The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
Lacuna Space, the Satellite IoT specialist, is opening up LoneWhisper for wider, third-party collaboration. LoneWhisper is its LoRa over satellite D2D (direct-to-device) network. The aim is to enable other operators and agencies to plug into the company’s global platform. One early adopter it cites is the Portuguese fiber network operator dstelecom. LoneWhisper Lacuna highlights that much of the world remains ...
MatrixSpace is widening its portable drone detection portfolio with the launch of MatrixSpace Fusion 360. The system looks to fuse radar, optical, and RF/Remote ID sensor data into a unified view – the company describes it as its multi-sensor device. Unified According to MatrixSpace, this reduces false alarms while improving identification of smaller devices. For example, low-flying, and evasive drones. ...
A Quantum-safe test bed has opened in Quebec, Canada, at the Université Laval’s Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers and the National Optics Institute. The Kirq test bed simulates a real-world environment to test quantum-secure technologies, identify vulnerabilities in existing networks and assess solutions before they are deployed at scale. Quebec-based non-profit organisation for large-scale digital innovation Numana invested $2m ...
Deep Space Energy has closed its pre-seed round of funding, raising €350K. This is to develop its radioisotopic generator for commercialisation. The goal, eventually, is to power Moon surface exploration. Investment was led by Outlast Fund and Linas Sargautis, an angel investor and a former co-founder of NanoAvionics. Note, the company has also secured an additional €580K via public contracts ...
Sony has developed a technology which can tell if AI-generated music uses, or was trained on, music previously generated by others, reports the Nikkei. It can also measure the amount of the contribution made by previously composed music used in a piece of music which it analyses. This allows the technology to decide on the share of royalties to which ...
Skyrora, the UK rocket manufacturer, is looking to buy ‘select assets’ from the rocket launch company Orbex, which is going into administration. Those assets include Orbex’s unfinished spaceport at Sutherland where work was stopped in 2024. “Skyrora believes that securing select assets is vital to preserving UK space capability, protecting national critical infrastructure and ensuring that technology and IP developed ...
Meta is planning to add facial recognition technology to its smart glasses which would identify people and provide their biographical details, reports the New York Times. The company is anticipating criticism. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according ...
Faced with big losses, OpenAI is looking to monetise its ChatGPT product. Advertising on ChatGPT is one way this will be done and another way, starting in the current quarter, is to add adult content. The feature, called “Adult Mode”, will permit NSFW text like erotica and frank discussions on sensitive topics and customisable AI personalities. OpenAI vp Ryan Beiermeister, ...
Book-type foldables will be the primary growth engine of the foldable smartphone market this year, says Counterpoint Research’s Foldable Smartphone Market Forecast. Book-type devices will take 65% of global foldable shipments in 2026, up from 52% in 2026 while clamshell foldables are expected to see their overall market share expected to decline gradually. Apple is expected to introduce its first foldable smartphone ...
Datacentre capex will hit $1.7 trillion in 2030, says Dell’Oro. Hyperscale and neo cloud service providers, along with sovereign AI initiatives, are entering a new phase of infrastructure expansion. “The Top 4 US hyperscale cloud service providers—Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—entered 2026 with strong momentum, raising combined data center capital expenditures to nearly $600 billion,” says Dell’Oro’s Baron Fung, “despite ...
