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Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Get the details on Storage Pod 6.0 and learn how to build your own data storage server.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 45 posts.
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Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google’s most-loved applications. In fact, more than 100 teams are currently using machine learning at Google today, from Street View, to Inbox Smart Reply, to voice search.
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Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside
What's inside a counterfeit Macbook charger? After my Macbook charger teardown , a reader sent me a charger he suspected was counterfeit. ...
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Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro
The new MacBook Pro shows that Apple is finally becoming serious about developers.
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Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
A 2016 technical analysis of the 16GB RAM limit in Intel MacBook Pro models, including Phil Schiller’s direct response and two corrections.
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A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
When someone says multi-core, we unconsciously think SMP. That worked out well for us until recently when ARM announced big.LITTLE. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture is the first mass produced AMP architecture and as we’ll see next, it raises the bar for how hard multi-core programing is.
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Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3
Did you buy the new MacBook or MacBook Pro? Maybe the Google Pixel? You're about to enter a world of confusion thanks to those new "USB-C" ports. See, that simple-looking port hides a world of complexity, and the (thankful) backward-compatibility uses different kinds of cables for different tasks. Shoppers have to be…
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DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector
Oh man, this is good! You’re looking at the first DB-19 connector to be made in the 21st century:
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What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
Have you ever wondered what your hard drive SMART errors actually mean? Find out what we look at to determine if a drive is about to fail.
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Introducing Zaius, Google and Rackspace’s Open Server Running IBM Power9
Here at Google Cloud, our goal is to enable our users and customers to be successful with options, high performance and value. We're committed to open innovation, and look forward to working with industry partners on platform and infrastructure designs.
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Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)
Startups can’t do things the same way big companies do. And that’s a good thing; here’s why. Startups and big companies differ in a lot of ways. When it comes to hardware, the gulf between the two is massive. Early-stage startups are painfully under-financed. This lack of capital makes manu
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How many x86 instructions are there?
It’s surprisingly hard to give a good answer (the question was raised in this article). It depends on how you count, and the details are interesting (to me anyway). To not leave you hanging: …
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Why the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro still sells
The 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro, model MD101LL/A , was launched in 2012 for $1199 . Almost four years later, it’s still for sale , completely unchanged except for a price drop to $1099 in 2013.
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I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
10 Mar 2016 | self-Amos , making , orthodontics , laser-scanning , prototyping , somatic feedback
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3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time
The first episode of the Mojoptix video podcast: the invention of a Digital Sundial !
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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi
I'm increasingly of the view that both my time and my sanity are worth more and more as the years progress. Particularly in my independent life, it really can be that black and white - if I can't work, it costs me money. Plus, I want to be happy
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Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
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Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old
Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was first produced 45 years ago. 1 This chip, Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor, is the ancesto...
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Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top
With an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 89, pixel, the latest Google smartphone, is the highest-rated smartphone camera we have ever tested. Its image quality scores are impressive across the board, but it is particularly strong in providing a very high level of detail from its 12.3MP camera, with relatively low…
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Magic Leap – Separating Magic and Reality
The Goal – Explain What is Magic Leap Doing Magic Leap has a way of talking about what they hope to do someday and not necessarily what they can do anytime soon. Their patent applications ar…