View National Instrument’s oscilloscope range and see how they can help you

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I love Brexit, Ed confides to his diary, because no one knows what it is, which means it can be anything. As Baron Shoreditch Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, people seem to think I have inside knowledge about what Brexit is. In other words I can make it up as …

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Toshiba has made available an “Easy Prototyping” service that allows reuse of the design assets required to develop large scale custom SoC with FPGA prototyping. Adoption dramatically shortens the development time from FPGA prototyping to custom SoC development, says Toshiba. Easy Prototyping is available on Toshiba’s ASIC and FFSA platforms. In conventional FPGA prototyping, SoC …

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With an analog sensor that detects moisture levels, you’ll set up a plant monitor with a light and sound alarm system to tell you when your plant needs watering.

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“In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage,” the US FAA says. We have been here before. Back in October …

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Li-ion cells in some Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones have been over-heating, and Samsung wants people to return them. It looks like folk are reluctant to do this as, according to Phandroid, Samsung may be planning to remotely turn-off Note 7 phones that are still out in the wild. If owners don’t return the defective …

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The Dutch giant adds an OEM tack to its visible light communication strategy, targeting retail chains and shopping malls in another IoT application. It announces a French provider as the first customer in the expansion of its indoor positioning business. It also adds a Singapore mall as a direct Philips user.

Mobile wireless stalwart Verizon acquires smart-city-focused Sensity Systems, which has leveraged the widespread retrofit of street lights to LED sources to enable a variety of municipal IoT services.

The company has been selected to deliver a multi-year water treatment facility plan and expansion project for the JWC Water Treatment Plant.

Improved rain and flood modelling, a significant increase in new temporary flood defences and greater protection to infrastructure were all outlined in the government’s National Flood Resilience Review this week…