Sight for machines is a complex task, but there’s a way to turn it into clarity.

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Renesas has brought out  three Target Boards for the RX65N, RX130 and RX231 Microcontroller (MCU) Groups, each designed to help engineers jump start their home appliance, building and industrial automation designs. Priced below $30, the Target Boards lower the price threshold for engagement, allowing more system developers to enjoy the benefits of Renesas’ broad-based 32-bit …

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St. Peter’s Basilica is on the way to getting led lighting, according to Osram. “Lighting calculations and simulations have been completed,” said the firm. “In the basilica, the led lighting system has been tested in many areas, and everyone involved is really pleased with the results. Tests show that the illumination level of the domes …

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In the footsteps of Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home comes the Apple HomePod smart speaker. And iFixit does a teardown, but with extreme difficulty it seems.

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  Messrs Musk, Bezos and Branson have a competitor – Takafumi Horie of Hokkaido. The 45 year-old Japanese entrepreneur has set out, like Bezos, Musk and Branson, to make space travel affordable. “Our mission is to bring down the cost of space travel,” says Horie, “that will only happen with competition.” His aim is to …

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Pro Design, the Germany-based firm using FPGAs in prototyping systems, has added three modules for Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs. They will be part of the firm’s proFPGA product family of modular multi-FPGA prototyping boards. The Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs, designated ZU11EG, ZU17EG and ZU19EG, can be mounted on the proFPGA uno, duo or quad motherboard and mixed …

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Anritsu says software for its Wireless Test Set MT8870A now supports the new 3GPP 5G Sub-6GHz New Radio (NR) measurement standards. The enhanced 5G Sub-6GHz NR Uplink Tx measurement and downlink waveform software options will support non-signalling based 5G Sub-6GHz TRx tests. In December 2017, release 15 of the 3GPP standard was announced which defines …

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Church spires across the UK will be used to boost digital connectivity in rural areas following an agreement between the Government and the Church of England. The accord, signed by the the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for the …

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At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Analog Devices revealed a 20-bit 1Msample/s successive approximation ADC with 0.3ppm INL (integral non‑linearity). Key to this performance is a constantly-running background calibration technique that allows the ADC to process its input signal without interruption, while compensating for ageing, temperature sensitivity, package stress and PCB stress. …

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AWS GovCloud (US) joins 16 other regions where you can use Amazon Elasticsearch Service. With the addition of this region, Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now available in the following 17 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and China (Ningxia), operated by NWCD.