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Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Chromebooks are getting 10 years of automatic updates, plus new features to help devices last longer.
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iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
As market surveillance authority for radio equipment and responsible for controlling public exposure to electromagnetic fields, the ANFR runs inspections on mobile phones placed on the French market. 141 mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone 12, have recently been tested to check compliance with limit SAR values…
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iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Apple today announced iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, featuring an industry-first color-infused back glass with a stunning, textured matte finish.
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New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world record for acceleration with their hand-built electric racing car, mythen. The vehicle accelerated from zero to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds over a distance of 12.3 metres.
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Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Group develops device business which includes Micro display, LSIs, and Semiconductor Laser, in focusing on Image Sensor.
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86Box v4.0
Release for August 2023.
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Persimmon-8B
We’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most powerful fully permissively-licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.
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New LoRa RF distance record
The long term LoRaWAN® distance world record of 832 km / 517 mi has been broken. The new record now stands at 1336 km / 830 miles. After 3 years, the new world
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All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet
Building an underwater sensor node with SPE and PoDL
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Starlink's User Terminal Firmware
This blog post presents an overview of Starlink's User Terminal runtime internals, focusing on the communications that happen within the device and with user applications and some tools that can help further research on the same topic.
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E-ink is so Retropunk
I’ve long been struggling to describe why e-ink is so much fun for me, but Ithink I’ve finally realized what it is: e-ink is just so so so retropunk.
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Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Arm announces public filing of registration statement for proposed initial public offering
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Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices
Jay Hou, Software Engineer, TrustFabric (transparency.dev) Pixel Binary Transparency was originally announced in 2021; the following blog ...
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A Modern C Development Environment
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels
Some combinations were just meant to be. Peanut butter and jelly, ice cream and spoons, solar panels and canals, and solar photovoltaic (PV) thermal integrated roofing. Who’da thunk. Images Courtesy of TractileOf all the presentations I watched at the Energy Expo one particularly stood out to me. The presentation was…
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
MLC-LLM makes it possible to compile LLMs and deploy them on AMD GPUs using ROCm with competitive performance. More specifically, AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX gives 80% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 and 94% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3090Ti for Llama2-7B/13B. Besides ROCm, our Vulkan support allows us…
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Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow
Over the past one and a half years, we have studied two phenomena that enable an unprivileged attacker to leak arbitrary information on all modern AMD CPUs:
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TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe
Hsinchu, Stuttgart, Munich, Eindhoven, Aug 8, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM), Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY), and NXP Semiconductors
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Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
Both Butterscotch Varifocal and Flamera are very much in the research stage, and the technologies they’re investigating may never make their way into a consumer-facing product. And, as we hope you’ll come to see, that’s very much the point.
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Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
The first official release of Fedora Asahi Remix is slated to be available by the end of August 2023!
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x86 is dead, long live x86
The last couple of years have been quite revolutionary in the Silicon industry as a whole. With the resurgence of horizo
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Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why
Researchers in the lab of Brent Fultz have discovered why so-called Invar alloys keep a steady size and shape over a broad range of temperatures—unlike most materials.
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Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat
The ink helps heart muscle cells align so that they can contract in coordination
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Digikey's Physical Connectors Tutorial
There are many different kinds of connectors, all serve the same purpose but in different ways. This article discusses connectors and their typical applications.