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This summer, the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering added a new way for students to navigate the skies: a course on drones.The first of its kind at UW–Madison, the class will teach students how to fly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, and the practical applications of the technology, said Chris Johnson, instructor of the new course.

There were hundreds of millions of web users unable to access popular sites and services such as Amazon, PayPal, Twitter, Netflix, GitHub and Xbox Live on 21st October 2016.There were other major websites were affected, too, but the cause wasn’t an attack on each individual site. Instead, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeted their Domain Name System (DNS) provider, Dyn.

As the announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference sink in, developers will seek to unpack the implications of the new technology in a range of settings. Asynchrony Labs, a mobility partner of Apple, says that Apple’s HomePod announcement shows the growing importance of voice as a new technology battleground – not only for Apple in competition with Amazon and Google, but for app development more widely.

Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analysing large sets of training data, are responsible for today’s best-performing artificial intelligence systems, from speech recognition systems, to automatic translators, to self-driving cars.But neural nets are black boxes. Once they’ve been trained, even their designers rarely have any idea what they’re doing — what data elements they’re processing ...

Microsemi has announced its AcuEdge Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS). The Microsemi AcuEdge Development Kit for Amazon AVS delivers enhanced audio processing to improve voice recognition rates in adverse audio environments for emerging human to machine (H2M) applications in the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and automated assistance markets.

Peratech has announced integration into what it claims to be the world’s first mouse with force-sensitive analogue buttons. The Z from Swiftpoint is the first gaming mouse with pivot, tilt and roll, and utilises Peratech sensors for ‘Deep Click’ buttons, enabling users to access dozens of different button actions while barely moving their fingers. Peratech’s Quantum Tunnelling Composite (QTC) Single Point sensors incorpora...

A new Dual-Bay 3.5” Drive Enclosure has been released by StarTech.comwhich enables a high-performance USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) data storage solution with multiple RAID functions. Users can access, back up and manage files through their USB-C or USB-A equipped laptop. The dual-drive enclosure features multiple RAID modes which can help increase performance add redundancy or combine volumes. The RAID modes supported are: RAID 0, RAID 1, SPAN(B...

Xilinx has announced that its high-performance Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs are available in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. This instance provides programmable hardware acceleration with FPGAs and enables users to optimise their compute resources for the unique requirements of their workloads.While Amazon Web Service provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud, F1 instances make it easy to deploy hardware ...

At just three-years-old, Pepper has worked in restaurants, on cruise ships, and he was even responsible for a 20 per cent increase in foot traffic in a Californian apparel store. Pepper has more emotional intelligence than your average toddler. That’s because Pepper is a humanoid service robot, developed by SoftBank Robotics in Japan.

As low economic growth is expected to keep the diesel generator set (genset) market subdued until 2020, several factors are sustaining market potential, including the growth of data centres, rising infrastructure investments, low diesel prices due to falling oil prices, and capacity market auctions in the United Kingdom.