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There were 300 drones dancing behind Lady Gaga during the Super Bowl halftime show. They’re called Shooting Stars and were previously used in a holiday show at Disney World. These hundreds of Shooting Star drones flash, fall and flock in unison and are all controlled by one person — or rather one computer. This is the latest project in Intel’s...

Diseases like zika and ebola can be detected using DNA, but only by testing it in hospitals or sophisticated labs. Until now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAFb2cLZe04 DNA analysis is done using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) process, which creates identical copies of DNA for testing. This DNA “photocopying” became possible in 1983 thanks to Nobel Prize winner, Kary Mullis, so diseases could be identified...

Super human artificial intelligence is coming, says Sam Harris, a Stanford grad with his PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. He has five New York Times bestsellers under his belt. "It's very difficult to see how they won't destroy us or inspire us to destroy ourselves," he says. How should we be preparing? Sam says our current emotional response--that it's cool--is...

Drone racing as a sport is taking off, with teams, sponsors and television networks all getting in on the action of this developing scene. There’s a professional drone racing league, live streaming and even drone-racing simulators, where drone-pilot hopefuls can try emulating the real thing. But what if you want to actually take to the skies with a racing drone?...

NI (Nasdaq: NATI), the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced today the VB-8054 instrument, a new higher performance model of VirtualBench. VirtualBench plays a key role in reducing the cost and footprint of test and measurement systems by consolidating five of the most commonly used instruments into one...

The TSZ182 dual precision op amp from STMicroelectronics combines low and extremely temperature-stable input-offset voltage with the added advantages of a 3MHz gain-bandwidth, rail-to-rail inputs and outputs, and ultra-small 2mm x 2mm DFN8 or Mini-SO8 package options. Complementing ST’s popular conventional op amps, the chopper-stabilized TSZ182 enables superior precision in instruments like body-signal monitors, blood-glucose meters, industrial sensors, factory automation,...

National Instruments (NI) recently established a new lab focusing on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) collaboration, sponsored by several of the world’s largest technology and communications companies. The Industrial IoT lab will provide an opportunity for engineers and scientists from several major companies to collaborate on IoT technology. With more than 20 companies involved, major sponsors of the new lab...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the zCD Interconnect System connector from Molex. Offering a high level of integration, performance, long-term reliability and a compact form-factor that will help enable widespread adoption of 400 Gbps technology, the zCD connector from Molex supports high-bandwidth, next-generation Ethernet applications in telecommunications,...

Through friendship, our world grows more connected, powerful things can happen, and lives and communities can be changed. Today, connecting is more important than ever. The team will be sharing some stories of powerful connections made in their community, as well as launching products to celebrate friendship and encouraging people to take time to connect with their friends. Inspirational Stories...

Researchers develop a method for sensing the electric field generated in semiconductor devices during operation.  The technique is reported in the journal ACS Nano (January 2017) and demonstrated for a diamond device, with nitrogen–vacancy centers acting as local electric-field probes, subject to bias voltages up to 150 volt. Semiconductors lie at the heart of many of the electronic devices that...