GaN Systems closes an investment round led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures.

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The FBI has warned about the dangers to children of Internet-connected toys.

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Driverless car start-up Nauto has raised a $159 million Series B led by Softbank and Greylock Partners. Its Series A in April in 2016 raised $12 million. Other investors are GM, BMW, Toyota and the insurance company Allianz but the company has yet to become a Unicorn, says CEO Stefan Heck. Nauto collects information about …

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Memory sales are expected to set record highs this year due to fast-rising ASPs, but unit shipments are sluggish

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Plessey has branded its mid-power products ‘Midion’. They are available in 2835, 3014, 3030, 5050, and 5630 PLCC packages, with efficacy claimed to peak at 210 lm/W. The 210 lm/W claim comes from the PLW2835AIC part, which is a 37 lm (6F flux bin) 4,000K 2835 part running at its nominal 65mA (Vf=2.71V = V01 bin) …

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A tip of the hat to the Pi-topPulse, a HAT-compliant sound and light educational accessory for the Raspberry Pi 3.

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Makers and hobbyists have created all sorts of equipment to re-flow surface-mount components. The first I came across were modified domestic table-top ovens – some re-engineered to work exceedingly well. They will take a small PC motherboard, or multiple smaller boards, but are large (~450mm wide) and over-kill for a single small board. Whiles pondering alternatives …

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Three UK projects are among the winners in the ‘Change the World’ global design competition.

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A software development firm, with a liking for ARM-based systems, has demonstrated how it is possible to run Netflix on a Raspberry Pi and so turn it into a low cost home media streaming system. The firm is Eltechs, which is the company behind the ExaGear Desktop which enables x86 applications such as Skype, Teamviewer, MS …

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Qualcomm does seem to relish a scrap – whether with Nokia in the days when Nokia ruled the mobile phone market or with the regulators in Japan, Korea and Europe or the richest company in the world. Now it’s got a raft of Asian contract manufacturers – Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal – suing the …

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