RS Components has boosted its battery portfolio by adding Lead Crystal batteries from new supplier partner Betta Batteries. [ + ]

Mathworks has announced that MATLAB and Simulink can now generate code optimised for use across the ARM Cortex Family. [ + ]

Engineers Australia will host two retired NASA astronauts at Convention 2014 and the only Australian on Earth currently working in the International Space Station Flight Control team. [ + ]

The element14 Community has selected 15 engineers from around the world to take part in its 'In the Air' design challenge, an initiative to develop pollution measurement applications inspired by the Internet of Things (IoT) movement. [ + ]

The market for wearable technology in APAC is currently worth US$8.5 billion and is expected to grow to US$37 billion over the next five years at a CAGR of around 34%, according to Arvind Arun, industry analyst in the ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan. [ + ]

Rosenberger, a manufacturer of connectivity products in the high-frequency and fibre-optic technology sectors, has signed a global distribution agreement with RS Components (RS) and Allied Electronics. [ + ]

Test, measurement and monitoring company Tektronix has appointed Vicom as a full portfolio distributor in Australia, covering a range of Tektronix and Keithley instrumentation. [ + ]

A prototype app giving Canberra residents the ability to seamlessly access a wide range of local services has secured first place - and a $12,500 cash prize for Canberra's Imagine Team - at the Canberra Digital Challenge awards. [ + ]

Israeli scientists have announced a breakthrough in molecular electronics that has paved the way for DNA-based computer circuits. [ + ]

Researchers from Ericsson and Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new type of microwave circuit that could lead to fewer cords, smaller antennas and quicker video transmission. [ + ]

Researchers at the University of Sheffield's Department of Materials Science and Engineering are investigating ways that magnetic devices hundreds of times thinner than a human hair can be used in next-generation computing technologies. [ + ]

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, light, bendable and stretchable. [ + ]

Altium Limited, an Australian-owned public company that provides electronic design automation services, native 3D PCB design systems and embedded software development toolkits, has announced a partnership with Aras Corporation, an American developer and publisher of product development software. [ + ]

Samsung recently announced plans to build a new, cutting-edge wafer fab - a $14.7bn investment for the company that will be located in Pyeongtaek, a city south of Seoul. [ + ]

MIT researchers have developed a new circuit design that could make simple superconducting devices much cheaper to manufacture. And while the circuits' speed probably wouldn't top that of today's chips, they could solve the problem of reading out the results of calculations performed with Josephson junctions. [ + ]