Following the launch of its public consultation on UK national cyber security in January, and subsequent responses from industry, the UK Government has released its analysis of the responses and has voiced its intentions when it updates the ‘Network and Information Systems’ (NIS) regulations “as soon as parliamentary time allows”, it said. They “will apply to critical service providers, like ...

Korea Maritime and Ocean University scientists have developed a scheme for combined power and data transmission that cuts power consumption at the receiver end. Such combined transmissions, sometimes called ‘swipt’ for ‘simultaneous wireless information and power transfer’, are proposed to interface one powered fixed point with multiple wireless IoT sensor nodes that no longer need local power sources. Pulse position ...

We’ve had a curious relationship with Russia over the years. We fought with them against the Dutch, Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler. They fought with Napoleon and Hitler against us. We  fought  them in the Crimean War and the Anglo-Russian War of 1807-12. We fought three wars in Afghanistan to prevent the extension of Russian influence in the region. The ...

The prestigious 2022 Elektra Awards will take place tonight at the Ballroom in Grosvenor House, Park Lane in London. For all those attending – we look forward to seeing you there! They are the established annual high point of the electronics industry, with this year marking the twentieth anniversary of the awards. And we are pleased to announce that our ...

Researchers from Japan and Singapore have developed a 3D printing technique to create conductive metal patterns on the external and internal surfaces of 3D plastic structures. It does not print solid metal directly, but instead accurately positions a catalyst throughout a polymer object wherever surface metal will later be needed. Update: Harting is commercially offering a similar process using injection ...

Fabless touch controller IC company TouchNetix has raised around $12m (actually 120MNOK). Investing companies included: Alliance Venture, Bergan, Calypso Invest, Djerv Holding, Fyrva, Investinor, Investitude, LER Invest, Motor-Trade Eiendom & Finans, R Munkhaugen, Reitan Kapital and Wiski Capital. The financial advisor was Sparebank 1 Markets. “We are delighted to be supported by such a strong base of investors, and that ...

Farnell has announced the results of the second annual Global Women in Engineering Survey. The results show that inequality needs to be addressed and is important to achieving the equal treatment of all, while also revealing that women around the world remain underrepresented in the industry and continue to experience various forms of sexism and discrimination. Farnell, in partnership with ...

Three year-old fabless POLYN Technology of Caesarea, specialising in Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) Tiny AI chips, has signed the first contract for its NeuroVoice voice processing IC. The chip performs on-chip Voice Activity Recognition and voice extraction from any noisy background. It also offers Wake Word Detection and Keyword Spotting. All voice features can be used in any combination ...

Semtech has licensed its LoRa Cloud global GNSS  geolocation services to AWS to build asset tracking and monitoring solutions and connect IoT devices, using LoRa Edge, to the Cloud. AWS IoT Core Device Location is available across seven regions and is available for immediate use. The LoRa Edge device-to-Cloud solution from Semtech provides indoor and outdoor geolocation capability together with ...

At Electronica 2022 in Munich our Group Editor Clive Couldwell caught up with the electronics distributors Mouser Electronics and Farnell to discuss issues such as coping with chip shortages, inventory management, product life-cycles and new technologies… Mark Burr-Lonnon, Senior VP EMEA, Asia and Global Service at Mouser Electronics, talks about passives and interconnects becoming more available, for example, but shortages ...