sound to you? He’s talking about science and technology. “I had no idea, until a few weeks ago, just how much I don’t know. And I had even less idea how much I still wouldn’t be able to understand even once some clever people had explained it to me.” What does …

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The UK LED company adds tunable white and color-changing bulbs to the Hive line of smart home products from British Gas.

You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the South America (São Paulo) region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet.