IBM has opened its global headquarters for Watson Internet of Things (IoT), launching a series of new offerings, capabilities and ecosystem partners designed to extend the power of cognitive computing to the billions of connected devices, sensors and systems that comprise the IoT.These offerings will be available through the IBM Watson IoT Cloud, t...

Bioscience engineers from KU Leuven, Belgium, have developed an alternative method to produce Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in the form of very thin films, so that they can be used for high-tech applications such as microchips.MOFs consist of a nanoporous grid of both organic molecules and metal ions. MOFs take shape as the organic molecules...

Researchers a TU Wien, in Vienna, have developed a nanoscale optical device, consisting of alkali atoms which are coupled to ultrathin glass fibres, which allows light to pass in only one direction.Like in an electrical diode, which allows current to pass only in one direction, this glass fibre-based device transmits light only in one direction...

Cortus, a specialist in the development of low power, silicon efficient, 32-bit processor IP, has released the FPS26 a single precision floating point IP core. The third in a family of products based on the Cortus v2 instruction set it is aimed at embedded systems that require good floating point computational performance while also delivering smal...

A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), led by Assistant Professor Wen Yonggang from NTU’s School of Computer Engineering, has developed an algorithm that could help companies and factories cut their energy bills by as much as 10%.The algorithm is able to analyse energy consumption by connecting to sensors...

STMicroelectronics has announced that it will collaborate with Semtech on its LoRa long-range wireless RF technology. ST intends to use the technology to target Internet of Things (IoT) deployments by mobile network operators (MNOs) and large-scale private networks.ST will join the LoRa Alliance and release reference designs for LoRa technology...

Tektronix has launched the MDO4000C, which can be configured to include up to six instruments in one unit, including a full spectrum analyser. The company says this allows the instrument to be updated over time, which functionality added as needs change or budgets allow.The MDO4000C provides a synchronised view of analogue and digital waveforms...

Solid Sands and Vector Software are to work together to integrate the VectorCAST Change Based Testing approach with Solid Sands’ SuperTest C/C++ compiler test and validation suite. The move is expected to minimise compiler revalidation time by executing only those test cases which are impacted by compiler code changes and by reporting in a st...

Researchers at Columbia University in New York say they have adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to power an integrated circuit. The team coupled a conventional CMOS circuit with an artificial lipid bilayer membrane containing ATP powered ion pumps and say this could open the door to creating systems that contain biological and solid-state components....

CEA-Leti has announced what it calls preliminary steps for demonstrating a quantum bit – or qubit – in a process usjng a silicon on insulator (SoI) CMOS platform.According to the French R&D organisation, the leading solid state approach for treating quantum information uses superconducting qubits, but it says other approaches ar...