I hope we all marked Arduino Day this weekend, and the highlight was the announcement of the Arduino UNO R4!

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The U.S. Air and Space Force has begun its Space Security Challenge: Hack-A-Sat 4 – a satellite hacking competition featuring the in-orbit satellite Moonlighter, which is described as a hacking sandbox in space. The annual event, which is run by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is offering the winner a cash prize of …

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Melexis has brought out  two relative pressure sensor ICs with extended robustness to harsh media. They complete the PCB-less platform to the market with, the company claims, “the most accurate pressure sensor ICs ever made” Using these pressure sensors, customers and OEMs will be able to make all their ICE engine management applications greener via …

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Toshiba is shipping a new 150V N-channel power MOSFET based upon their latest generation U-MOS X-H Trench process. The new device (TPH9R00CQ5) is specifically designed for use in high performance switching power supplies such as those used in communication base stations as well as other industrial applications. With a maximum VDSS rating of 150V and …

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Italy has banned ChatGPT. It follows bans by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. The Italian data-protection authority said  it was imposing an “immediate temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data” . The authority said there were privacy concerns and said it would ban and investigate the chatbot and look at  whether it complied …

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Scaling and wafer bonding in a cooperation between Kioxia and Western Digital have created a “218 layer 3D flash 1Tbit triple-level-cell and quad-level-cell with four planes, and features lateral shrink technology to increase bit density by over 50%,” according to Kioxia. Co-developed CBA (CMOS directly bonded to array) technology allows CMOS wafers and cell array …

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Kyocera AVX has added four and five position options to its 5.6mm tall 9176-700 series of insulation displacement wire-to-PCB connectors. The connectors are soldered to the PCB in a tall state then, to terminate, insulated wires are inserted and the top of the connector is permanently pushed down to its final height. All four or …

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Researchers in Australia have used micromachined silicon pillars and graphene to make skin electrodes for EEG that are far less messy than the current scheme in medical use, which is wet silver – silver chloride electrodes, but are not far behind in performance. The self-imposed challenge was to be able to sense through hair – …

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Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. We regularly improve the accuracy of the underlying machine learning models and add new features based on customer feedback. Today, we are pleased to announce new features and accuracy enhancements for the AnalyzeDocument – Tables feature to help customers automate their document processing workflows. 

AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance checks for Amazon ECS are now generally available. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, increase fault tolerance, and monitor service quotas.