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The AH37xx family of high-voltage Hall effect latch ICs introduced by Diodes Incorporated provides various operating magnetic thresholds to address motor control, rotational position and speed sensing requirements in a wide range of…

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is the first global distributor to stock the ACFL-5211T digital optocouplers from Avago Technologies. The ACFL-5211T digital optocouplers are dual-channel, bidirectional, high-speed 1MBaud devices designed for…

If you have a smartphone, you've probably become pretty comfortable including emoticons in your daily conversations. However, once you get to the laptop or desktop computer, you find yourself without your favorite icons for expressing…

If you're fixing something in orbit, you'll probably want to be pretty accurate. That's what NASA engineers were thinking when developing the Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot (VIPIR). NASA has been working on different…

Staying on top of your e-mails can be a daunting task, so Google decided to employ some artificial intelligence to help Gmail users out. Google has already implemented features like  assisting you with the your next step, organizing…

Researchers have developed a "nanotweezer" that can position tiny objects quickly and accurately and then freeze them in place. The device, created at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center enables improved nanoscale sensing…

If you hate waiting for your computer to load programs, maybe you ought to sing to it. At least that's what researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds are suggesting. New research published in Applied Physics Letters has…

Ambiq Micro has selected the Apollo microcontroller (MCU) as the 'brain' for the Misfit Shine 2 Fitness and Sleep Monitor. The Misfit 2 device, revealed just last week, provides new features, functions and capabilities without…

Microchip Technology, a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its next-generation Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) solutions.

You can now purchase an innovative modular LED lightbar system that's configured and assembled on-site by an international network of independent distribution partners. Axios is different than traditional lightbar design…

Our smartphones are pretty smart, so a company has decided to create an equally smart smartphone charger.

There are a plethora of research teams working to create fully functional artificial skin for robots, and even humans who are fitted with prostheses. While there have been many advancements, none of them have…

After President Barack Obama reestablished  diplomatic relations with Cuba at the end of last year, American companies like Netflix and Airbnb announced plans to expand to the Island. The problem with companies such as these is that they…

The Scottish Government has just approved a plan to install the world's largest offshore wind development off the coast of Peterhead. The installation will be the UK's first. “Floating wind represents a new, significant and increasingly…

How often do you check your phone? How often do you think you check your phone? According to new research, people use their smartphones for an average of five hours a day – about a third of the time they are awake – and check…