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A collaborative environment helps build vital soft skills such as co-operation and leadership.

Ross Murgatroyd, Senior Global Product Manager at Farnell considers the use of NFC in IoT use-cases where continuous connectivity is either impractical or unnecessary. The technologies behind the internet of things (IoT) is making the world around us more intelligent. In many implementations, the sensor nodes that are installed to relay data constantly to servers in the cloud will provide ...

David Hollander, of the Bluetooth SIG, considers how Bluetooth is becoming the smart building protocol of choice.

Softbank’s sale of a majority stake in Arm Technology to Hou An gives China IP access rights. It has been suggested that Arm will not hand over its IP to Huawei, but this seems problematic. If the boss of Arm’s owner Softbank tells Arm’s CEO to hand over Arm IP to China, what else would happen? There are several reasons ...

We talk to Alex MacDougall, founder and CEO of SamacSys, about EDA tools and component libraries.

To make robot cars and autonomous driving a reality, we will need flexible development models

WARR Hyperloop did it again – the team from the Technical University of Munich won the Hyperloop Pod Competition for the third consecutive time.

When it comes to cars, electric motors can be incredibly light, efficient and powerful, writes Professor Peter Wilson of the University of Bath

The BSI Group will remain members of two key European standards bodies, writes techUK CEO Julian David.

For drug administration, pharmaceutical electronics will play an increasingly important role