Security issues throughout the IC manufacturing lifecycle
Writing on EDN, Joshua Norem recently offered his thoughts on IC's vulnerability to security threats. His article (the first in a two-part series) focused specifically on the IC production lifecycle (fabrication through package test).
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Electric chopsticks that reduce salt consumption? What’ll they think of next?
Overdoing it on salt can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. So researchers at Japan’s Meiji University and Kirin, a major food and beverage company, have tackled this problem. And they’ve come up with a pretty novel solution: electric chopsticks that make foods taste more salty than they are.
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Taking a fantastic voyage with magnetic slime
Magnetic slime may sound like something your kids clamor for, but magnetic miniatured “soft-bodied” robots based on silicone or fluids (ferrorfluid or liquid metal) can be used for applications like minimally-invasive surgery and targeted drug delivery.
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Boring technology may be the energy answer the world is looking for
Quaise Energy is using technology that produces fusion power to bore deep down into the earth to tap the vast store of geothermal energy that lies below.
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Water, water everywhere
access to safe water isn’t universal, and while estimates vary, there are likely well over a billion people who lack clean water.
Water purification technologies matter, and can hopefully be deployed to make clean water more widely available. Here are five of the latest ones, listed on Water Technology.
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Trends in embedded development: a Critical Link perspective on a Mouser perspective
Embedded.com recently ran an article on Mouser's perspective on trends in embedded system. We thought we'd share our perspecive.
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A bit of Silicon Valley history
EE Times is kicking off its Golden Anniversary celebration with a series by Malcolm Penn on the roots of the industry, focusing on Silicon Valley where so many things began.
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RFusion: the robot that locates AND retrieves your lost items
Thanks to researchers at MIT, there’s a robot that will not just locate your lost whatever, but will fetch it for you – even when your lost whatever is out of sight: stuck between the couch cushions, in a stack of papers on your desk, in that pile of clothes that have been piling up on the chair in the bedroom.
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What you missed if you missed CES 2022
We’re always interested in what’s happening in the consumer space, too. So what was there to see at CES 2022?
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Tech predictions for 2022
As a new year begins, I’m always interested in seeing what the prognosticators are prognosticating will happen over the next twelve months. So I was more than happy to wander around seeing what different sites had to say about what they’re foreseeing for 2022.
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