IoT IC sales for connected cities are forecast to reach $15.7 billion in 2019 while the chip market for connected vehicle functions is expected to be $1.7 billion in 2019, up from the previous forecast of $1.4 billion.

Read full article: $18bn IoT IC sales in 2016, says IC Insights

Linear Tech has introduced a power and energy monitor for 0V to 15V DC supply rails with an integrated sense resistor. Most power and energy monitoring ICs use an external sense resistor to measure current. However, choosing a sense resistor is not an easy task, especially when dealing with high currents, where available sense resistors …

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Infineon’s OPTIGA Trusted Platform Module will be integrated into Mocana’s Security of Things Platform being launched in Q4 for connecting smart factories, infrastructure, automotive and other security-critical IoT designs. The Mocana Security of Things Platform uses techniques like pre-boot verification, certificate management, cryptographic engines, secured data transport and secured firmware updates. OPTIGA TPMs are standalone …

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High tech and anthropometry come together in a mountain bike frame designed and manufactured in the UK.

Read full article: UK tech firms 3D print a mountain bike

E.coli bacteria can be detected faster than traditional lab tests, in 15-20 minutes, by an optical fibre sensor.

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Analysts, hucksters, journos and marketeers can talk a market up and down till the cows come home, but when the venture capitalists start cooling on a market area, it’s time to take note. It might just be a blip in a glorious ascent or it it might be the first hint of doom – but …

Read full article: IoT Hype May Be Dissipating

Check out PiCapture, a video capture system that enables all of the video processing and software capability of the Raspberry Pi GPU. It does this by emulating the Raspberry Pi camera.

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At last got the chance to try the Hi-Fi boards for Raspberry Pi from Allo, and things are not going so well. The board came with Allo’s own Sparky clone of RasPi, which I have assembled onto the stack, and I cannot get it to boot. With power connected through the Kali re-clocking board, plenty …

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Mike Meakin got in touch with EW to describe an over-heating problem he found with his BBC micro:bit. It looks like that one of the chips on some micro:bits is getting very hot. It happened with his, and he has found two bloggers that refer to similar events: Suppertime Andre Boulton The second of which …

Read full article: Has micro:bit got a over-hot chip issue?

Ultrahaptics, specialists in mid-air touchless haptic technology, has appointed Sir Hossein Yassaie, founder and former CEO of Imagination Technologies to its board of Directors.

Read full article: Sir Hossein Yassaie joins Ultrahaptics board