International Center for Development of Science and Technology (ICDST) Blog
The ICDST uncovers interesting stories from news and announcements.
Harmony OS, the operating system known as HongMeng OS in China, was developed as part of the US trade sanctions against Huawei as an Android alternative. Huawei now states that …
Huawei: Harmony OS will soon run on more devices More
Head to CES in Las Vegas for Ido-data, a start-up from Lyon that publishes Dial, an individual alert and localization solution at sea for those practicing nautical activities. With its futuristic …
Ido-data cuts average rescue time by three with the Dial at sea warning system More
The French Red Cross is modernizing its nursing training institutes. She will deploy ten digital simulation modules to support her students, including two in virtual reality. She is also studying …
The Red Cross deploys virtual reality (VR) in its training institutes More
To launch its car-sharing vehicle service called Mocean Carshare, Hyundai has moved closer to Frenchman Vulog and its AiMA platform. It is designed to handle different types of vehicles, services and …
With MoceanLab, Hyundai launches car-sharing service in Los Angeles More
Lenovo took advantage of its Tech World Conference in Beijing to unveil a prototype of augmented reality glasses. The accessory, whose production is not guaranteed, has been designed to reinforce the …
Lenovo unveils augmented reality glasses for laptops for pros More
It is neither an accelerator nor an incubator. HeXplora, Segula Technologies’ hub dedicated to start-ups and SMEs, offers support that varies according to their needs. The engineering group hopes that a dozen …
Segula Technologies launches HeXplora, its hub for start-ups and SMEs More
Azure Sphere, Microsoft’s solution for securing connected objects, is slowly growing. Qualcomm has just announced that it is developing an optimized chip for it. This is the second component provider …
Qualcomm develops a secure chip for Azure Sphere More
The electronic warfare (EW ) is a business technology and electronics in order to determine, exploit, reduce or prevent hostile use of all energy spectra, by the adversary yet conserve …
A History of Electronic Warfare (EW) More
Ford has found its next test site for its autonomous vehicles: the city of Austin in Texas, USA. The automaker said Wednesday, September 25, 2019 that autonomous vehicles will initially circulate …
Ford will test its autonomous vehicles in Austin Texas More
On September 24, 2019, Google made available a database containing 3000 deepfakes. The goal is to help researchers who design tools to fight against real-life video fakes that can be very …
Google provides a database of 3000 deepfakes to combat this phenomenon More
The American operator Verizon announced Thursday, September 5, 2019 deploy the 5G in thirteen stadiums of American football in the United States. Problem: the nature of millimeter waves does not …
Verizon deploys 5G in 13 NFL stages … but coverage will not be optimal More
Baidu experienced a growth of 3700% of its sales of connected speakers over a year, according to a report from the research firm Canalys published Monday, August 26, 2019. Driven …
Chinese Baidu now sells more connected speakers than Google More
Announced before the Mobile World Congress 2019 in March, the highly anticipated HoloLens 2 augmented reality headset from Microsoft will be available in September. We already knew his price, …
Microsoft HoloLens 2 will be available in September More
The Chinese national cryptocurrency is almost ready, according to a senior executive of the People’s Bank of China. Its date of commissioning however remains unclear but we know the major institutions …
China to launch sovereign cryptocurrency with 5 banks, Alibaba and Tencent More
While 5G monopolizes the news, a new standard WiFi is also preparing to see the day. WiFi 6 should allow connections to gain throughput, but also in range. This standard will also …
Better range, more capacity, higher speeds … What are the benefits of WiFi 6? More