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EU Automation has released a book charting the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and how countries around the world are digitalising. [ + ]
Mouser offers free design resources, receives anti-counterfeit accreditation
Mouser has announced a new partnership with SamacSys and received accreditation to AS6496. [ + ]
Scientists create 2D electronic kagome lattice
Scientists have long been interested in making a 2D kagome lattice because of the useful theoretical electronic properties such a structure would have. [ + ]
Asia–Pacific gears up for the launch of 5G
The digitalisation of manufacturing and supply chains in Asia–Pacific is currently lagging, but will be substantially accelerated by the launch of 5G. [ + ]
Scientists one step closer to silicon quantum computing
Scientists overcome a technical hurdle for building a silicon-based quantum computer, demonstrating a compact sensor for accessing information stored in the electrons of individual atoms. [ + ]
Connect, collaborate and innovate at SEMICON Korea
More than 450 companies will gather at SEMICON Korea, to be held from 23–25 January 2019 at the COEX in Seoul. [ + ]
Ultrathin optical fibre transmits 1.2 petabits per second
Scientists have developed a 4-core, 3-mode fibre that is almost the same width as existing standard optical fibres but can transmit 12 times as much data per second. [ + ]
You can now operate your tablet just by thinking about it
The investigational brain-computer interface enables people with paralysis to directly operate a tablet device by thinking about making cursor movements and clicks. [ + ]
Power consumption substantially cut for IoT sensors
Researchers have invented a 'battery-less' wake-up timer that is claimed to cut the power consumption of rarely active IoT sensor nodes by 1000 times. [ + ]
Electronex expo moving to MCEC in 2019
The 2019 edition of Electronex will be held in the new extension of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. [ + ]
New electrolyte could be key to aluminium batteries
The development of the electrolyte marks one step towards improving aluminium battery technology and making it suitable for commercial use. [ + ]
Premier Farnell extends linecard, releases e-book
Premier Farnell has recently made global agreements with a number of new manufacturers and announced its new e-book, 'The Embedded Interviews 2018'. [ + ]
Scientific Devices Australia to represent Antenna System Solutions
Antenna Systems Solutions, a Celestia Technologies Group company, has appointed Scientific Devices Australia as its representative. [ + ]
2018 Electronic Industries Awards winners announced
The 2018 Electronic Industries Awards were presented at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition), held from 13–16 October. [ + ]
Hacking RFID tags to create IoT devices
Researchers have found a way to give RFID tags the ability to sense their environment, in a huge step towards mass-manufacturing smart devices that do not use batteries or require charging. [ + ]
