One for the medical sector. The University of Leeds Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) has won £3 million to continue its medical technology research.

ON Semiconductor has developed a range of image co-processors to work with 1.2 and 2 megapixel image sensors specifically in automotive rear view and surround view cameras. According to Sandor Barna, vice president at ON Semiconductor, the processor will support both 1080p and 720p video in automotive applications. “We have added higher resolution, multiple interfaces and new automotive-targeted features such as ASIL support,” said Barna. The ...

Could a USB connector support 4K high definition video? This is what the industry intends and a new look USB connector is likely to start appearing in PCs, TVs and mobiles over the next year. The Type-C connector, as it is called, is expected to take over from the micro USB as the standard connector for multi-gigabit USB 3.1 interfaces. What ...

Murata has developed a water-repellent coating that it claims will increase the reliability of multi-layer ceramic capacitors. At issue is condensation – not just between the PCB and he capacitor, but on any capacitor surface that can gather condensation. When water wets the surface of the capacitor – top diagram – electromigration of electrode metals can occur which can eventually ...

The founders of Intel are usually cited as Noyce, Moore and Grove with Fairchild marketing wiz Bob Graham omitted.

The new craze, it seems, is showing how shitty the security on IoT deployments is. A couple of hours ago, the latest example was the $100 gadget from OwnStar to unlock any GM car. Now it’s hacking into self aiming rifles to change their targets. If IOT is not to become a laughing stock, the industry is going to have ...

Google is issuing a major update for its Android development (and testing) environment, Android Studio. It was previewed earlier at Google I/O, but Android Studio 1.3 is now available on the stable release channel. The most eye-catching new features include better memory profiling (both in terms of memory allocation and memory snapshots), auto updates for SDK and tool releases, editing ...

ARM has bought the five year-old Israeli security firm Sansa which has a hardware solution for mobile connectivity. The price is thought to be somewhere around $90 million. Sansa, which was called Discretix until last October, has had $37 million of venture capital money and is backed by both Sequoia and Accel, among others. Car-hacking demonstrations have recently shown the vulnerability ...

Thsnks to Dr Bob for this one – it seems that car hacking just became commoditised – open to all and sundry with a $100 gadget from OwnStar which can unlock any OnStar-enabled GM-made car. Here’s the reference: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ownstar-the-gm-onstar-connected-cars-worst-security-nightmare/? tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61

Mouser is shipping the Intel Compute Stick with Ubuntu Linux which enables any screen with an HDMI interface to become a fully functional personal computer. The stick has pre-installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS OS. It has a 64-bit 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z3735F Quad-Core processor with 2 MB cache, integrated Intel HD graphics, and multi-channel digital audio. It plugs into any display ...