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FIRST LEGO League, a global science and technology challenge, is now open to entry for teams of young people from across Cambridgeshire. This year’s theme is INTO ORBIT and teams of 9 to 16 year olds will be taken on an ‘out of this world’ experience as they explore space-themed engineering problems, and build and programme robots.

Global IT service provider, Luxoft Holding, has partnered with LG Electronics, a multinational electronics company, to help create the next generation webOS as part of a strategy to extend its capabilities and ecosystem into the automotive, robotics and smart home vertical markets.

Texas Instrument’s TDA3x System-on-Chip (SoC) is a highly optimised and scalable family of devices designed to meet the requirements of leading Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). The TDA3x family enables broad ADAS applications in automobiles by integrating an optimal mix of performance, low power, smaller form factor and ADAS vision analytics processing that aims to facilitate a more autonomous and collision-free driving experience...

A self-powered sensor developed at the University of Waterloo could allow doctors to remotely monitor the recovery of surgical patients.The small, tube-like device is designed to be fitted to braces after joint surgery to wirelessly send information to computers, smartphones or smartwatches to track range of motion and other indicators of improvement.

Have you ever considered where our beautiful new networked society is going?U-blox sat down to talk to Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief of Wired, and Paul Gough, Principal, Corporate Strategy of u-blox, to look at some of the applications of tomorrow that could be made possible.

It has been announced by EEMBC, an industry consortium that develops benchmarks for embedded hardware, that its ADASMark autonomous driving benchmark suite is now available for licensing. The benchmarks provide a performance measurement and optimisation tool for automotive companies building next-gen advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

The A71CH secure element from NXP Semiconductors is in stock at Mouser Electronics. A ready-to-use security solution for next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the A71CH provides a root of trust at the IC level to deliver chip-to-cloud security out of the box.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company, Real-Time Innovations (RTI), has announced that Norwegian-based SHM has selected RTI Connext DDS as the connectivity framework for FiiZK, the first global IIoT platform designed for the aquaculture ecosystem.

The world record for snow removal with an autonomous tractor has been set by Nokian Tyres and Valtra. The speed record was set in March 2018 using an unmanned Valtra T254 Versu tractor equipped with Nokian Hakkapeliitta TRI tyres. Operated without a driver, the tractor ploughed snow on a closed road in Southern Finland at 73.171km/h.

Nearly five years ago, NASA and Lincoln Laboratory made history when the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) used a pulsed laser beam to transmit data from a satellite orbiting the moon to Earth — more than 239,000 miles — at a record-breaking download speed of 622MB/s.Now, researchers at Lincoln Laboratory are aiming to once again break new ground by applying the laser beam technology used in LLCD to underwater communicati...