A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly newscast for March 13, 2017.

Today, ‘technology experts, social scientists and government officials’ are meeting to discuss the future of work at the Southbank Centre in London. ‘As advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) threaten to disrupt labour markets globally, the summit led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) will call on businesses and governments globally to urgently …

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To provide hardware with authentication and to secure small data transactions between the device and the cloud Maxim Integrated has developed an embedded security reference design. Using elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) public-key cryptography, the MAXREFDES155 reference design is intended for the development of devices for authenticating and managing a sensing node with control …

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Embedded World 2017, starting in Nuremberg will Weightless-P network hardware in action. An alternative to LPWAN technologies in unlicensed spectrum, Ubiik is launching a Weightless-P Kit at the show, the Weightless Ignition Pack. The pack includes the hardware required to deploy, demonstrate, evaluate and develop Weightless-P IoT networks, says the company. Addressing the Internet of …

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Germany plans to spend €100 billion on a public-private project to deliver a gigabit Internet service across the country.

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Renesas Electronics has introduced a rotational flow demonstration kit for its RL78/I1D microcontroller that is designed to detect and measure the flow of water or gas in metering applications. The flow measurement system is designed to run for 35 years powered by a 2600mAh battery, says the supplier. The rotational flow demonstration kit detects the …

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Farnell element14  has worked with Intel to create a wearable and IoT design board based on Intel’s Curie module. Called the tinyTILE, the module has a small form factor 35 x 26mm. It can be programmed using either the Arduino IDE, Intel’s own software – Intel Curie Open Developer Kit (ODK), or Anaren Atmosphere, which …

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One in five companies has begun rolling out internet of things (IoT) services and products, and half of those surveyed say IoT will be an important part of their business strategy, writes Bee Hayes-Thakore, director of marketing programmes for IoT at ARM. This is according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit IoT Business Index, published in February …

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Microchip will announce at the Embedded World exhibition starting tomorrow in Nuremberg three new tinyAVR microcontrollers with more on-chip memory. These AVR devices feature Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs), which run independently of the core processor. The tinyAVR MCUs now offer 16kbyte flash, 256byte EEPROM, and 2kbyte RAM in 14-, 20-, and 24-pin packages. As well as …

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Imagination Technologies has announced expanded support of Express Logic’s industrial grade ThreadX RTOS (real time operating system) for its CPUs based on the multi-threaded MIPS I-class I6400 processor core. According to Jim Nicholas, executive vice-president, MIPS Processor IP, Imagination, says the use of hardware multi-threading technology allows developers to efficiently exploit inherent parallelism in their workloads. Typical embedded applications for …

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